BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:icalendar-ruby CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-WR-CALNAME:to free this dream. X-WR-TIMEZONE:Eastern Time (US & Canada) BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260909T091738Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50524422528051 DTSTART:20250822T170000Z DTEND:20250822T210000Z DESCRIPTION:A multidisciplinary showcase from the artists and scholars of t he full-time faculty and staff at the Corcoran School of the Arts & Design .\n\nThe line “to free this dream.” is borrowed from the last stanza i n DC-poet Essex Hemphill’s American Wedding and is a prophetic reminder that those in power will always underestimate those on the ground\, in par t\, because they refuse to look closely—to see\; us. Often using strateg ies of reduction\, via language\, they assume we will make ourselves small and hold still– protecting ourselves from being buried in an avalanche of words\, images\, and media. That we will arrest ourselves in motion whi le they shore up their own positions. \n\nAnd yet\, within these very wall s\, directly across the street from a seat of power\, faculty\, staff\, an d students of the Corcoran School of the Arts & Design come together daily \, to write\, make\, exchange\, build\, perform\, sing\, play\, fail\, gro w\, learn\, move\, and voice through creative and academic research across generations\, demographics\, belief systems\, and cultural experiences— whether they see us\, or not. \n\nto free this dream. is evidence that the re is a space for us all here—to be. We make and remake this space every semester\, over years\, decades. In this space\, we come together\, movin g through the every day and building practices of choice in each studio or archive\, on each stage or book\, right across the street from those who overlook us. In doing so\, we cannot help but create our own irrefutable t erms–building meaning and transforming through systemic reduction\, like a poem. Like a nation. It is as artists and scholars and communities do. Our irreducibility is material\, source\, or chord—and is our refutation .\n\nContributors are full-time faculty and staff of the Corcoran School o f the Arts & Design: \n\nAasawari Kulkarni\, Alessandra Echeverri\, Allyso n Vieira\, Andrea Dietz\, Anna Jayne Kimmel\, Babette Pendleton\, Bella Ma ria Varela\, Bibi Obler\, Maria del Carmen Montoya\, Caroline Casey\, Cath erine Anderson\, Clement Akpang\, Daniel Jonas\, Dean Kessmann\, Douglas B oyce\, Douglas Crawford\, Em Petro\, Heather Stebbins\, Isaiah Aladejobi\, James Huckenpahler\, Joe Bradley\, Kaitlin Jencso\, Kamille Jackson\, Ker ry McAleer-Keeler\, Kiara Rivera\, Kirk Kristlibas\, Laura Schiavo\, Laure n Onkey\, Lisa Lipinski\, Loren Kajikawa\, Marc Choi\, Mary Coughlin\, Mat t Eich\, Maurice Tyree\, Max Van Balgooy\, Melina Misri\, Michele Carlson\ , Nick Hemenway\, Nidhi Singh Rathore\, Ning Yu\, Paul Reuther\, Siobhan R igg\, Stephanie Travis\, Susan Sterner\, Suse Anderson\n\nOrganized by Mic hele Carlson (Program Head\, Studio Arts and Associate Professor\, Printma king) GEO:38.895809;-77.040024 LOCATION:Flagg Building\, Second Floor Galleries SUMMARY:to free this dream. URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.gwu.edu/event/to-free-this-dream CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibition END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260909T091738Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50524422531124 DTSTART:20250823T170000Z DTEND:20250823T210000Z DESCRIPTION:A multidisciplinary showcase from the artists and scholars of t he full-time faculty and staff at the Corcoran School of the Arts & Design .\n\nThe line “to free this dream.” is borrowed from the last stanza i n DC-poet Essex Hemphill’s American Wedding and is a prophetic reminder that those in power will always underestimate those on the ground\, in par t\, because they refuse to look closely—to see\; us. Often using strateg ies of reduction\, via language\, they assume we will make ourselves small and hold still– protecting ourselves from being buried in an avalanche of words\, images\, and media. That we will arrest ourselves in motion whi le they shore up their own positions. \n\nAnd yet\, within these very wall s\, directly across the street from a seat of power\, faculty\, staff\, an d students of the Corcoran School of the Arts & Design come together daily \, to write\, make\, exchange\, build\, perform\, sing\, play\, fail\, gro w\, learn\, move\, and voice through creative and academic research across generations\, demographics\, belief systems\, and cultural experiences— whether they see us\, or not. \n\nto free this dream. is evidence that the re is a space for us all here—to be. We make and remake this space every semester\, over years\, decades. In this space\, we come together\, movin g through the every day and building practices of choice in each studio or archive\, on each stage or book\, right across the street from those who overlook us. In doing so\, we cannot help but create our own irrefutable t erms–building meaning and transforming through systemic reduction\, like a poem. Like a nation. It is as artists and scholars and communities do. Our irreducibility is material\, source\, or chord—and is our refutation .\n\nContributors are full-time faculty and staff of the Corcoran School o f the Arts & Design: \n\nAasawari Kulkarni\, Alessandra Echeverri\, Allyso n Vieira\, Andrea Dietz\, Anna Jayne Kimmel\, Babette Pendleton\, Bella Ma ria Varela\, Bibi Obler\, Maria del Carmen Montoya\, Caroline Casey\, Cath erine Anderson\, Clement Akpang\, Daniel Jonas\, Dean Kessmann\, Douglas B oyce\, Douglas Crawford\, Em Petro\, Heather Stebbins\, Isaiah Aladejobi\, James Huckenpahler\, Joe Bradley\, Kaitlin Jencso\, Kamille Jackson\, Ker ry McAleer-Keeler\, Kiara Rivera\, Kirk Kristlibas\, Laura Schiavo\, Laure n Onkey\, Lisa Lipinski\, Loren Kajikawa\, Marc Choi\, Mary Coughlin\, Mat t Eich\, Maurice Tyree\, Max Van Balgooy\, Melina Misri\, Michele Carlson\ , Nick Hemenway\, Nidhi Singh Rathore\, Ning Yu\, Paul Reuther\, Siobhan R igg\, Stephanie Travis\, Susan Sterner\, Suse Anderson\n\nOrganized by Mic hele Carlson (Program Head\, Studio Arts and Associate Professor\, Printma king) GEO:38.895809;-77.040024 LOCATION:Flagg Building\, Second Floor Galleries SUMMARY:to free this dream. URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.gwu.edu/event/to-free-this-dream CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibition END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260909T091738Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50524422536246 DTSTART:20250827T170000Z DTEND:20250827T210000Z DESCRIPTION:A multidisciplinary showcase from the artists and scholars of t he full-time faculty and staff at the Corcoran School of the Arts & Design .\n\nThe line “to free this dream.” is borrowed from the last stanza i n DC-poet Essex Hemphill’s American Wedding and is a prophetic reminder that those in power will always underestimate those on the ground\, in par t\, because they refuse to look closely—to see\; us. Often using strateg ies of reduction\, via language\, they assume we will make ourselves small and hold still– protecting ourselves from being buried in an avalanche of words\, images\, and media. That we will arrest ourselves in motion whi le they shore up their own positions. \n\nAnd yet\, within these very wall s\, directly across the street from a seat of power\, faculty\, staff\, an d students of the Corcoran School of the Arts & Design come together daily \, to write\, make\, exchange\, build\, perform\, sing\, play\, fail\, gro w\, learn\, move\, and voice through creative and academic research across generations\, demographics\, belief systems\, and cultural experiences— whether they see us\, or not. \n\nto free this dream. is evidence that the re is a space for us all here—to be. We make and remake this space every semester\, over years\, decades. In this space\, we come together\, movin g through the every day and building practices of choice in each studio or archive\, on each stage or book\, right across the street from those who overlook us. In doing so\, we cannot help but create our own irrefutable t erms–building meaning and transforming through systemic reduction\, like a poem. Like a nation. It is as artists and scholars and communities do. Our irreducibility is material\, source\, or chord—and is our refutation .\n\nContributors are full-time faculty and staff of the Corcoran School o f the Arts & Design: \n\nAasawari Kulkarni\, Alessandra Echeverri\, Allyso n Vieira\, Andrea Dietz\, Anna Jayne Kimmel\, Babette Pendleton\, Bella Ma ria Varela\, Bibi Obler\, Maria del Carmen Montoya\, Caroline Casey\, Cath erine Anderson\, Clement Akpang\, Daniel Jonas\, Dean Kessmann\, Douglas B oyce\, Douglas Crawford\, Em Petro\, Heather Stebbins\, Isaiah Aladejobi\, James Huckenpahler\, Joe Bradley\, Kaitlin Jencso\, Kamille Jackson\, Ker ry McAleer-Keeler\, Kiara Rivera\, Kirk Kristlibas\, Laura Schiavo\, Laure n Onkey\, Lisa Lipinski\, Loren Kajikawa\, Marc Choi\, Mary Coughlin\, Mat t Eich\, Maurice Tyree\, Max Van Balgooy\, Melina Misri\, Michele Carlson\ , Nick Hemenway\, Nidhi Singh Rathore\, Ning Yu\, Paul Reuther\, Siobhan R igg\, Stephanie Travis\, Susan Sterner\, Suse Anderson\n\nOrganized by Mic hele Carlson (Program Head\, Studio Arts and Associate Professor\, Printma king) GEO:38.895809;-77.040024 LOCATION:Flagg Building\, Second Floor Galleries SUMMARY:to free this dream. URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.gwu.edu/event/to-free-this-dream CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibition END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260909T091738Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50524422538295 DTSTART:20250828T170000Z DTEND:20250828T210000Z DESCRIPTION:A multidisciplinary showcase from the artists and scholars of t he full-time faculty and staff at the Corcoran School of the Arts & Design .