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The School was originally founded to encourage artisanship and technical skills. It now provides undergraduate and postgraduate qualifications in the production and study of visual art. The subject is taught as a living element of contemporary culture with a broad range of historical and theoretical references. [5]
History. The Ruskin is uniquely positioned as an intimately-scaled art school (about 130 students) embedded within a research-intensive university.
Ruskin School of Art. Dating from 1871, when John Ruskin first opened his School of Drawing, the Ruskin School of Art has enjoyed a variety of guises, and an ever-growing reputation. As Oxford’s first Slade Professor, Ruskin intended to develop a course for the University leading to a degree in art.
The Ruskin is uniquely positioned as an intimately-scaled art school (about 130 students) embedded within a research-intensive university. Its dynamic, inter-disciplinary structure allows artists and theorists to work closely together and to respond quickly and flexibly to developments within the…
John Ruskin (pictured right) was the first Slade Professor of Fine Art in Oxford, and gave the first series of eight public lectures in 1870. In his inaugural lecture, he announced that he was setting up the Ruskin School of Drawing, which is now the Ruskin School of Art.
History. The Ruskin School of Art grew out the Oxford School of Art, which was founded in 1865 and later became Oxford Brookes University. It was headed by Alexander Macdonald and housed in the University Galleries (subsequently the Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology).
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'The school was founded by John Ruskin in 1871 as a school of drawing. It was set up on the basis that if you could read, write, draw and were numerate you had all the tools you required to make sense of the world. As time went on, the drawing school became a school of fine art.
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