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Ringling College Reports Avante Garde Success

Pictured: Captain Creative and The Imaginator. Photo Credit: Stephanie Lederer

Pictured: Captain Creative and The Imaginator. Photo Credit: Stephanie Lederer.

Ringling College of Art and Design has reported that this year’s annual An Evening at the Avante Garde gala set the bar as the most successful Avante Garde to date, raising $225,000 in scholarship funds through charitable giving and a silent auction featuring Louis Cabot photography, Clyde Butcher giclees, jewelry and various ‘night-on-the-town’ packages.

With a “Comic Capers” theme, the night’s costumes ran the gamut from superheroes to the Sunday funny papers, with Charlie Brown sipping drinks next to a pair of Mad Hatters while Minnie Mouse swaps tales on the promenade. The appearance of Batman flanked by a costumed entourage of Gotham skyscrapers created a stir, but it was the arrival of Captain Creative and The Imaginator (popularly known by their alter egos Ringling College President Dr. Larry Thompson and wife, Patricia), parting the crowds in a time-hopping DeLorean, that caused a ruckus.

Special guests actor Dylan McDermott (In The Line of Fire, American Horror Story) and actor Maggie Q (Mission Impossible 3, Live Free or Die Hard) joined the Ringling community for the night, lending their support for a scholarship fund that would enable incoming upperclassmen in need of financial assistance to complete their education.

“I wasn’t a good painter before I got to Ringling,” said Tim Rogerson, an Official Disney Fine Artist with an illustration degree from Ringling College who returned for the event. “But I worked really hard at Ringling and got my dream job at the start of my career.” Ten years post-graduation, Rogerson is now the official artist for Disneyland’s 60th anniversary.

McDermott is also developing a new television project with Ringling College on board with production and at least one student doing conceptual work, according to a Ringling official. Currently called Sugar, the project is a coming-of-age story centering on the life of a young woman.


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