Faculty & Staff

Faculty members at the Corcoran School are leading experts in art and design with ties to the most prestigious museums and art institutions in the world. They are dedicated educators who are also practicing artists plugged into Washington, D.C.'s vibrant international art scene. Students benefit not only from our faculty's extraordinary expertise and experience, but also from their connections and access to many of the world's great collections of art treasures.

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Administrators and Main Faculty Contacts

(By Program Area)

Program heads

CLASSICAL ACTING: Alec Wild [email protected]

ART HISTORY: Bibiana Obler [email protected]

DESIGN (GRAPHIC DESIGN/INTERACTION DESIGN/EXHIBITION DESIGN): Kevin Patton [email protected]

INTERIOR ARCHITECTURE: Stephanie Travis [email protected]

MUSEUM STUDIES: Suse Anderson [email protected]

MUSIC: Loren Kajikawa [email protected]

STUDIO ARTS (FINE ART/PHOTOJOURNALISM/NMPJ/SOCIAL PRACTICE): Dean Kessmann [email protected]

THEATRE & DANCE: Holly Dugan [email protected]

Faculty advisors

ART HISTORY:

- Undergraduate: Alexander Dumbadze [email protected]

- Graduate: Mika Natif [email protected]

CORCORAN INTERDISCIPLINARY (CORX Courses): Jodi Kanter [email protected]

DANCE: Anna Kimmel [email protected]

DUAL BA IN FINE ART AND ART HISTORY: Michelle Carlson [email protected]

EXHIBITION DESIGN: Melina Misri [email protected]

FINE ART:

- Graduate: Maria del Carmen Montoya [email protected]

- Undergraduate: Michelle Carlson [email protected]

GRAPHIC DESIGN: Aasawari Kulkarni [email protected]

INTERACTION DESIGN:

- Undergraduate and Graduate: Kevin Patton [email protected]

INTERIOR ARCHITECTURE:

- Undergraduate: Nadia Volchansky [email protected]

- Graduate MA: Douglas Crawford [email protected]

- Graduate MA + MFA: Catherine Anderson [email protected]

MUSIC: Eugene Montague [email protected]

MUSEUM STUDIES:

- Laura Schiavo [email protected]

- Max van Balgooy [email protected]

- Schillica Howard [email protected]

- Mary Coughlin (Online Certificate Program in Collections Care) [email protected]

PHOTOJOURNALISM/PHOTOGRAPHY:

- Undergraduate (Photojournalism/Minor in Photography): Matt Eich [email protected]

- Graduate (New Media Photojournalism): Susan Sterner [email protected]

SOCIAL PRACTICE: Maria del Carmen Montoya [email protected]

THEATRE:

- Carl Gudenius [email protected]
- Graduate (Classical Acting): Jodi Kanter [email protected]

Faculty Search By Program Area

Art History

Undergraduate / Graduate Art History

Design

Undergraduate Graphic Design
Undergraduate / Graduate Interaction Design
Graduate Exhibition Design

Interior Architecture

Undergraduate Interior Architecture /
Graduate Interior Architecture

Museum Studies

Graduate Museum Studies

Music

Undergraduate Music

Studio Arts

Undergraduate Fine Art
Undergraduate Photojournalism
Graduate Fine Art
Graduate New Media Photojournalism
Graduate Social Practice

Theatre and Dance

Undergraduate Theatre
Undergraduate Dance
Graduate Classical Acting

Corcoran Faculty PUBLISHED WORKS

Studio Arts

Matt Eich - Seven Cities

Allyson Vieira - On the Rock

Kerry McAleer-Keeler - Boiling Points (art book - self printed) - Recently shown in Holding Ground: Artists’ Books for the National Museum of Women in the Arts (Oct 21, 2023 - Oct 20, 2024 • Tues-Sun, 10am-5pm) - National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA), 1250 New York Ave NW

Interior Architecture