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Corcoran Alumna Exhibits at the Stadthaus Lichtenberg Museum

Corcoran alumna Hannah Finlator will exhibit her new diptychs at the Stadthaus Lichtenberg Museum in Berlin, Germany on Saturday, July 4, 2009.  Through her past access to archived works, Finlator has developed her own interpretation of classical painting. Her studio practice references historic techniques with paintings carried out on wood panels using layers of oil pigments over preliminary drawings and rough under-painting. Finlator received her BFA in Fine Art from the Corcoran College of Art + Design in 2000 and currently lives and works in Berlin.

July 4 at the Corcoran

Join the Corcoran Gallery of Art this Saturday, July 4, for an artist-led Gallery Talk on Neighborhood Watch, a photography exhibition by Corcoran College of Art + Design professor Claudia Smigrod. The Corcoran will be open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. with free admission to the Gallery and related programming all day.

Corcoran student partners with Washington Hispanic Chamber of Commerce

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Corcoran College of Art + Design student Marianne Moreno was recently featured in Washington Hispanic newspaper for her participation in an exhibition at the Washington Hispanic Chamber of Commerce.  Her artwork was also auctioned off at the Chamber’s 33rd Annual Gala in June.  Moreno’s paintings utilize texture and pattern while incorporating a bold color palette, focusing on the subject of love as the basic theme of her works.  Moreno began studying at the Corcoran College of Art + Design In 2008, where her technique continues to develop and evolve.

Corcoran College of Art + Design alumna featured in local Art Gallery

Reincorporation Jamboree, curated by Steven Frost, the Corcoran’s senior assistant director of admissions, is currently on exhibition at the Honfleur Gallery in Washington, D.C. Along with several other artists, the exhibition features the photography of Corcoran graduate, Hatnim Lee. Honfleur Gallery worked with Frost to facilitate the show, which explores contemporary coming-of-age experiences through the eyes of emerging artists. Frost selected artists whose work is anthropological, each of whom touches on contemporary popular culture, the artists own rites-of-passage, and the subsequent emergence of unique perspectives. The exhibition includes photography, mixed media installation, and interactive works.

Following her graduation from Corcoran College of Art + Design, Hatnim Lee built an impressive resume of fashion and fine art photography. Preceding a 2006 internship with David LaChapelle, Lee’s art divided into three bodies of work: street photography, whimsical high art images, and fashion work. Hatnim has chronicled her travels on her blog and draws from the tradition of photographers like Nan Goldin, Ryan McGinley, and William Eggleston.  Reincorporation Jamboree is open to the public at the Honfleur Gallery from June 22 to July 25. A closing reception will be held on Friday, July 24 at 7p.m.

Corcoran Alumna Showcases Photography

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Corcoran alumna Natalie W. Cheung will showcase her cyanotype photograms along with the works of three other photographers at the Carroll Square Gallery later this month. The opening of the show, Landscape Biology, is scheduled for Friday, June 26 from 6 to 8 p.m. Cheung graduated from the Corcoran College of Art + Design with a BFA in photography and has been an active photographer in the Washington, D.C. area for the past eight years.

Corcoran Graduate Exhibits at Greater Reston Arts Center

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Melanie Newlon, graduate of the Corcoran College of Art + Design, will have new work on display in Faraway Nearby Annual Juried Exhibition at Greater Reston Arts Center (GRACE). Juried by Dale Lanzone of Marlborough Gallery, Faraway Nearby opens June 18 and remains on view through July 31.

An opening reception will take place on Friday, June 19, from 6–8 p.m., and the Artists’ Roundtable will take place on Thursday, June 25, at 7:30 p.m. Newlon received her BFA from the Corcoran College of Art + Design in 1997.

Coming soon to the College Corridor: Neighborhood Watch

On July 1, the Corcoran Gallery of Art and Corcoran Gallery of Art College of Art + Design will open Neighborhood Watch, an exhibition of vintage and contemporary photographs by artist and Corcoran faculty member Claudia Smigrod. In Neighborhood Watch, Smigrod revisits the subjects she photographed for her 1989 exhibition, Portraits of Innocence, a documentation of the purity of childhood. Through a recent resurvey of the original Portraits of Innocence participants, Smigrod records the evolution of twenty 20 individuals as she captures them within their native environments in Alexandria, VA.

Within the exhibition Neighborhood Watch, Smigrod’s photographs focus on viewing and reviewing a selection of her twenty 20 original subjects, paying particular attention to their evolution as well as the importance and deliberate nature of photographing the subjects in their original environment. In addition to documenting the subjects’ individual evolution progression, Smigrod paid close attention to the common threads that link the group. Each subject was asked to express in writing his/her reflections on their “thoughts, hopes and dreams” of both twenty years ago and today. The exhibition Neighborhood Watch commemorates the iconic rites of childhood and concludes with vintage prints from Portraits of Innocence along with images that underscore the importance of place. The exhibition will run through August 9. For more information, please visit www.claudiasmigrod.com.

Company founded by Corcoran Alumna wins 2009 Fairfax Innovation Center Award

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The Corcoran College of Art + Design congratulates alumna Mary Welch Higgins for her company’s reception of the 2009 Fairfax Innovation Center Award, presented by the City of Fairfax Economic Development Authority.

Higgins founded Distinct Studios, Inc. in 2005 as a multimedia development company specializing in non-commercial creative and educational applications. The Innovation Center award goes to a current entrepreneur of the Fairfax Innovation Center that exemplifies excellence and promise for the future.

Higgins graduated from the Corcoran College of Art + Design with her BFA in 1986.

Corcoran faculty member featured in The Washington Post

Digital Media Design and Graphic Design instructor John Carmody had his studio featured in The Washington Post Magazine’s Second Glance section. To see more from the shoot, please visit http://www.johnCarmody.net.

Corcoran alumni, faculty honored with Art Directors Club design awards

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Corcoran alumni, staff, and faculty received Merit Awards at the Gala Reception of the Art Directors Club of Metro Washington’s 60th Annual Show on June 6, 2009. Head of Design at the Corcoran Gallery of Art John deWolf and Maria Habib (BFA 2002) were honored for their work on the exhibition collateral for Richard Avedon: Portraits of Power and the Annie Leibovitz Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts degree certificate. Francheska Guerrero’s winning entries included environmental graphics for the Center for Contemporary Art and Theater in Shepherdstown, West Virginia, The Dream House Revisited Exhibition invitation, and the poster design for the OPEN Exhibition at the Georgetown campus of the Corcoran College of Art + Design. Pat Taylor won two awards, including one for the cover of a book called 7 Icons featuring hand-drawn figures. In addition to the merit awards, the ADC also awarded Francheska Guerrero with a silver medal for her work with OPEN, and the Corcoran College of Art + Design with a gold medal for the Honorary Doctorate degree design.

The ADCMW 60th Annual Show presents the best in art direction, design, photography, and illustration created over the past year by local organizations. Congratulations to John, Maria, Francheska, Pat, and the many other individuals who contributed to these projects, including Paul Roth, Amanda Maddox, Sara Beth Walsh, and Stephanie Moos."

Corcoran alumnus Tim Gunn interviews with The Washington Times

Tim Gunn sat down with The Washington Times’ Liz Glover before receiving an honorary degree at the Corcoran’s 2009 commencement ceremony on May 23. Watch the interview here and read the corresponding article. Additional coverage also appeared in The Washington Post and The Washington Examiner.

Corcoran Student Wins Best of Show in Design Competition

Congratulations to Nathan Hill for winning best of show in AIGA DC’s 2009 Show Off or Die Trying competition. Nathan won for his senior thesis project, “An Investigation: Strategy in Design.” Nathan also won three merit awards for his book on the Corcoran’s summer India trip; the poster “Feed Thyself;” and “Pakistan,” the 2008 Junior Core project completed with Miesha Dennis and Sarah Shufelt.

