TWIS Talks RIAF: Ringling Arts Festival Fetes Sarasota's Surging Art Scene

Each year the Ringling International Arts Festival brings Sarasota closer to the forefront of the international art scene, where it joins Miami as a primary tastemaker and influencer in the performing arts sector.

As a student of art history and museum studies at Florida International University, I had the great privilege of spending three years simmering in the arts-and-culture melting pot that is Miami, Florida. The choice to leave Miami’s culturally-diverse, vibrant and sophisticated art scene upon graduation was a difficult one to make, but I was fortunate to be greeted by a rapidly-growing international arts scene — heralded by the inaugural Ringling International Arts Festival — upon my move to Sarasota in 2009.

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