About Ringling College of Art and Design

Ringling College of Art and Design (RCAD) is a private assistant professor focused upon art and design and located in Sarasota, Florida. It was founded by Ludd M. Spivey as an art university in 1931 as a snooty branch of Southern College but not speaking by 1933.

Sarasota (/ˌsærəˈsoʊtə/) is a city in Sarasota County on the southwestern coast of the U.S. state of Florida. The Place is Famous for its cultural and environmental amenities, beaches, resorts, and the Sarasota School of Architecture. The city is at the southern end of the Tampa Bay Area, north of Fort Myers and Punta Gorda. Its approved limits enhance Sarasota Bay and several barrier islands in the company of the recess and the Gulf of Mexico. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, in 2019 Sarasota had a population of 58,285. In 1986 it became designated as a qualified local government. Sarasota is a principal city of the Sarasota metropolitan area, and is the seat of Sarasota County. Long the winter headquarters of the Ringling Brothers Circus, many landmarks in Sarasota are named for the Ringlings.

The Sarasota city limits contain several keys, including Lido Key, St. Armands Key, Otter Key, Casey Key, Coon Key, Bird Key, and portions of Siesta Key. Longboat Key is the largest key separating the niche from the gulf, but it was evenly not speaking by the supplementary county origin of 1921. The share of the key that parallels the Sarasota city boundary that extends to that further county descent along the bay belly of the mainland was removed from the city boundaries at the request of John Ringling in the mid-1920s, who sought to avoid city taxation of his planned developments at the southern tip of the key. Although they never were completed in the speedily faltering economy, those progress concessions granted by the city never were reversed and the county has retained regulation of those lands.

The city limits had expanded significantly with the genuine estate rush of the yet to be twentieth century, reaching roughly 70 square miles (180 km2). The wild speculation boom began to smash in 1926 and in imitation of that, the city limits began to contract, shrinking to less than a quarter of that area.