Exhibitions, Performances & Conversations
The Corcoran School of the Arts and Design provides a year-round forum for the exhibition of work by students and visiting artists. In addition, graduating seniors and graduate students have the opportunity to exhibit the culmination of their Corcoran School studies in a thesis exhibition titled NEXT at the end of the academic school year. Most of these events and exhibits are open to the public.
Stay in touch! Sign up for email announcements a few times a year so you are first in line for our openings. If you are a GW student, you can sign up for our twice a month emails to get invited to all events and openings.
CURRENT AND UPCOMING EVENTS
SPRING 2020
AUDITIONS: Spring Dance Concert 2020
Thursday, Jan. 16, 2020
6:45 – 9 p.m.
Open to all GW students.
GW Honor’s Thesis Choreographers: Berkley Lane, Nisani Lopez, Monique Martinez, Claire Siwulec, Sakiya Walker
GW Dance Faculty: Maida Withers
Guest Artists/
Choreography:
Dance Theatre Company: Artesaos do Corpo, Sao Paulo, BRAZIL
Mirtes Calheiros, Ederson Lopes, Dawn Fleming
7 – Day GW DANCE RESIDENCY
Rehearsal Schedule
Friday, Jan. 17, 2020 – 4 or 5 to 8 or 9 p.m.
Saturday/Sunday, Monday, Jan. 18, 19, 20, 2020 – 10 a.m. to 4 or 5 p.m.
Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2020 – 6 to 7 p.m. for REHEARSAL/REVIEW
Rehearsal & Showing for Production Committee
Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2020 – 7 to 8:30 or 9 p.m. SHOWING for Production Committee
Building J Dance Studio
2131 G Street NW (Rear)
Washington, DC 20052
Photo Credit: Denny Henry
“Pixar’s Memories”: A lecture by Professor Daniel Goldmark
Friday, Jan. 17, 2020
3:15 – 5 p.m.
Open to all GW students and the public; free. No RSVP necessary.
The ever-increasing popularity of Hollywood animation, driven in part by the dominance of Pixar, has come about not just through technological advances or the breaking down of decades-old biases about cartoons being just for kids, but also through the emotionally nuanced storytelling deployed recently by studios.
Daniel Goldmark is Professor of Music and Director of the Center for Popular Music Studies at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. He is the author of books on animation, music, and cinema, including Tunes for 'Toons: Music and the Hollywood Cartoon (California, 2005).
Cosponsored by the GW Department of American Studies
Flagg Building
500 17th Street
Room 226 (2nd Floor)
Washington, DC 20006
INTERVIEW/
TALK BACK – Maida Withers with Mirtes Calheiros
Thursday, Jan. 23, 2020
5 – 6 p.m.
Open to all GW students, Alumni.
The Theatre & Dance Program of the Corcoran School of Arts and Design at George Washington University is honoured to have Mirtes Calheiros, Ederson Lopes and Dawn Fleming of Artesaos do Corpo, Sao Paulo, Brazil as Guest Artists in Residence in January of 2020. Along with events and activities for the students of GW, a free talk back for the public with Mirtes Calheiros, founder of the company, and moderated by GW Professor Maida Withers will be held Wednesday, January 22 at 5 pm on the Foggy Bottom Campus. During its residency, the Artesaos do Corpo Dance Company will facilitate a remount of a 12 to 18-minute version of ESTRANHOS SERES NEBULOSOS E ILUSÓRIOS (Strange Cloudy and Illusory Beings) with GW students for the Spring Dance Concert, being produced by the Program of Theatre & Dance in the Betts Theatre of Marvin Center in April.
Building J Dance Studio
2131 G Street NW (Rear)
Washington, DC 20052
Corcoran Scholars’ Fridays at Five
Friday, Jan. 24, 2020
5 – 7 p.m.
Fridays at Five is a relaxed environment where students can gain experience performing in front of their peers. This event features Corcoran Scholars, an exceptional group of undergraduate students. Learn more about Scholars.
Phillips Hall, Room B-120
801 22nd St., NW
Washington, DC 20052
UNEARTHING
Friday, Jan. 24 – Friday, Feb. 21, 2020
Join us for the opening reception, Friday, January 24, 2020
6 – 8 p.m.
Light refreshments will be served.
A group exhibition featuring works from Corcoran Scholars students studying across disciplines within studio arts. The works included present varying investigations into identity, place, and reality. This process of exploration through artmaking is a kind of archaeology, a study of humanity by digging deep below the apparent and seeking out what lies beneath.
This exhibition is organized and curated, as part of the Corcoran Scholars program, by Visiting Assistant Professor of Studio Arts, Katherine Lee. The works represent a variety of artistic media, such as painting, photography, and printmaking.
