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Booker High Law Academy and Visual Arts students visit forensic sculpture exhibition

Booker High students explore the forensic sculptures inside the Special Collections reading room.

On Wednesday, April 10, a group of almost 70 students from neighboring Booker High School visited the Ringling College of Art and Design campus to view a collection of busts made over spring break at the Forensic Sculpture Workshop. The visiting students were part of Booker’s Law Academy program and Visual and Performing Arts (VPA) […]

Students gain industry insights and job connections at 2024 Game Developers Conference

A group of students stand in front of a colorful Ringling College booth at the Game Developers Conference

Ringling College of Art and Design students, faculty, and staff recently attended the 2024 Game Developers Conference (GDC), held in San Francisco March 18-22. The group represented the College at an informational booth in the event’s expo hall while also experiencing essential seminars and workshops. This year’s featured speakers at GDC included Nintendo Executive Officer […]

Students, faculty, and alumni make their mark for student scholarships

Students working on their bottles at the INDEX hosted workshop for the Make Your Mark project.

Students, faculty, staff, and alumni from Ringling College of Art and Design collaborated with Maker’s Mark Distillery to produce a series of uniquely designed bottles of bourbon called, Make Your Mark. The project is part of the College’s Industry Experience (INDEX) program, which creates opportunities for students to gain real work experience while still in college. […]

Avant-Garde: a colorful history of philanthropy and fun

For their 25th grand entrance, the Thompsons arrived as Glinda, the Good Witch of the North, and the great and powerful Wizard of Oz. Dr. Thompson confirmed that future Avant-Garde galas will now look to Ringling students to set the tone and launch the evening event.

Now in its 28th year, Ringling College of Art and Design’s annual fundraising gala Avant-Garde invites guests—donors, faculty, staff, students, and members of Sarasota’s arts community—to conjure up all of their creativity and create unique, elaborate, topical, and infamous looks for the much-anticipated event. Each year offers a new theme, and the College’s Design Center […]

First-annual Women of Industry panel celebrates women’s leadership in entertainment design

Orange and gray graphic announcing Women of Industry panelists and details

On March 22, 2024 at 7 pm, Ringling College of Art and Design and their Center for Diversity and Inclusion will host the first-annual Women of Industry event. The panel, initially inspired by Women’s History Month, will feature a number of women working in the themed entertainment industry. Each year, the panel will focus on […]

Students and faculty put skills to use for a great cause at forensic workshop

Joe Mullins is a forensic imaging specialist who offers workshops around the country, teaching the process of facial approximation and reconstruction. He works for the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, and frequently collaborates with art schools.

Ringling College of Art and Design students, faculty, and an alum spent the College’s spring break learning the art of reconstruction as they brought skulls from active and cold cases back to life with clay. Guided by forensic artist Joe Mullins, the class recreated the faces of real victims, through a process called facial approximation. […]

AI & Copyright Law: Guest Speaker Announced

An AI-generated image of a boy sitting on books surrounded by other media and orange and blue squares

Ringling College of Art and Design’s AI Task Force is pleased to announce that the next guest expert in its speaker series will be Washington, D.C. copyright lawyer and legal author Mark Traphagen. On Monday, February 19, 2024 at 7 pm, Traphagen will present “Is the Algorithm the Author? Generative Artificial Intelligence, Copyright, and the […]

Ringling College to host fifth-annual Anyone’s Game Conference

Calling all designers, players, and lovers of games! Ringling College of Art and Design will host Anyone’s Game from Friday, Feb. 23-Sunday, Feb. 25 on campus at the Roskamp Exhibition Hall. Anyone’s Game is a tabletop game conference that explores creativity, design, and openness in gaming. Up-and-coming tabletop game developers can test their game designs […]

Ringling & Moffitt host 8th-Annual VR and Healthcare Global Symposium

A girl with a VR headset stands in front of a lifesize protected human skeleton

The Virtual Reality and Healthcare Global Symposium 2024 is the 8th annual event scheduled from Feb. 29 to March 3, 2024. The event’s first two days will take place at Ringling College of Art and Design, followed by two days at Tampa’s Moffitt Cancer Center. The symposium aims to foster partnership and collaboration in healthcare, […]

CDI launches new podcast, Rising Together

Nate Jacobs on the set with the Rising Together co-hosts.

Rising Together, a new podcast on the art and design of inclusion launches today, produced at Ringling College of Art and Design. The podcast spotlights the transformative power of art and design in shaping inclusive spaces, communities, and mindsets. In each episode, co-hosts Elҫin Haskollar, Ph.D. and Curtis Anderson invite special guests, from community leaders […]