The Corcoran also congratulates Alexis Nera on her four Merit awards for typography books on Jan Tschichold and Paul Rand, a brochure “Ware,” and a T-shirt design.

The judges were author Ellen Lupton, Leon Lawrence from USA Today, and Jake Lefebure from Design Army. This is the second year in a row that a Corcoran student has won best of show in the Show Off competition.

Corcoran alumnus/faculty member explores international affairs in Washington, D.C. exhibition

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Corcoran alumnus and adjunct faculty member Hedieh Ilchi worked with Roshanak Tehrani to exhibit their work in a 10-day exhibition in Washington, D.C. this month. Tension unites two Iranian women artists who in separate, but interconnected artistic paths explore issues of identity as a collective and personal phenomenon. The works strive to cause viewers to pause and reflect on a similitude that brings humans closer together: the need for freedom of expression.

Ilchi received her BFA with honors from the Corcoran College of Art + Design in 2006. She has received many awards, including the 2006 Sons of the Revolution in the District of Columbia Essay Prize and the Corcoran Faculty Award for Drawing and Painting. Born in Tehran, Iran, Ilchi’s paintings reflect deeply personal explorations of the current cultural clash between East and West, and she juxtaposes past memories and experiences against concerns and questions about today’s chaotic world. Ilchi is an adjunct faculty member at the Corcoran College of Art + Design and joined the Arlington Arts Center during the 2006 Fall Session. She recently exhibited work at the CentroNia Art Gala 2008 in Washington, D.C. Visit www.hediehart.com for more information.

College in the news: student-organized demonstration picked up by NBC

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The Corcoran College of Art + Design’s student-run GIVE WAY DC campaign was covered by NBC Washington on May 14, 2009. The outdoor demonstration was part of an effort to raise awareness of pedestrian fatalities within the district. Watch the full segment here.

Corcoran Continuing Education Student Published in The Washington Post Magazine

Adele Chapin, former interior design student at the Corcoran College of Art + Design’s Continuing Education department published an essay on her experience in the May 10, 2009 issue of The Washington Post magazine. Read the full article here.

Corcoran Student Exhibits in Georgetown

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Fine Art student Marianne Moreno will exhibit her series Les Silhouettes with at L’Eclat de Verre, Cady’s Alley in Georgetown through May 25, 2009. Students, staff and friends are invited to attend the opening reception Saturday, May 9 from 6–9 p.m. For more information on the artist and her work, please visit www.mariannemoreno.com.

Celebrate Summer, Art, and Fashion with Macy’s and the Corcoran

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The Corcoran Gallery of Art and College of Art + Design and Macy's invite you to our Summer of Love Peace Party at Macy’s Metro Center on Thursday, May 14 at 5:30 p.m. View artwork by Corcoran students and summer fashion modeled by the Corcoran’s 1869 Society Members.

Corcoran Graduate Student Receives Decorative Arts Internship

The University of North Carolina’s Center for Craft, Creativity and Design awarded a 2009 Windgate Museum Internship to the Corcoran’s Jennifer Diane Shaifer, who will receive her Master of Arts degree in the History of Decorative Arts this fall. She will assist with research in preparation for a retrospective exhibition and publication on the work of Modernist jeweler Margaret De Patta produced in conjunction with the Museum of Arts and Design in New York.  Her thesis will focus on the Metal Arts Guild in San Francisco.

Over the past four years, 17 undergraduate and graduate students have received Windgate Museum Internships, assisting curators in the area of craft collections and exhibitions. Participating museums include The Museum of Fine Arts Houston, the Fuller Craft Museum, the San Francisco Museum of Craft and Design, the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Museum, the Bellevue Art Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, and the Victoria & Albert Museum, London.

Corcoran Faculty lectures at Library of Congress

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Oscar P. Fitzgerald, Corcoran faculty member and author of the newly-released “Studio Furniture of the Renwick Gallery,” will discuss the diverse studio furniture movement, hand-crafted, one-of-a-kind pieces, and individual artisans at 12 noon on Friday, May 15, in the Mary Pickford Theater on the third floor of the James Madison Building, 101 Independence Avenue SE, in Washington, D.C.
           
In addition to examining the collecting policies of the Renwick Gallery, Fitzgerald will cast new light on workshop practices, marketing concerns, and other aspects of the contemporary studio furniture movement. Fitzgerald teaches core classes on classic and modern furniture in The Smithsonian Associates/Corcoran College of Art + Design’s Master of Arts in the History of Decorative Arts program. His 1995 book “Four Centuries of American Furniture” is a recognized standard reference volume in the field of furniture.  In 2004, he was awarded a prestigious James Renwick Research Fellowship.

College launches exhibition series at Renaissance Hotel

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Read The Washington Post’s coverage of the exhibition here.

The Corcoran College of Art + Design debuted the first exhibition in a rotating series of Corcoran student work at the Renaissance M Street Hotel’s stylish lobby lounge, M Bar. The partnership celebrates the next generation of American artists and the Renaissance’s long-standing commitment to the local arts community. Participating students are Sarah Robbins, Marianne Moreno, Caitlyn Bierman, Susan Hostetler, Chul Beom Park, Gongsan Park, Hernan Gigena, and Jasmine Daraie. The exhibition will run through the summer.

For more information on the artists and their artwork, please contact Allison Long at along@corcoran.org.

College work exhibited in Smithsonian Craft Show

Emerging Artists from the Corcoran College of Art + Design
Auditorium, National Building Museum
April 22–26, 2009

Corcoran College of Art + Design students will show their work in an innovative, inter-disciplinary juried exhibition of fine craft objects. The exhibition is organized by Robert Devers, coordinator of Ceramics and Study Away, who collaborated with the Smithsonian Women’s Committee. The following students will be on hand during the show to discuss the College and their craft.

Shahdeh Ammadi
Claudia Arbelaez
Elizabeth Artz
Stephanie Barton
Stephanie Basralian
Richard Boswell
Joe Bradley                               
Trang Burkett
Leslie Chepin
Amanda Delgado
Laura Harris
Jeff Herrity
Beate Hoessler
Lisa Jordan                               
Brittany Lan
Ryan McDonnel
Chul Park
Sarah Porter
Lindsey Raymond
Nahanni Rous
Victoria Shaheen
Laura Willis


The Craft Show is produced by the Smithsonian Women's Committee to benefit education, outreach and research programs within the Smithsonian Institution. For more information, visit http://www.smithsoniancraftshow.org/indexmain.asp?content=emergingartists.

Read more about the Corcoran’s involvement in CraftWeek DC here.

Corcoran Chair receives major fellowship

Dorothea Dietrich, Chair of Arts & Humanities, wins one of two Senior Research Fellowships at the Henry Moore Institute in Leeds, England. During her one-month residency, Dietrich, a scholar of German 20th-century art, will work on the late sculptural/architectural work of Kurt Schwitters (1887–1948). The focus of her study is Schwitters’ last Merz-Building in the Lake District and its surviving wall work, now at the Hatton Gallery in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, to begin a critical assessment of its hybrid form as assemblage and architecture at the intersection of the organic and conceptual, and to explore its sculptural legacy in England. 

Students Participate in Safety Awareness Campaign

In an effort to raise awareness of pedestrian fatalities, students from the Corcoran College of Art + Design will perform a series of sidewalk reenactments this month. Sponsored in part by Adobe’s Design Ignites Change program and developed by GIVE WAY—a group of juniors studying graphic design at the College—the project gives students a unique opportunity to establish awareness campaigns that address issues they feel negatively affect the D.C. community.

GIVE WAY’s sidewalk performances will be held Thursday, April 23 at Dupont Circle, Monday, April 27 at the intersection of Wisconsin Avenue and M Street NW, and May 1 at the intersection of Seventeenth and L Streets NW. All reenactments will occur between 3–7 p.m.

