Keys to Sarasota High School were ceremoniously handed over to the Ringling College of Art and Design Monday morning, when officials from the college also showed off plans to house the Sarasota Museum of Art in the historic structure.
Museum president Wendy Surkis said the museum would strongly honor the history of the school, which opened in 1927. That will involve maintaining the roadside exterior and many of the original tile mosaics in the school floor.
“We have nicely married the old and the new,” Surkis said.
The back of the facility will be heavily renovated, with the addition of an auditorium, gift shop, sculpture garden and large installation galleries. The additions are being built with prominent windows.
The second floor of the building will be dominated by the museum, while the first and third floors will have classrooms, including some that will be used for art classes and can be viewed from museum windows as students make art.
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