Undergraduate Admitted Student Days

Inside GW

For admitted first-year students, we have a series of Inside GW Days so that you can experience what it’s like to be a student at the Corcoran at GW. As an admitted student, you will receive information directly from the GW Office of Undergraduate Admissions about Inside GW Admitted Student Days and how to register for events.

In addition to the on-campus visit days, we have some exciting virtual opportunities as part of Inside GW, including an online information session on our Arts & Design Living Learning Community (LLC)!

We welcome you to visit campus for any of the Inside GW Days and hear from a program representative but we encourage you to sign up for one of the session dates below that will have Corcoran-wide academic sessions. These sessions will give you the opportunity to hear from faculty and students across our visual arts, design, and performing arts programs.

Friday, April 5, 2024
Saturday, April 13, 2024
Friday, April 19, 2024
Friday, April 26, 2024

During your Inside GW visit to campus, we hope you will take advantage of our Corcoran performances and exhibitions occurring throughout April. Below you will find a listing of Corcoran events happening around Inside GW dates. Complimentary tickets for performances are available for admitted students. Please email Ann Norton at [email protected] if interested.

In-Person Events, Exhibitions, and Performances

In addition to attending the Inside GW events, we have performances and exhibitions that we encourage you to take advantage of when you visit campus.

See a complete listing of our upcoming Corcoran Events and Performances on our Events Calendar.

Inside GW: Corcoran Scholars Reception

Thursday, April 18
5:00pm-6:30pm

Corcoran Scholar recipients are invited to join us for a reception with faculty and current students.

Following the reception, we encourage you to attend our Spring Dance Concert at 7:30pm.

Corcoran Happenings: Thursday, April 4 - Sunday, April 7

Our Songs
Dorothy Betts Marvin Theatre
800 21st St NW

The GW Programs of Music and Theatre & Dance join forces to showcase all that Musical Theatre can offer, curated by GW students! Shows occur nightly at 7:30pm Thursday-Saturday with a 2pm performance on Sunday.

Complimentary tickets for performances are available for admitted students. Please email Ann Norton at [email protected] if interested.

Music - Fridays at Five
Phillips Hall, 801 22nd Street, NW
Room: B-120

Following the Inside GW programming on Friday, April 5, join our Music Program for their monthly Fridays at Five event. Free and open to everyone.

Modulating Movements: Sonic and Kinesthetic Interpretations of Sculptural Works
National Gallery of Art, East Building, 4th Street NW
Saturday, April 6

Join Corcoran Music & Dance students at the National Gallery of Art for "Modulating Movements," a unique event presenting collaborations between students of dance choreography and electronic music composition led by faculty members Heather Stebbins and Anna Kimmel. This immersive experience, hosted by the National Gallery, as part of the new partnership with the Corcoran School of Art & Design, will take place with two sessions at 12:30 pm and 2:30 pm. Free and open to the public.

Corcoran Happenings: Thursday, April 11 - Sunday, April 14

National Gallery Nights: Flowers After Hours
Thursday, April 11
6pm-9pm
Location: National Gallery of Art, East Building

A new partnership was announced this fall with the National Gallery of Art to facilitate immersive learning, art-making and interdisciplinary research that will drive exhibitions, performances and curriculum at the Corcoran School.

Three of our first-year MFA students will be selecting artwork and giving brief presentations during the National Gallery’s after-hours event.

We have a limited number of tickets set aside for admitted students. Please email [email protected] by April 3 if you would like to reserve tickets to the event.

Art After Duchamp Exhibition
Gallery Hours: Wednesday, April 10-Saturday, April 13, 1pm-5pm
Location: Smith Hall of Art, 801 22nd St NW, Gallery 102

Art After Duchamp was designed and curated by students in art history, exhibition design, and museum studies in the graduate seminar: Marcel Duchamp: Dada Provocateur, taught by Dr. Lisa Lipinski, Associate Professor of Art History, in Spring 2024.

Corcoran Happenings: Thursday, April 18 - Sunday, April 21

NEXT Festival
This year’s festival starts on Wednesday, April 17. Join us for our NEXT festival featuring performances and symposia at various times and locations across GW campus. Check our website for additional details and a complete listing of events.

Festival Weekly Highlights: NEXT GW Singers Spring Concert Friday, April 19, 6pm-8pm Corcoran Flagg Building, 500 17th St. NW, Atrium Spotlight on the GW Singers in the soaring atrium of the Flagg Building. Complimentary tickets for performances are available for admitted students. Please email Ann Norton at [email protected] if interested.

Festival Weekly Highlights:

NEXT GW Singers Spring Concert
Friday, April 19, 6pm-8pm
Corcoran Flagg Building, 500 17th St. NW, Atrium

Spotlight on the GW Singers in the soaring atrium of the Flagg Building.

Complimentary tickets for performances are available for admitted students. Please email Ann Norton at [email protected] if interested.

Spring Dance Concert
April 18, 19, 20 at 7:30 pm
Dorothy Betts Marvin Theatre
800 21st Street NW

As part of our NEXT festival, our Dance program will be holding their annual Spring Dance Concert with performances held Thursday, April 18 - Saturday, April 20. Featuring Choreography by Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company! Concert Master Hayley Cutler with Faculty Choreographer Anna Jayne Kimmel! Student Choreographers: Elyse Butts, Olivia Ferguson, Leia Jekel, Isabella Meurer, Abbigail Seligman, Manasa Sharma, and Sadie Tucker.

Complimentary tickets for performances are available for admitted students. Please email Ann Norton at [email protected] if interested.

Corcoran Happenings: Thursday, April 25 - Sunday, April 28

NEXT Festival
Join us for our NEXT festival featuring performances and symposia at various times and locations across GW campus. Check our website for additional details. Check our website for additional details and a complete listing of events.

NEXT Festival Extravaganza
Thursday, April 25
6:30pm-9pm
Corcoran Flagg Building, 500 17th St. NW

Please join the Corcoran School of the Arts and Design for the annual NEXT Festival Extravaganza. Throughout the evening, attendees will be able to view and critique the vast displays of end-of-year projects, appreciate contemporary art, enjoy dance, theatre, and music performances.

Music - Fridays at Five
Phillips Hall, 801 22nd Street, NW
Room: B-120

Following the Inside GW programming on Friday, April 26, join our Music Program for their monthly Fridays at Five event. Free and open to everyone.

Virtual Event

Inside GW - Corcoran Arts & Design Living and Learning (LLC) Info Session (Virtual)
Tuesday, April 2
6pm-7pm ET

Join the Deputy Director of the Corcoran, Dr. Laura Schiavo for an introduction to the Corcoran School of the Arts & Design and an opportunity to learn more about our Arts & Design Living and Learning (LLC) opportunity for first-year students.

The Arts + Design LLC gives first-year students the option to participate in a creative, intellectual living environment that raises awareness of the power of the arts and design in our daily lives, the impact it has on our community, and inspires students to action.

Can’t make it to campus this April? Take GW’s virtual campus tour and don’t miss the Corcoran School of the Arts & Design section to see our studio and performance spaces throughout campus!