The dean of the Faculty of Humanities, Judith Urbano, has completed a stay in England to study the ‘Arts and Crafts’ movement with a scholarship from the Albert Dawson Educational Trust to attend the Attingham Study Programme 2024: Arts and Crafts Houses and Gardens. The course took place in the UK from 16 to 22 September, during which participants were able to visit and study houses, gardens and public and private collections in Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire. Specialists, curators and art historians gave different lectures on the subject.

The group consisted of 22 people from all over the world, especially from the United Kingdom and the United States–headquarters of the Attingham Trust–all of them also linked to museums, collections, universities and specialising in Arts and Crafts.

As well as visiting the houses of William Morris, the Red House and Kelmscott Manor, they also explored other houses with furniture and objects made by artists, craftsmen, architects and designers, pioneers or followers of the Arts and Crafts movement  such as Augusto Suban, C.F.A. Voysey, C.R. Ashbee, Phillip Webb, W.R Lethaby, Ernest Gimson, Sidney Barnsley, Mackmurdo, Baillie Scott, May Morris, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Edward Burne-Jones or Ford Madox-Brown, among others.

Dr Urban, specialist in architecture of the 19th century, had previously received a scholarship in 2008 for the Attingham Summer School for a duration of 23 days.