admissions & financial aid.
requirements >
financial aid >
tuition & fees >
application >
college visits >
student services.
advising >
academic calendar >
forms >

registrar's office.
BFA / AFA / MA forms >
resources >
transcripts >
faculty forms >
CORCBOARD >
career services.
employment postings >

email accounts.
login >

CORCBOARD.
login >

Calendar alumni continuing education current students graduate degrees BFA degrees

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.


Photo: Alex Diaz

Kenya Hara, Japanese designer and author of Designing Design,
speaks to students at the Georgetown campus (November 28, 2007).

Corcoran Students Honored in AIGA Flux Exhibition


Top, Cady Bean-Smith; Bottom Left, Yordan Silvera;
Bottom right, Elsa Chang

The work of several Corcoran graphic design and digital media students was selected from more than 300 student entries from across the country for the 2007 AIGA Blue Ridge Flux exhibition. Congratulations to Brock Boyts, Sarah Chamberlain, Elsa Chang, Nathan Hill, Heather Kiselica, Erik Loften, Paulina Maldonado, Marc Ross, Cady Bean Smith, Yordan Silvera, and Hannah Tak. “Best in Category” for Motion went to Brock Boyts for his America's Most Wanted Typography Animations. Elsa Chang received “Best in Category” for Identity for her Phantom Skateboard Identity Package, and Hannah Tak was given “Honorable Mention” for her Eco-Future Newsletter in the publications category. This work was on display at the Blue Elephant Art Center in Frederick, Maryland, in October 2007.

Corcoran Students Take Part in
Annie Leibovitz and Ansel Adams Exhibitions


Photo by Susan Sterner

The Corcoran opens the exhibition Annie Leibovitz: A Photographer’s Life, 1990–2005 on October 13, and Corcoran students played an active role in its installation. Coordinated by Susan Sterner, Muriel Hasbun, and Margaret Adams and under the direction of Curator of Photography and Media Arts Paul Roth, undergraduate photography students Aimee Anthony, Holly Williams, Caitlin Lennon, Coty Jones, and Desiree Hirshberger received training in the many aspects of exhibition installation, learning from Nancy Swallow (registration), Marc Roman (art handling and installation), and John DeWolf (exhibition design). They then worked with Corcoran staff to install a bulletin-board style “tunnel” designed by Leibovitz to reproduce her editing and selection process for planning the exhibition and catalogue.

The recent opening of the Ansel Adams exhibition also saw the unveiling of the Photography Exploration Gallery. The multimedia room includes a camera obscura constructed by two BFA photography students, Natalie Cheung and Chris Gibson; a pictorial timeline of the history of photography designed by Adjunct Graphic Design Professor Antonio Álcala with student involvement; and an interactive digital photo booth that allows visitors to create and display self-portraits on the gallery’s walls. Be sure to stop by and add your photo to the digital album.




Ansel Adams was organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Jeff Hardwick, visiting lecturer, History of Decorative Arts interviews eco-designer Danny Seo in the October 2007 issue of Plenty magazine. Dubbed the Martha Stewart of green design, Seo talks about the state of green fashion, celebrity activism, and green architecture. Click here to read Hardwick’s article.

Muriel Hasbun, recipient of a 2008 Creative Projects Grant

Muriel Hasbun, interim chair and associate professor of photography, is the recipient of a 2008 Creative Projects Grant from the Arts and Humanities Council of Montgomery County (AHCMC), Maryland to create and produce work for her photo-based project, Pax Tecum Filomena. With this project, Hasbun explores issues of remembrance, displacement, loss, and war.

