Ottawa School of Art
Coordinates: 45°25′37″N 75°41′36″W / 45.42694°N 75.69333°W
The Ottawa School of Art is an art school in downtown Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. The school has for many years and continues to offer gallery hosting for its artists, lessons for all ages and of all sorts (animation through pottery and portfolio development), as well as hosting drawing sessions with live models, etc.
The school features three visual art galleries. The Ottawa School of Art Main Gallery and the Lee Matasi Gallery, which features student artwork, are located at the school's headquarters at 35 George Street in Ottawa. The OSA Orleans Campus Gallery is located at the Shenkman Arts Centre at 245 Centrum Boulevard in Ottawa.
In 1879, a group of prominent local citizens formed an association for the encouragement and advancement of the fine arts throughout Canada. They proposed to establish an art union that would sponsor annual exhibitions in this city, to use the influence of the association in promoting the creation of a National Gallery of Canada, and to open a School of Art and Design in Ottawa. A year later, under the patronage of the Marquis of Lorne and his wife the Princess Louise, they succeeded on all counts.
By then, plans for a National Art Association had evolved into the idea of an academy of artists, each of whom would contribute a “diploma” work to form the basis of a national collection (later to become the National Gallery of Canada’s permanent collection). The Royal Canadian Academy held its first gala exhibition in March, 1880 at the Clarendon Hotel, situated at the corner of Sussex and George Streets. A month later the Art Association hired an instructor to begin art classes in rooms at 140 Wellington Street. Eighteen pupils made up the first enrollment.
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