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A further incentive for the development of the school came in 1909 with the bequest of £60,000 by James Duncan of Jordanstone [4] to establish an independent art school in the city. A lengthy legal battle ensued as to whether the existing college could spend the money, and it was not until the 1930s that an agreement was reached whereby the ...
Alumni of the Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, formerly Dundee College of Art and since 1994 part of the University of Dundee, Scotland.
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Mary Ann Baxter was the co-founder of University College, Dundee, the forerunner of the University of Dundee and also, with her brother, Sir David Baxter (1793-1872) of the Technical Institute of Dundee which opened in 1888 and led to the founding of Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design. [1]
The main campus of the university is located in Dundee's West End, which contains many of the university's teaching and research facilities; the Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, Dundee Law School and the Dundee Dental Hospital and School.
The DCA opened on 19 March 1999, [2] but the idea of establishing a visual arts centre in Dundee had been discussed by many concerned parties from the mid-1980s. In particular, there was a desire to both nurture the students and graduates of Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design (now a school of the University of Dundee and one of the leading art colleges in the UK) and to build upon ...
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Johanna Basford was born in 1983 [5] in Scotland and grew up on her parents' fish farm [6] in Auchnagatt in Aberdeenshire. [7] She graduated from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design (DJCAD) in Dundee in 2005 with a degree in textile Design and a specialization in screen printing. [1]