For more information, please contact Ashleigh Meusel at (443) 506-1584 or givewaydc@gmail.com

Arts & Humanities Chair continues German Expressionist lectures

Dorothea Dietrich, Chair of Arts & Humanities at the Corcoran College of Art + Design, presented a paper at Princeton University at a symposium on the German Expressionist sculptor, printmaker and writer Ernst Barlach, on March 28, 2009. The symposium, “Ernst Barlach: Image, Form, Text,” took place in conjunction with the exhibition, Myth and Modernity: Ernst Barlach’s Images of the Nibelungen and Faust, at the Princeton University Art Museum. Dietrich’s paper, “Under the Cloak: Expression and Abstraction in Barlach’s Sculpture,” addressed Barlach’s fascination with visionary experience and explored how the sculptor developed the theme of interiority in light of Expressionist theories into innovative composite, and then free-floating, sculptural form.

College Arts & Humanities Chair Delivers Presentation at Bryn Mawr

Dorothea Dietrich, Chair of Arts & Humanities, presented a paper at Bryn Mawr College on March 25, 2009, on her ongoing research on postwar German art,  "I am 1; You are 0. Cybernetics, Systems Theory, and the Repression of History in German Art of the 1960s."

Dietrich discussed how the analytical tools of cybernetics enabled A. R. Penck in East Germany to develop a critical abstract art within a Marxist state, while the embrace of numerical systems allowed Hanne Darboven in West Germany to undermine Western traditions of visual and verbal representation. As both developments were grounded in distinct historical circumstance, they counter recent analyses of systems-based art of the period as ahistorical.

The Corcoran welcomes visiting artist Lorry Salcedo Mitrani

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On Wednesday, April 1 from 2:30-4:30 p.m., filmmaker, photographer, author, and art historian Lorry Salcedo Mitrani will show his latest documentary, “The Fire Within, Jews in the Amazonian Rainforest.” The film documents the unique story of both Amazonian and Jewish history during the Diaspora. These two subjects come together to create a historical account of great cultural value, regarding relevant issues to Latin America, Israel, and the world today. Lorry’s visit will reveal his wide-ranging talents as a professional artist that spans over twenty years and experiences. His ability to capture images and tell stories with the camera is rare and certain to inspire a sense of emotion in those who view his works.

Students, faculty, staff, and friends are invited to attend. The presentation will occur in the Armand Hammer Auditorium at the New York Avenue entrance, with a reception following in Gallery31.

College Participating in Design Ignites Change

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The Corcoran College of Art + Design is proud to be a founding member of Design Ignites Change, an exciting new program that connects schools and colleges interested in challenging students to think creatively about social problems.

Corcoran student work is featured on http://designigniteschange.org./projects. The website includes works from Graphic Design senior Rosanna Dixon and Paulina Maldonado (Graphic Design 2008).  

Design Ignites Change is sponsored by Adobe Youth voices and Worldstudio. For more information, please visit http://designigniteschange.org.

Corcoran Graduate Alum Wins HP Laptop Competition

Jessica Caldwell, a graduate of the Master of Arts in Interior Design program, was chosen by Hewlett-Packard from a talented nation-wide pool of bloggers to win a limited-edition Vivienne Tam HP mini-book. Her winning post took the form of a love letter to the HP mini-book detailing the failings of her ex-laptop. Jessica’s design blog, designwonderland.net, chronicles the design world from an ultra-hip, urban perspective and provides a daily feed of design products, news, and inspiration. 

Corcoran to host event for local artists

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The Corcoran College of Art + Design will host Capitol Pecha Kucha Night Volume 7 on Wednesday, March 18 at 7:30 p.m. Since its launch in March 2007, Capitol Pecha Kucha’s presentations have promoted local artists working in all media, including visual arts, architecture, design, music, fashion, film, and literature.

Featured presenters include Dissident Display, Antje Kharchi, Marc Ross, Anya Pinchuk, Harry Chun, Ali Herischi, Marielle Mariano, Chirstiana Aretta, John Athayde, and Guarav Mishra. For more information, please visit http://www.pecha-kucha.org.

Corcoran Library Director to Speak at UCLA

Mario Ascencio, the Corcoran library director, will be the featured speaker at the 2009 Library and Information Studies Alumni Association Spring Brunch on Saturday, March 21, 2009.  Ascencio (UCLA 1999) will address alumni, faculty, and the class of 2009.  He will discuss his national and international leadership role within the library and information science field.  For more information, please visit http://is.gseis.ucla.edu/alumni/events.html.

Upcoming design lecture at the Corcoran

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The Corcoran College of Art + Design presents educator and graphic designer Lucille Tenazas on Monday, March 9, at 7 p.m. in the Corcoran auditorium. Based in New York, Ms. Tenazas is the first Henry Wolf Professor at Parsons The New School for Design, where she develops graduate studies in Communication Design with an emphasis on design, craft and technology.

This lecture is co-sponsored by the Corcoran Visiting Artist program and the AIGA.

Corcoran Faculty Member to show in Contemporary Art Exhibitions

Judy Southerland, Corcoran faculty member, will show her work in Crossing Lines at the Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts. The exhibition was juried by Darcie Alexander, chief curator at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. The exhibition will run through May 24, 2009. For more information, please visit www.thedcca.org. Ms. Sutherland’s work will also be included in the 20th National Drawing and Print Exhibition at the Gormley Gallery at the College of Notre Dame of Maryland from March 23–April 24. An artist's reception and juror’s talk is scheduled for March 28 from 6–8 p.m.

History of Decorative Arts Faculty Publishes Book

The Corcoran College of Art + Design is please to congratulations to Dr. Oscar Fitzgerald for the publication of his most recent book, Studio Furniture of the Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian American Art Museum, which features a forward by Paul Greenhalgh, director of the Corcoran Gallery of Art and president of the Corcoran College of Art + Design.

Corcoran Graduate Student Honored by Cosmos Club Foundation

The Corcoran College of Art + Design is proud to announce that Mary Ronan received a 2009 Young Scholar Award from Cosmos Club Foundation for her research topic, “Not Your Mother’s Embroidery.” Ms. Ronan is pursuing a Master of Arts degree in the History of Decorative Arts.

Dean Pillow Publishes Article on Imagination

Kirk Pillow, dean of the Corcoran College of Art + Design, will have an essay on the power of the imagination featured in the newly published Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Literature, edited by Richard Eldridge (Oxford University Press, 2009). The essay characterizes the exercise of imagination in works of art as challenging us to see the world from a critical distance, or “to see to the world’s evolution toward something else.” Pillow’s essay is one of 23 newly-commissioned pieces in the volume.

Corcoran Printmaking Portfolio Exhibition Opening in March

The Corcoran College of Art + Design’s Printmaking department will exhibit Oil and Water, their 24th annual print portfolio at Gallery Plan B from March 18 to April 5. The public is invited to attend the opening reception on March 21 from 6–8 p.m., as well as a poetry reading by Corcoran faculty and students on April 1 from 6–8 p.m. Gallery Plan B is located at the intersection of Fourteenth and Q streets NW.

The show reflects the many printmaking media taught at the Corcoran, including lithographs, etchings, screen-prints, letterpress, papermaking, relief, and digital prints. This year’s portfolio contains the work of 30 students and faculty. This year’s theme, Oil and Water, speaks to today’s environmental issues and includes a diverse selection of individual interpretations. Past portfolios have been collected by the Library of Congress, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, and purchased for both private and public collections.

For more information, please visit www.galleryplanb.com.