\n\nThe line “to free this dream.” is borrowed from the last stanza i n DC-poet Essex Hemphill’s American Wedding and is a prophetic reminder that those in power will always underestimate those on the ground\, in par t\, because they refuse to look closely—to see\; us. Often using strateg ies of reduction\, via language\, they assume we will make ourselves small and hold still– protecting ourselves from being buried in an avalanche of words\, images\, and media. That we will arrest ourselves in motion whi le they shore up their own positions. \n\nAnd yet\, within these very wall s\, directly across the street from a seat of power\, faculty\, staff\, an d students of the Corcoran School of the Arts & Design come together daily \, to write\, make\, exchange\, build\, perform\, sing\, play\, fail\, gro w\, learn\, move\, and voice through creative and academic research across generations\, demographics\, belief systems\, and cultural experiences— whether they see us\, or not. \n\nto free this dream. is evidence that the re is a space for us all here—to be. We make and remake this space every semester\, over years\, decades. In this space\, we come together\, movin g through the every day and building practices of choice in each studio or archive\, on each stage or book\, right across the street from those who overlook us. In doing so\, we cannot help but create our own irrefutable t erms–building meaning and transforming through systemic reduction\, like a poem. Like a nation. It is as artists and scholars and communities do. Our irreducibility is material\, source\, or chord—and is our refutation .\n\nContributors are full-time faculty and staff of the Corcoran School o f the Arts & Design: \n\nAasawari Kulkarni\, Alessandra Echeverri\, Allyso n Vieira\, Andrea Dietz\, Anna Jayne Kimmel\, Babette Pendleton\, Bella Ma ria Varela\, Bibi Obler\, Maria del Carmen Montoya\, Caroline Casey\, Cath erine Anderson\, Clement Akpang\, Daniel Jonas\, Dean Kessmann\, Douglas B oyce\, Douglas Crawford\, Em Petro\, Heather Stebbins\, Isaiah Aladejobi\, James Huckenpahler\, Joe Bradley\, Kaitlin Jencso\, Kamille Jackson\, Ker ry McAleer-Keeler\, Kiara Rivera\, Kirk Kristlibas\, Laura Schiavo\, Laure n Onkey\, Lisa Lipinski\, Loren Kajikawa\, Marc Choi\, Mary Coughlin\, Mat t Eich\, Maurice Tyree\, Max Van Balgooy\, Melina Misri\, Michele Carlson\ , Nick Hemenway\, Nidhi Singh Rathore\, Ning Yu\, Paul Reuther\, Siobhan R igg\, Stephanie Travis\, Susan Sterner\, Suse Anderson\n\nOrganized by Mic hele Carlson (Program Head\, Studio Arts and Associate Professor\, Printma king) GEO:38.895809;-77.040024 LOCATION:Flagg Building\, Second Floor Galleries SUMMARY:to free this dream. URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.gwu.edu/event/to-free-this-dream CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibition END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260909T091738Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50524422540344 DTSTART:20250829T170000Z DTEND:20250829T210000Z DESCRIPTION:A multidisciplinary showcase from the artists and scholars of t he full-time faculty and staff at the Corcoran School of the Arts & Design .\n\nThe line “to free this dream.” is borrowed from the last stanza i n DC-poet Essex Hemphill’s American Wedding and is a prophetic reminder that those in power will always underestimate those on the ground\, in par t\, because they refuse to look closely—to see\; us. Often using strateg ies of reduction\, via language\, they assume we will make ourselves small and hold still– protecting ourselves from being buried in an avalanche of words\, images\, and media. That we will arrest ourselves in motion whi le they shore up their own positions. \n\nAnd yet\, within these very wall s\, directly across the street from a seat of power\, faculty\, staff\, an d students of the Corcoran School of the Arts & Design come together daily \, to write\, make\, exchange\, build\, perform\, sing\, play\, fail\, gro w\, learn\, move\, and voice through creative and academic research across generations\, demographics\, belief systems\, and cultural experiences— whether they see us\, or not. \n\nto free this dream. is evidence that the re is a space for us all here—to be. We make and remake this space every semester\, over years\, decades. In this space\, we come together\, movin g through the every day and building practices of choice in each studio or archive\, on each stage or book\, right across the street from those who overlook us. In doing so\, we cannot help but create our own irrefutable t erms–building meaning and transforming through systemic reduction\, like a poem. Like a nation. It is as artists and scholars and communities do. Our irreducibility is material\, source\, or chord—and is our refutation .\n\nContributors are full-time faculty and staff of the Corcoran School o f the Arts & Design: \n\nAasawari Kulkarni\, Alessandra Echeverri\, Allyso n Vieira\, Andrea Dietz\, Anna Jayne Kimmel\, Babette Pendleton\, Bella Ma ria Varela\, Bibi Obler\, Maria del Carmen Montoya\, Caroline Casey\, Cath erine Anderson\, Clement Akpang\, Daniel Jonas\, Dean Kessmann\, Douglas B oyce\, Douglas Crawford\, Em Petro\, Heather Stebbins\, Isaiah Aladejobi\, James Huckenpahler\, Joe Bradley\, Kaitlin Jencso\, Kamille Jackson\, Ker ry McAleer-Keeler\, Kiara Rivera\, Kirk Kristlibas\, Laura Schiavo\, Laure n Onkey\, Lisa Lipinski\, Loren Kajikawa\, Marc Choi\, Mary Coughlin\, Mat t Eich\, Maurice Tyree\, Max Van Balgooy\, Melina Misri\, Michele Carlson\ , Nick Hemenway\, Nidhi Singh Rathore\, Ning Yu\, Paul Reuther\, Siobhan R igg\, Stephanie Travis\, Susan Sterner\, Suse Anderson\n\nOrganized by Mic hele Carlson (Program Head\, Studio Arts and Associate Professor\, Printma king) GEO:38.895809;-77.040024 LOCATION:Flagg Building\, Second Floor Galleries SUMMARY:to free this dream. URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.gwu.edu/event/to-free-this-dream CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibition END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260909T091738Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50524422542393 DTSTART:20250830T170000Z DTEND:20250830T210000Z DESCRIPTION:A multidisciplinary showcase from the artists and scholars of t he full-time faculty and staff at the Corcoran School of the Arts & Design .\n\nThe line “to free this dream.” is borrowed from the last stanza i n DC-poet Essex Hemphill’s American Wedding and is a prophetic reminder that those in power will always underestimate those on the ground\, in par t\, because they refuse to look closely—to see\; us. Often using strateg ies of reduction\, via language\, they assume we will make ourselves small and hold still– protecting ourselves from being buried in an avalanche of words\, images\, and media. That we will arrest ourselves in motion whi le they shore up their own positions. \n\nAnd yet\, within these very wall s\, directly across the street from a seat of power\, faculty\, staff\, an d students of the Corcoran School of the Arts & Design come together daily \, to write\, make\, exchange\, build\, perform\, sing\, play\, fail\, gro w\, learn\, move\, and voice through creative and academic research across generations\, demographics\, belief systems\, and cultural experiences— whether they see us\, or not. \n\nto free this dream. is evidence that the re is a space for us all here—to be. We make and remake this space every semester\, over years\, decades. In this space\, we come together\, movin g through the every day and building practices of choice in each studio or archive\, on each stage or book\, right across the street from those who overlook us. In doing so\, we cannot help but create our own irrefutable t erms–building meaning and transforming through systemic reduction\, like a poem. Like a nation. It is as artists and scholars and communities do. Our irreducibility is material\, source\, or chord—and is our refutation .\n\nContributors are full-time faculty and staff of the Corcoran School o f the Arts & Design: \n\nAasawari Kulkarni\, Alessandra Echeverri\, Allyso n Vieira\, Andrea Dietz\, Anna Jayne Kimmel\, Babette Pendleton\, Bella Ma ria Varela\, Bibi Obler\, Maria del Carmen Montoya\, Caroline Casey\, Cath erine Anderson\, Clement Akpang\, Daniel Jonas\, Dean Kessmann\, Douglas B oyce\, Douglas Crawford\, Em Petro\, Heather Stebbins\, Isaiah Aladejobi\, James Huckenpahler\, Joe Bradley\, Kaitlin Jencso\, Kamille Jackson\, Ker ry McAleer-Keeler\, Kiara Rivera\, Kirk Kristlibas\, Laura Schiavo\, Laure n Onkey\, Lisa Lipinski\, Loren Kajikawa\, Marc Choi\, Mary Coughlin\, Mat t Eich\, Maurice Tyree\, Max Van Balgooy\, Melina Misri\, Michele Carlson\ , Nick Hemenway\, Nidhi Singh Rathore\, Ning Yu\, Paul Reuther\, Siobhan R igg\, Stephanie Travis\, Susan Sterner\, Suse Anderson\n\nOrganized by Mic hele Carlson (Program Head\, Studio Arts and Associate Professor\, Printma king) GEO:38.895809;-77.040024 LOCATION:Flagg Building\, Second Floor Galleries SUMMARY:to free this dream. URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.gwu.edu/event/to-free-this-dream CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibition END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260909T091738Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50524422546491 DTSTART:20250903T170000Z DTEND:20250903T210000Z DESCRIPTION:A multidisciplinary showcase from the artists and scholars of t he full-time faculty and staff at the Corcoran School of the Arts & Design .