Exhibiting artists include: Jenna Banks, Reilly Cornwall, Camille Drury, Olivia Henderson, Isabel Humphrey, Nahyun Kim, India Mawn, Amanda Mchardy, Athena Poulos Iliakopoulou, Lindsay Siff, Katharine Sory, Maansi Srivastava, Megan Tomasi.
Gallery 102
Smith Hall of Art
801 22nd Street NW
Washington, DC 20052
INTER | SECTIONALITY: Diaspora from the Creole City
On view through March 20, 2020
Tuesday – Friday
10 a.m. – 6 p.m.
Weekends 1 – 6 p.m.
Inter | Sectionality: Diaspora Art from the Creole City is a bold, multidisciplinary exhibition featuring predominantly Miami-based artists from across the Caribbean, with work ranging from photography to site-specific installations with luminescent sand and a towering sculpture.
The exhibit, featuring 25 Miami-affiliated artists and two guest artists, challenges social justice, celebrates identities, and bridges communities through contemporary art and scholarship.
Flagg Building
500 17th Street NW
Atrium Galleries
Washington, DC 20006
Conversation about 'Inter | Sectionality: Diaspora Art from the Creole City' with Dr. Alix Pierre
Tuesday, Jan 28, 2020
6 – 8 p.m.
Dr. Alix Pierre will be in conversation with Rosie Gordon-Wallace about the themes of 'Inter | Sectionality: Diaspora Art from the Creole City,' a multidisciplinary exhibition featuring predominantly Miami-based artists from across the Caribbean, with work ranging from photography to site-specific installations. Gordon-Wallace served as the curator of this exhibition, now on view at the Corcoran School until March 20, 2020.
A committed scholar, Dr. Pierre has completed an eight hundred-page book on gwoka, the traditional music of the island of Guadeloupe. Pierre currently sits on the board at the Latin American and Caribbean Community Center, is on the editorial board of 'Caribbean Vistas: Critique of Caribbean Arts and Culture,' and 'Negritud: Review of Afro-Latin American Studies,' and is an officer of the Caribbean Writers Congress.
This event is free and open to the public, with light refreshments.
Flagg Building
500 17th Street
Hammer Auditorium
Washington, DC 20006
La Rampa: A Conversation with Chantal James
Thursday, Jan 30, 2020
6 – 8 p.m.
This Student Engagement Lecture with Chantal James includes discussion and a hands-on activity reacting to the La Rampa magazine, her project on decolonization. Chantal James of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil is a Canadian of Guyanese and Welsh descent.
A graduate of The Parsons School of Design, she is co-founder and editor of the three previous issues and current editor-in-chief of La Rampa magazine.
Flagg Building
500 17th St. NW
Rm. 222 (2nd Floor)
Washington, DC 20006
VASC Lecture Series: The story of FOUNTAIN – Hard Facts and Soft Speculation
Speaker: Thierry de Duve
Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2020
6 – 7 p.m.
The one and perhaps only hard fact that we possess regarding the story of Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain is its photo in The Blind Man No. 2, 1917, and the editorial on the facing page, titled “The Richard Mutt Case.” The photo is triply captioned “Fountain by R. Mutt,” “Photograph by Alfred Stieglitz,” and “THE EXHIBIT REFUSED BY THE INDEPENDENTS.” Historian and philosopher of art Thierry de Duve shall examine what kind of agency is involved in that triple “by” and revisit Duchamp’s intentions and motivations when he created the fictitious R. Mutt, manipulated Stieglitz, and set a trap for the Independents. He shall conclude with an invitation to art historians to abandon the “by” questions (attribution, etc.) and to focus on the “from” questions that arise when Fountain is seen less as a work of art than as the bearer of the news that the art world has radically changed.
The Visiting Artists and Scholars Committee brings respected established and emerging practitioners in the arts to present public lectures, conduct one-on-one critiques, lead small seminars or reading discussions, and share informal meals with students. All VASC lectures are free and open to the public.
Smith Hall of Art
Rm. 114
801 22nd St., NW
Washington, DC 20052
Music Faculty Incubator Series: Heather Stebbins and Douglas Boyce
Friday, Feb. 7, 2020
7:30 – 9:30 p.m.
Join Music for the Music Faculty Incubator Series with Heather Stebbins and Douglas Boyce.
This event is open to all GW students and the public; free.
Mount Vernon Campus
Post Hall
2100 Foxhall Road NW
Washington, DC
20007
WELL
By Lisa Kron
Directed by
Jodi Kanter
Feb. 13, 14, 15
at 7:30 p.m.;
Feb. 16 at 2 p.m.