Corcoran Student Wins Scholarship

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Congratulations to Interior Design graduate student Brittany Watson for winning the prestigious Knud Helm-Erichsen Scholarship. She is the second Corcoran student to be awarded this scholarship and will be attending the DIS program in Copenhagen with four other Corcoran design students, as well as international students from around the world.

Corcoran Faculty, Alumni, Staff take home HOW Magazine Awards

The Corcoran College of Art + Design took home several HOW Magazine Merit awards. Designers John DeWolf and Maria Habib (BFA 2002) earned an award for their identity design for Modernism: Designing a New World 1914–1939. Faculty member Francheska Guerrero received an award for her invitation for The Dream House Revisited. The 2009 design annual also features the Hippo & Turtle Organics logo designed by merit award winner and Corcoran alum Min Kim.

Corcoran Faculty and Alum Receive Grammy Nomination

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Graphic Design faculty member Neal Ashby and Corcoran alum Patrick Donohue are nominated along with Matthew Curry for the Best Recording Package award for their work on Thievery Corporation’s Radio Retaliation album. To view the entire ceremony, including the Pre-Telecast awards, visit www.grammy.com.

For a closer look at the nominated artwork, please visit www.ashbydesign.com/.

Corcoran Faculty Honors Lincoln Bicentennial

Corcoran Fine Art faculty member Lisa Blas opens Regarding Territories and Bodies tonight at the Catholic University of America’s Salve Regina Hall. The exhibition of landscape and figurative paintings recreates Gettysburg, Richmond, and other iconic Civil War sites, as well as John Wilkes Booth and Pauline Cushman. Running through March 6, the exhibition is part of the university’s Lincoln Bicentennial Semester, which marks the 200th anniversary of the president’s birth.

For more information on the artist, please visit www.lisablas.com/.

Corcoran Grad Student Wins DIS Scholarship

DIS, the Danish Institute for Study Abroad, announced that Corcoran graduate student Darlene Molnar won the prestigious Knud Helm-Erichsen Scholarship for the study of design. Ms. Molnar, who is in her final year of graduate study, will enroll in the 2009 DIS intensive summer study program with three other Corcoran graduate students

On view in the College Corridor: Chris Usher’s One of Us

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The Corcoran Gallery of Art is proud to present Chris Usher’s One of Us, an exhibition that explores the post-Hurricane Katrina realities in the Gulf Coast. Combining powerfully emotional portraits with bleak landscapes of futility and destruction, One of Us depicts a world where only hope and an incredible resilience prevents its inhabitants from succumbing to fear, disease, poverty, and fatigue.

A visiting professor at the Corcoran College of Art + Design, Usher has spent more than three years documenting the effects of Hurricane Katrina on the residents and ex-residents of the Gulf Coast region. One of Us will be on view in the Gallery’s College Corridor through January 11, 2009.

For more information on Chris Usher’s award-winning photography, please visit www.chrisusher.com.


Coming to the College Corridor: Through the Looking Glass: Paintings by Joey P. Mánlapaz

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The Corcoran Gallery of Art presents new work by current Corcoran faculty member Joey P. Mánlapaz, on view from January 14 to February 15, 2009, then re-opening from March 14 to March 29. Recognized for her paintings of Washington, D.C. architecture, Mánlapaz explores a more personal view on human relations, and extrapolates the meaning of personal boundaries as represented by the glass surface. The opening reception for Through the Looking Glass will be held on Thursday, January 15, from 6 to 8 p.m.

Off the Walls College Art Sale

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Off the Walls, the Corcoran College of Art + Design’s annual art sale, will be held on Thursday, December 11 from 5 to 9 p.m. and on Friday, December 12 and Saturday, December 13 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. The sale features fine arts, jewelry, and ceramics made by Corcoran students, alumni, faculty, and staff. The event will be held in the Corcoran Gallery of Art.

Cash, checks, and major credit cards (Visa, MasterCard, and American Express) are accepted. All sales directly benefit the artists and the Corcoran’s Student Activities Programming Board. For more information, please visit www.corcoran.org/holiday or call (202) 639-1801.

The Corcoran Welcomes Visiting Artist Jill Magid

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Jill Magid, a visual artist working in a variety of media, including literature, video, sculpture, photography, and performance, will speak at the Corcoran College of Art + Design on Monday, December 1. Magid’s solo exhibitions include Article 12 at Stroom in the Netherlands and With Full Consent at Gagosian Gallery in New York. She has also shown at the Sparwasser HQ in Berlin, the Centre d’Art Santa Monica in Barcelona, and the Stedelijk Museum Bureau in Amsterdam. Magid’s talk will take place in the Frances and Armand Hammer Auditorium at 1:30 p.m. This event is free and open to the public. For more information on Jill Magid, please visit http://www.jillmagid.net.

The Corcoran Celebrates Photography with FotoWeek DC

The Corcoran College of Art + Design is hosting several events during this inaugural, weeklong celebration of photography. A proud partner of FotoWeek DC, the Corcoran stands as a major center for collecting, displaying, and studying photography and photojournalism. For a schedule of activities taking place at the Corcoran, please visit www.corcoran.org/fotoweekdc.

Corcoran Set to Showcase Student Work

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Join Corcoran College of Art + Design students at OPEN on Friday, November 21, from 6 to 9 p.m. View the work of BFA and Continuing Education students in the Graphic Design and Digital Media departments. The event will take place at the Corcoran’s Georgetown campus at 1801 Thirty-fifth Street NW, Washington, DC 20007. Admission is free.

Corcoran Students to Show at the Washington Craft Show

The Washington Craft Show will host a special exhibition of student works from the Corcoran College of Art + Design. Corcoran professors will jury the unique, exquisitely crafted works in traditional craft media, including clay, wood and metals. The Washington Craft Show is held at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center between Seventh and Ninth Streets NW, from November 7 to November 9. For more information on the event, as well as participating students and faculty, please visit http://www.craftsamericashows.com/WASH_main.htm.

New Bachelor of Arts program to debut Fall 2009

The Corcoran College of Art + Design is proud to announce the introduction of a new Bachelor of Arts degree program in Art Studies. The new B.A. program will complement the studio-focused Bachelor of Fine Arts degree, strengthening the Corcoran’s training of the artists and arts professionals of the future. Students can choose from three concentrations: Theory and Studio Practice, Contemporary Art and Museum Culture, and Writing in the Arts. For more information on these exciting new programs as well as all the College’s other distinguished programs and courses, please click here or admissions@corcoran.org.

Corcoran Alumnus to Lead U Street’s Newest Gallery

Jacqueline Ionita (BFA 2007) will celebrate the launch of her Hamiltonian Gallery with a grand opening reception on Saturday, October 11. The gallery’s first exhibition will feature works by Nao Matsumoto, Bryan Rojsuontikul, and Ian MacLean Davis. Located half a block from the U Street/Cardozo Metro station, the gallery is one of the first green contemporary art exhibition spaces in the district.

All students, faculty, and staff are invited to attend Hamiltonian’s inauguration reception on Saturday, October 11. For more information, please visit http://www.hamiltoniangallery.com.

Corcoran Alumnus Tara Donovan Named MacArthur Fellow

The Corcoran College of Art + Design is thrilled to announce that BFA alumnus Tara Donovan (1991) was named as one of the prestigious 2008 MacArthur Fellows. According to the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the $500,000 grant is awarded annually to experts in a variety of fields who demonstrate “exceptional originality and dedication to their creative pursuits.”

Donavan, who practices contemporary sculpture in Brooklyn, NY, is known for transforming ordinary, accumulated materials into intriguing visual and physical installations.

HOW magazine features Corcoran senior

Digital Media Design senior Elsa Chang received a Student Promotion Merit Award from HOW magazine’s 21st annual awards. Her work—label design for the Benziger Family Winery—is featured in HOW’s October 2008 issue. Elsa completed the project in a Publication Design class taught by Kate McConnell.


