I studied in Edinburgh! I was an exchange student there in the (mumble, mumble) - and got to stay in the student housing at Milne's Court, next to the castle! I've revisited many times since, and it still makes me happy.
Oh wow Glasgow School of Art has an almost mythical status in my mind - how lucky you were to study there!
I studied at the rather prosaically named Tasmanian State Institute of Technology aka TSIT in the (ahem) 80s! I can honestly say they were the best years of my life. We partied hard and we had 24 hour access to the studios so we could pull all-nighters if we needed to, which was more than occasionally. And sometimes just for fun. I had a friend who more or less lived in the drawing room - there was a handy mattress there that the life models used haha.
I went back to my old college, last June for the Bristol Art Book Event. I did Fine Art: Printmaking, failed to get onto a Post Grad and found myself back in college studying Printing and Graphic Production. I have a career in commercial printing, across a wide range of print.
It was strange going back to the old site in Bower Ashton and I stopped off at the Clifton Suspension Bridge, which I went across from Student Land in Redland to the campus.
The Fine Art Dept is now the Centre for Fine Print Research and my visiting tutor became the head of the department. It looks at a wide range of print for artists actives. The BABE event last year was amazing, lots of interesting work from the UK and overseas. I met someone from Canada and France. It was strange getting going round the old studio space. The art shop was shut at the weekend, and I had hoped to see the person who ran it, when I was there.
I didn't meet any of my old colleagues or tutors, which was a shame. On the other hand, Bristol (the city) looked so run down as I drove up the Gloucester Road.
Link below for the next year's event, if you or other one is interested,
Hello Helen! Happy Sunday to you! I went back to Warwick uni with my husband recently - we met there 40 years ago 😱 We did a classic old people thing there; couldn't work the parking app, got scammed while trying to pay, then had to phone credit card, eventually actually paid and got out of the car 40 mins later! How things HAD changed! ( Well we have anyway 🤭) Warwick is huge now but vibrant and exciting and it was Freshers week and we heard lots of very similar conversations that we'd had ourselves 40 years ago! Our halls are still just the same - from what we could see from the outside - we didn't want to actually peer in like mad old people 😂
Ohhh I went to Trent Poly (when I started) which became Nottingham Trent Poly halfway through my course… sometime last century.. it’s now Nottingham Trent University.. and the Arkwright building I studied in was and still is pretty awesome. I went back about 15 years ago … proper trip down memory lane.
I am usually too lazy to comment (ha ha my bad) but I couldn't let a discussion of visiting our former art schools go by with out a comment. I went to The Philadelphia College of Art in Philadelphia PA in the US back in the Pleistocene age. (you young whippersnappers) I went back to visit a few times over the years. Alas, due to (alleged) financial mismanagement, helped along by the Covid pandemic and declining enrollments, this over 100 year old institution is no more. It still makes me sad to know this.
Glad your institution is still standing. Mine...not so much.
It was really a mess, as far as I could tell. I know the faculty and staff filed a lawsuit, since they were given exactly 7 days notice of the school’s closing. The students had to scramble, because the closing was in early June, by which time enrollments were pretty much closed at other art schools in the area. The Tyler School of Art, which was part of Temple University (also in the Philadelphia area) also closed and was absorbed into the University. The Pennsylvania Academy, the oldest art school in the country, also quit being a full university, but to my knowledge still hards classes, it’s just no longer a degree program.
I live across the country now, so I’m not up on the day to day details, but I am really sad that my venerable art school is no more. At least in the US, the cost of getting a college/university education has become more than many people can pay and who wants to go $50K or $100K into debt for a degree in painting? I’m grateful I went to school mumble mumble years ago and could pay off my very cheap loans while working crap jobs to support myself while painting.
Wow, a perfect storm! Low pay for uni tutors (in the UK at least) is really sad. And the cost of studying is through the roof. Thank goodness we studied in mumble mumble when art school didn’t land us in enormous debt. Things have got to change. I think this is why so many people study online now.
Yes, and from what I've read, all these much higher tuitions aren't going to the (very underpaid) professors and instructors. Where it's going, I have no idea, unless it's to sports programs or expanded administration.
I studied in Edinburgh! I was an exchange student there in the (mumble, mumble) - and got to stay in the student housing at Milne's Court, next to the castle! I've revisited many times since, and it still makes me happy.
Wowee! Student accommodation next to the castle! Fancy!
Oh wow Glasgow School of Art has an almost mythical status in my mind - how lucky you were to study there!