College Students Play Integral Role in Modernism Exhibition



Timeline Project
The Corcoran's graphic design seniors, as part of their Senior Core Studio, designed the Timeline Project in conjunction with the Corcoran's Modernism: Designing a New World, 1914-1939 exhibition currently on view in the Gallery. Led by five Corcoran graphic design faculty members, the students designed an installation that investigates the cultural and social context in which designers and architects operated in this between-the-wars period, highlighting major cultural events as well as some of the most seminal moments in design history. The Timeline Project is currently on view in the Corcoran Corridor located off the South Atrium. More Details >

Exploration Gallery
Interior design master's degree students Jessica Cannon and Alison Pruchansky collaborated with the Corcoran's Curator of Education Leslie Shaffer in developing a hands-on educational environment focusing on the designer Charlotte Perriand's life and work. Their recreation of an interior designed by Perriand and Le Corbusier includes furniture, lamps, and original period artifacts, making the designer's vision accessible for museum visitors of all ages.

Modernism Shop
Krystal Arnett Henson, master's degree candidate in interior design in her final year of study, working with department Chair Catherine Armour, assisted in the design of the Modernism Shop. In close coordination with Director of Retail Operations Ellen Tozer, Krystal was responsible for the layout of all furnishings, fixtures, and equipment in this new retail space. She coordinated graphics, detailed shelving units, and supervised construction to create an exciting and popular space at the conclusion of the Modernism exhibition.

Exhibition Design Interns
Heather Heuschen, Jessica Caldwell, Krystal Arnett-Henson, Alison Pruchansky, Amanpreet Birgisson, Victoria Welti-Pietrowski, Micol Caretto, Sarah Meger, Allison Grobe, and Jessica Cannon interned in the Corcoran's exhibition design department, producing the Modernism exhibition. Their work included models, plans, elevations, casework drawings, and construction detailing, leading to the installation of the exhibition in March 2007. History of decorative arts graduate student Scott Scholtz worked closely with the design team, coordinating casework and working directly with the Gallery's preparators prior to installation of objects in the show. History of Decorative Arts master's student Colette Marvin acted as research assist to Design Chair and exhibition designer Catherine Armour, and provided additional research assistance to the curatorial and Institutional Advancement offices of the Corcoran.



Also see Alumni News & Events

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

14th Street and the Creative Economy Event and Afterparty
more details >

Francheska Guerrero Receives Design Award
more details >

Article by Janis Goodman in Sculpture Magazine
more details >

Corcoran Hosts Design Portfolio Review Session
more details >

Joey P. Mánlapaz–Current Projects
more details >

Janis Goodman Featured in Two Exhibitions
more details >

Laura Pasquini to Present at AAM Annual Meeting
more details >

Corcoran Projects Honored in Prestigious AIGA 50 Exhibition
more details >

Pat Autenrieth, Associate Professor, Foundations, Exhibits Work
more details >

Jennifer Goldsborough is Guest Curator and Lecturer for Spoons & Spectacles
more details >

Mary D. Doering to Exhibit Period Clothing Collection in Charlottesville, Virginia
more details >

Dennis O'Neil Selected as Curator of 27th WPA Art Auction
more details >

Dennis O'Neil to be Visiting Artist at University of Iowa
more details >

Muriel Hasbun Receives Award from Maryland State Arts Council
more details >

Paula Phipps to Publish Book with Norton Books
more details >

The Economist publishes article quoting Jeff Hardwick, Visiting Lecturer in the HDA Masters Program
more details >

Cynthia Williams Appointed to AGG Board of Directors
more details >

Corcoran Student Wins Visa Lighting Competition
more details >

Corcoran's new Randall School webpage now online
more details >

Antonio Alcalá to be AIGA 2008 Fellow
more details >

Kenya Hara, Japanese designer and author of Designing Design,
speaks to students at the Georgetown campus.
more details >

Corcoran Students Honored in AIGA Flux Exhibition
more details >

Corcoran Students Take Part in Annie Leibovitz and Ansel Adams Exhibitions
more details >

Jeff Hardwick interviews eco-designer Danny Seo in Plenty magazine
more details >

Muriel Hasbun, recipient of a 2008 Creative Projects Grant
more details >

College Students Play Integral Role in Modernism Exhibition.
more details >