Dusting for prints… TAGS: cast collection | Edinburgh College of Art | edinburgh college of art cast collection | Edinburgh University Art Collection | finger prints | morgan kinne We all like to pretend that no-one touches the things in museums. Fact is, like it or not, people do. We have been working with ECA Postgraduate student Morgan Kinne …Continue reading →

Exhibition Archive: The Model (22/11/13 – 9/12/13) Edinburgh College of Art TAGS: Anatomy | Edinburgh College of Art | Gray's School of Art | The Model The Model, curated by Gordon Brennan (Head of Painting) and Neil Lebeter (Art Collections Curator), brought together models from across University Collections; ranging from Geology, Veterinary Science Anatomy, Music and …Continue reading →

Christmas is nearly here! TAGS: Archives | Christmas | Dancing | ECA | Moray House | Poems | Revel In celebration of the next week’s big event, we thought we’d bring you a sample of some of the festive bits and pieces in our archive collections. As always, the …Continue reading →

Merry Fishmas to you all! TAGS: Christmas | ECA | Wee Red Herring | Zombies As it’s only a week to go until Christmas, enjoy a festive edition of The Wee Red Herring from the ECA archive, complete with zombies and everything. December 2009 issue …Continue reading →

Art Collections at the Edinburgh College of Art Sculpture Party TAGS: ECA | Isobel Turley | Sculpture Party Zane by Isobel Turley The annual Sculpture Party is part of ECA legend. Organised by the Sculpture department, it raises money for the School of Art Degree shows and takes …Continue reading →

BAG: The Student Magazine TAGS: 1970 | Archives | BAG | DJCAD | ECA | GSA | Student Magazine Exciting morning so far! We’ve been sorting through prints and posters for the ECA collections and found something interesting… Earlier in the year we posted a story in the archives …Continue reading →

Calling all ECA alumni! TAGS: 1956 | alumni | Dog | ECA | ECA Theatre Group | James Bridie

The Power of Google… TAGS: Clave | ECA | Google | Inside Search | Picasso We’ve been using Google Inside Search to help us identify some prints in the collection. All you have to do is upload a photo and magically it can find it …Continue reading →

The Model at ECA TAGS: Collaboration | ECA | Exhibition | The Model It’s all go at Edinburgh College of Art at the moment for the opening of The Model exhibition, featuring items from Geology, Anatomy, and Dick Vet, alongside work by ECA …Continue reading →

‘The Art Student’ Cartoons for Movember! TAGS: 1950s | Archives | art | Edinburgh College of Art | Movember | The Art Student Today our volunteer Neasa found some interesting cartoons that include some unusual depictions of moustaches in the ECA ‘The Art Student’ magazines from 1950, 1951 and 1952. We hope you …Continue reading →