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Kelli Rae Adams: work / study

Exhibition open to the public from June 13 to Oct. 6, 2019, Tuesday – Friday 10 a.m. – 6 p.m. Weekends 1 – 6 p.m.

With this mixed-media installation, Kelli Rae Adams calls attention to the magnitude and urgency of the student debt crisis in the U.S.

• Arts, Culture & Entertainment

• Corcoran School of the Arts & Design

A Time for Action: Washington Artists circa 1989

Hours: Tuesday – Saturday, 1:00-5:00 pm

This companion exhibition to the Corcoran exhibition 6.13.89 will exhibit paintings, drawings, and prints from the GW Collection by artists who registered their protest of the volatile cancellation of the exhibition of photographs by Robert Mapplethorpe. Also included are selected reminiscences of artists who were in Washington, D.C.

• Arts, Culture & Entertainment

• Corcoran School of the Arts & Design

Joshua Citarella: Forward-Facing Politics

Opening Reception: Monday July 8, 2019, 6:00-8:00 pm

Gallery 102 presents Joshua Citarella: Forward-Facing Politics. The exhibition is an exercise in photographing the future. The works tell narratives of imminently unfolding dystopias. A micro-apartment renter stockpiles dried goods while high rise dwellers Uber-chopper from superstar architect buildings across the skyline of a flooded city.

• Arts, Culture & Entertainment

• Corcoran School of the Arts & Design

An Evening in Tibet: A Cultural Performance of Traditional Dance and Music

6:00pm - 6:00pm

In Celebration of His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s 84th Birthday Tuesday, July 23, 2019 6:00 PM – 8:30 PM Doors Open at 5:30 PM

 

Performance in the Dorothy Betts Marvin Theatre Cloyd Heck Marvin Center 800 21st Street NW, Suite 204 Washington, DC 20052

• Arts, Culture & Entertainment
• Diversity
• International

• Elliott School of International Affairs

Gallery Talk: Kilims and the Weaver's Hand

12:00pm - 2:00pm

Senior Curator Sumru Belger Krody discusses two kilims from The Textile Museum Collections that are both potent cultural expressions and highly personal artistic expressions by the rural women who made them.

• Arts, Culture & Entertainment
• Foggy Bottom Campus
• Guest Speakers

Green Office Leadership Training

3:00pm - 3:00pm

The Office of Sustainability's Green Office Network program is hosting a leadership training on tools for driving sustainable change in an office setting. The Director of the Office of Sustainability, Meghan Chapple, will start by speaking on what is means to be a change agent and share her experiences improving sustainability practices at a university level.

• Faculty & Staff
• Sustainability

Performance and Sing Along: Songs of the Civil War

1:00pm - 3:00pm

The Washington Revels Heritage Voices, an ensemble specializing in traditional American music, leads a sing along to a collection of historical ballads. After the sing a long, enjoy a tour of the museum's exhibition “Songs of the Civil War” featuring original sheet music from the era, including three songs performed by the Heritage Voices. Advance registration is required; space is limited.

• Arts, Culture & Entertainment
• Foggy Bottom Campus
• Guest Speakers

Lecture/Show and Tell: A Global Textile Potpourri

10:30am - 12:30pm

Museum trustee and collector Roger Pratt will present select examples of textile arts from around the world, including Japan, Southeast Asia, India, Tibet, Africa, Central Asia, the Middle East, and Mexico. Participants are encouraged to bring in and discuss favorite pieces from their own collections.

• Arts, Culture & Entertainment
• Foggy Bottom Campus
• Guest Speakers

Workshop: Sketching in the Galleries

12:00pm - 12:00pm

Stephanie Travis, head of GW's Interior Architecture Program, will lead a two-part workshop focused on sketching artworks on display in the museum. The first part will include an introduction to onsite sketching, covering both tools and methods. Following this orientation, the group will head into the galleries to capture both the architectural perspective and the inspiring designs on display.

 

• Arts, Culture & Entertainment
• Foggy Bottom Campus
• Guest Speakers

• Corcoran School of the Arts & Design

Fast Fashion/Slow Art

Tuesday–Sunday 1 p.m.–5 p.m.

Fast Fashion/Slow Art comprises 11 films, videos and video installations by a diverse group of emerging and established contemporary artists and filmmakers that, collectively, encourage scrutiny of today’s garment industry.

• Arts, Culture & Entertainment

• Corcoran School of the Arts & Design

Yacine Fall

Opening Reception: TBA

Gallery 102 presents Yacine Fall. Fresh off her acclaimed performance at NEXT 2019, Fall further investigates the limits of labor, the human body, and its relationship to history.

