Embracing Our Differences Winners Just As Diverse As The Art

It's a project to celebrate people's differences, or to embrace them, and the winners of the "Embracing Our Differences" art and quotation contest are just as diverse.
Take the Adult Best In Show winner Andrea Rankin of Sarasota — a student at Sarasota County Technical Institute.
"I'm not used to being the center of attention," she said. "When I hear someone using the word inspiring on me tonight, I … I'm speechless. It makes me feel so good."
Rankin and other winners from Sarasota, Bradenton and all around the world were honored at a reception Tuesday evening at the Ringling College of Art + Design for Embracing Our Differences, an exhibit that featured oversized art and quotations promoting inspirational art and has been displayed on Sarasota's Island Park.
Rankin decided to go back to school and enter the graphic design

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