Studio Arts lecture series featuring dynamic conversations between faculty and art world professionals, Marc Choi, Matt Eich and Yuri Long.

The faculty-led Research and Practice conversation series invites acclaimed artists, writers, critics and scholars to the Corcoran School throughout the year. The talks are free to the public, providing both the community and our students access to thought-provoking examples of contemporary research and practice and a chance to engage with leading cultural figures. Speakers are nominated and selected by the studio arts program, which hosts the events at the historic Beaux Arts Flagg Building in Washington, D.C.

Marc Choi is a graphic designer, artist, and design educator. In his independent creative practice and research, he is interested in examining the role that visual design and communication plays in shaping personal and collective identities and the identities of shared environments. Marc is also a founder of Track and Field, a collaborative publishing initiative whose work often investigates the relationships among personal, public, and geographic histories within the popular American imagination.

Matt Eich is a photographic essayist working on long-form projects related to memory, family, community, and the American condition. He is the author of four monographs of photography. The Invisible Yoke., Volume IV: We, the Free, to be published this spring with Sturm & Drang, is the final volume in a four-part series launched in 2016. He is an Assistant Professor of Photojournalism and oversees the photojournalism BFA and BA programs at the Corcoran School of the Arts & Design at GWU. Matt also creates books under the imprint, Little Oak.PRESS and lives in Virginia.

Yuri Long is Special Collections Librarian at the National Gallery of Art Library working on a team to preserve and share a collection of over 50,000 rare books, ephemera files, auction catalogs and artists’ publications documenting the history of print and visual media related to art and architecture. He is also a photographic artist whose work is focused on themes related to the perception of time, memory, motion, and color and how photography allows us to navigate them in novel ways. He publishes his prints and books through The Antiquated Modern and Studio 20 at the Brookland Arts Walk.