Notable Past Exhibitions and Events

Corcoran School of the Arts and Design
500 17th Street NW 

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500 17th Street NW
Exhibition open to the public from Aug. 8, 2019, to Dec. 15, 2019, Tuesday – Friday 10 a.m. – 6 p.m., Weekends 1 p.m. – 6 p.m.
The Galleries off of the Atrium at the Flagg Building

FAST FASHION/SLOW ART comprises 11 films, videos and video installations by a diverse group of emerging and established contemporary artists and filmmakers that, collectively, encourage scrutiny of today’s garment industry.
 

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November 3, 2018, 7:30 p.m.
The Atrium Galleries
500 17th Street NW

The Washington premiere of an immersive, confrontational and unsettling monodrama about a man’s struggle with cancer in the last year of his life. This performance at the Corcoran will feature the acclaimed soprano Ah Young Hong, the only singer thus far to perform the work. The New York Times described her in the premiere as “the opera’s blazing, lone star,” The Chicago Tribune a role “portrayed with soul-baring intensity ... absolutely riveting,” The Utah Review hailing her as “the definitive performer for the opera ... a remarkable display ... Her vocal musicianship is a mastery of breath control and phrase articulation,” a “dramatic presence [which] astounds at every turn.”
 

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July 18 - October 28, 2018, Tues-Fri, 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. & Weekends, 1 - 6 p.m.
The Atrium Galleries
500 17th Street NW

The Corcoran School of the Arts and Design at the George Washington University will open ‘Spiked: The Unpublished Political Cartoons of Rob Rogers’ on July 18. This pop-up exhibition in the Corcoran School’s historic Flagg Building’s atrium gallery features 10 finished cartoons and 8 sketches that went unpublished by Rogers’ employer, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette between March 6 and June 3, 2018.
 

PRESS CLIPS

2024: John Troutman, Curator of Music and Musical Instruments at the National Museum of American History
2023: Valerie Cassel Oliver, Sydney and Frances Lewis Family Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
2019: Nao Bustamante, Multimedia and Performance Artist
2018: Wendy MacNaughton, Illustrator and Graphic Journalist
2017: Tom Joyce, MacArthur Fellow and contemporary American artist
2009: Art Spiegelman, Author and illustrator
2005: James Cuno, Director, Art Institute of Chicago
2000: Elizabeth Catlett, Sculptor, printmaker, educator
1999: Robert Hughes, Author and illustrator
1988: Vincent Scully, Art History Professor, Yale University

THE DUDLEY MEMORIAL LECTURE was established in 1984 at the Corcoran Museum in memory of Argentina Dudley by her husband, Robert Whittier Dudley, and their children to commemorate and perpetuate her life’s work and interests. A talented artist, Argentina devoted her time and energy to the Corcoran for over a quarter of a century. The family’s endowment fund secures the annual lecture in perpetuity. The lecture is not discipline specific. The guidelines are to invite a “a distinguished art historian, critic, humanitarian, or other significant personage in the arts.” I would like to invite someone who can speak to issues that concern all our programs; engage our students; and bring attention to the Corcoran in the GW community and the broader DC community.

The lecturer is typically invited by the Corcoran director, in consultation with faculty members, followed by a reception or dinner with members of the Dudley family, students and faculty. Speakers receive a stipend and accommodations. The event is open to the public.

VIRTUAL
May, 2021

Paul Rucker says he remembers sitting on the street, eating ice cream as a child, and watching a Klan parade pass by. He uses these memories and his other experiences to motivate his work honoring the achievements of Black entrepreneurs and visionaries. His incredible website was designed with the help of Corcoran professor Kevin Patton and Corcoran Interaction Design students; Professor Patton and this group of students built an incredible experience for all who visit the website.

The students who did this stupendous work include: Iman Ibrahim, Isabelle Bryson, Jamie Horowitz, Jing Mu, Kaitlin Santiago, Lauren Wedderburn, Yixuan Chen, Youran Wu, Lina Huang, Maren (Pepper) Magyar, Maeve Curran, Deja Nycole, Malin Hillemann, Maggie Walsh, Nora Neely, Alexis Emerson, and Andrew Kastner.

BRIDGING BOUNDARIES
Opening Reception on June 14, 2019 from 6 – 8 pm
Exhibition opens June 14 – August 19;
open to the public Tues – Fri, 10 a.m. – 6 p.m. and Weekends, 1 – 6 p.m. The Atrium Galleries
500 17th Street NW

Professor Joseph Kunkel—a Northern Cheyenne tribal member—will draw from his own experience as an architect and community designer, with extensive experience working on building capacity in Native American communities, in this remarkable exhibit.

Kunkel’s show will continue a critical discussion about the physical and non-physical divisions that recognize and reconcile polarized groups. With the intention to demonstrate how architecture and design can create space for unification and negotiation, the exhibit will explore works of art across a spectrum of design tactics.

FUNDRED RESERVE PROJECT
February 23 – March 20, 2017
Rotunda
500 17th Street NW

The show is part of Mr. Chin’s collaborative Fundred Dollar Bill Project, which he created in 2008, after learning that in post-Katrina New Orleans, 30 to 50 percent of the inner-city childhood population had been exposed to lead poisoning before the storm. There was no funding to address the problem.
 

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