No sooner had last Sunday’s column about the groundbreaking artistic collaboration between The John & Mable Ringling Museum of Art and New York’s Baryshnikov Arts Center gone to press than we received an eye-popping magazine called Perspectives in the mail. We simply couldn’t put it down until we had read every one of its superbly designed and written pages.
Perspectives, is a twice-yearly publication of the Ringling College of Art and Design issued to its various constituents—including alumni, donors, civic leaders and others. With its contemporary design and engaging content, you couldn’t ask for a more striking visual reminder that one of America’s pre-eminent schools of art and design is right here in our own backyard.
Browsing the magazine made us enormously proud of the trails the students, alumni, faculty and administration of Ringling College are blazing across the cutting-edge of visual communications; and caused us to ponder—yet again—how very much indebted we are to the enduring cultural legacy of the college’s namesakes, John and Mabel Ringling.