Alumni, students, and staff honored with UCDA Design Awards

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The University and College Designers Association’s (UCDA) 38th annual design competition recently honored the Corcoran with four awards of excellence for the Chance Encounters exhibition catalogue, Annie Leibovitz Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts certificate, exhibition graphics for the 2008 All-Senior Exhibition, and exhibition graphics for Modernism: Designing a New World 1914–1939. Corcoran College of Art + Design alumnus and current staff member Maria Habib (BFA 2002) played a particularly important role in the design and production of collateral for the Modernism exhibition. Maria, fellow graduate Avi Gupta (BFA 2003), and current student Hernan Gigena were instrumental in the development and execution of the 2008 All-Senior Exhibition promotion material. Curator of Photography and Media Arts Paul Roth and Assistant Curator Amanda Maddox were also recognized for their roles in the creation of the Chance Encounters exhibition catalogue. The UCDA Design Competition recognizes the best of the exceptional design work done to promote educational institutions. These projects will be on display at the 38th Annual UCDA Design Conference, in Savannah, Georgia, October 4–7.

Graphic Design Student Featured in Home & Design Magazine

The Fall 2008 issue of Home & Design magazine highlights the work of Graphic Design major Marc Ross (class of 2008). For his senior thesis project, Marc studied the work of Charles and Ray Eames and designed the Lore Swivel Chair in keeping their modernist principles. The chair is now for sale at Vastu (1829 Fourteenth Street NW).

Bethesda Magazine Honors Corcoran Faculty

Ethel Kessler, Graphic Design adjunct faculty member, is featured in the July/August 2008 issue of Bethesda magazine. Ethel is an art director for the U.S. Postal Service who, together with illustrator Whitney Sherman, designed the “breast cancer stamp” in 1998. This article commemorates the 10th anniversary of the stamp, which has raised more than $65 million for breast cancer research. More than a billion of these stamps have been sold.

Sheila Blake Exhibition at Glenview Mansion through October 1

Sheila Blake, adjunct faculty member in Continuing Education, will exhibit her work at the Glenview Mansion at the Rockville Civic Center Park in Rockville, MD. The paintings and pastels feature houses in her Takoma Park neighborhood and will be on view from September 7 to October 1, 2008. Visitors can meet the artists at the opening reception on Sunday, September 7, 2008, 1:30–3:30 p.m., at 603 Edmonston Drive in Rockville, MD. Please visit www.rockvillemd.gov for more information.

Corcoran Library Receives Generous Donation

The Corcoran Library received a generous donation from the estate of the late Diane Wolf. The collection includes more than 800 volumes of art, travel, and civilization books from Diane Wolf’s personal library. Ms. Wolf was appointed to the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts and also sat on the boards of the National Archives, the Kennedy Center, and National Public Radio. The Corcoran is grateful for this generous gift from her estate.

Alumni Maria Habib and Jason Zimmerman Honored with Design Awards

Graduates of the Corcoran College of Art + Design and current staff members Maria Habib (BFA 2002) and Jason Zimmerman (BFA 2003) were recently honored for their design contributions towards various institutional projects. Last spring, the 2008 Graphic Design USA American In-house Design Awards competition presented the Corcoran with four awards of excellence for the exhibition invitations, microsite, and exhibition graphics for Modernism: Designing a New World 1914–1939, as well as the Corcoran’s monthly publication, Night & Day. A particular honor for the office was the most recent acknowledgement from the Art Directors Club of Metropolitan Washington, which bestowed the office with three awards of excellence for the Modernism exhibition invitations, print collateral, and exhibition graphics. Congratulations to these alumni and the many other individuals who contributed to the project, including John deWolf, Catherine Armour, Philip Brookman, Sarah Newman, Sara Beth Walsh, and Sarah Durkee.

Corcoran Offers New Degree Programs in Fall 2008

The Corcoran College of Art + Design is proud to announce the debut of three new degree programs for the Fall 2008 semester: Bachelor of Fine Arts in Interior Design, Master of Arts in Exhibition Design, and Master of Arts in Art Education. For more information on these exciting new programs as well as all our other distinguished programs and courses, please contact the admissions department at (202) 639-1814 or admissions@corcoran.org.


Corcoran Graduates Featured in Academy 2008


Kristoffer Tripplaar, Untitled, 2008, lambda print, 20 x 30 inches

Kristoffer Tripplaar and Cheraya Esters, recent graduates of the Corcoran College of Art + Design, were selected to participate in the Conner Contemporary Art’s Academy 2008, an invitational survey dedicated to outstanding work by recent fine art graduates of regional college art programs. As in previous years, the curators attended BFA and MFA exhibitions between December and June, viewing works in person to formulate a profile of area art programs. After consulting with artists, they selected a group of works created in various media, including painting, video, sculpture, and photography, which demonstrate individual achievement and represent vital currents in the fine art curricula of our region. The show runs July 11–26, 2008. For more information, please go to www.connercontemporary.com

New Leadership for the College

The Corcoran College of Art + Design is pleased to announce the appointment of Kirk E. Pillow as dean of the College. Dean Pillow leads the undergraduate and graduate academic programs and operations of the College. Pillow joined the Corcoran in July 2007 as vice dean of academic affairs. He was previously associate dean of faculty at Hamilton College in upstate New York. A philosopher of art by training, his writings include Sublime Understanding (MIT Press, 2000) and articles on metaphor, imagination, Conceptual art, and contemporary culture.

In addition, the Corcoran is delighted to announce the promotion of two department chairs to associate dean positions. Improvements to the existing curriculum and addition of new programs requires able leadership as the Corcoran further defines its undergraduate and graduate schools of study. Dean Pillow has appointed Chair of Photography Andy Grundberg to the position of associate dean of undergraduate studies, and Chair of Design Catherine Armour has become associate dean of graduate studies. Each will assist Dean Pillow in the programmatic work associated with growing and strengthening the College, while also retaining their chair appointments.

Annie Leibovitz Awarded Honorary Degree, Doctor of Fine Arts
at the Corcoran College of Art + Design, Saturday, May 24, 2008

The Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Mike Harreld, and President of the Corcoran College of Art + Design Paul Greenhalgh are proud to announce that the College honored Annie Leibovitz, world-renowned photographer, with an Honorary Degree, Doctor of Fine Arts, at the 2008 Commencement, which took place on Saturday, May 24 at DAR Constitution Hall.

“It is truly the Corcoran’s honor to recognize Ms. Leibovitz, and to celebrate her extraordinary artistry, in this way. Our graduating seniors and their families will be delighted to share her company at Commencement,” said Kirk Pillow, Dean of the Corcoran College of Art + Design.

Annually, the Corcoran College of Art + Design honors an artist who has contributed significantly to the advancement of his or her discipline and to the collective body of related knowledge in the visual arts. Past recipients of this prestigious award include: Phyllis Lambert, architect (2007), Sally Mann, photographer (2006), and Karim Rashid, designer (2005).

View the May 25 Washington post article here.

Corcoran Digital Media Design Work Honored at AIGA D.C. Student Competition

Digital Media Design graduate Brock Boyts (2008) was the grand prize winner in the recent AIGA D.C. student competition. The winning entry was a creative digital video campaign for Hershey’s chocolate bars. This work was exhibited in the 2008 Senior Thesis Exhibition in the Rotunda of the Corcoran Gallery of Art. Graphic Design students Jennice Noh (2008), Marc Ross (2008), and Hannah Tak (2009) also received Merit Awards and were recognized at the AIGA reception held on May 20, at the National Postal Museum. Their entries, including digital media by Brock Boyts; a “Typho” tee-shirt and box designed by Jennice Noh; a publication titled Modernism with the Heart on the graphic strategies of Charles and Ray Eames, Herbert Matter, and Massimo Vignelli, written and designed by Marc Ross, and an invitation to the Ansel Adams Black and White Ball and a publication on typography, both by Hannah Tak, were on display at the event.

