Collaboration with 500+ participants

Steven and William Ladd were proud to launch the National Scrollathon at the Ringling College of Art and Design’s Sarasota Art Museum in 2022. This engagement with the Sarasota community represents Florida’s contribution to the National Scrollathon in 2026, where America’s story will be told through multiple regional collaborations producing world-class art. From October 10-14, 2023, over 500 participants from the Sarasota region toured the exhibition “Steven and William Ladd: Lead With a Laugh,” created personal artworks to keep, contributed hand-made components to a Collaborative Masterwork, and had their photographs created for a Portrait Mural to document their experience. To conclude and celebrate the week, the Collaborative Masterwork, You and Me, Me and You, All of Us Together, was installed as part of the Museum’s exhibition showcasing Scrollathon’s history along with the Signature Plate, and the Portrait Mural of all Community Artists. 

The catalyst for Scrollathon was artist-brothers Steven and William Ladd’s belief in the creative capacity of every human being and in the magnified power of community. Partnering with hundreds of stakeholders and institutions, Scrollathon has reached thousands of people since 2006. Our National Scrollathon expansion is our most ambitious effort yet—a nationwide initiative offering meaningful engagement to over 33,000 people of diverse ages, backgrounds, and abilities through the creation and presentation of monumental Collaborative Masterworks from all 50 states, Washington, D.C., and 5 U.S. Territories—all in celebration of America’s 250th Birthday in 2026.