1st – 18th May 2025
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The Lady Artists Club
May 9 @ 2:30 pm – 4:00 pm
Talk by Hildegarde Berwick, art curator
Glasgow Art Club, 185 Bath Street
Eight young lady students at Glasgow School of Art got together in 1882 and started the Glasgow Society of Lady Artists, the first such major female grouping in Britain. By the 1890s a permanent home was found and developed – the Lady Artists Club at 5 Blythswood Square, also being the first residential club for women in the country. Disinterest from the Scottish Arts Council caused the building to close in the 1970s, but the artists and lay members re-formed and flourish today as the Glasgow Society of Women Artists. Hildegarde Berwick shares and intrigues us with the life and growth of their initiatives and wide scope of creativity.
Doors open at 1.30pm.
£15 Including glass of wine or soft refreshment.