\n\nThe line “to free this dream.” is borrowed from the last stanza i n DC-poet Essex Hemphill’s American Wedding and is a prophetic reminder that those in power will always underestimate those on the ground\, in par t\, because they refuse to look closely—to see\; us. Often using strateg ies of reduction\, via language\, they assume we will make ourselves small and hold still– protecting ourselves from being buried in an avalanche of words\, images\, and media. That we will arrest ourselves in motion whi le they shore up their own positions. \n\nAnd yet\, within these very wall s\, directly across the street from a seat of power\, faculty\, staff\, an d students of the Corcoran School of the Arts & Design come together daily \, to write\, make\, exchange\, build\, perform\, sing\, play\, fail\, gro w\, learn\, move\, and voice through creative and academic research across generations\, demographics\, belief systems\, and cultural experiences— whether they see us\, or not. \n\nto free this dream. is evidence that the re is a space for us all here—to be. We make and remake this space every semester\, over years\, decades. In this space\, we come together\, movin g through the every day and building practices of choice in each studio or archive\, on each stage or book\, right across the street from those who overlook us. In doing so\, we cannot help but create our own irrefutable t erms–building meaning and transforming through systemic reduction\, like a poem. Like a nation. It is as artists and scholars and communities do. Our irreducibility is material\, source\, or chord—and is our refutation .\n\nContributors are full-time faculty and staff of the Corcoran School o f the Arts & Design: \n\nAasawari Kulkarni\, Alessandra Echeverri\, Allyso n Vieira\, Andrea Dietz\, Anna Jayne Kimmel\, Babette Pendleton\, Bella Ma ria Varela\, Bibi Obler\, Maria del Carmen Montoya\, Caroline Casey\, Cath erine Anderson\, Clement Akpang\, Daniel Jonas\, Dean Kessmann\, Douglas B oyce\, Douglas Crawford\, Em Petro\, Heather Stebbins\, Isaiah Aladejobi\, James Huckenpahler\, Joe Bradley\, Kaitlin Jencso\, Kamille Jackson\, Ker ry McAleer-Keeler\, Kiara Rivera\, Kirk Kristlibas\, Laura Schiavo\, Laure n Onkey\, Lisa Lipinski\, Loren Kajikawa\, Marc Choi\, Mary Coughlin\, Mat t Eich\, Maurice Tyree\, Max Van Balgooy\, Melina Misri\, Michele Carlson\ , Nick Hemenway\, Nidhi Singh Rathore\, Ning Yu\, Paul Reuther\, Siobhan R igg\, Stephanie Travis\, Susan Sterner\, Suse Anderson\n\nOrganized by Mic hele Carlson (Program Head\, Studio Arts and Associate Professor\, Printma king) GEO:38.895809;-77.040024 LOCATION:Flagg Building\, Second Floor Galleries SUMMARY:to free this dream. URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.gwu.edu/event/to-free-this-dream CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibition END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260909T091738Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50524422548540 DTSTART:20250904T170000Z DTEND:20250904T210000Z DESCRIPTION:A multidisciplinary showcase from the artists and scholars of t he full-time faculty and staff at the Corcoran School of the Arts & Design .\n\nThe line “to free this dream.” is borrowed from the last stanza i n DC-poet Essex Hemphill’s American Wedding and is a prophetic reminder that those in power will always underestimate those on the ground\, in par t\, because they refuse to look closely—to see\; us. Often using strateg ies of reduction\, via language\, they assume we will make ourselves small and hold still– protecting ourselves from being buried in an avalanche of words\, images\, and media. That we will arrest ourselves in motion whi le they shore up their own positions. \n\nAnd yet\, within these very wall s\, directly across the street from a seat of power\, faculty\, staff\, an d students of the Corcoran School of the Arts & Design come together daily \, to write\, make\, exchange\, build\, perform\, sing\, play\, fail\, gro w\, learn\, move\, and voice through creative and academic research across generations\, demographics\, belief systems\, and cultural experiences— whether they see us\, or not. \n\nto free this dream. is evidence that the re is a space for us all here—to be. We make and remake this space every semester\, over years\, decades. In this space\, we come together\, movin g through the every day and building practices of choice in each studio or archive\, on each stage or book\, right across the street from those who overlook us. In doing so\, we cannot help but create our own irrefutable t erms–building meaning and transforming through systemic reduction\, like a poem. Like a nation. It is as artists and scholars and communities do. Our irreducibility is material\, source\, or chord—and is our refutation .\n\nContributors are full-time faculty and staff of the Corcoran School o f the Arts & Design: \n\nAasawari Kulkarni\, Alessandra Echeverri\, Allyso n Vieira\, Andrea Dietz\, Anna Jayne Kimmel\, Babette Pendleton\, Bella Ma ria Varela\, Bibi Obler\, Maria del Carmen Montoya\, Caroline Casey\, Cath erine Anderson\, Clement Akpang\, Daniel Jonas\, Dean Kessmann\, Douglas B oyce\, Douglas Crawford\, Em Petro\, Heather Stebbins\, Isaiah Aladejobi\, James Huckenpahler\, Joe Bradley\, Kaitlin Jencso\, Kamille Jackson\, Ker ry McAleer-Keeler\, Kiara Rivera\, Kirk Kristlibas\, Laura Schiavo\, Laure n Onkey\, Lisa Lipinski\, Loren Kajikawa\, Marc Choi\, Mary Coughlin\, Mat t Eich\, Maurice Tyree\, Max Van Balgooy\, Melina Misri\, Michele Carlson\ , Nick Hemenway\, Nidhi Singh Rathore\, Ning Yu\, Paul Reuther\, Siobhan R igg\, Stephanie Travis\, Susan Sterner\, Suse Anderson\n\nOrganized by Mic hele Carlson (Program Head\, Studio Arts and Associate Professor\, Printma king) GEO:38.895809;-77.040024 LOCATION:Flagg Building\, Second Floor Galleries SUMMARY:to free this dream. URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.gwu.edu/event/to-free-this-dream CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibition END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260909T091738Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50524422550589 DTSTART:20250905T170000Z DTEND:20250905T210000Z DESCRIPTION:A multidisciplinary showcase from the artists and scholars of t he full-time faculty and staff at the Corcoran School of the Arts & Design .\n\nThe line “to free this dream.” is borrowed from the last stanza i n DC-poet Essex Hemphill’s American Wedding and is a prophetic reminder that those in power will always underestimate those on the ground\, in par t\, because they refuse to look closely—to see\; us. Often using strateg ies of reduction\, via language\, they assume we will make ourselves small and hold still– protecting ourselves from being buried in an avalanche of words\, images\, and media. That we will arrest ourselves in motion whi le they shore up their own positions. \n\nAnd yet\, within these very wall s\, directly across the street from a seat of power\, faculty\, staff\, an d students of the Corcoran School of the Arts & Design come together daily \, to write\, make\, exchange\, build\, perform\, sing\, play\, fail\, gro w\, learn\, move\, and voice through creative and academic research across generations\, demographics\, belief systems\, and cultural experiences— whether they see us\, or not. \n\nto free this dream. is evidence that the re is a space for us all here—to be. We make and remake this space every semester\, over years\, decades. In this space\, we come together\, movin g through the every day and building practices of choice in each studio or archive\, on each stage or book\, right across the street from those who overlook us. In doing so\, we cannot help but create our own irrefutable t erms–building meaning and transforming through systemic reduction\, like a poem. Like a nation. It is as artists and scholars and communities do. Our irreducibility is material\, source\, or chord—and is our refutation .\n\nContributors are full-time faculty and staff of the Corcoran School o f the Arts & Design: \n\nAasawari Kulkarni\, Alessandra Echeverri\, Allyso n Vieira\, Andrea Dietz\, Anna Jayne Kimmel\, Babette Pendleton\, Bella Ma ria Varela\, Bibi Obler\, Maria del Carmen Montoya\, Caroline Casey\, Cath erine Anderson\, Clement Akpang\, Daniel Jonas\, Dean Kessmann\, Douglas B oyce\, Douglas Crawford\, Em Petro\, Heather Stebbins\, Isaiah Aladejobi\, James Huckenpahler\, Joe Bradley\, Kaitlin Jencso\, Kamille Jackson\, Ker ry McAleer-Keeler\, Kiara Rivera\, Kirk Kristlibas\, Laura Schiavo\, Laure n Onkey\, Lisa Lipinski\, Loren Kajikawa\, Marc Choi\, Mary Coughlin\, Mat t Eich\, Maurice Tyree\, Max Van Balgooy\, Melina Misri\, Michele Carlson\ , Nick Hemenway\, Nidhi Singh Rathore\, Ning Yu\, Paul Reuther\, Siobhan R igg\, Stephanie Travis\, Susan Sterner\, Suse Anderson\n\nOrganized by Mic hele Carlson (Program Head\, Studio Arts and Associate Professor\, Printma king) GEO:38.895809;-77.040024 LOCATION:Flagg Building\, Second Floor Galleries SUMMARY:to free this dream. URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.gwu.edu/event/to-free-this-dream CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibition END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260909T091738Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50524422556735 DTSTART:20250910T170000Z DTEND:20250910T210000Z DESCRIPTION:A multidisciplinary showcase from the artists and scholars of t he full-time faculty and staff at the Corcoran School of the Arts & Design .\n\nThe line “to free this dream.” is borrowed from the last stanza i n DC-poet Essex Hemphill’s American Wedding and is a prophetic reminder that those in power will always underestimate those on the ground\, in par t\, because they refuse to look closely—to see\; us. Often using strateg ies of reduction\, via language\, they assume we will make ourselves small and hold still– protecting ourselves from being buried in an avalanche of words\, images\, and media. That we will arrest ourselves in motion whi le they shore up their own positions. \n\nAnd yet\, within these very wall s\, directly across the street from a seat of power\, faculty\, staff\, an d students of the Corcoran School of the Arts & Design come together daily \, to write\, make\, exchange\, build\, perform\, sing\, play\, fail\, gro w\, learn\, move\, and voice through creative and academic research across generations\, demographics\, belief systems\, and cultural experiences— whether they see us\, or not. \n\nto free this dream. is evidence that the re is a space for us all here—to be. We make and remake this space every semester\, over years\, decades. In this space\, we come together\, movin g through the every day and building practices of choice in each studio or archive\, on each stage or book\, right across the street from those who overlook us. In doing so\, we cannot help but create our own irrefutable t erms–building meaning and transforming through systemic reduction\, like a poem. Like a nation. It is as artists and scholars and communities do. Our irreducibility is material\, source\, or chord—and is our refutation .