Events, resources, and art in celebration of Juneteenth

Artwork in the Brizdle-Schoenberg Special Collections Center.

Juneteenth, also known as “Freedom Day,” “Liberation Day,” or “Emancipation Day” and observed on June 19 every year, is the commemoration of the final, full emancipation of enslaved people in the United States. On June 19, 1865, the Union Army landed in Galveston, Texas, with the news that the Civil War had ended and enslaved […]

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) […]

Liberal Arts faculty contributes to book on legendary African fashion designer Pathé’O

Excerpt from Pathé’O.

Ringling College of Art and Design Liberal Arts faculty Dr. Genevieve Hill-Thomas contributed to a recently published tome on notable West African fashion designer Pathé’O, who is famed for raising the global profile of traditional textiles like Burkina Faso’s faso dan fani. Released in August 2023 in both English and French, Pathé’O includes an interview […]

Exploring mangroves and the human existence

Artworks behind glass. Two are images of nature printed onto sun visors, two are drawings on glass.

Students, faculty, and staff visiting the second floor of the Alfred R. Goldstein Library this month will have encountered the colorful depictions of nature featured in the window displays of the Brizdle-Schoenberg Special Collections Center. Photographs of flora and fauna are transformed into sculptural objects, printed onto the familiar form of sun visors. The works […]

Ringling College named as a top producer of Fulbright U.S. Students

Blonde girl with hat looks through a camera to take a photo overlooking the water in Ireland.

The U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs named Ringling College of Art and Design a Fulbright Top Producing Institution for U.S. Students. This recognition is given to the U.S. colleges and universities that received the highest number of applicants selected for the 2022-23 Fulbright U.S. Student Program.  In spring 2022, one Ringling […]

Welcome back Art Walk full of humorous and artful highlights

Ringling College’s Galleries and Exhibitions held its first Art Walk of the new year on Friday, Jan. 20. Over 950 visitors crowded into galleries across the campus, enjoyed dinner on the lawn with a meal from the food trucks, participated in an interactive art performance, and watched a live band.  Lost Summer, an exhibition of […]