Cheltenham School of Art

The School as gone through very many transformations and name changes. It began life as Cheltenham Mechanics' Institute in 1834, and a few years later in 1847 became known as the Cheltenham Training College remaining so until Cheltenham and Gloucester College of Higher Education was created in 1990. In October 2001, the college was awarded University status and is now referred to as the University of Gloucestershire which is an amalgam of a large number of merged, name-changed and reformed institutions of further and higher education. It operates over three main campuses, two in Cheltenham and one in Gloucester.

Alumni include artists John Brunsdon, P.J. Crook, Peter Edwards, Cornelia Parker, Anita Taylor, Reginald (Stanley) Dent, James Tarr, Sallis Benney, Harold Holden, Edward Pullee and sculptors Tony Cragg and Paul Day to name but a very few.