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The Glasgow School of Art hosted a delegation this week from Baden-Württemberg (a state in southwest Germany bordering France and Switzerland) which included Members of Parliament, political administrators, scientists, policy officers, university representatives, and press from both Baden-Württemberg and Glasgow.  Prof. Penny Macbeth, Director of The Glasgow School of Art, welcomed the delegation, including meeting Graeme Dey MSP, Minister for

Professor Penny Macbeth, Director of The Glasgow School Art, has re-signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Professor Sai Ma, Dean of Tsinghua University’s Academy of Arts & Design. Tsinghua University in China is a long-standing partner of The Glasgow School of Art, first signing a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) in 2009.   The re-signing of the MOU and a

photo credit : Mark Mattock The Glasgow School of Art is the first art institution in the UK to receive a donation in the memory of Judy Blame, the iconoclastic art director, stylist and jewellery designer. The donation will fund two students across their four years of study, and two one-year portfolio bursary awards each year for four years. The two

Universities UK (UUK) have elected Professor Penny Macbeth, Director of The Glasgow School Of Art, as the New Chair of its Specialist Institutions’ Forum (SIF) The Glasgow School of Art can announce today, 21 February 2024.   Universities UK represents the collective voice of over 142 universities, providing a forum to exchange insights, foster collaboration and influence policy. As chair of

  CMAC, The University of Strathclyde’s medicines manufacturing research centre announced the next phase in its strategic partnership with The Glasgow School of Art (GSA) on Wednesday 10 January 2024. The University of Strathclyde’s medicines manufacturing research centre, CMAC, announce the next phase in their strategic partnership with The Glasgow School of Art (GSA). The focus of this collaboration is to

The Glasgow School of Art and Lviv Academy of Arts awarded joint-funding for conservation of archives in Ukraine The Glasgow School of Art (GSA) and the Lviv National Academy of Arts (LNAA) have been awarded six-figure funding by Universities UK (UUK) as part of its ‘UK-Ukraine Twinning Initiative’. The grant totals £117,307.27 and will be used by the GSA to

  Professor Penny Macbeth, Director of The Glasgow School of Art and Vasyl Kosiv, Rector of Lviv National Academy of Arts, asynchronously signed the Twinning MoU between our two Schools. As part of the Universities UK International (UUKi) Twin for Hope campaign, GSA has twinned with Lviv National Academy of the Arts in Ukraine.  Twin for Hope showcases how twinning

  Academics at the GSA Highlands & Islands campus are to collaborate with colleagues in the University of Lapland with support from the Scottish Government’s Arctic Connections Fund it has been announced.   The Scottish Government has released details of the second round of grants from the Arctic Connections Fund, (launched in March 2022), which aims to help Scottish organisations

  Left to right, Sir Tim Smit (co-founder of the Eden Project), Rachel Hetherington (GSA 2021 Silversmithing + Jewellery graduate), Anna Gordon (GSA Head of Silversmithing + Jewellery) Professor Penny Macbeth (Director of The Glasgow School of Art), Andrew Whalley, (Chairman, Grimshaw), Alan Moore (School for Beautiful Business), Kialy Tihngang (2021 Textile Design graduate / Newbery Medal winner) The Glasgow School Art (GSA) is developing

News Release New Web App to help demystify why Covid mutations have the effects they do Why is the Delta variant so virulent ? Why did it surpass the Beta variant so quickly? An innovation by a GSA-University of Glasgow Masters graduate is set to help the public understand why certain variants dominate and have the impact they do.