Corcoran Faculty Muriel Hasbun: Lectures and Exhibition

Interim Chair and Associate Professor of Photography Muriel Hasbun recently presented the following lectures:

“The Fulbright Program: Helping Colleges and Universities Internationalize Their Campuses and Communities,” at the 60th Annual NAFSA Conference, Walter E. Washington Convention Center, Washington, DC (Thursday May 29, 2008)

“(Per)forming Identity: Who’s in the Picture?” at Temple University, Philadelphia, PA (April 9, 2008)

“Barquitos de papel: Documenting Identities in Migration” at University of Maryland, College Park (May 1, 2008)

Additionally, Hasbun’s interactive video installation, barquitos de papel / paper boats opened at the American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center on May 31. The artist invites the public to make paper boats out of copies of family photos and documents to add to the installation space, encouraging a dialogue about identity and place. Drop-boxes for the paper boats can be found around Washington, D.C. at Civilian Art Projects, the Corcoran College of Art + Design, Modern Times Coffeehouse at Politics & Prose Bookstore, and at the Sitar Arts Center. The exhibition continues until July 27, 2008.

American University Museum
Katzen Arts Center
4400 Massachusetts Avenue NW
Washington, DC
Open Tuesday–Sunday, 11 a.m.–4 p.m.
http://www.american.edu/museum (see “Multiplicitocracy”)

Work by Faculty Member Margaret Adams to be Published

The photography and research of Margaret Adams, adjunct faculty and Photography department technology coordinator, is included in the second edition of The Book of Alternative Processes by Christopher James. This bestselling textbook includes two of Ms. Adams’ images as well as her research on the salted paper printing process. For more information, please visit
http://www.christopherjames-studio.com/build/thebook.html.

Janis Goodman’s Cross Currents at Reyes + Davis

Janis Goodman, full-time faculty in the fine arts department has opened a new exhibition.

Laura Coyle, independent curator, commented, “[Goodman’s] recent paintings and drawings in Cross Currents, a new exhibition of her work at Reyes + Davis, can be read as abstractions from nature as well as depictions of nature. In fact, it’s hovering between the two that gives her work a strange sense of ‘frenetic calm.’ Even though the marks and colors are fixed, they refuse to remain static. ‘Look again, see again, think again’ is what they ask. The marks themselves—the heavy black marks—have they been ‘set down’ on the surface or are they ‘flying free’ from the surface? The ripples in the water? What causes them? Where is the bottom? Is the water itself floating in the air? Look again. Water is slippery, so is air. So are we.”

The show will run until June 6, 2008.
Reyes + Davis
923 F Street NW
Washington, DC
(202) 255-5050 or www.reyesdavis.com

Jason Zimmerman: Feel better, longer
at Civilian Art Projects through June 14

Jason Zimmerman: Feel better, longer

Utilizing video, photography, drawing, and site-specific installation, Corcoran alumnus and current staff member Jason Zimmerman’s first solo exhibition with Civilian features several interdependent projects exploring containment, growth, and creation in a multitude of media. On view Wednesday–Saturday, 2 to 6 p.m. and by appointment through June 14, 2008. Also on view in the Project Space, Jen Stark: Much—much.

See this May’s issue of Art in America, where Zimmerman and many other Corcoran colleagues are featured in Jim Mahoney’s article discussing the current Washington, D.C. art community.

Please visit jasonzimmerman.info or civilianartprojects.com for more information.


Image (above): Jason Zimmerman, Naked Boy Flower Video (Jack), 2008, still from single-channel video installation, Courtesy of the Artist and Civilian Art Projects

Corcoran ASID Chapter Design Charrette for
Capitol Park IV Condominiums

The Corcoran College of Art + Design’s ASID chapter held a design charrette on Sunday, March 9, 2008 at the Georgetown campus, helping to design a playground for residents of the Capitol Park IV Condominium in Southwest Washington, D.C. Interior Design Master’s program students produced drawings and ideas for everything from refurbishing a concrete tower sculpture, to selecting new equipment, to redesigning a new logo for the condo association.

The event was led and organized by Jessica Granda in cooperation with ASID president for 2007–2008, Aliza Weiss. Participating students were Jessica Caldwell, Ruth Crump, Catherine Ebert, Linda Potrafke, Jessica Granda, Heather Heuschen, Jennifer Kearney, Aliza Weiss, and faculty advisor Rebecca Hubler.

George Lentz, the current president of Capitol Park IV Condominium’s board of directors, was in close contact with the team throughout the duration of the project, providing feedback and sharing the team’s results with the rest of the board. In addition to the playground charrette, students aided Lentz in selecting a new exterior color scheme for the residences at Capitol Park IV that will be executed in the coming year, and will complement the new buildings going up adjacent to the condominiums.

Paula Phipps selected to attend The Newport Symposium

Paula Phipps, assistant director of the Corcoran’s History of Decorative Arts Master’s program, was selected as a scholar to attend The Newport Symposium in April. The annual symposium, initiated in 1993 in Newport, Rhode Island, offers scholars, collectors, museum directors, curators, and board members the opportunity to study and discuss current issues in the decorative arts as well as preservation and historical issues. This focus for the 2008 event is “Great Rooms.” For more information, please visit www.newportmansions.org.

Mary D. Doering Recognized by Art & Antiques

Art & Antiques Magazine recognizes Mary D. Doering, a faculty member of Corcoran’s History of Decorative Arts Master’s program, as one the top 250 collectors in the country. The annual issue highlighting collectors in the United States (March 2008) rates Doering’s collection of 18th-century English, French, and American clothing and textiles as one of the best in the category of Antiques and Decorative Arts.

HDA Faculty to Speak at International Society of Appraisers Conference

Jennifer Goldsborough and Mary Cheek Mills, both faculty of the History of Decorative Arts Masters program will be featured speakers for the International Society of Appraisers conference. Goldsborough, an expert on silver and ceramics, and Mills, an expert on glass, will be participants in the event focusing on Federal Baltimore which took place in April. The mission of ISA is to advance the professionalism and effectiveness of personal property appraisers. For more information, please visit www.isa-appraisers.org/conference/index.htm.

Jennifer Pawlak Developing Original Print for The Other Islam

American Islamic author Stephen Suleyman Schwartz and the Center for Islamic Pluralism are developing, with artist Jennifer Pawlak, an original print to mark the publication of Schwartz’s new Doubleday book, The Other Islam: Sufism and the Road to Global Harmony. The print will develop Pawlak’s art as a representation of the “Sufi Rose” and Islamic conceptions of peace and reconciliation. It is suggested that the print be donated to the National Library of Iraq. For more information, please visit www.islamicpluralism.org.

Lynn Sures: Individual Artist Award and Exhibitions

Lynn Sures, Professor of Fine Art, is a 2008 recipient of a Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Award, in the category of Visual Arts: Works on Paper. Out-of-state jurors review slides submitted for this annual competition and select award recipients based on these works. Information on the Maryland State Arts Council and the grant recipients can be found at http://www.msac.org.

Lynn Sures will exhibit work in the following upcoming shows:

Wasser I Zeichen
May 3–31, 2008
This group exhibition on the theme of water, curated by Peter Liebricht. Kulturbüro, will be held at Bremen Nord, Hermann-Fortmann-Str.32, 28759 Bremen, Germany.
Email for information: papierwerkstattlesum@gmx.de.

Scythia 7
June 18–22, 2008
This international biennial exhibition on textile art is curated by Ludmila Egorova and Andrew Schneider and held in conjunction with a conference on Contemporary Textile Art in Kherson, Ukraine.
For information: http://anschnei.public.kherson.ua/.

