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Poster with black and white photograph in top two thirds showing students preparing stage including large dragon and flames. Bottom third has purple background and black and white text with PASTIMES and details of dates, times and venue of exhibition

Exhibitions and Events

NEW EXHIBITION: PASTIMES

Pastimes is an exhibition inspired by the diversity and creativity of student activities from The Glasgow School of Art’s history. As part of an internship

28 July 2023

Detail of Kirsty Walker's 2023 installation piece,

Creative Engagement

Kirsty Walker: Haunting of a Lost Future

Reflecting on the exhibition, Unearthed, which emerged from a Negotiated Project with Sculpture and Environmental Art (SEA), Kirsty Walker explains how her research in GSA

31 March 2023

Learning and Teaching

Pre-Sessional English: Festival of Objects 2022

We hosted an online learning session for the Pre-Sessional English students a few weeks ago. As always, they’ve gone back to their drawing boards and

14 July 2022

Learning and Teaching

Being (Virtually) Human: First Year Experience 2020

After a long summer of preparation, the new First Year Experience course kicked off at GSA on the 19th of November 2020. Slightly different than last year’s course

10 November 2020

Learning and Teaching

Pre-Sessional English and The New Normal

In June, GSA Archives and Collections embarked on the (slightly daunting) task of adapting our teaching activities for the digital realm! The guinea pig for

15 September 2020

Creative Engagement

First Year Experience: Archive Anecdotes

We at the Archives and Collections have recently been reflecting on the fantastic creative work that our first year students produced as a result of

17 April 2020

Cataloguing and Digitisation

Dugald Cameron and Ultrasonics

Volunteer and GSA Textile Design student Megan Allan has been working with us recently, to catalogue the collection of former GSA Director, Dugald Cameron. To

4 October 2019

Creative Engagement

Pre-Sessional English: The Exploration in/of the GSA Archives

It was a joy to see what the students from the first intake of this years Pre-Sessional English cohort made of GSA Archives! See their

18 July 2019

Conservation

The Final Mount Down!

As you may have seen in some of our previous blog posts, we have been enjoying working in collaboration with University of Glasgow Textile

1 July 2019

Creative Engagement

Re-introducing “The Hatchery”

The eagle eyed amongst you will have noticed that we have recently changed the “Case Studies” section of our Archives and Collections website to link

10 June 2019

Exhibitions and Events

The Young Regenerators: Exhibition and New Accession

There are just a couple of days left to see The Young Regenerators exhibition “We Will Speak. You Will Listen” featuring work by young people

19 October 2018

Creative Engagement

Pre-Sessional Positivity

Our recent group session with GSA’s Pre-Sessional English students proves that archives really do ignite creativity! The Pre-Sessional English course is a three-month discipline specialist

13 July 2018

The Blog

NEW EXHIBITION: PASTIMES

Kirsty Walker: Haunting of a Lost Future

Pre-Sessional English: Festival of Objects 2022

Being (Virtually) Human: First Year Experience 2020

Pre-Sessional English and The New Normal

First Year Experience: Archive Anecdotes

Dugald Cameron and Ultrasonics

Pre-Sessional English: The Exploration in/of the GSA Archives

The Final Mount Down!

Re-introducing “The Hatchery”

The Young Regenerators: Exhibition and New Accession

Pre-Sessional Positivity

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