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The Glasgow School of Art (GSA; Scottish Gaelic: Sgoil-ealain Ghlaschu) is a higher education art school based in Glasgow, Scotland, offering undergraduate degrees, post-graduate awards (both taught and research-led), and PhDs in architecture, fine art, and design.
The Galleries housed Glasgow School of Art from 1869 to 1899. [5] In October 1986, the shop frontage building housing the Galleries was ravaged by fire, [6] but they re-opened in 1990 as the largest quality, climate-controlled, temporary exhibition gallery in Scotland. They continue to be the largest exhibition space in the city-centre.
Born in the 1950s in Glasgow, Scotland, UK, MacLellan graduated from the Glasgow School of Art in 1980 after studying metalsmithing and woodworking. In search of more opportunity, MacLellan immigrated to the United States when he was 22, working as a silversmith in New York City for a number of businesses. He became inspired in bagpipe making ...
Josephine Haswell Miller – painter and faculty member of the Glasgow School of Arts [2] Thomas Corsan Morton – artist [49] Sheila Mullen – artist [50] Ciara Phillips – artist [51] Christopher Pratt –Canadian painter who designed the Newfoundland flag; John Quinton Pringle – artist [41] Charlotte Prodger – artist and 2018 Turner ...
Francis Henry Newbery or Fra Newbery (15 May 1855 – 18 December 1946) was a painter and art educationist, best known as director of the Glasgow School of Art between 1885 and 1917. Under his leadership the School developed an international reputation and was associated with the flourishing of Glasgow Style and the work of Charles Rennie ...
The first was found on 26 November 2012 at Glasgow School of Art. It is a book sculpture inspired by Alasdair Gray's classic novel Lanark: A Life in Four Books. [12] The finder's prize was a sculpture of a small teacup with elements of the Lanark theme. [13] The Lanark sculpture is now displayed next to the Glasgow School of Art shop during ...
Thomas Simmonds (1842 - 12 August 1912) was an artist; and former Headteacher of the Glasgow School of Art.He was headteacher from 1881 to 1885. [1] He was the last full serving headteacher of the school, as his successor Fra Newbury although beginning as headteacher, was deemed a Director of the Art School instead.
Dorothy Carleton Smyth (1880 – 16 February 1933) was a Scottish artist, a compatriot of Charles Rennie Mackintosh, active in theatrical and costuming design, and one of the leading lights at the Glasgow School of Art during the post WWI period.