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Message From the Director

July 13, 2018
The 2017-2018 school year has been marked by innovation and exceptional growth for the Corcoran and its students, professors and staff. The Corcoran has focused on educating the next generation of cultural leaders by instilling values of creativity, empathy and innovation to effect positive social change in their local, national and international communities. The work of our students and faculty this year is a testament of that mission.
One of Rogers' cartoons that depicts a caution sign.

The Washington Post: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette’s spiked anti-Trump cartoons will get a D.C. museum exhibit

June 29, 2018
It is perhaps fitting that Barbra Streisand was among the first wave of celebrities to tweet this month about the killed cartoons of then-Pittsburgh Post-Gazette employee Rob Rogers. Originally published in The Washington Post (June 29, 2018).
Salon Dore participants view a powerpoint. (Kaitlin Jencso).

Community, Creativity, and Culture: The Salon Doré Solutions on Equity Series

June 21, 2018

Located in the heart of Washington, D.C., and one block away from the White House, GW’s Corcoran School of the Arts & Design actively seeks to engage and

Students in studio lighting class with Corcoran professor interviewing Theatre and Dance senior Kaiylah Watts

Bright Lights: Students’ Stories Across the Corcoran

June 18, 2018
Professor Benjamin Tankersley and his studio lighting class have worked diligently on a comprehensive video project, exploring the experiences of several Corcoran students and sharing the ways in which the school has impacted their lives. The final products from the effort provide unique, personable perspectives to the Corcoran’s degree programs, and demonstrate numerous opportunities for students, all available at the Corcoran.
Students looking at art in the Brady Gallery

Brady Gallery Hosts First Exhibition in New Flagg Building Space

June 18, 2018
“Full Circle: Hue and Saturation in the Washington Color School” will run through Oct. 26. Originally published on GWToday, June 18, 2018.
Eric Dietrich

In Photos: Veteran Documents Armed Forces Retirement Home

May 25, 2018
"Fifty Cents a Paycheck" by Corcoran School of the Arts and Design student Eric Dietrich is an intimate look at the late lives of those who serve. Originally published on GWToday, May 24, 2018.
'loop' by jennifer steinkamp

GW Corcoran School of the Arts and Design Acquires Works of Art from Former Corcoran Gallery Collection

May 15, 2018
Sculptures, Prints and Photographs Among the Numerous Works that Will Serve 
as the Core of the Corcoran Research Collection
Quincy Mata

NEXT Celebrates Work of Corcoran Students

April 30, 2018
Tyree Brown’s tiny portraits are intensely detailed, highly individual, as sharp and high-contrast as woodcuts. Up close they are almost pointillist, the figures composed of short, precise lines of graphite. And their arresting detail requires perseverance to create. Ms. Brown, now a senior at the George Washington University’s Corcoran School of the Arts and Design, had to retrain herself to draw with her non-dominant left hand after a 2015 accident left her in a wheelchair without the use of her right.
Homeless Artwork by Case Baumgarten

NEXT 2018 Press Release

April 20, 2018
“NEXT,” the 2018 thesis exhibition at the George Washington University’s Corcoran School of the Arts and Design, will explore a variety of themes and topics that affect us all. Budding artists will present projects focused on race, LGBTQ culture and the global problem of homelessness.
Banana Peel Creative Jam

The Winning Banana Peel

April 20, 2018
A graduating senior, Julie Hansen (B.F.A., Graphic Design, 2018), competed in last month’s Creative Jam competition, winning the graphic design judge’s first place and people’s choice second place awards. The competition was hosted in the Flagg Building by Adobe.
Flagg Building Up

A New Life for the Flagg Building 

April 18, 2018
The George Washington University’s Corcoran School of the Arts and Design will re-open the second floor of its signature Beaux-Arts Flagg Building on 17th Street to students this fall, boasting four refurbished floors of classroom, lab and gallery space.
Corcoran Exterior Night

Great Things Are Always On Display At The Corcoran School

April 13, 2018

In reimagining creative expression and addressing critical social issues, the George Washington University’s Corcoran School of The Arts and Design is shaping culture and creating its next ge

photo of students and professors out in the plains

Art & Rural Environments Field School

January 26, 2018
Interested in the intersection of art and the rural environment? Apply to the Art & Rural Environments Field School!
students examining their interaction design project

Corcoran Launches New Interaction Design Program

January 08, 2018
Develop new interfaces and innovative applications while using design thinking to create social impact. Study how to shape the interactions between people, systems and their environments.
photo of dancers from We Speak Dance

GW Alum Takes on Netflix with New Series, "We Speak Dance"

January 04, 2018
Filmmaker Iwonka Swenson, who attended GWU as a Presidential Arts Scholar and graduated in 1998 with a BA in Dramatic Literature and a minor in Modern Dance, has recently been involved writing and producing the new Netflix series, We Speak Dance, which she calls "a labor of love." The series went live on Netflix worldwide on January 1st.

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