JOHN CASS SCHOOL OF ART
Sir John Cass School of Art was established by philanthropist Sir John Cass (1661-1718), a wealthy City of London politician and builder, who established a charity school near St. Botolph's, Aldgate, which opened in 1710. His charity continued to fund the Sir John Cass Foundation School as well as providing for the establishment of the Sir John Cass Technical Institute, which was founded in 1899 and in 1902 moved into newly built premises at 31 Jewry Street, London. In 1950 it changed its name to Sir John Cass College and in 1965 the School's Department of Fine and Applied Art merged with the Department of Silversmithing and Allied Crafts from the Central School of Arts and Crafts to form the Sir John Cass School of Art. This new set up moved into its own newly built premises at Central House, opposite the Whitechapel Art Gallery. The Sir John Cass College merged with the City of London College in 1970 to form the City of London Polytechnic. 'The Cass' as it is locally known, is situated on the fringe of the city of London in a vibrant area of art galleries and design workshops and now forms part of London Metropolitan University which was created in 2002. In 2020 the name of the Sir John Cass is removed from the School of Art, Architecture and Design as Cass was a major figure in the early development of the slave trade. Tutors at Cass included Rosalie Eugenie De Meric, Irene Fawkes and Robin Hazlewood and Suffolk artists who studied at the Cass School of Art include Liz Bestic, Hazel Bradshaw, Nigel Casseldine, James Chambury, Alfred Abram Constable, Peter Fraser Davis,Guy Gladwell, Elisabeth Goozee, Jane Hamilton, Karólína Lárusdóttir, Annie Lee, Anne-Marie Oshelda, John Millar Watt, Ian Ross Weekley and David Wood.
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