Sarasota Art Museum hosts solo exhibitions of artist educators, including Fine Arts’ Joe Fig
In the last month, Sarasota Art Museum of Ringling College of Art and Design opened solo exhibitions by three artist-educators, including Ringling’s own Fine Arts and Visual Studies Department Head Joe Fig. Fig’s exhibition, Contemplating Vermeer, opened on November 17 and depicts scenes from the 2023 Rijksmuseum exhibition of Johannes Vermeer paintings in Amsterdam. Fig’s […]
Fine Arts alum among sudden surge in Artnet Price Database searches
Contemporary artists continue to garner interest for their work—and their sales. Ringling College of Art and Design alum Blair Whiteford ’13, Fine Arts, was recently among eight artists singled out by Artnet for big spikes in price searches over the last year. According to the Artnet article “From Zero to Hero,” each artist featured was […]
Fine Arts students and alumni attend New York art residencies
Each summer, Ringling College of Art and Design Fine Arts majors attend residencies all over the country. This summer, current students Zack Crosby ’25, Fine Arts, and Leyla Sefket ’25, Fine Arts attended New York Academy of Art’s Summer Undergraduate Residency Program, and recent alum Rose Marjanneke Williamson ’24, Fine Arts with minors in Art […]
Fine Arts alum attends art residency in Vancouver, B.C.
Melvin Gómez ’22, Fine Arts spent a month of 2023 as an artist-in-residence at Shawnigan Lake School, a 270-acre, lake-front boarding school in Vancouver, British Columbia. His month was spent taking in the peaceful landscape as inspiration for his painting practice and working with the students attending the school. Gómez gathered flowers from the garden […]
Fine Arts students publish interview of visiting faculty and artist Marina Shaltout
Creative Pinellas published an interview of Ringling College of Art and Design visiting full-time faculty in Fine Arts and Visual Studies Marina Shaltout, written by Ringling students Luna May ’27, Fine Arts, and Kathryn Rizzo ’27, Fine Arts. The interview was a part of an assignment for their Writing Studio class taught by Liberal Arts […]
Fine Arts alum and current Junior named finalists for NYAA AXA Art Prize
Two Ringling College of Art and Design Fine Arts students were named finalists for the 2023 AXA Art Prize U.S., held by the New York Academy of Art. First awarded in 2017 and now considered one of the premier student art competitions in the country, the AXA Art Prize is open to paintings, drawings, and […]
Art Walk and upcoming Galleries programming
Tonight, Friday, October 13, marks the opening of a number of exhibitions across campus. A gathering of food trucks plus live music will take place for the first Ringling College Galleries’ Art Walk event of the 2023-2024 academic year. The galleries will be open from 5-8 pm, with food from Killiks Kitchen, serving Hawaiian food, […]
Five Ringling grads shortlisted for Global Design Graduate Show—voting open now!
Arts Thread has opened voting on the fourth edition of their annual exhibition, Global Design Graduate Show 2023, which they organize in collaboration with Gucci. This year, five alumni from Ringling College of Art and Design were shortlisted for the competition: Jessica Buck ’23, Motion Design; Matchima Chutijirawong ’23, Fine Arts; Jesse Clark ’23, Photography […]
Fine Arts Head Joe Fig featured on guest panel at the Dalí Museum
On Thursday, September 21, 2023 Ringling College of Art and Design’s Fine Arts and Visual Studies Department Head Joe Fig will join Professor in the School of Art and Art History and Director of the Institute for Research in Art at the University of South Florida Margaret Miller and The Dalí Museum Curator of Education […]
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 […]