I studied at the rather prosaically named Tasmanian State Institute of Technology aka TSIT in the (ahem) 80s! I can honestly say they were the best years of my life. We partied hard and we had 24 hour access to the studios so we could pull all-nighters if we needed to, which was more than occasionally. And sometimes just for fun. I had a friend who more or less lived in the drawing room - there was a handy mattress there that the life models used haha.
TSIT for short! So snappy! Ha!
Oh art school days, sigh…
I went back to my old college, last June for the Bristol Art Book Event. I did Fine Art: Printmaking, failed to get onto a Post Grad and found myself back in college studying Printing and Graphic Production. I have a career in commercial printing, across a wide range of print.
It was strange going back to the old site in Bower Ashton and I stopped off at the Clifton Suspension Bridge, which I went across from Student Land in Redland to the campus.
The Fine Art Dept is now the Centre for Fine Print Research and my visiting tutor became the head of the department. It looks at a wide range of print for artists actives. The BABE event last year was amazing, lots of interesting work from the UK and overseas. I met someone from Canada and France. It was strange getting going round the old studio space. The art shop was shut at the weekend, and I had hoped to see the person who ran it, when I was there.
I didn't meet any of my old colleagues or tutors, which was a shame. On the other hand, Bristol (the city) looked so run down as I drove up the Gloucester Road.
Link below for the next year's event, if you or other one is interested,
https://www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/babe/#:~:text=The%20next%20edition%20of%20BABE,Bower%20Ashton%20campus%2C%20UWE%20Bristol.
Hello Helen! Happy Sunday to you! I went back to Warwick uni with my husband recently - we met there 40 years ago 😱 We did a classic old people thing there; couldn't work the parking app, got scammed while trying to pay, then had to phone credit card, eventually actually paid and got out of the car 40 mins later! How things HAD changed! ( Well we have anyway 🤭) Warwick is huge now but vibrant and exciting and it was Freshers week and we heard lots of very similar conversations that we'd had ourselves 40 years ago! Our halls are still just the same - from what we could see from the outside - we didn't want to actually peer in like mad old people 😂
Thanks for the buffet, love it!
Ha! What a day! Flippin parking metres with bloody apps! They drive me insane!
Completely! BTW I'm a Goodshipper - thanks for doing such a brilliant thing - it's been a game changer ❤️
Ohhh I went to Trent Poly (when I started) which became Nottingham Trent Poly halfway through my course… sometime last century.. it’s now Nottingham Trent University.. and the Arkwright building I studied in was and still is pretty awesome. I went back about 15 years ago … proper trip down memory lane.
Good on Nott Trent!
I am usually too lazy to comment (ha ha my bad) but I couldn't let a discussion of visiting our former art schools go by with out a comment. I went to The Philadelphia College of Art in Philadelphia PA in the US back in the Pleistocene age. (you young whippersnappers) I went back to visit a few times over the years. Alas, due to (alleged) financial mismanagement, helped along by the Covid pandemic and declining enrollments, this over 100 year old institution is no more. It still makes me sad to know this.
Glad your institution is still standing. Mine...not so much.
Hello lazy! 😂 Oh no, that is so sad. Declining enrolments! Where did all the artists go?
It was really a mess, as far as I could tell. I know the faculty and staff filed a lawsuit, since they were given exactly 7 days notice of the school’s closing. The students had to scramble, because the closing was in early June, by which time enrollments were pretty much closed at other art schools in the area. The Tyler School of Art, which was part of Temple University (also in the Philadelphia area) also closed and was absorbed into the University. The Pennsylvania Academy, the oldest art school in the country, also quit being a full university, but to my knowledge still hards classes, it’s just no longer a degree program.
I live across the country now, so I’m not up on the day to day details, but I am really sad that my venerable art school is no more. At least in the US, the cost of getting a college/university education has become more than many people can pay and who wants to go $50K or $100K into debt for a degree in painting? I’m grateful I went to school mumble mumble years ago and could pay off my very cheap loans while working crap jobs to support myself while painting.
Wow, a perfect storm! Low pay for uni tutors (in the UK at least) is really sad. And the cost of studying is through the roof. Thank goodness we studied in mumble mumble when art school didn’t land us in enormous debt. Things have got to change. I think this is why so many people study online now.
Yes, and from what I've read, all these much higher tuitions aren't going to the (very underpaid) professors and instructors. Where it's going, I have no idea, unless it's to sports programs or expanded administration.
I studied at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. I have not been back since graduating. 😄