National Gallery
About the Collaboration
In 2023, a new agreement between the George Washington University, the Trustees of the Corcoran Gallery of Art and the National Gallery of Art unveiled a new initiative to facilitate immersive learning, art-making and interdisciplinary research that will drive exhibitions, performances and curriculum at the Corcoran School.
The partnership includes space for students, artists, community members, museum professionals and faculty to collaborate as well as opportunities for students to gain hands-on learning with National Gallery experts. We want to foster work that is civically engaged, interdisciplinary and collaborative. The work will be experimental and help us consider how to do what we do differently.
For Freedoms Residency
The partnership is supporting a three-year residency program (2024-2027) with For Freedoms, an artist-led organization that centers art as a catalyst for creative civic engagement, discourse, and direct action. The residency is driven by a theme of interdependence and supports long term projects that have a lasting impact on the school, the National Gallery, and broader DC community beyond the typical school year schedule.
For Freedoms will develop collaborative programming centered around research, inquiry, and experiments that expand systematic modes of thinking and participation within traditional art structures. Civic engagement will be a central component running through the programming series.
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CORCORAN SCHOOL AND NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART PRESS
Corcoran, NGA partnership begins three-year residency with artist collective
October 21, 2024
The Corcoran School of the Arts & Design announced last month that it had expanded its partnership with the National Gallery of Art to include a three-year residency with an artist collective that produces multimedia art to uplift civic engagement.
For Freedoms: Billboards On View
October 8, 2024
For the next three years, this artist-led collective is in residence hosted in partnership between the Corcoran and the National Gallery of Art.
For Freedoms Kicks Off Residency Hosted by GW’s Corcoran School and the National Gallery of Art
October 8, 2024
Members of the artist-led collective launched exhibit and joined GW and National Gallery for a series of events.
Exploring Art’s Ability to Raise Civic Questions
October 2, 2024
Eric Gottesman is this year’s Corcoran Visiting Professor of Community Engagement.