• Arts, Culture & Entertainment

• Corcoran School of the Arts & Design

Film: "The Machinists"

12:00pm - 2:00pm

“The Machinists” focuses on three women garment workers and a union boss who want the fashion industry to stop making a profit at the expense of their workers. (Rainbow Collective, 2010, 52 minutes.)

• Arts, Culture & Entertainment
• Foggy Bottom Campus
• Sustainability

Corcoran Continuing Education Open House

5:30pm - 7:30pm

Join us for the Corcoran’s Continuing Education Open House – an event open to everyone of all ages and backgrounds in the community! Learn about the Continuing Education classes running this Fall 2019.

• Arts, Culture & Entertainment

• Corcoran School of the Arts & Design

Film: "Tears in the Fabric"

12:00pm - 1:00pm

“Tears in the Fabric” observes the toll of the factory’s collapse on one woman. Razia Begum lost both her daughters and her son-in-law and now struggles to care for her two surviving orphaned grandsons. In addition to the enormous personal loss, the tragedy rendered Begum and her grandsons homeless—the result of losing her family's livelihood. (Rainbow Collective, 2014, 30 minutes.)

• Arts, Culture & Entertainment
• Foggy Bottom Campus
• Sustainability

Music Open House

2:00pm - 4:00pm

Join the GW Music program, the GW Bands, the GW Orchestra and the GW University Singers to learn about the plethora of musical opportunities at GW! Ensemble Auditions

• Arts, Culture & Entertainment

• Corcoran School of the Arts & Design

Gallery Talk: Mali Tent Weavings

12:00pm - 1:00pm

Join Bryna Freyer, former curator at Smithsonian's National Museum of African Art, for a gallery talk on Mali tent weavings. Freyer offers a close study of an example from The Textile Museum collections, focusing on patterns, colors, and materials, as well as context on the roles of women, trade patterns, and even climate change.

• Arts, Culture & Entertainment
• Foggy Bottom Campus
• Guest Speakers

Consultations: Ask a Curator, Ask a Conservator

12:00pm - 1:00pm

Curious about a rug or textile you have recently inherited or purchased while traveling? Looking for advice on how to properly store and display your piece? Drop in to learn about your objects from the museum's curators and conservators.

• Arts, Culture & Entertainment
• Foggy Bottom Campus

Fall Dance Program Auditions

7:00pm - 7:00pm

Do you want to dance in a guest artist, faculty and/or student work this semester? Program auditions will be held on September 5 for the Fall Dance Concert, the largest dance event of the Corcoran season.

• Arts, Culture & Entertainment

• Corcoran School of the Arts & Design

Politics and Prose & GW Present Jim Mattis

7:00pm - 7:00pm

“My purpose in writing this book is to convey some of the lessons I learned in 43 years of service for those who might benefit, whether in the military or in civilian life.”

• Arts, Culture & Entertainment
• Foggy Bottom Campus
• Guest Speakers

Lecture: Felt Making Now and Then

10:30am - 12:30pm

Join fiber artist Renate Maile-Moskowitz for a visually interactive lecture and presentation on the history of felt and the manifold applications and techniques used in felt making today.

• Arts, Culture & Entertainment
• Foggy Bottom Campus
• Guest Speakers

Lecture: Spies in the Civil War

12:00pm - 2:00pm

Join Vince Houghton, historian and curator at the International Spy Museum, to uncover the hidden world of spies during the Civil War. Home to many southern sympathizers, Washington, D.C., was a hotbed for covert activity by the Confederacy. After the presentation, there will be time for discussion and debate.

• Arts, Culture & Entertainment
• Foggy Bottom Campus
• Guest Speakers

WORKSHOP: Motifs, Migrations, and Misappropriations

3:00pm - 3:00pm

Frau Fiber, Fast Fashion artist

• Arts, Culture & Entertainment

• Corcoran School of the Arts & Design

UNVEILING FASHION: Textiles and the New Circular Economy (Conference)

9:00am - 5:00pm

A collaboration with the D.C. Sustainable Fashion Collective and the GW Office of Sustainability. Find out more at museum.gwu.edu/programs.

Fee: $55/museum members, $75/public, $5/GW students

• Arts, Culture & Entertainment

• Corcoran School of the Arts & Design

Stop Kiss

October 17, 18, 19 at 7:30 pm; October 20, 2019 at 2 pm

By Diana Son Directed by Matthew R. Wilson

• Arts, Culture & Entertainment

• Corcoran School of the Arts & Design

Stop Kiss

October 17, 18, 19 at 7:30 pm; October 20, 2019 at 2 pm

By Diana Son Directed by Matthew R. Wilson

• Arts, Culture & Entertainment

• Corcoran School of the Arts & Design