Eastbourne School of Art

Eastbourne School of Art which is also referred to as Eastbourne School of Arts and Crafts, Eastbourne School of Art and Design and Eastbourne College of Arts and Technology was as its name suggests located in the seaside town in Sussex. The exact year of its foundation is as yet unknown but there were students at the school in the years before World War I. Eastbourne School of Arts & Crafts was founded c.1962 and was renamed the College of Art and Design, Eastbourne. In 1980 it merged with the College of Further Education, Eastbourne and in 1987 renamed Eastbourne College of Arts and Technology. It merged with several other Sussex schools to become East Sussex College Group.

Its alumni included the painter, illustrator and designer Eric Ravilious who studied at the School from 1919-22 and taught there in the 1920's, the illustrator Tirzah Garwood who studied under Ravilous in the 1920's whom she married in 1930, the painter Frank Archer who attended the School between 1928-32 and the painter and illustrator Frank Wootton who also studied under Ravilious. Also connected with the School was illustrator and poster designer Charles Stephen Wood who was there in the early 1920's, Betty Tanner, (later Elizabeth Sorrell) and more recently artist Rima Farah during the 1960's.