Blowing in the Wind
July 27–September 30, 2008
Curated by Beata Debowska, this group exhibition will be held at the Muzeum Papiernictwa, located at Ul. Klodzka 42, Dusznikach Zdroju, Poland.
For information on the museum: http://www.muzpap.pl/index_eng.php.

Judy Southerland: Close to Far Away

Judy Southerland, a professor in the Drawing and Painting department, had a solo exhibition of 18 paintings and large works on paper, titled Close to Far Away. The exhibition was on view from April 1 until May 2 at Miami University in Middletown, Ohio. To read more about this exhibition, please click here.

Reyes + Davis presents Paintings and Prints,
including work by Pepa Leon

REYES+DAVIS Independent Exhibitions, under the direction of Corcoran alumna Brigitte Reyes, presents solo exhibitions including work by Corcoran student, Pepa Leon. Pepa’s prints and mixed-media paintings on large canvas are described by Corcoran professor Tom Green as “organic abstractions and a testimony to the fertile imagination of the human mind.” Paintings and Prints will be on display from April 5 through May 3, 2008 and can be found at 923 F Street, NW #302. A panel discussion of Corcoran professors and the arts reviewer at PBS/WETA will share perspectives on the arts and teaching on April 17, 2008 from 7 to 9 p.m. For more information, please visit www.reyesdavis.com.

14th Street and the Creative Economy Event and Afterparty

This Spring 2008 course engaged students with the small business community in the emerging 14th Street neighborhood as they conducted research and created window installations for select retailers.

Celebrate the students’ hard work as the window displays at Redeem, Home Rule, Vastu and Muleh are unveiled on Friday, May 2 at 6 p.m. Selected window displays will be available for bid through silent auction at the stores from 6 to 8 p.m. Following the in-store events, there will be an afterparty at the Donovan House from 8 p.m. to midnight. Admission to the afterparty is $20 at the door, and all proceeds from the party and auction will fund future College projects.

To learn more about the project, please visit http://creativeeconomydc.blogspot.com.

Francheska Guerrero Receives Design Award

Francheska Guerrero, assistant professor in the Graphic Design department, is a winner in the HOW International Design competition for print and interactive design. The award was given for the Corcoran Senior Thesis Commemorative Postcard Box Set, featured in HOW magazine’s April 2008 International Design Annual. This work was designed by Francheska Guerrero and created in collaboration with John deWolf and Maria Habib, graphic designers at the Corcoran, and Jennice Noh, graphic design major (2008) at the Corcoran College of Art + Design. The postcard box set includes work from each of the graduating seniors in the class of 2007.

Article by Janis Goodman in Sculpture Magazine

Janis Goodman, professor of fine arts and coordinator of third-year Fine Arts Core has written an article that was published in the March 2008 issue of Sculpture magazine. The article is about a sculptural dance performance entitled Quarryography that was performed last summer on Deer Isle, Maine. The performance took place on the site of an old abandoned granite quarry. The choreographer was Alison Chase, founder of the dance troupe Pilobolus. Click here to read a portion of the review online, or click here to view the performance of Quarryography.

Corcoran Hosts Design Portfolio Review Session

The Corcoran College of Art + Design hosted an interior design portfolio review session in Gallery 31 on February 13, 2008 as part of Career Week. Second- and third-year students in the Masters in Interior Design program met with representatives from top design and architecture firms in the Washington, D.C. area, including Gensler, Core, Smith Group, and ITA-Design. The portfolio review session gave students a unique opportunity to have their work reviewed by design professionals and allowed them to gain advice and recommendations on portfolio presentation.

The event was organized by Shahdeh Ammadi, coordinator of career services and employer relations; Catherine Armour, chair of the Interior Design program; and Mathilda Cox, a faculty member in the Interior Design program.

Joey P. Mánlapaz–Current Projects

Joey P. Mánlapaz, adjunct faculty in Drawing and Painting, won first prize for her painting All About Jane from her Reflections series. Her painting was featured in the All Media Exhibition, juried by curator Vivienne Lassman at Touchstone Gallery. The exhibition in on view there through March 8.

Touchstone Gallery
406 7th Street NW
Second Floor
Washington, D.C.

This February, Mánlapaz also received a 5' x 10' mural commission by Boston-based developer Griffith Properties for its new high-rise office building on East Pratt Street by Inner Harbor, Baltimore, Maryland. The office is scheduled to open in early May.

Janis Goodman Featured in Two Exhibitions

Janis Goodman, professor of Fine Arts, recently opened a solo exhibition of large-scale oil paintings, drawings, and Workingman Collective projects at the Heuser Art Center of Bradley University. The show, entitled Cross Currents, will run until March 1, 2008 in Peoria, Illinois. The work revolves around issues of water, considering problems of sustainability, ecology and changing structures and has references to hurricane Katrina, the Tsunami and changing environments. The Heuser Art Center is the art gallery of Bradley University, which mounts local, national, and international shows. Janis will be giving a lecture at the Heuser Art Center, as well as meeting with the fine art students attending Bradley University.

Artwork by Fine Arts Professor Janis Goodman has been chosen for inclusion in the Arlington Arts Center show, Collectors Select. Six prominent local collectors have selected work by D.C. area artists for their individual theme shows, and Janis was selected by Julian Fore, whose collection centers mostly on Asian art. The show will run until March 29 at the Arlington Arts Center, located at 3550 Wilson Boulevard, VA. More information is available at www.arlingtonartscenter.org.

Laura Pasquini to Present at AAM Annual Meeting

At this year’s American Association of Museums Annual Meeting in Denver, Colorado (April 27–May 1), the Corcoran’s Director of Community Programs Laura Pasquini will join representatives from the Lower East Side Tenement Museum, The Walters Art Museum, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Carnegie Museum of Natural History, and Baltimore City Community College to present a session entitled, “Led by the Needs of the Community.”

Designed for all museum education professionals, this discussion will explore the current practices of small to large museums. It will share expertise to springboard questions from museum educators who are looking to understand the museum’s role and responsibility in social inclusion and have an interest in audience and program building strategies. It will also explore the challenges and concerns of budgeting, measuring outcomes, and creating partnerships within the non-museum community.

Controversy and concern are currently revolving around immigration policy; the steady increase in the international refugee population; equal rights for gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender audiences; and equal opportunity for people affected by disabilities, discrimination, and economic strain. Non-profit organizations around the country are working closely with these groups but are challenged by a lack of funding, resources, and community awareness. “Led by the Needs of the Community” demonstrates that, in recognizing the need for change, not only can museums bring art, education, and social acceptance to deserving groups, but they can also grow programming in ways beneficial to the museum and community at large.

Corcoran Projects Honored in Prestigious AIGA 50 Exhibition

The Corcoran College of Art + Design will be well represented at the AIGA 50, a biennial juried exhibition that highlights 50 of the strongest examples of design produced in the region during the last two years.

Francheska Guerrero, graphic design professor, was named a winner for the 2007 Corcoran Senior Thesis Project, which included the announcement postcard, invitation, program, commemorative postcard box set of student work, and banners that hung in the Corcoran Gallery atrium.

The Corcoran College of Art + Design viewbook, produced by Studio A, was also chosen to be part of the AIGA 50. Corcoran faculty member Antonio Alcala, Helen McNiell, and Corcoran alumna Leslie Badani (2007) designed this “book within a book” to reflect the relationship between the Corcoran Gallery and the College.

