You’re talented, creative and innovative — and you want to explore the critical issues of our time. The Corcoran will help you take a leading part in the next generation of creative cultural leaders.
FACTS
CORCORAN STORIES
CORCORAN SCHOOL SEEKING NEW DIRECTOR
The Corcoran School of the Arts and Design invites applications for a full time, tenure track or tenured appointment as Director to begin as early as Fall 2020. Review of applications will begin on December 16, 2019 and will continue until the position is filled.
ART GENERATES IDEAS TO PREVENT ACCUMULATIONS OF TEXTILE WASTE
Associate Professor of Art History, Bibiana Obler collaborated with Phyllis Rosenzweig to create the exhibition, which runs through December 2019.
PHOTOJOURNALISM PROFESSOR WINS PULITZER
Steve Elfers, a New Media Photojournalism professor, won the Pulitzer Prize in 2018.
TIM GUNN MAKES IT WORK
Tim Gunn credits one of his “extraordinary teachers” at the Corcoran with helping him land his first teaching job. He earned a BFA in sculpture at the Corcoran School of the Art and Design in 1974. After serving as director of admissions for the Corcoran, he has become a world famous American fashion consultant, television personality, actor, voice actor and author.
TAKE A VIRTUAL TOUR OF NEXT
New Media Photojournalism's Margaret Wroblewski's photography gives survivors of harrassment on the Metro a voice.
Maddie Henkin and Artie Foster (both MA Art History '19) curated "6.13.1989: The Cancellation of the Mapplethorpe Exhibition."
Ashley Llanes (BFA Fine Art Photography '19 recreated her Quinceañera photoshoot for her project for NEXT 2019.
Fine Art Photography Professor Dean Kessmann wins the 2018
"Designed to Recycle" grants from the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities.
EVENTS
Fast Fashion/Slow Art
Exhibition open to the public from August 8 – December 15, 2019
Tuesday – Sunday, 1 – 5pm
Flagg Building
500 17th Street NW
Washington, DC 20006
FREE
Fast Fashion/Slow Art comprises 11 films, videos and video installations by a diverse group of emerging and established contemporary artists and filmmakers that, collectively, encourage scrutiny of today’s garment industry.
Photo credit: Wang Bing and Galerie Chantal Crousel, Parisa
INTER | SECTIONALITY: Diaspora in the Creole City
Nov. 14, 2019 – March 20, 2020
Tuesday – Friday 10 am – 6 pm
Weekends 1 – 6 pm
Opening reception:
Nov. 14, 6 – 9 pm Free and open to the public, with light drink and fare.
Flagg Building
500 17th Street NW
Washington, DC 20006
FREE
Inter | Sectionality: Diaspora Art in the Creole City will be presented in our nation’s capital at a time when diaspora artists and voices are challenging social justice, celebrating identities, and reactivating and bridging communities through contemporary art and scholarship.
500 17th Street, NW
Washington, D.C. 20006
Phone: 202-994-1700