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8 unusual facts about Royal Society of Arts


Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia

The CACSA was established in 1942 as the Contemporary Art Society as a breakway from the Royal Society of Arts.

Frederic Whitaker

Over his career Whitaker received more than 150 awards from art organizations across the United States, among them the Horatio Alger Award, and was made a Fellow of Britain's Royal Society of Arts.

Harry Lindsay

Lindsay was Chairman of Council of the Royal Society of Arts, editing the publication British Commonwealth Objectives in 1946.

Jean Valade

In 1750, he was admitted to the Royal Society of Arts and was appointed academician, September 29, 1754.

Lois Mailou Jones

Elected Fellow of The Royal Society of Arts in London; receives Franz Bader Award for Oil Painting from National Museum of Art for Peasants on Parade (1962)

Molly Crabapple

Molly Crabapple (born September 13, 1983) is an American artist, known for her work for The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Royal Society of Arts, Red Bull, Marvel Comics, DC Comics and CNN.

William Spencer Bagdatopoulos

He was elected a member of the Royal Society of Arts, England in 1909, and was a medalist at the National Competition of 1913 in South Kensington.

William Spencer Bagdatopoulos (1884–1965) was a painter and commercial artist, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.


Alfred Norton Goldsmith

Goldsmith was also a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Rocket Society, the Institution of Radio Engineers, Australia, the International College of Surgeons, the New York Academy of Sciences, the Optical Society of America, and was a Benjamin Franklin Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (London).

Davy lamp

(Davy's invention had been preceded by that of William Reid Clanny, an Irish doctor at Bishopwearmouth, who had also read a paper to the Royal Society in May 1813. The more cumbersome Clanny safety lamp was successfully tested at Herrington Mill and he too won medals, from the Royal Society of Arts).

Manuel Lima

Among these venues are TED Global, Lift, Ars Electronica, OFFF, Eyeo, Reboot, VizThink, IxDA Interaction, Royal Society of Arts, New York Public Library, TEDx Buenos Aires, Royal College of Art, Open University, NYU Tisch School of the Arts, Northeastern University, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, ENSAD Paris, University of Amsterdam, MediaLab Prado Madrid, Sheffield School of Architecture, Technical University of Lisbon.

Post-nominal letters

# Fellowship or membership of learned societies, academies or professional institutions (for example, RA, FRCP, FRGS, FRSA)

Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Directive

In April 2005 the Royal Society of Arts in the UK (in conjunction with Canon) unveiled a 7 metre tall sculpture titled WEEE Man on London's South Bank, made from 3.3 tonnes of electrical goods - the average amount of electrical waste one UK individual creates in a lifetime.


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Marcel Knobil

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