\n\nContributors are full-time faculty and staff of the Corcoran School o f the Arts & Design: \n\nAasawari Kulkarni\, Alessandra Echeverri\, Allyso n Vieira\, Andrea Dietz\, Anna Jayne Kimmel\, Babette Pendleton\, Bella Ma ria Varela\, Bibi Obler\, Maria del Carmen Montoya\, Caroline Casey\, Cath erine Anderson\, Clement Akpang\, Daniel Jonas\, Dean Kessmann\, Douglas B oyce\, Douglas Crawford\, Em Petro\, Heather Stebbins\, Isaiah Aladejobi\, James Huckenpahler\, Joe Bradley\, Kaitlin Jencso\, Kamille Jackson\, Ker ry McAleer-Keeler\, Kiara Rivera\, Kirk Kristlibas\, Laura Schiavo\, Laure n Onkey\, Lisa Lipinski\, Loren Kajikawa\, Marc Choi\, Mary Coughlin\, Mat t Eich\, Maurice Tyree\, Max Van Balgooy\, Melina Misri\, Michele Carlson\ , Nick Hemenway\, Nidhi Singh Rathore\, Ning Yu\, Paul Reuther\, Siobhan R igg\, Stephanie Travis\, Susan Sterner\, Suse Anderson\n\nOrganized by Mic hele Carlson (Program Head\, Studio Arts and Associate Professor\, Printma king) GEO:38.895809;-77.040024 LOCATION:Flagg Building\, Second Floor Galleries SUMMARY:to free this dream. URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.gwu.edu/event/to-free-this-dream CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibition END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260909T091738Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50524422559808 DTSTART:20250911T170000Z DTEND:20250911T210000Z DESCRIPTION:A multidisciplinary showcase from the artists and scholars of t he full-time faculty and staff at the Corcoran School of the Arts & Design .\n\nThe line “to free this dream.” is borrowed from the last stanza i n DC-poet Essex Hemphill’s American Wedding and is a prophetic reminder that those in power will always underestimate those on the ground\, in par t\, because they refuse to look closely—to see\; us. Often using strateg ies of reduction\, via language\, they assume we will make ourselves small and hold still– protecting ourselves from being buried in an avalanche of words\, images\, and media. That we will arrest ourselves in motion whi le they shore up their own positions. \n\nAnd yet\, within these very wall s\, directly across the street from a seat of power\, faculty\, staff\, an d students of the Corcoran School of the Arts & Design come together daily \, to write\, make\, exchange\, build\, perform\, sing\, play\, fail\, gro w\, learn\, move\, and voice through creative and academic research across generations\, demographics\, belief systems\, and cultural experiences— whether they see us\, or not. \n\nto free this dream. is evidence that the re is a space for us all here—to be. We make and remake this space every semester\, over years\, decades. In this space\, we come together\, movin g through the every day and building practices of choice in each studio or archive\, on each stage or book\, right across the street from those who overlook us. In doing so\, we cannot help but create our own irrefutable t erms–building meaning and transforming through systemic reduction\, like a poem. Like a nation. It is as artists and scholars and communities do. Our irreducibility is material\, source\, or chord—and is our refutation .\n\nContributors are full-time faculty and staff of the Corcoran School o f the Arts & Design: \n\nAasawari Kulkarni\, Alessandra Echeverri\, Allyso n Vieira\, Andrea Dietz\, Anna Jayne Kimmel\, Babette Pendleton\, Bella Ma ria Varela\, Bibi Obler\, Maria del Carmen Montoya\, Caroline Casey\, Cath erine Anderson\, Clement Akpang\, Daniel Jonas\, Dean Kessmann\, Douglas B oyce\, Douglas Crawford\, Em Petro\, Heather Stebbins\, Isaiah Aladejobi\, James Huckenpahler\, Joe Bradley\, Kaitlin Jencso\, Kamille Jackson\, Ker ry McAleer-Keeler\, Kiara Rivera\, Kirk Kristlibas\, Laura Schiavo\, Laure n Onkey\, Lisa Lipinski\, Loren Kajikawa\, Marc Choi\, Mary Coughlin\, Mat t Eich\, Maurice Tyree\, Max Van Balgooy\, Melina Misri\, Michele Carlson\ , Nick Hemenway\, Nidhi Singh Rathore\, Ning Yu\, Paul Reuther\, Siobhan R igg\, Stephanie Travis\, Susan Sterner\, Suse Anderson\n\nOrganized by Mic hele Carlson (Program Head\, Studio Arts and Associate Professor\, Printma king) GEO:38.895809;-77.040024 LOCATION:Flagg Building\, Second Floor Galleries SUMMARY:to free this dream. URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.gwu.edu/event/to-free-this-dream CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibition END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260909T091738Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50524422562881 DTSTART:20250912T170000Z DTEND:20250912T210000Z DESCRIPTION:A multidisciplinary showcase from the artists and scholars of t he full-time faculty and staff at the Corcoran School of the Arts & Design .\n\nThe line “to free this dream.” is borrowed from the last stanza i n DC-poet Essex Hemphill’s American Wedding and is a prophetic reminder that those in power will always underestimate those on the ground\, in par t\, because they refuse to look closely—to see\; us. Often using strateg ies of reduction\, via language\, they assume we will make ourselves small and hold still– protecting ourselves from being buried in an avalanche of words\, images\, and media. That we will arrest ourselves in motion whi le they shore up their own positions. \n\nAnd yet\, within these very wall s\, directly across the street from a seat of power\, faculty\, staff\, an d students of the Corcoran School of the Arts & Design come together daily \, to write\, make\, exchange\, build\, perform\, sing\, play\, fail\, gro w\, learn\, move\, and voice through creative and academic research across generations\, demographics\, belief systems\, and cultural experiences— whether they see us\, or not. \n\nto free this dream. is evidence that the re is a space for us all here—to be. We make and remake this space every semester\, over years\, decades. In this space\, we come together\, movin g through the every day and building practices of choice in each studio or archive\, on each stage or book\, right across the street from those who overlook us. In doing so\, we cannot help but create our own irrefutable t erms–building meaning and transforming through systemic reduction\, like a poem. Like a nation. It is as artists and scholars and communities do. Our irreducibility is material\, source\, or chord—and is our refutation .\n\nContributors are full-time faculty and staff of the Corcoran School o f the Arts & Design: \n\nAasawari Kulkarni\, Alessandra Echeverri\, Allyso n Vieira\, Andrea Dietz\, Anna Jayne Kimmel\, Babette Pendleton\, Bella Ma ria Varela\, Bibi Obler\, Maria del Carmen Montoya\, Caroline Casey\, Cath erine Anderson\, Clement Akpang\, Daniel Jonas\, Dean Kessmann\, Douglas B oyce\, Douglas Crawford\, Em Petro\, Heather Stebbins\, Isaiah Aladejobi\, James Huckenpahler\, Joe Bradley\, Kaitlin Jencso\, Kamille Jackson\, Ker ry McAleer-Keeler\, Kiara Rivera\, Kirk Kristlibas\, Laura Schiavo\, Laure n Onkey\, Lisa Lipinski\, Loren Kajikawa\, Marc Choi\, Mary Coughlin\, Mat t Eich\, Maurice Tyree\, Max Van Balgooy\, Melina Misri\, Michele Carlson\ , Nick Hemenway\, Nidhi Singh Rathore\, Ning Yu\, Paul Reuther\, Siobhan R igg\, Stephanie Travis\, Susan Sterner\, Suse Anderson\n\nOrganized by Mic hele Carlson (Program Head\, Studio Arts and Associate Professor\, Printma king) GEO:38.895809;-77.040024 LOCATION:Flagg Building\, Second Floor Galleries SUMMARY:to free this dream. URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.gwu.edu/event/to-free-this-dream CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibition END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260909T091738Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50524422564930 DTSTART:20250913T170000Z DTEND:20250913T210000Z DESCRIPTION:A multidisciplinary showcase from the artists and scholars of t he full-time faculty and staff at the Corcoran School of the Arts & Design .\n\nThe line “to free this dream.” is borrowed from the last stanza i n DC-poet Essex Hemphill’s American Wedding and is a prophetic reminder that those in power will always underestimate those on the ground\, in par t\, because they refuse to look closely—to see\; us. Often using strateg ies of reduction\, via language\, they assume we will make ourselves small and hold still– protecting ourselves from being buried in an avalanche of words\, images\, and media. That we will arrest ourselves in motion whi le they shore up their own positions. \n\nAnd yet\, within these very wall s\, directly across the street from a seat of power\, faculty\, staff\, an d students of the Corcoran School of the Arts & Design come together daily \, to write\, make\, exchange\, build\, perform\, sing\, play\, fail\, gro w\, learn\, move\, and voice through creative and academic research across generations\, demographics\, belief systems\, and cultural experiences— whether they see us\, or not. \n\nto free this dream. is evidence that the re is a space for us all here—to be. We make and remake this space every semester\, over years\, decades. In this space\, we come together\, movin g through the every day and building practices of choice in each studio or archive\, on each stage or book\, right across the street from those who overlook us. In doing so\, we cannot help but create our own irrefutable t erms–building meaning and transforming through systemic reduction\, like a poem. Like a nation. It is as artists and scholars and communities do. Our irreducibility is material\, source\, or chord—and is our refutation .