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William Young attended the Glasgow School of Art for almost two years from 1918.

His age is a little unclear as his date of birth is recorded as 21st February 1894 and also as 24 February 1895 but he would have been in his early 20s when he started classes.

He took day classes in 1918-1919 in ticket writing. His address at this point was 41 Rolland Street.

In 1919-1920 he moved from 41 Rolland Street to 50 Cameron Street, off New City Road. His occupation is given as painter He was taking day classes in ticket writing and lettering. He is listed as being a Student under the Pensions Committee (Ministry of Labour) along with approximately 80 other people in that year's admissions.

However his entry in the register for 1919-20 is scored out and it's recorded that he left at the middle of February.

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William Eric Liddell Young was born in Glasgow on the 25th of October 1897, one of eight children of widow Catherine Ellen (née Greayer) and John Liddell Young, a ladies costumier. He also had an older brother from his mother's previous marriage with John Harrison.

Young attended The Glasgow School of Art from 1913 to 1914 as a part time student of drawing and painting whilst working as an apprentice ladies tailor.

From 1914 to 1915, he was recorded as a part time student of design but had resigned to join the Territorials. Young returned in 1918 to 1919 as a full time student of drawing and painting.

During the First World War, Young served as a private in the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, The Royal Fusiliers and the Scottish Rifles battalions.

Young died on the 21st October 1980. Young is commemorated on The Glasgow School of Art's First World War Roll of Honour.

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Sources: Scotland's People: http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/; The National Archives: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/; Ancestry: http://www.ancestry.co.uk

Judy Youngblood was born in El Paso, Texas, and is an active artist whose work spans paintings, fine prints, and mixed media. She is is Professor Emerita of Art at the University of North Texas, Denton where she taught printmaking and book arts. She earned her M.F.A. (Master of Fine Arts) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She was a Fulbright Scholar at Stanley William Hayter’s Atelier 17 in Paris.

Jane Younger (1863–1955) was Anna Blackie’s elder sister and was a student of Jessie Newbery at the Glasgow School of Art between 1890 and 1899. Jessie started teaching embroidery classes in 1894 at 3 Rose Street, Glasgow, before moving to the new Mackintosh-designed Glasgow School of Art in Renfrew Street in 1900. Jane Younger was predominantly known for her watercolours and won many awards. Her work was displayed at the Glasgow Society of Lady Artists and she exhibited locally and internationally – from the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts to the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour – in Paisley, London and Paris. However, with the growing international acclaim of the Glasgow School of Art’s Department of Embroidery, she also excelled in this medium, providing soft furnishings for the Hill House, where one of her bedspreads is on display in Mr Blackie’s dressing room.

Jane Younger was passionate about painting from an early age. This could have developed as an antidote to her progressive deafness, which became profound in later years when her only communication was through a note pad that she kept by her at all times. However, her deafness didn’t prevent her from realising her adventurous spirit, as she travelled alone to Paris in the 1890s as well as taking many sketching trips abroad.

In 1902, the Turin International Exhibition of Modern Decorative Art had an entire room dedicated to the students and collaborators of the Glasgow School of Art in the ‘Scottish Section’. Jane Younger, Ann Macbeth, Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh, Frances Macdonald McNair and Jessie M King all exhibited their works, alongside work from the Blackie publishing company in the form of Talwin Morris’s book cover designs.

Jane accompanied Walter and Anna Blackie on their tour of northern Italy and Switzerland in 1902 and it’s likely they visited the Turin exhibition given their connections to it, but unfortunately there is no written account of this.

Sources: https://www.nts.org.uk/stories/jane-younger-and-art

Company: Younger Conservation Ltd.

Elizabeth Youngson was born on 29 January 1887.

She was an art teacher who attended the Glasgow School of Art for one year only, to take evening classes in Design.

Her address at this time was c/o McCallum in Lylesland Terrace, Paisley.

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In 2014 Susan Yule was a student on the MSc in Information Management and Preservation at the University of Glasgow.

Born Bilbao, Basque Country, Spain. Lives and works in Los Angeles. MFA, California Institute of the Arts, 2003. BFA, Honors Degree in Drawing & Painting, Glasgow School of Art, Scotland.

Marco Zaccaria studied at the Mackintosh School of Architecture and graduated in 2019. In 2019 he won the W.O. Hutchison prize for Architecture and was one of two students selected for the AJ [Architects' Journal] Student Prize by the Mackintosh School of Architecture.

Source: https://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/students/aj-student-prize-2019-glasgow-school-of-art/10043716.article

Sheng Zhang is a UK based contemporary jewellery and silversmithing designer maker. He graduated from an MFA Jewellery course at the Edinburgh College of Art, having previously studied at the School of Jewellery Birmingham City University and China University of Geosciences (Wuhan).
Sheng has won multiple prestigious awards for his work, including Young Professional Award given by Netherlands Silver Museum, Silver Award from The Goldsmiths' Crafts and Design Council and New Designers Silversmithing Award from The Goldsmiths’ Company. His work is exhibited internationally and is included in the permanent collections of Victoria and Albert Museum and The Goldsmiths’ Company. Sheng has worked to commissions for both individual clients and establishments including Rolls-Royce & Partners Finance.

Tianyu Zhang graduated from The Glasgow School of Art's MArch in Architectural Studies in 2023, and was awarded the Postgraduate Chair medal for the School of Architecture.

GSA student

Naomi Zucker studied Textiles at GSA from 1976 and designed garments for the 1978 fashion show.

Herta Zuckermann was a student at the Juvenile Art Class run by Professor Franz Cizek in Vienna, Austria in the 1920s and 1930s.

Sources: 'Child Art and Franz Cizek' by W. Viola https://another-roadmap.net/articles/0002/8598/viola-cizek-textteil.pdf; https://www.lowryjames.com/pages/books/7034/frank-herta-zuckermann-cizek-aged-14-years/herta-zuckermann-aged-14-years

Born in Austria in 1921, Paul Zunterstein fled Austria during the Nazi Anschluss at age seventeen, and settled in Glasgow. In later years he moved to Kilmacolm.

He studied and taught sculpture at the GSA under Benno Schotz , and exhibited work at the RGIFA and RSA between 1950 and 1968.

In 1953, he produced Mother and Child for the north facade of Chirnsyde Primary School, 28 Ashgill Road, Glasgow. The work caused controversy because the figures were nude, and during the debate about the work, Douglas Percy Bliss, the principal of Glasgow School of Art described Zunterstein as 'one of the best students they had had at the School of Art for years.'

His wife, Norma Margaret Lewis was also a sculptor; she graduated from the GSA in 1962.