The Moseley School of Art is an institution worth remembering. It was a fertile ground for groundbreaking artists and musicians.
It operated from 1900 to 1976. It was initially established as the Moseley School of Arts and Crafts amid the Arts and Crafts movement which ran from 1875 to 1920, which emphasised the importance of handcrafted goods and traditional techniques. But continued to develop through the ages to include music and acting.
The school was located on Moseley Road in Balsall Heath in Birmingham, and it became known for its excellent art education programs. It offered courses in painting, drawing, sculpture, and design, and it attracted many talented students and teachers over the years.
The school closed down in 1976 due to dwindling number of students and financial difficulties. However, the legacy of the school lives on through the work of its former students and teachers.
Here are some of the famous people who went to the school:
5. Painter and printmaker John Walker
John Walker studied in Birmingham at the Moseley School of Art, and later the Birmingham School of Art. In the early 1970s, he made a series of large Blackboard Pieces using chalk and exhibited at the opening of Ikon Gallery, in Birmingham Shopping Centre, Birmingham in 1972. He has worked all over the world since then. (Photo by Evening Standard/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) | Getty Images
6. David Prentince, artist
He was one of the four founder members of Birmingham’s Ikon Gallery. Prentice’s work features in the collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, the Art Institute of Chicago, and several others. He was married to quilt artist Dinah Prentice. He passed away in 2014. (Photo - Black Hill below British Camp WaterColour by David Prentice/Wikimedia Commons) | wikimedia commons/
7. Peter Phillips, artist and co-founder of the Pop Art Movement
Born in 1939 in Birmingham, he was one of the co-founders of the Pop Art movement. From 1953 to 1955, he studied at Moseley Road Secondary School of Art in Birmingham and from 1955 to 1959 at the Birmingham School of Art. From 1962 to 1963, he taught at the Coventry College of Art and the Birmingham College of Art. (Photo - Wikimedia Foundation) | Wikimedia Foundation