\n\nContributors are full-time faculty and staff of the Corcoran School o f the Arts & Design: \n\nAasawari Kulkarni\, Alessandra Echeverri\, Allyso n Vieira\, Andrea Dietz\, Anna Jayne Kimmel\, Babette Pendleton\, Bella Ma ria Varela\, Bibi Obler\, Maria del Carmen Montoya\, Caroline Casey\, Cath erine Anderson\, Clement Akpang\, Daniel Jonas\, Dean Kessmann\, Douglas B oyce\, Douglas Crawford\, Em Petro\, Heather Stebbins\, Isaiah Aladejobi\, James Huckenpahler\, Joe Bradley\, Kaitlin Jencso\, Kamille Jackson\, Ker ry McAleer-Keeler\, Kiara Rivera\, Kirk Kristlibas\, Laura Schiavo\, Laure n Onkey\, Lisa Lipinski\, Loren Kajikawa\, Marc Choi\, Mary Coughlin\, Mat t Eich\, Maurice Tyree\, Max Van Balgooy\, Melina Misri\, Michele Carlson\ , Nick Hemenway\, Nidhi Singh Rathore\, Ning Yu\, Paul Reuther\, Siobhan R igg\, Stephanie Travis\, Susan Sterner\, Suse Anderson\n\nOrganized by Mic hele Carlson (Program Head\, Studio Arts and Associate Professor\, Printma king) GEO:38.895809;-77.040024 LOCATION:Flagg Building\, Second Floor Galleries SUMMARY:to free this dream. URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.gwu.edu/event/to-free-this-dream CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibition END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260909T091738Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50524422571076 DTSTART:20250917T170000Z DTEND:20250917T210000Z DESCRIPTION:A multidisciplinary showcase from the artists and scholars of t he full-time faculty and staff at the Corcoran School of the Arts & Design .\n\nThe line “to free this dream.” is borrowed from the last stanza i n DC-poet Essex Hemphill’s American Wedding and is a prophetic reminder that those in power will always underestimate those on the ground\, in par t\, because they refuse to look closely—to see\; us. Often using strateg ies of reduction\, via language\, they assume we will make ourselves small and hold still– protecting ourselves from being buried in an avalanche of words\, images\, and media. That we will arrest ourselves in motion whi le they shore up their own positions. \n\nAnd yet\, within these very wall s\, directly across the street from a seat of power\, faculty\, staff\, an d students of the Corcoran School of the Arts & Design come together daily \, to write\, make\, exchange\, build\, perform\, sing\, play\, fail\, gro w\, learn\, move\, and voice through creative and academic research across generations\, demographics\, belief systems\, and cultural experiences— whether they see us\, or not. \n\nto free this dream. is evidence that the re is a space for us all here—to be. We make and remake this space every semester\, over years\, decades. In this space\, we come together\, movin g through the every day and building practices of choice in each studio or archive\, on each stage or book\, right across the street from those who overlook us. In doing so\, we cannot help but create our own irrefutable t erms–building meaning and transforming through systemic reduction\, like a poem. Like a nation. It is as artists and scholars and communities do. Our irreducibility is material\, source\, or chord—and is our refutation .\n\nContributors are full-time faculty and staff of the Corcoran School o f the Arts & Design: \n\nAasawari Kulkarni\, Alessandra Echeverri\, Allyso n Vieira\, Andrea Dietz\, Anna Jayne Kimmel\, Babette Pendleton\, Bella Ma ria Varela\, Bibi Obler\, Maria del Carmen Montoya\, Caroline Casey\, Cath erine Anderson\, Clement Akpang\, Daniel Jonas\, Dean Kessmann\, Douglas B oyce\, Douglas Crawford\, Em Petro\, Heather Stebbins\, Isaiah Aladejobi\, James Huckenpahler\, Joe Bradley\, Kaitlin Jencso\, Kamille Jackson\, Ker ry McAleer-Keeler\, Kiara Rivera\, Kirk Kristlibas\, Laura Schiavo\, Laure n Onkey\, Lisa Lipinski\, Loren Kajikawa\, Marc Choi\, Mary Coughlin\, Mat t Eich\, Maurice Tyree\, Max Van Balgooy\, Melina Misri\, Michele Carlson\ , Nick Hemenway\, Nidhi Singh Rathore\, Ning Yu\, Paul Reuther\, Siobhan R igg\, Stephanie Travis\, Susan Sterner\, Suse Anderson\n\nOrganized by Mic hele Carlson (Program Head\, Studio Arts and Associate Professor\, Printma king) GEO:38.895809;-77.040024 LOCATION:Flagg Building\, Second Floor Galleries SUMMARY:to free this dream. URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.gwu.edu/event/to-free-this-dream CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibition END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260909T091738Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50524422573125 DTSTART:20250918T170000Z DTEND:20250918T210000Z DESCRIPTION:A multidisciplinary showcase from the artists and scholars of t he full-time faculty and staff at the Corcoran School of the Arts & Design .\n\nThe line “to free this dream.” is borrowed from the last stanza i n DC-poet Essex Hemphill’s American Wedding and is a prophetic reminder that those in power will always underestimate those on the ground\, in par t\, because they refuse to look closely—to see\; us. Often using strateg ies of reduction\, via language\, they assume we will make ourselves small and hold still– protecting ourselves from being buried in an avalanche of words\, images\, and media. That we will arrest ourselves in motion whi le they shore up their own positions. \n\nAnd yet\, within these very wall s\, directly across the street from a seat of power\, faculty\, staff\, an d students of the Corcoran School of the Arts & Design come together daily \, to write\, make\, exchange\, build\, perform\, sing\, play\, fail\, gro w\, learn\, move\, and voice through creative and academic research across generations\, demographics\, belief systems\, and cultural experiences— whether they see us\, or not. \n\nto free this dream. is evidence that the re is a space for us all here—to be. We make and remake this space every semester\, over years\, decades. In this space\, we come together\, movin g through the every day and building practices of choice in each studio or archive\, on each stage or book\, right across the street from those who overlook us. In doing so\, we cannot help but create our own irrefutable t erms–building meaning and transforming through systemic reduction\, like a poem. Like a nation. It is as artists and scholars and communities do. Our irreducibility is material\, source\, or chord—and is our refutation .\n\nContributors are full-time faculty and staff of the Corcoran School o f the Arts & Design: \n\nAasawari Kulkarni\, Alessandra Echeverri\, Allyso n Vieira\, Andrea Dietz\, Anna Jayne Kimmel\, Babette Pendleton\, Bella Ma ria Varela\, Bibi Obler\, Maria del Carmen Montoya\, Caroline Casey\, Cath erine Anderson\, Clement Akpang\, Daniel Jonas\, Dean Kessmann\, Douglas B oyce\, Douglas Crawford\, Em Petro\, Heather Stebbins\, Isaiah Aladejobi\, James Huckenpahler\, Joe Bradley\, Kaitlin Jencso\, Kamille Jackson\, Ker ry McAleer-Keeler\, Kiara Rivera\, Kirk Kristlibas\, Laura Schiavo\, Laure n Onkey\, Lisa Lipinski\, Loren Kajikawa\, Marc Choi\, Mary Coughlin\, Mat t Eich\, Maurice Tyree\, Max Van Balgooy\, Melina Misri\, Michele Carlson\ , Nick Hemenway\, Nidhi Singh Rathore\, Ning Yu\, Paul Reuther\, Siobhan R igg\, Stephanie Travis\, Susan Sterner\, Suse Anderson\n\nOrganized by Mic hele Carlson (Program Head\, Studio Arts and Associate Professor\, Printma king) GEO:38.895809;-77.040024 LOCATION:Flagg Building\, Second Floor Galleries SUMMARY:to free this dream. URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.gwu.edu/event/to-free-this-dream CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibition END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260909T091738Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50524422575174 DTSTART:20250919T170000Z DTEND:20250919T210000Z DESCRIPTION:A multidisciplinary showcase from the artists and scholars of t he full-time faculty and staff at the Corcoran School of the Arts & Design .\n\nThe line “to free this dream.” is borrowed from the last stanza i n DC-poet Essex Hemphill’s American Wedding and is a prophetic reminder that those in power will always underestimate those on the ground\, in par t\, because they refuse to look closely—to see\; us. Often using strateg ies of reduction\, via language\, they assume we will make ourselves small and hold still– protecting ourselves from being buried in an avalanche of words\, images\, and media. That we will arrest ourselves in motion whi le they shore up their own positions. \n\nAnd yet\, within these very wall s\, directly across the street from a seat of power\, faculty\, staff\, an d students of the Corcoran School of the Arts & Design come together daily \, to write\, make\, exchange\, build\, perform\, sing\, play\, fail\, gro w\, learn\, move\, and voice through creative and academic research across generations\, demographics\, belief systems\, and cultural experiences— whether they see us\, or not. \n\nto free this dream. is evidence that the re is a space for us all here—to be. We make and remake this space every semester\, over years\, decades. In this space\, we come together\, movin g through the every day and building practices of choice in each studio or archive\, on each stage or book\, right across the street from those who overlook us. In doing so\, we cannot help but create our own irrefutable t erms–building meaning and transforming through systemic reduction\, like a poem. Like a nation. It is as artists and scholars and communities do. Our irreducibility is material\, source\, or chord—and is our refutation .