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22 degrees offered
Over 500 graduate and
undergraduate students
1878: OUR founding
CORCORAN STORIES
IN PHOTOS: CORCORAN STUDENTS DOCUMENT THE 2020 ELECTION
Photojournalism students in cities across the country captured moments during and after the election of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.
PAUL RUCKER: ARTIST PLANS TO COLLABORATE WITH CORCORAN STUDENTS TO ADDRESS SOCIAL ISSUES THROUGH ‘THE BLACK WALL STREET PROJECT’
Visual artist, composer and musician Paul Rucker will be joining the Corcoran School of Arts and Design at GW as a visiting professor of community engagement for the 2020-2021 academic year. One of the projects that his students will dive into is the Black Wall Street Project, “Banking While Black: Economic Violence Beyond the Black Wall Street Massacre,” which will concentrate on the destruction of the three Black Wall Street communities in Richmond, Virginia,Durham, North Carolina, and Tulsa, Oklahoma.
HOW PHOTOGRAPHER NAKEYA BROWN CELEBRATES BLACK HAIR CARE THROUGH HER WORK
Corcoran alumna, Nayeka Brown (CCAS MFA ’17), featured in 'Vogue Beauty.'
GW ALL ACCESS: MICHELE CARLSON OF THE CORCORAN
As an art student, Michele Carlson had access to expensive materials, institutional space and all the hefty trappings of traditional printmaking. But after she graduated, she found herself suddenly cut off from all those resources and had to figure out how to put her skills to use in a much more improvisational, low-budget environment.
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