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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

In Fashion: Selections from the GW Collection

August 8 – October 27, 2019 Tues–Sun 1–5 p.m.

Carolina Herrera, Neiman Marcus, Hattie Carnegie — you know their names, but do you know what they look like? Fashion designers and fashion purveyors can become synonymous with their designs: a little black dress, a handbag or a scarf that everyone is suddenly wearing, but the face of the designer who created that fashionable piece might never be known.

• Arts, Culture & Entertainment

• Columbian College of Arts & Sciences
• 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

• Columbian College of Arts & Sciences
• 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

Theatre and Dance Open House

2:00pm - 4:00pm

Join the GW Theatre and Dance program to learn about performance opportunities at GW! This event is open to majors, minors, all first-years and current students at the university. Faculty members will be there to answer your questions about performances, auditions and classes.

• Arts, Culture & Entertainment

• Columbian College of Arts & Sciences
• Corcoran School of the Arts & Design

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!

You can stop by at any time during this event to learn more. This event is for majors, minors and non-majors. Everyone is welcome!

• Arts, Culture & Entertainment

• Columbian College of Arts & Sciences
• Corcoran School of the Arts & Design

Music Program Ensemble Auditions (GW Students Only)

9:00am - 5:00pm

Auditions for the Music Program Ensembles (Band, Orchestra, Chorus, Chamber and Jazz) will take place during the second week of the fall semester. Audition requirements vary by ensemble. For further information about the ensembles and auditions, visit corcoran.gwu.edu/music-ensembles.

• Arts, Culture & Entertainment

• Columbian College of Arts & Sciences
• Corcoran School of the Arts & Design

Information Session: Museum Studies (MA)

7:00pm - 8:00pm

We invite you to join us on Thursday, September 5 at 7:00 p.m. EST for an online information session and Q&A with Laura Schiavo, Program Head and Associate Professor for Museum Studies, about our Master of Arts in Museum Studies. Learn how our Museum Studies program combines traditional academic training with museum practices and practical museum experience in order to prepare students for successful museum careers.

• Academic Events
• Admissions

• Columbian College of Arts & Sciences
• Corcoran School of the Arts & Design

Fall Dance Program Auditions

7:00pm - 9:00pm

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

• Columbian College of Arts & Sciences
• Corcoran School of the Arts & Design

Getting Real in the Cauldron of Creativity

6:00pm - 7:00pm

Join us for a public talk and exchange with composer/artistic director Molly Jane Udaya Sturges as she reflects on 25 years of working at the radiant and messy crossroads of creativity, spirituality and social healing.

 

• Arts, Culture & Entertainment

• Columbian College of Arts & Sciences
• Corcoran School of the Arts & Design

True Colors: World Masters of Natural Dyes and Pigments

5:30–7:00 p.m. (lecture begins at 5:30 p.m. followed by book signing)

Book Signing and Lecture from a Color Forecaster    

• Arts, Culture & Entertainment

• Columbian College of Arts & Sciences
• Corcoran School of the Arts & Design

Human Centered Design Workshop

5:45pm - 7:45pm

Office of Innovation & Entrepreneurship presents the Human Centered Design: Designing Innovative Solutions for Social Challenges workshop. This experiential and interactive workshop exposes students to the tools, tactics, and frameworks used by innovators, entrepreneurs, and designers to empathize with populations they seek to serve, define problem sets, and come up with

• Academic Events
• Foggy Bottom Campus
• Free Food

• Elliott School of International Affairs
• School of Business
• School of Engineering & Applied Science

Information Session: Decorative Arts and Design History (MA)

7:00pm - 8:00pm

We invite you to join us on Thursday, September 19 from 7:00-8:00 p.m. EST for an online information session and Q&A with Erin Kuykendall Thomas, Director of Graduate Studies and Assistant Professor for our Master of Arts in Decorative Arts and Design History! Learn how our graduate degree trains students to study historic objects and spaces across cultures in preparation for careers in museums, auction houses, historic houses,

• Academic Events
• Admissions

• Columbian College of Arts & Sciences
• Corcoran School of the Arts & Design

Music Faculty Incubator Series: Malinee Peris, Piano

6:00pm - 7:00pm

Join the music program for the relaunch of its Faculty Incubator Series! The Faculty Incubator Series is a place for music faculty members to present works they have prepared for performance or recording, providing students a connection to the work our faculty do outside of GW.