\n\nContributors are full-time faculty and staff of the Corcoran School o f the Arts & Design: \n\nAasawari Kulkarni\, Alessandra Echeverri\, Allyso n Vieira\, Andrea Dietz\, Anna Jayne Kimmel\, Babette Pendleton\, Bella Ma ria Varela\, Bibi Obler\, Maria del Carmen Montoya\, Caroline Casey\, Cath erine Anderson\, Clement Akpang\, Daniel Jonas\, Dean Kessmann\, Douglas B oyce\, Douglas Crawford\, Em Petro\, Heather Stebbins\, Isaiah Aladejobi\, James Huckenpahler\, Joe Bradley\, Kaitlin Jencso\, Kamille Jackson\, Ker ry McAleer-Keeler\, Kiara Rivera\, Kirk Kristlibas\, Laura Schiavo\, Laure n Onkey\, Lisa Lipinski\, Loren Kajikawa\, Marc Choi\, Mary Coughlin\, Mat t Eich\, Maurice Tyree\, Max Van Balgooy\, Melina Misri\, Michele Carlson\ , Nick Hemenway\, Nidhi Singh Rathore\, Ning Yu\, Paul Reuther\, Siobhan R igg\, Stephanie Travis\, Susan Sterner\, Suse Anderson\n\nOrganized by Mic hele Carlson (Program Head\, Studio Arts and Associate Professor\, Printma king) GEO:38.895809;-77.040024 LOCATION:Flagg Building\, Second Floor Galleries SUMMARY:to free this dream. URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.gwu.edu/event/to-free-this-dream CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibition END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260909T091738Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50524422577223 DTSTART:20250920T170000Z DTEND:20250920T210000Z DESCRIPTION:A multidisciplinary showcase from the artists and scholars of t he full-time faculty and staff at the Corcoran School of the Arts & Design .\n\nThe line “to free this dream.” is borrowed from the last stanza i n DC-poet Essex Hemphill’s American Wedding and is a prophetic reminder that those in power will always underestimate those on the ground\, in par t\, because they refuse to look closely—to see\; us. Often using strateg ies of reduction\, via language\, they assume we will make ourselves small and hold still– protecting ourselves from being buried in an avalanche of words\, images\, and media. That we will arrest ourselves in motion whi le they shore up their own positions. \n\nAnd yet\, within these very wall s\, directly across the street from a seat of power\, faculty\, staff\, an d students of the Corcoran School of the Arts & Design come together daily \, to write\, make\, exchange\, build\, perform\, sing\, play\, fail\, gro w\, learn\, move\, and voice through creative and academic research across generations\, demographics\, belief systems\, and cultural experiences— whether they see us\, or not. \n\nto free this dream. is evidence that the re is a space for us all here—to be. We make and remake this space every semester\, over years\, decades. In this space\, we come together\, movin g through the every day and building practices of choice in each studio or archive\, on each stage or book\, right across the street from those who overlook us. In doing so\, we cannot help but create our own irrefutable t erms–building meaning and transforming through systemic reduction\, like a poem. Like a nation. It is as artists and scholars and communities do. Our irreducibility is material\, source\, or chord—and is our refutation .\n\nContributors are full-time faculty and staff of the Corcoran School o f the Arts & Design: \n\nAasawari Kulkarni\, Alessandra Echeverri\, Allyso n Vieira\, Andrea Dietz\, Anna Jayne Kimmel\, Babette Pendleton\, Bella Ma ria Varela\, Bibi Obler\, Maria del Carmen Montoya\, Caroline Casey\, Cath erine Anderson\, Clement Akpang\, Daniel Jonas\, Dean Kessmann\, Douglas B oyce\, Douglas Crawford\, Em Petro\, Heather Stebbins\, Isaiah Aladejobi\, James Huckenpahler\, Joe Bradley\, Kaitlin Jencso\, Kamille Jackson\, Ker ry McAleer-Keeler\, Kiara Rivera\, Kirk Kristlibas\, Laura Schiavo\, Laure n Onkey\, Lisa Lipinski\, Loren Kajikawa\, Marc Choi\, Mary Coughlin\, Mat t Eich\, Maurice Tyree\, Max Van Balgooy\, Melina Misri\, Michele Carlson\ , Nick Hemenway\, Nidhi Singh Rathore\, Ning Yu\, Paul Reuther\, Siobhan R igg\, Stephanie Travis\, Susan Sterner\, Suse Anderson\n\nOrganized by Mic hele Carlson (Program Head\, Studio Arts and Associate Professor\, Printma king) GEO:38.895809;-77.040024 LOCATION:Flagg Building\, Second Floor Galleries SUMMARY:to free this dream. URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.gwu.edu/event/to-free-this-dream CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibition END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260909T091738Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50524422582345 DTSTART:20250924T170000Z DTEND:20250924T210000Z DESCRIPTION:A multidisciplinary showcase from the artists and scholars of t he full-time faculty and staff at the Corcoran School of the Arts & Design .\n\nThe line “to free this dream.” is borrowed from the last stanza i n DC-poet Essex Hemphill’s American Wedding and is a prophetic reminder that those in power will always underestimate those on the ground\, in par t\, because they refuse to look closely—to see\; us. Often using strateg ies of reduction\, via language\, they assume we will make ourselves small and hold still– protecting ourselves from being buried in an avalanche of words\, images\, and media. That we will arrest ourselves in motion whi le they shore up their own positions. \n\nAnd yet\, within these very wall s\, directly across the street from a seat of power\, faculty\, staff\, an d students of the Corcoran School of the Arts & Design come together daily \, to write\, make\, exchange\, build\, perform\, sing\, play\, fail\, gro w\, learn\, move\, and voice through creative and academic research across generations\, demographics\, belief systems\, and cultural experiences— whether they see us\, or not. \n\nto free this dream. is evidence that the re is a space for us all here—to be. We make and remake this space every semester\, over years\, decades. In this space\, we come together\, movin g through the every day and building practices of choice in each studio or archive\, on each stage or book\, right across the street from those who overlook us. In doing so\, we cannot help but create our own irrefutable t erms–building meaning and transforming through systemic reduction\, like a poem. Like a nation. It is as artists and scholars and communities do. Our irreducibility is material\, source\, or chord—and is our refutation .\n\nContributors are full-time faculty and staff of the Corcoran School o f the Arts & Design: \n\nAasawari Kulkarni\, Alessandra Echeverri\, Allyso n Vieira\, Andrea Dietz\, Anna Jayne Kimmel\, Babette Pendleton\, Bella Ma ria Varela\, Bibi Obler\, Maria del Carmen Montoya\, Caroline Casey\, Cath erine Anderson\, Clement Akpang\, Daniel Jonas\, Dean Kessmann\, Douglas B oyce\, Douglas Crawford\, Em Petro\, Heather Stebbins\, Isaiah Aladejobi\, James Huckenpahler\, Joe Bradley\, Kaitlin Jencso\, Kamille Jackson\, Ker ry McAleer-Keeler\, Kiara Rivera\, Kirk Kristlibas\, Laura Schiavo\, Laure n Onkey\, Lisa Lipinski\, Loren Kajikawa\, Marc Choi\, Mary Coughlin\, Mat t Eich\, Maurice Tyree\, Max Van Balgooy\, Melina Misri\, Michele Carlson\ , Nick Hemenway\, Nidhi Singh Rathore\, Ning Yu\, Paul Reuther\, Siobhan R igg\, Stephanie Travis\, Susan Sterner\, Suse Anderson\n\nOrganized by Mic hele Carlson (Program Head\, Studio Arts and Associate Professor\, Printma king) GEO:38.895809;-77.040024 LOCATION:Flagg Building\, Second Floor Galleries SUMMARY:to free this dream. URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.gwu.edu/event/to-free-this-dream CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibition END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260909T091738Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50524422585418 DTSTART:20250925T170000Z DTEND:20250925T210000Z DESCRIPTION:A multidisciplinary showcase from the artists and scholars of t he full-time faculty and staff at the Corcoran School of the Arts & Design .\n\nThe line “to free this dream.” is borrowed from the last stanza i n DC-poet Essex Hemphill’s American Wedding and is a prophetic reminder that those in power will always underestimate those on the ground\, in par t\, because they refuse to look closely—to see\; us. Often using strateg ies of reduction\, via language\, they assume we will make ourselves small and hold still– protecting ourselves from being buried in an avalanche of words\, images\, and media. That we will arrest ourselves in motion whi le they shore up their own positions. \n\nAnd yet\, within these very wall s\, directly across the street from a seat of power\, faculty\, staff\, an d students of the Corcoran School of the Arts & Design come together daily \, to write\, make\, exchange\, build\, perform\, sing\, play\, fail\, gro w\, learn\, move\, and voice through creative and academic research across generations\, demographics\, belief systems\, and cultural experiences— whether they see us\, or not. \n\nto free this dream. is evidence that the re is a space for us all here—to be. We make and remake this space every semester\, over years\, decades. In this space\, we come together\, movin g through the every day and building practices of choice in each studio or archive\, on each stage or book\, right across the street from those who overlook us. In doing so\, we cannot help but create our own irrefutable t erms–building meaning and transforming through systemic reduction\, like a poem. Like a nation. It is as artists and scholars and communities do. Our irreducibility is material\, source\, or chord—and is our refutation .\n\nContributors are full-time faculty and staff of the Corcoran School o f the Arts & Design: \n\nAasawari Kulkarni\, Alessandra Echeverri\, Allyso n Vieira\, Andrea Dietz\, Anna Jayne Kimmel\, Babette Pendleton\, Bella Ma ria Varela\, Bibi Obler\, Maria del Carmen Montoya\, Caroline Casey\, Cath erine Anderson\, Clement Akpang\, Daniel Jonas\, Dean Kessmann\, Douglas B oyce\, Douglas Crawford\, Em Petro\, Heather Stebbins\, Isaiah Aladejobi\, James Huckenpahler\, Joe Bradley\, Kaitlin Jencso\, Kamille Jackson\, Ker ry McAleer-Keeler\, Kiara Rivera\, Kirk Kristlibas\, Laura Schiavo\, Laure n Onkey\, Lisa Lipinski\, Loren Kajikawa\, Marc Choi\, Mary Coughlin\, Mat t Eich\, Maurice Tyree\, Max Van Balgooy\, Melina Misri\, Michele Carlson\ , Nick Hemenway\, Nidhi Singh Rathore\, Ning Yu\, Paul Reuther\, Siobhan R igg\, Stephanie Travis\, Susan Sterner\, Suse Anderson\n\nOrganized by Mic hele Carlson (Program Head\, Studio Arts and Associate Professor\, Printma king) GEO:38.895809;-77.040024 LOCATION:Flagg Building\, Second Floor Galleries SUMMARY:to free this dream. URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.gwu.edu/event/to-free-this-dream CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibition END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260909T091738Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50524422587467 DTSTART:20250926T170000Z DTEND:20250926T210000Z DESCRIPTION:A multidisciplinary showcase from the artists and scholars of t he full-time faculty and staff at the Corcoran School of the Arts & Design .