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.
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:
- Holly Dugan [email protected]
- Graduate (Classical Acting): Jodi Kanter [email protected]
Design
Undergraduate Graphic Design
Undergraduate / Graduate Interaction Design
Graduate Exhibition Design
Undergraduate Interior Architecture /
Graduate Interior Architecture
Graduate Museum Studies
Undergraduate Music
Undergraduate Fine Art
Undergraduate Photojournalism
Graduate Fine Art
Graduate New Media Photojournalism
Graduate Social Practice
Corcoran Faculty PUBLISHED WORKS
- Studio Arts
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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
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Stephanie Travis - Sketching for Architecture + Interior Design
Stephanie Travis & Catherine Anderson - 25 Concepts in Modern Architecture
- Museum Studies
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Suse Anderson - The Digital Future of Museums Conversations and Provocation
Max van Balgooy - Interpreting African American History and Culture at Museums and Historic Sites
Laura Schiavo (not out yet) - U.S. Museum Histories and the Politics of Interpretation
- Music Books
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Lauren Onkey - Blackness and Transatlantic Irish Identity Celtic Soul Brothers
Contributors to Volumes:
Loren Kajikawa - Seeing Race Again: Countering Colorblindness across the DisciplinesLoren Kajikawa - Sounding Together: Collaborative Perspectives on U.S. Music in the 21st Century
Lauren Onkey - Kick Out the Jams
- Published Music
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Douglas Boyce - https://www.newfocusrecordings.com/catalogue/?artists=7666#douglas-boyce
Heather Stebbins - zeromoon.bandcamp.com/album/new-forms-old-selves
- Theatre
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Dana Tai Soon Burgess - Chino and the Dance of the Butterfly: A Memoir
Jodi Kanter - Presidential Libraries as Performance: Curating American Character from Herbert Hoover to George W. Bush (Theater in the Americas), Performing Loss: Rebuilding Community through Theater and Writing
- Art History
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Bibiana Obler - Fast Fashion/ Slow Art
Alexander Dumbadze - Bas Jan Ader: Death Is Elsewhere
Alexander Dumbadze - Contemporary Art: 1989 to the Present
Lisa Lipinksi - René Magritte and the Art of Thinking
Mika Natif - Mughal Occidentalism Artistic Encounters between Europe and Asia at the Courts of India, 1580-1630
Bibiana Obler - Essay (“Not Your Grandmother's Labor”) within Woven Histories: Textiles and Modern Abstraction