Carlisle College of Art

The Cumbria Institute of the Arts was a further and higher education institution in Carlisle, which was founded as the Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts in 1822 It became the Carlisle College of Art, from 1950 and switched to Cumbria Institute of the Arts from Cumbria College of Art & Design in 2001. The Institute merged with St Martin's College (founded in Lancaster) to form the University of Cumbria on 1 August 2007. Cumbria Institute became the University's Faculty of Arts. Alumni and staff have included Keith Tyson, 2002 Turner Prize winner, Sheila Fell, Margaret Harrison, Conrad Atkinson, John Bridgeman, Tom Robb, Alan Tennant Moon and John Bratby.