\n\nThe line “to free this dream.” is borrowed from the last stanza i n DC-poet Essex Hemphill’s American Wedding and is a prophetic reminder that those in power will always underestimate those on the ground\, in par t\, because they refuse to look closely—to see\; us. Often using strateg ies of reduction\, via language\, they assume we will make ourselves small and hold still– protecting ourselves from being buried in an avalanche of words\, images\, and media. That we will arrest ourselves in motion whi le they shore up their own positions. \n\nAnd yet\, within these very wall s\, directly across the street from a seat of power\, faculty\, staff\, an d students of the Corcoran School of the Arts & Design come together daily \, to write\, make\, exchange\, build\, perform\, sing\, play\, fail\, gro w\, learn\, move\, and voice through creative and academic research across generations\, demographics\, belief systems\, and cultural experiences— whether they see us\, or not. \n\nto free this dream. is evidence that the re is a space for us all here—to be. We make and remake this space every semester\, over years\, decades. In this space\, we come together\, movin g through the every day and building practices of choice in each studio or archive\, on each stage or book\, right across the street from those who overlook us. In doing so\, we cannot help but create our own irrefutable t erms–building meaning and transforming through systemic reduction\, like a poem. Like a nation. It is as artists and scholars and communities do. Our irreducibility is material\, source\, or chord—and is our refutation .\n\nContributors are full-time faculty and staff of the Corcoran School o f the Arts & Design: \n\nAasawari Kulkarni\, Alessandra Echeverri\, Allyso n Vieira\, Andrea Dietz\, Anna Jayne Kimmel\, Babette Pendleton\, Bella Ma ria Varela\, Bibi Obler\, Maria del Carmen Montoya\, Caroline Casey\, Cath erine Anderson\, Clement Akpang\, Daniel Jonas\, Dean Kessmann\, Douglas B oyce\, Douglas Crawford\, Em Petro\, Heather Stebbins\, Isaiah Aladejobi\, James Huckenpahler\, Joe Bradley\, Kaitlin Jencso\, Kamille Jackson\, Ker ry McAleer-Keeler\, Kiara Rivera\, Kirk Kristlibas\, Laura Schiavo\, Laure n Onkey\, Lisa Lipinski\, Loren Kajikawa\, Marc Choi\, Mary Coughlin\, Mat t Eich\, Maurice Tyree\, Max Van Balgooy\, Melina Misri\, Michele Carlson\ , Nick Hemenway\, Nidhi Singh Rathore\, Ning Yu\, Paul Reuther\, Siobhan R igg\, Stephanie Travis\, Susan Sterner\, Suse Anderson\n\nOrganized by Mic hele Carlson (Program Head\, Studio Arts and Associate Professor\, Printma king) GEO:38.895809;-77.040024 LOCATION:Flagg Building\, Second Floor Galleries SUMMARY:to free this dream. URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.gwu.edu/event/to-free-this-dream CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibition END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260909T091738Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50524422590541 DTSTART:20251001T170000Z DTEND:20251001T210000Z DESCRIPTION:A multidisciplinary showcase from the artists and scholars of t he full-time faculty and staff at the Corcoran School of the Arts & Design .\n\nThe line “to free this dream.” is borrowed from the last stanza i n DC-poet Essex Hemphill’s American Wedding and is a prophetic reminder that those in power will always underestimate those on the ground\, in par t\, because they refuse to look closely—to see\; us. Often using strateg ies of reduction\, via language\, they assume we will make ourselves small and hold still– protecting ourselves from being buried in an avalanche of words\, images\, and media. That we will arrest ourselves in motion whi le they shore up their own positions. \n\nAnd yet\, within these very wall s\, directly across the street from a seat of power\, faculty\, staff\, an d students of the Corcoran School of the Arts & Design come together daily \, to write\, make\, exchange\, build\, perform\, sing\, play\, fail\, gro w\, learn\, move\, and voice through creative and academic research across generations\, demographics\, belief systems\, and cultural experiences— whether they see us\, or not. \n\nto free this dream. is evidence that the re is a space for us all here—to be. We make and remake this space every semester\, over years\, decades. In this space\, we come together\, movin g through the every day and building practices of choice in each studio or archive\, on each stage or book\, right across the street from those who overlook us. In doing so\, we cannot help but create our own irrefutable t erms–building meaning and transforming through systemic reduction\, like a poem. Like a nation. It is as artists and scholars and communities do. Our irreducibility is material\, source\, or chord—and is our refutation .\n\nContributors are full-time faculty and staff of the Corcoran School o f the Arts & Design: \n\nAasawari Kulkarni\, Alessandra Echeverri\, Allyso n Vieira\, Andrea Dietz\, Anna Jayne Kimmel\, Babette Pendleton\, Bella Ma ria Varela\, Bibi Obler\, Maria del Carmen Montoya\, Caroline Casey\, Cath erine Anderson\, Clement Akpang\, Daniel Jonas\, Dean Kessmann\, Douglas B oyce\, Douglas Crawford\, Em Petro\, Heather Stebbins\, Isaiah Aladejobi\, James Huckenpahler\, Joe Bradley\, Kaitlin Jencso\, Kamille Jackson\, Ker ry McAleer-Keeler\, Kiara Rivera\, Kirk Kristlibas\, Laura Schiavo\, Laure n Onkey\, Lisa Lipinski\, Loren Kajikawa\, Marc Choi\, Mary Coughlin\, Mat t Eich\, Maurice Tyree\, Max Van Balgooy\, Melina Misri\, Michele Carlson\ , Nick Hemenway\, Nidhi Singh Rathore\, Ning Yu\, Paul Reuther\, Siobhan R igg\, Stephanie Travis\, Susan Sterner\, Suse Anderson\n\nOrganized by Mic hele Carlson (Program Head\, Studio Arts and Associate Professor\, Printma king) GEO:38.895809;-77.040024 LOCATION:Flagg Building\, Second Floor Galleries SUMMARY:to free this dream. URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.gwu.edu/event/to-free-this-dream CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibition END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260909T091738Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50524422593614 DTSTART:20251002T170000Z DTEND:20251002T210000Z DESCRIPTION:A multidisciplinary showcase from the artists and scholars of t he full-time faculty and staff at the Corcoran School of the Arts & Design .\n\nThe line “to free this dream.” is borrowed from the last stanza i n DC-poet Essex Hemphill’s American Wedding and is a prophetic reminder that those in power will always underestimate those on the ground\, in par t\, because they refuse to look closely—to see\; us. Often using strateg ies of reduction\, via language\, they assume we will make ourselves small and hold still– protecting ourselves from being buried in an avalanche of words\, images\, and media. That we will arrest ourselves in motion whi le they shore up their own positions. \n\nAnd yet\, within these very wall s\, directly across the street from a seat of power\, faculty\, staff\, an d students of the Corcoran School of the Arts & Design come together daily \, to write\, make\, exchange\, build\, perform\, sing\, play\, fail\, gro w\, learn\, move\, and voice through creative and academic research across generations\, demographics\, belief systems\, and cultural experiences— whether they see us\, or not. \n\nto free this dream. is evidence that the re is a space for us all here—to be. We make and remake this space every semester\, over years\, decades. In this space\, we come together\, movin g through the every day and building practices of choice in each studio or archive\, on each stage or book\, right across the street from those who overlook us. In doing so\, we cannot help but create our own irrefutable t erms–building meaning and transforming through systemic reduction\, like a poem. Like a nation. It is as artists and scholars and communities do. Our irreducibility is material\, source\, or chord—and is our refutation .\n\nContributors are full-time faculty and staff of the Corcoran School o f the Arts & Design: \n\nAasawari Kulkarni\, Alessandra Echeverri\, Allyso n Vieira\, Andrea Dietz\, Anna Jayne Kimmel\, Babette Pendleton\, Bella Ma ria Varela\, Bibi Obler\, Maria del Carmen Montoya\, Caroline Casey\, Cath erine Anderson\, Clement Akpang\, Daniel Jonas\, Dean Kessmann\, Douglas B oyce\, Douglas Crawford\, Em Petro\, Heather Stebbins\, Isaiah Aladejobi\, James Huckenpahler\, Joe Bradley\, Kaitlin Jencso\, Kamille Jackson\, Ker ry McAleer-Keeler\, Kiara Rivera\, Kirk Kristlibas\, Laura Schiavo\, Laure n Onkey\, Lisa Lipinski\, Loren Kajikawa\, Marc Choi\, Mary Coughlin\, Mat t Eich\, Maurice Tyree\, Max Van Balgooy\, Melina Misri\, Michele Carlson\ , Nick Hemenway\, Nidhi Singh Rathore\, Ning Yu\, Paul Reuther\, Siobhan R igg\, Stephanie Travis\, Susan Sterner\, Suse Anderson\n\nOrganized by Mic hele Carlson (Program Head\, Studio Arts and Associate Professor\, Printma king) GEO:38.895809;-77.040024 LOCATION:Flagg Building\, Second Floor Galleries SUMMARY:to free this dream. URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.gwu.edu/event/to-free-this-dream CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibition END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260909T091738Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50524422595663 DTSTART:20251003T170000Z DTEND:20251003T210000Z DESCRIPTION:A multidisciplinary showcase from the artists and scholars of t he full-time faculty and staff at the Corcoran School of the Arts & Design .