Slade School of Fine Art celebrates 150th anniversary

From Stanley Spencer and Chila Kumari Burman to Rachel Whiteread and Michael Armitage, UCL's Slade School of Fine Art has educated and trained generations of world-renowned artists since 1871. This autumn ,   the Slade  will celebrate 150 years of fine art teaching and research with a varied  programme  of events  that  reflect on the past, showcase the present, and look ahead to the future. To mark the start of  a  year  of  celebrations, Slade is hosting an online event on  Monday 4 October  that will see the launch of the Slade One Fund, aimed at ensuring fair and equal access to, and participation in, art education. There will also be an exclusive preview of the  trailer for the  Slade 150 documentary film,  which will  track   key moments from  the art school's  history, highlighting transformations, firsts, and definitive moments along the way. Through interviews, archives, artworks, and filmography, the documentary will shed light on  the Slade's  present through the prism of the past, and look to the future, exploring its role at the vanguard of art research and education. Celebrat ions  will  continue with  a Slade 150 symposium series  and  public  exhibitions in the UCL Octagon Gallery and  the  UCL Art Museum , where visitors  will be able to  see  a specially produced time map of the names of  all  those who have studied or worked at the Slade since 1871 in a collaboration  with UCL Culture  called  Testing Ground . Print Pals: Then and Now   is a  limited-edition   publication to   mark the anniversary  borne out of  a collaboration between Slade and the National College of the Arts (NCA) in Pakistan at the height of the pandemic.