CHELTENHAM SCHOOL OF ART
Cheltenham School of Art has gone through several transformations and name changes. It began life as Cheltenham Mechanics' Institute in 1834, and a few years later in 1847 became known as the Cheltenham Training College remaining so until Cheltenham and Gloucester College of Higher Education was created in 1990. In October 2001, the college was awarded University status and is now referred to as the University of Gloucestershire which is an amalgam of many merged, name-changed and reformed institutions of further and higher education. It operates over three main campuses, two in Cheltenham and one in Gloucester. Hamlet Watling was an early tutor at Cheltenham and Suffolk artists who studied at Cheltenham include John Reginald Brunsdon, Louise Harward and Constance Stubbs.