 

• Arts, Culture & Entertainment

• Columbian College of Arts & Sciences
• Corcoran School of the Arts & Design

Information Session: Interaction Design (MA)

7:00pm - 8:00pm

Join Jae Rhim Lee, Assistant Professor of Interaction Design, on Tuesday, September 24 from 7:00 - 8:00 p.m. for an online information session and Q&A about our Master of Arts in Interaction Design. The MA in IxD focuses on the role of interaction design in public policy and service delivery, and trains designers to examine, prototype and design concepts that ultimately shape and guide people’s interactions across their everyday

• Academic Events
• Admissions

• Columbian College of Arts & Sciences
• Corcoran School of the Arts & Design

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 - 9:00am

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

• Columbian College of Arts & Sciences
• Corcoran School of the Arts & Design

Information Session: New Media Photojournalism (MA)

6:00pm - 7:00pm

We invite you to join us on Tuesday, October 1, 2019 at 6:00-7:00 p.m. EST for an online information session and Q&A with Susan Sterner, Faculty Advisor and Assistant Professor for our Master of Arts in New Media Photojournalism! Learn more about how our curriculum incorporates writing, photography, audio, video, and web design and prepares students for careers as freelancers, visual reporters, editors, and producers.

• Academic Events
• Admissions

• Columbian College of Arts & Sciences
• Corcoran School of the Arts & Design

“Spectacular holes in clouds, spotted”: Visiting Artist and Scholars Committee Lecture by Lisa Blas

6:30pm - 6:30pm

The Visiting Artists and Scholars Committee (VASC) will be hosting its first lecture by Lisa Blas, an American visual artist of Guamanian-Italian origin based in New York. Working in painting, photography and installation, she creates constellations that speak to recurrent environmental catastrophe and civil unrest — where the afterlife of images occupies the space of everyday life.

• Arts, Culture & Entertainment

• Columbian College of Arts & Sciences
• Corcoran School of the Arts & Design

Where Do I Start? Webinar

12:00pm - 1:30pm

 

Do you have a business or social enterprise idea, but don’t know where to start? Are you interested in getting feedback on your idea and getting guidance on how to move your idea forward?

• Academic Events
• Career & Professional Development
• Foggy Bottom Campus

• College of Professional Studies
• School of Business
• School of Engineering & Applied Science

Where Do I Start? Webinar

5:30pm - 7:00pm

 

Do you have a business or social enterprise idea, but don’t know where to start? Are you interested in getting feedback on your idea and getting guidance on how to move your idea forward?

• Academic Events
• Career & Professional Development
• Foggy Bottom Campus

• College of Professional Studies
• School of Business
• School of Engineering & Applied Science

Exhibition Design Fall 2019 Lecture

6:30pm - 6:30pm

New Affiliates (Ivi Diamantopoulou and Jaffer Kolb)

• Arts, Culture & Entertainment

• Columbian College of Arts & Sciences
• Corcoran School of the Arts & Design

Information Session: Interior Architecture (MFA)

7:00pm - 8:00pm

Join Catherine Anderson, Director of Graduate Studies and Assistant Professor for Interior Architecture, on Thursday, October 17 from 7:00-8:00pm as she discusses the Master of Fine Arts in Interior Architecture.

• Academic Events
• Admissions

• Columbian College of Arts & Sciences
• 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

• Columbian College of Arts & Sciences
• Corcoran School of the Arts & Design