The Modernism timeline, created as part of the 2007 exhibition Modernism: Designing A New World 1914–1939 at the Corcoran, was another winning entry. Seniors in the Graphic Design and Digital Media Design departments researched, designed, and produced a timeline that featured historical, political, and cultural events, as well as significant milestones in design and art for the years 1914 to 1939. Designers included the three art directors Patrick Donohue, Jason Gottlieb, and Pavel Pivonka, as well as other seniors from the class of 2007: Radwa Al Wazir, Lina Almansa, Tzaddi Andoque, Leslie Badani, Alice Chang, Jose Guerra, Maciej Janus, Jason Lavinder, Marcela Luna, Shuhei Matsuyama, Joanna Ng, Daniel Norman, Shaquan Pope, Leah Prehn, David Serdena, Sarah Sznyter, Johnathan Tolentino, Charles Wallace, and Ji-Young Yi. Faculty advisors were Antonio Alcala, Alice Powers, Kem Sawyer, Marc Schwartz, and Johan Severtson.

AIGA (American Institute of Graphic Arts), is the oldest and largest professional association of graphic designers.

Pat Autenrieth, Associate Professor, Foundations, Exhibits Work
Pat Autenrieth’s work will be exhibited along with three other artists at the Glenview Mansion Art Gallery in Rockville, Maryland, through February 27. See a mix of assemblage, ceramics, and quilts. For more information, please visit http://www.rockvillemd.gov/arts/exhibits.htm

Jennifer Goldsborough is Guest Curator and Lecturer for
Spoons & Spectacles
The Historical Society of Delaware presents Spoons & Spectacles: Silver in Delaware Life, a special exhibition guest curated by Jennifer Goldsborough, silver and metal historian and instructor in the Corcoran’s History of Decorative Arts Masters Program. Spoons & Spectacles will display more than 100 silver items that show the quality and breadth of silver used in the lives of the Delawareans while exploring why silver was used, who made it, and how it became so intricately embedded in our culture. Spoons & Spectacles will be on view from February 16 to May 17, 2008, and Jennifer Goldsborough’s lecture and tour of the exhibition will take place on March 13 at 7 p.m., both at the Delaware History Museum.

Delaware History Museum
505 Market Street
Wilmington, DE 19801
(302) 655-7161
www.hsd.org
hsd@hsd.org

Mary D. Doering to Exhibit Period Clothing Collection in
Charlottesville, Virginia
Mary Doering, Faculty Member of Corcoran’s HDA Masters Program, has been collecting and studying period clothing for more than 30 years, beginning in high school when she received a collection of 19th-century family heirloom clothing. She received an MA in Art History/ Museum Studies at George Washington University, and studied at the Courtauld Institute in London. She currently teaches costume and textile history in the Corcoran’s History of Decorative Arts Masters Program. Doering will exhibit her collection in the exhibition, Dressed for the Occasion: Costume in the Age of Monroe and the New Republic at James Monroe’s Ash Lawn-Highland, through July 8, 2008.

Ash Lawn-Highland
1000 James Monroe Parkway
Charlottesville, VA 22902
(434) 293-9539
www.ashlawnhighland.org
info@ashlandhighland.org

Dennis O'Neil Selected as Curator of 27th WPA Art Auction
This year’s auction to benefit the Washington Project for the Arts, held at the Katzen Center on March 7, includes selections by HPWI Director and Corcoran faculty member, Dennis O'Neil. Chosen along with Andrea Douglas, Curator, Collections and Exhibitions, University of Virginia Art Museum, and six other distinguished curators of national reputations, O'Neil will feature unique collaborative prints produced at his studio by prominent contemporary Russian and American artists over the past six years.

Dennis O'Neil to be Visiting Artist at University of Iowa
The printmaking department of the University of Iowa has invited Corcoran faculty member Dennis O'Neil to lecture, demonstrate, and discuss new ideas, techniques and attitudes about the changing face of screenprinting today in the world of art. He will visit the campus February 24–27.

Muriel Hasbun Receives Award from Maryland State Arts Council
Muriel Hasbun, Interim Chair and Associate Professor of Photography, is the recipient of a 2008 Individual Artist Award in Media from the Maryland State Arts Council. The Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Awards are grants awarded to Maryland artists through an anonymous, competitive process to encourage and sustain their pursuit of artistic excellence. For more information, please visit http://www.msac.org.

Paula Phipps to Publish Book with Norton Books
Paula Phipps, Assistant Director of the Corcoran’s HDA Master’s Program, has signed a book contract with Norton Books. Mirrors: Reflections of Style and Sophistication, the working title of Paula Phipps’s book on the history of mirrors, will be published by Norton in 2009 or 2010.

The Economist publishes article quoting Jeff Hardwick,
Visiting Lecturer in the HDA Masters Program
The December 19, 2007 edition of The Economist magazine contains an essay called, Birth, Death and Shopping: The Rise and Fall of the Shopping Mall. The well-written article quotes the work of Jeff Hardwick, instructor in the Corcoran’s History of Decorative Arts Masters Program. Hardwick’s acclaimed biography of Victor Gruen called Mall Maker: Victor Gruen, Architect of an American Dream, was published in 2003, and is a seminal work on the cultural origins and impacts of the modern American shopping mall. The Economist article can be found in the of The Economist magazine, and online at www.economist.com.

Cynthia Williams Appointed to AGG Board of Directors
Cynthia Williams, Director of the Corcoran’s HDA Masters Program, has been appointed to the Board of Directors of The American Glass Guild (AGG). The AGG is a not-for-profit corporation in the state of New Jersey dedicated to providing an open forum for the exchange of accurate information and knowledgeable opinions on stained, leaded, and decorative glass in America and its history, preservation, and restoration.

Corcoran Student Wins Visa Lighting Competition


Amanpreet Birgisson
Modular Tile Luminaire System
Working Prototype (assembly of 4 tiles)

Corcoran students in the Fall 2007 Lighting Design class participated in a design competition sponsored by internationally recognized Visa Lighting. Under the direction of instructor Andrea Hartranft, graduate design students’ entries were judged on creativity, choice of technology and materials, feasibility, and design difficulty. The winning entry, designed by Corcoran student Amanpreet Birgisson, was built as a working model and is scheduled for production by Visa Lighting.



(pictured above)
Catherine Ebert placed second with her Luminaire design

Corcoran’s new Randall School webpage now online

The Corcoran has launched a new webpage at www.corcoran.edu/randall, a resource for information and updates about its Randall School project in the southwest D.C. community. Projected to welcome its first students in the fall of 2011, this new campus of the Corcoran College of Art + Design will house undergraduate classroom and studio space for many of the equipment-intensive subject areas, such as sculpture and ceramics, as well as student exhibition space.

Antonio Alcalá to be AIGA 2008 Fellow

The D.C. chapter of AIGA, the professional association for design, has named Corcoran faculty member Antonio Alcalá its 2008 Fellow. The award recognizes significant personal and professional contributions to raising the standards of excellence within the design community. This is the second year in a row in which Corcoran faculty have received this honor; Sam Shelton (adjunct faculty, Graphic Design) was honored in 2007.

Antonio Alcalá graduated from Yale University with a BA in history and from the Yale School of Art with an MFA in graphic design. After working as a book designer and freelance graphic designer, Alcalá opened Studio A in 1988. Since then, his studio has won awards of excellence in design from local, national, and international design institutions, including Print, Communication Arts, and Graphis. His clients include the National Gallery of Art, Library of Congress, National Portrait Gallery, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Freer + Sackler Galleries, Folger Shakespeare Library, The Phillips Collection, and the Smithsonian Institution. Alcalá is an adjunct faculty member of the Corcoran College's Graphic Design Department and founder of the design education program DesignWorkshops. He serves on the board of the Northern Virginia Fine Arts Association and is a past president of the Art Directors Club of Metropolitan Washington. His work is represented in the AIGA Design Archives and the Library of Congress Permanent Collection of Graphic Design.

AIGA and the Corcoran community will celebrate Alcalá's award at a special ceremony at the Corcoran on January 23. The program will start at 6:30 p.m., followed by a reception at 8:30 p.m. For ticket information, please click here.



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