DOI Heft:
No.9 (December, 1893)
DOI Artikel:The Birmingham Municipal School of Art, with many illustrations of its students' work, I
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.17189#0103
The Birmingham Municipal School of Art
thus pursued on the same lines as in the Central year, is $s., a sum so low that practically it excludes
and Branch Schools of Art; one of the greatest none.
"At the Central School, morning, afternoon,
and evening classes are held, on five days a week,
for forty weeks in the year. The curriculum in-
cludes all branches of drawing, shading, painting,
design, and modelling, geometry, perspective, and
sciography; architecture and building construc-
tion ; machine construction and drawing, and the
from a drawing by winifred smith
advantages of this system being that a Board
School boy, after joining one of the Schools of
Art, is able to continue his Art studies from the
point he had already attained. This scheme con-
tinues to work most satisfactorily. ,
" There are fourteen Branch Schools of Art—
thirteen of them held in Board Schools in different
parts of the city, and one in the Vittoria Street School
building. The course of instruction at these Branch
Schools is divided into two sections, and includes :
Section I.—Elementary Drawing, Elementary De-
sign, Drawing, and Light and Shade from Nature,
Casts and Objects, Practical Geometry, Perspec-
tive, Elementary Modelling, &c. Section II.—
Machine Construction and Drawing, Building Con-
struction, and Practical Plane and Solid Geometry.
The fee for attendance at one of the Branch Schools,
which are in easy reach from every part of the city,
on five evenings a week throughout the School
from a drawing by winifred smith
steam engine. Apart from the ordinary
class meetings, twenty-eight lectures on
different branches of Art are every week
given in the School.
" In the Branch Schools the students
are mostly artisans, who apply directly to
their trade the knowledge which they ac-
quire in the classes. At the Central
School the students comprise a large
number of artisans, together with archi-
tects, builders, designers for all local
manufacturers, artists in stained glass,
brass-workers, die-sinkers, modellers,
lithographers, draughtsmen, machinists,
persons in training to become Art
teachers, tfcc. Over 300 female pupil and
candidate pupil teachers, under the Bir-
mingham School Board, receive instruc-
tion in drawing at the Bristol Street
Branch School.
" Much help is given to deserving stu-
dents by the schemes of free admissions
and scholarships. At the present time
there are 377 free admissioners to the
Branch Schools, under the scheme for
from a drawing by winifred smith the award of free admissions to pupils of
9i
thus pursued on the same lines as in the Central year, is $s., a sum so low that practically it excludes
and Branch Schools of Art; one of the greatest none.
"At the Central School, morning, afternoon,
and evening classes are held, on five days a week,
for forty weeks in the year. The curriculum in-
cludes all branches of drawing, shading, painting,
design, and modelling, geometry, perspective, and
sciography; architecture and building construc-
tion ; machine construction and drawing, and the
from a drawing by winifred smith
advantages of this system being that a Board
School boy, after joining one of the Schools of
Art, is able to continue his Art studies from the
point he had already attained. This scheme con-
tinues to work most satisfactorily. ,
" There are fourteen Branch Schools of Art—
thirteen of them held in Board Schools in different
parts of the city, and one in the Vittoria Street School
building. The course of instruction at these Branch
Schools is divided into two sections, and includes :
Section I.—Elementary Drawing, Elementary De-
sign, Drawing, and Light and Shade from Nature,
Casts and Objects, Practical Geometry, Perspec-
tive, Elementary Modelling, &c. Section II.—
Machine Construction and Drawing, Building Con-
struction, and Practical Plane and Solid Geometry.
The fee for attendance at one of the Branch Schools,
which are in easy reach from every part of the city,
on five evenings a week throughout the School
from a drawing by winifred smith
steam engine. Apart from the ordinary
class meetings, twenty-eight lectures on
different branches of Art are every week
given in the School.
" In the Branch Schools the students
are mostly artisans, who apply directly to
their trade the knowledge which they ac-
quire in the classes. At the Central
School the students comprise a large
number of artisans, together with archi-
tects, builders, designers for all local
manufacturers, artists in stained glass,
brass-workers, die-sinkers, modellers,
lithographers, draughtsmen, machinists,
persons in training to become Art
teachers, tfcc. Over 300 female pupil and
candidate pupil teachers, under the Bir-
mingham School Board, receive instruc-
tion in drawing at the Bristol Street
Branch School.
" Much help is given to deserving stu-
dents by the schemes of free admissions
and scholarships. At the present time
there are 377 free admissioners to the
Branch Schools, under the scheme for
from a drawing by winifred smith the award of free admissions to pupils of
9i