I don’t have personal knowledge of the Ringling school, but as someone raised in the Northeast, I can say that Sarasota is a lovely city. The Gulf side of Florida is quite different from the Atlantic version we tend to imagine - fewer hurricanes for one thing. Regarding art schools, what about the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts - it comes highly regarded by my artist niece, who praises it for its unusually flexible curriculum. The school I know best is the School of Visual Arts in New York. It is quite spread out, so no real campus, but there are dorms and I believe each of the different departments has its own sense of community. Two of my brother’s kids attended SVA, and it has been fun to see how their careers have developed from what the school gave them, including some terrific internships. My S21 may end up in art school after working for a year or so, and these are all places I hope she will consider.
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