Well explores the dynamics of health, family and community with the story of Kron's mother’s extraordinary ability to heal a changing neighborhood, despite her inability to heal herself.
Friday Morning Music Club: Cavani Quartet
Saturday, Feb. 22, 2020
MASTER CLASS Morning (email [email protected] for details) at
Phillips Hall, B-120
801 22nd St., NW
Washington, DC 20052
PERFORMANCE
at 3 – 5 p.m.
Flagg Building
500 17th Street NW
Hammer Auditorium
Washington, DC 20006
Join Music for a special performance of the Cavani Quartet, part of the Friday Morning Music Club.
This event is open to all GW students and the public. Stay tuned for ticket information!
Founded in 1886 as a community of music lovers and musicians, the Friday Morning Music Club has promoted classical music in the Washington area for over 130 years. FMMC’s public concerts—now held throughout the week and no longer just on Friday mornings—provide performing members with a host of outlets for their talents and delight audiences in Washington DC, Maryland and Virginia.
Libations: Seen & Felt – An Evening with Octavia Yearwood
Thursday, Feb. 27, 2020
6 – 8 p.m.
Libations: Seen & Felt is an interactive workshop that navigates how art practices participate in intersectionality with freedom, time, and space as the focal point. Octavia will engage participants in various activities anchored in performance, the literary arts, and visual art as tools to embed the conversation in the body. Participants will engage in dialogue around the experiences thereafter as it relates to being black, and/or overall marginalized. The goal is to have participants think about how their practice can speak with multiple tongues.
Flagg Building
500 17th St. NW
Center Atrium
Washington, DC 20006
Planting Paradise: Landscapes of Luxury in Ancient Rome
Annette Giesecke, Ph.D.
Monday, March 23, 2020
5 – 6:30 p.m.
Mention of ancient Roman gardens conjures images of lavish estates outfitted with sprawling gardens containing specimen plantings from around the world, aviaries and fishponds, pergolas for outdoor dining, and sculpture-lined swimming pools such as those described by the younger Pliny in his letters or evidenced by the remains of Hadrian’s villa at Tivoli. This lecture, given by Annette Giesecke, Ph.D., examines the debt of such luxurious landscapes to the much older royal garden traditions of Persia, Mesopotamia, and Egypt.
The lecture is free and open to the public, no RSVP necessary.
Sponsored by Corcoran's Art History Program
Smith Hall of Art
801 22nd St. NW
Room 114
Washington, DC 20052
Sargent and Spain: The Development of an Exhibition
Wednesday, March 25, 2020
6:30 – 7:30 p.m.
Visiting Artists and Scholars Committee (VASC) Lecture
In this lecture, National Gallery of Art curator Sarah Cash will present her past and present work on the artist John Singer Sargent. In particular, she will discuss the evolution of her current exhibition project, Sargent and Spain, which she is developing with fellow Sargent scholars Richard Ormond and Elaine Kilmurray.
Smith Hall of Art
801 22nd St. NW
Room 114
Washington, DC 20052
Exhibition Design Spring 2020 Lecture: PROBABLE CAUSE
Thursday, March 26, 2020
6:30 – 8 p.m.
Lately, SPORTS Collaborative has been preoccupied with the elasticity of the built environment. How can the world of objects and spaces alternate between the functional and ordinary on one hand and the playful and poetic on the other? In this talk, SPORTS will discuss their ambition to flexibly flicker between these states in their work and in doing so, embrace ideas of ambiguity, novelty and discovery.
SPORTS Collaborative is the award-winning multidisciplinary architecture and design collaborative of Molly Hunker and Greg Corso, based in Syracuse, New York.
Flagg Building
500 17th Street
Hammer Auditorium
Washington, DC 20006
GW Bands Spring Concert
Saturday, March 28, 2020
3 – 5 p.m.
Join the George Washington University Bands for our spring concert. The GW Bands consists of students dedicated to enriching the community through music. Members have the opportunity to perform in a variety of ensembles including Symphonic Band, Wind Ensemble, and our renowned pep band, the Colonial Brass.
This event is open to all GW students and the public.
Ticket link tba
Lisner Auditorium
730 21st St. NW
Washington, DC 20052
HEATHERS The Musical
Music, Book & Lyrics by Laurence O'Keefe & Kevin Murphy
Directed by Thomas W. Jones, II
April 2, 3, 4
at 7:30 p.m.;
April 5 at 2 p.m.
There are three of them, and the three Heathers rule Westerburg! Veronica is torn—to be popular or to, well, do what? Luckily, J.D. arrives with answers; but this Prince Charming has a deep, dark side. Based on the cult-hit movie, this Off-Broadway Musical is a co-production with the Program of Music. High School-- it’s not for kids anymore! Be advised: as Heathers is set in a high school, it has strong language, bullying, body-shaming, violence, suicidal ideation, and Slurpee’s.
