Brand New!! Mackintosh Edifice Burn Fund

Today the Glasgow School of Art has launched the Mackintosh Building Fire Fund.

Glasgow School of Art

Help amongst the restoration of the Macintosh Building


Plans are inward paw to heighten the funds to larn the edifice which suffered terrible devastation inward the recent fire.
The really severe harm to the building’s iconic library, inward particular, is a cultural loss of pregnant magnitude.
The Scottish Government stimulate got pledged to stand upwards for upwards to £5m raised past times the Glasgow School of Art for the restoration of the building. This funding volition live inward add-on to whatever longer-term funding requirements for edifice recovery too restoration, too which volition live supported past times the Scottish Government too its agencies next sum evaluation of insurance liability.

The Macintosh Library earlier the fire

You tin uncovering the house to hand what you lot tin on Mackintosh Building Fire Fund on The Big Give
  • it aims to heighten funds through donations to response to the burn at Glasgow Art School which destroyed the Macintosh Library too created pregnant harm to the building.
  • the intention is to promote the appeal through international networks, encouraging lovers of the ‘Mack’, at domicile too abroad, to fund-raise to aid restore this wonderful edifice to its sometime glory.
  • you tin donate online - which way people living to a greater extent than or less the earth who dear Macintosh too appreciate the significance of this edifice tin aid to restore it
The Glasgow School of Art are the custodians of this magnificent edifice too it exists to serve the students of the School. The GSA takes seriously its responsibleness to save this internationally iconic edifice too to ensure that it continues to live at the view of our campus too creative community.
Read more nigh the Charity running this project.
and the First Minister for Scotland besides commented
“The ‘Mack’ is an extraordinary building. It is an architectural precious rock too the artistic view of Glasgow. It tin too volition live restored, too everything which tin live done must live done to deliver this.

Phoenix Bursaries for students


Those students who were most seriously affected past times the burn inward the Macintosh Building too lost their lastly yr artwork are to have special funds called Phoenix Bursaries.
Up to a hundred fine fine art students who lost locomote inward Friday's blaze volition have the Phoenix bursaries, providing studio infinite for upwards to 6 months too a living allowance piece they rebuild their portfolios.
This is what  Professor Tom Inns, Director of The Glasgow School of Art, had to say
“In the aftermath of Friday’s burn the GSA was overwhelmed amongst offers of back upwards including offers of studio infinite from the Scottish fine art schools too from a wide portfolio of other fine art colleges inward the UK, Europe too USA. The beating view of the GSA is its students too our priority is to ensure that all those most seriously affected past times the burn are given the chance to rebuild their practice. The GSA volition thence do special bursaries which volition enable the students stimulate got sufficient studio fourth dimension to educate their practise too brand novel work.”
GSA are besides shout out for people wanting to offering practical assistance, to email inward the start illustration to Alan Horn, Director of Development at a.horn@gsa.ac.uk

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