Banksy

The award will apparently be conferred to an empty chair as the artist — whose identity is secret — will not be attending the University for the Creative Arts ceremony

The British street artist Banksy will become an honorary professor at the University for the Creative Arts (UCA), an art school with campuses in the southeast of England. But students hoping to attend lectures on stencilling or sit in on seminars about political activism will be disappointed as the title is purely symbolic.