Dorothy Betts Marvin Theatre
800 21st St. NW
Washington, DC 20052
NEXT DANCE CONCERT SPRING 2020
Artistic Director
Maida Withers
Guest Artist: Artesaos do Corpo, Sao Paulo, BRAZIL
April 16, 17, 18
at 7:30 p.m.
Featuring internationally acclaimed Dance Company, Artesaos do Corpo from Sao Paulo, BRAZIL
(Mirtes Calheiros, Ederson Lopes, Dawn Fleming), as well as GW Honor’s Thesis Choreographers: Berkley Lane, Nisani Lopez, Monique Martinez, Claire Siwulec and Sakiya Walker.
Dorothy Betts Marvin Theatre
800 21st St. NW
Washington, DC 20052
Ticket link tba
GW Orchestra Spring Concert
Sunday, April 19, 2020
3 – 5 p.m.
Join Music for the GW Orchestra Spring Concert. As GW's largest symphonic ensemble, the orchestra strives to produce high quality music with an enjoyable and collaborative group. This event is open to all GW students and the public.
Ticket link tba
Lisner Auditorium
730 21st St. NW
Washington, DC 20052
Design and Management of Visões Urbanas International Dance Festival
Tuesday, April 21, 2020
12:45 – 2 p.m.
Open to all GW students.
Learn about the Design and Management of Visões Urbanas International Dance Festival, Sao Paulo, Brazil with Ederson Lopes of internationally acclaimed Dance Company, Artesaos do Corpo from Sao Paulo, BRAZIL.
Building J–Up
2131 G Street NW (Rear)
Washington, DC 20052
Piano Camerata
Tuesday, April 21, 2020
7:30 – 9:30 p.m.
Curated student performances in a salon atmosphere presenting eclectic piano repertoire.
This event is open to all GW students; free.
Flagg Building
500 17th Street
Hammer Auditorium
Washington, DC 20006
NEXT 180
Thursday, April 23, 2020
5 – 6 p.m.
Before the festivities begin at 6 pm for the NEXT opening night party, join your classmates for NEXT 180! NEXT 180 features a series of rapid-fire creative presentations from graduating students across the Corcoran School of the Arts and Design. Each student has three minutes and nine slides (which automatically advance every 20 seconds) to enlighten, inspire and entertain. These can be dance performances or talks about any topic.
There will be voting and prizes. The event will be first-come, first-seated, with no RSVP necessary, so come early to cheer them on. Doors open at 4:45 p.m.
To apply to present at NEXT 180, stay tuned for emails.
Flagg Building
500 17th St., NW
Hammer Auditorium
Washington, DC 20006
NEXT Exhibition and Opening Night
Opening night party Thursday, April 23, 2020
6 – 9 p.m.
Open April 24 – May 16, 2020, Tuesday – Friday 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.
Weekends 1 – 6 p.m.
Held every spring, NEXT is a dynamic, interactive and innovative end-of-year show that gives D.C.'s visual and performing arts communities the opportunity to see the latest in contemporary art from fresh perspectives.
Flagg Building
500 17th Street
Atrium Galleries
Washington, DC 20006
NEXT Capstone Music Recitals
Friday – Sunday,
April 24 – 26, 2020
*Various locations,
various times
Join Music at the Corcoran for NEXT Capstone Music Recitals.
Stay tuned for details!
Photo credit: Nicole Kremin (B.A., '19) at her senior thesis recital, Renovations: Investigating the Boundaries of Repertoire Ownership.
Chamber Camerata
Monday, April 27, 2020
7:30 – 9:30 p.m.
Curated student performances in a salon atmosphere presenting eclectic chamber repertoire.
Free and open to the public, no RSVP necessary.
Flagg Building
500 17th St., NW
Hammer Auditorium
Washington, DC 20006
Electronic and Computer Music (ECM) Camerata
Thursday, May 7, 2020
7:30 – 9:30 p.m.
Join Music for the Electronic and Computer Music (ECM) Camerata.
This event is open to all GW students; free.
Phillips Hall, Room B-120
801 22nd St., NW
Washington, DC 20052
CORCORAN Graduation Party (2020)
Friday, May 15, 2020
5 – 7 p.m.
Graduating students will take the first step of their lifelong journey as GW Corcoran alumni by celebrating with their friends, family, professors and fellow students. Come raise a glass to the class of 2020!
The event will have light appetizers and refreshments.
Flagg Building
500 17th Street
Atrium
Washington, DC 20006
HOLIDAY SCHEDULE 2019-20
|
Thursday, July 4, 2019 - Independence Day |