\n\nThe line “to free this dream.” is borrowed from the last stanza i n DC-poet Essex Hemphill’s American Wedding and is a prophetic reminder that those in power will always underestimate those on the ground\, in par t\, because they refuse to look closely—to see\; us. Often using strateg ies of reduction\, via language\, they assume we will make ourselves small and hold still– protecting ourselves from being buried in an avalanche of words\, images\, and media. That we will arrest ourselves in motion whi le they shore up their own positions. \n\nAnd yet\, within these very wall s\, directly across the street from a seat of power\, faculty\, staff\, an d students of the Corcoran School of the Arts & Design come together daily \, to write\, make\, exchange\, build\, perform\, sing\, play\, fail\, gro w\, learn\, move\, and voice through creative and academic research across generations\, demographics\, belief systems\, and cultural experiences— whether they see us\, or not. \n\nto free this dream. is evidence that the re is a space for us all here—to be. We make and remake this space every semester\, over years\, decades. In this space\, we come together\, movin g through the every day and building practices of choice in each studio or archive\, on each stage or book\, right across the street from those who overlook us. In doing so\, we cannot help but create our own irrefutable t erms–building meaning and transforming through systemic reduction\, like a poem. Like a nation. It is as artists and scholars and communities do. Our irreducibility is material\, source\, or chord—and is our refutation .\n\nContributors are full-time faculty and staff of the Corcoran School o f the Arts & Design: \n\nAasawari Kulkarni\, Alessandra Echeverri\, Allyso n Vieira\, Andrea Dietz\, Anna Jayne Kimmel\, Babette Pendleton\, Bella Ma ria Varela\, Bibi Obler\, Maria del Carmen Montoya\, Caroline Casey\, Cath erine Anderson\, Clement Akpang\, Daniel Jonas\, Dean Kessmann\, Douglas B oyce\, Douglas Crawford\, Em Petro\, Heather Stebbins\, Isaiah Aladejobi\, James Huckenpahler\, Joe Bradley\, Kaitlin Jencso\, Kamille Jackson\, Ker ry McAleer-Keeler\, Kiara Rivera\, Kirk Kristlibas\, Laura Schiavo\, Laure n Onkey\, Lisa Lipinski\, Loren Kajikawa\, Marc Choi\, Mary Coughlin\, Mat t Eich\, Maurice Tyree\, Max Van Balgooy\, Melina Misri\, Michele Carlson\ , Nick Hemenway\, Nidhi Singh Rathore\, Ning Yu\, Paul Reuther\, Siobhan R igg\, Stephanie Travis\, Susan Sterner\, Suse Anderson\n\nOrganized by Mic hele Carlson (Program Head\, Studio Arts and Associate Professor\, Printma king) GEO:38.895809;-77.040024 LOCATION:Flagg Building\, Second Floor Galleries SUMMARY:to free this dream. URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.gwu.edu/event/to-free-this-dream CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibition END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260909T091738Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50524422596688 DTSTART:20251004T170000Z DTEND:20251004T210000Z DESCRIPTION:A multidisciplinary showcase from the artists and scholars of t he full-time faculty and staff at the Corcoran School of the Arts & Design .\n\nThe line “to free this dream.” is borrowed from the last stanza i n DC-poet Essex Hemphill’s American Wedding and is a prophetic reminder that those in power will always underestimate those on the ground\, in par t\, because they refuse to look closely—to see\; us. Often using strateg ies of reduction\, via language\, they assume we will make ourselves small and hold still– protecting ourselves from being buried in an avalanche of words\, images\, and media. That we will arrest ourselves in motion whi le they shore up their own positions. \n\nAnd yet\, within these very wall s\, directly across the street from a seat of power\, faculty\, staff\, an d students of the Corcoran School of the Arts & Design come together daily \, to write\, make\, exchange\, build\, perform\, sing\, play\, fail\, gro w\, learn\, move\, and voice through creative and academic research across generations\, demographics\, belief systems\, and cultural experiences— whether they see us\, or not. \n\nto free this dream. is evidence that the re is a space for us all here—to be. We make and remake this space every semester\, over years\, decades. In this space\, we come together\, movin g through the every day and building practices of choice in each studio or archive\, on each stage or book\, right across the street from those who overlook us. In doing so\, we cannot help but create our own irrefutable t erms–building meaning and transforming through systemic reduction\, like a poem. Like a nation. It is as artists and scholars and communities do. Our irreducibility is material\, source\, or chord—and is our refutation .\n\nContributors are full-time faculty and staff of the Corcoran School o f the Arts & Design: \n\nAasawari Kulkarni\, Alessandra Echeverri\, Allyso n Vieira\, Andrea Dietz\, Anna Jayne Kimmel\, Babette Pendleton\, Bella Ma ria Varela\, Bibi Obler\, Maria del Carmen Montoya\, Caroline Casey\, Cath erine Anderson\, Clement Akpang\, Daniel Jonas\, Dean Kessmann\, Douglas B oyce\, Douglas Crawford\, Em Petro\, Heather Stebbins\, Isaiah Aladejobi\, James Huckenpahler\, Joe Bradley\, Kaitlin Jencso\, Kamille Jackson\, Ker ry McAleer-Keeler\, Kiara Rivera\, Kirk Kristlibas\, Laura Schiavo\, Laure n Onkey\, Lisa Lipinski\, Loren Kajikawa\, Marc Choi\, Mary Coughlin\, Mat t Eich\, Maurice Tyree\, Max Van Balgooy\, Melina Misri\, Michele Carlson\ , Nick Hemenway\, Nidhi Singh Rathore\, Ning Yu\, Paul Reuther\, Siobhan R igg\, Stephanie Travis\, Susan Sterner\, Suse Anderson\n\nOrganized by Mic hele Carlson (Program Head\, Studio Arts and Associate Professor\, Printma king) GEO:38.895809;-77.040024 LOCATION:Flagg Building\, Second Floor Galleries SUMMARY:to free this dream. URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.gwu.edu/event/to-free-this-dream CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibition END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260909T091738Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50524472583064 DTSTART:20251008T170000Z DTEND:20251008T210000Z DESCRIPTION:A multidisciplinary showcase from the artists and scholars of t he full-time faculty and staff at the Corcoran School of the Arts & Design .\n\nThe line “to free this dream.” is borrowed from the last stanza i n DC-poet Essex Hemphill’s American Wedding and is a prophetic reminder that those in power will always underestimate those on the ground\, in par t\, because they refuse to look closely—to see\; us. Often using strateg ies of reduction\, via language\, they assume we will make ourselves small and hold still– protecting ourselves from being buried in an avalanche of words\, images\, and media. That we will arrest ourselves in motion whi le they shore up their own positions. \n\nAnd yet\, within these very wall s\, directly across the street from a seat of power\, faculty\, staff\, an d students of the Corcoran School of the Arts & Design come together daily \, to write\, make\, exchange\, build\, perform\, sing\, play\, fail\, gro w\, learn\, move\, and voice through creative and academic research across generations\, demographics\, belief systems\, and cultural experiences— whether they see us\, or not. \n\nto free this dream. is evidence that the re is a space for us all here—to be. We make and remake this space every semester\, over years\, decades. In this space\, we come together\, movin g through the every day and building practices of choice in each studio or archive\, on each stage or book\, right across the street from those who overlook us. In doing so\, we cannot help but create our own irrefutable t erms–building meaning and transforming through systemic reduction\, like a poem. Like a nation. It is as artists and scholars and communities do. Our irreducibility is material\, source\, or chord—and is our refutation .\n\nContributors are full-time faculty and staff of the Corcoran School o f the Arts & Design: \n\nAasawari Kulkarni\, Alessandra Echeverri\, Allyso n Vieira\, Andrea Dietz\, Anna Jayne Kimmel\, Babette Pendleton\, Bella Ma ria Varela\, Bibi Obler\, Maria del Carmen Montoya\, Caroline Casey\, Cath erine Anderson\, Clement Akpang\, Daniel Jonas\, Dean Kessmann\, Douglas B oyce\, Douglas Crawford\, Em Petro\, Heather Stebbins\, Isaiah Aladejobi\, James Huckenpahler\, Joe Bradley\, Kaitlin Jencso\, Kamille Jackson\, Ker ry McAleer-Keeler\, Kiara Rivera\, Kirk Kristlibas\, Laura Schiavo\, Laure n Onkey\, Lisa Lipinski\, Loren Kajikawa\, Marc Choi\, Mary Coughlin\, Mat t Eich\, Maurice Tyree\, Max Van Balgooy\, Melina Misri\, Michele Carlson\ , Nick Hemenway\, Nidhi Singh Rathore\, Ning Yu\, Paul Reuther\, Siobhan R igg\, Stephanie Travis\, Susan Sterner\, Suse Anderson\n\nOrganized by Mic hele Carlson (Program Head\, Studio Arts and Associate Professor\, Printma king) GEO:38.895809;-77.040024 LOCATION:Flagg Building\, Second Floor Galleries SUMMARY:to free this dream. URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.gwu.edu/event/to-free-this-dream CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibition END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260909T091738Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50524472585113 DTSTART:20251009T170000Z DTEND:20251009T210000Z DESCRIPTION:A multidisciplinary showcase from the artists and scholars of t he full-time faculty and staff at the Corcoran School of the Arts & Design .\n\nThe line “to free this dream.” is borrowed from the last stanza i n DC-poet Essex Hemphill’s American Wedding and is a prophetic reminder that those in power will always underestimate those on the ground\, in par t\, because they refuse to look closely—to see\; us. Often using strateg ies of reduction\, via language\, they assume we will make ourselves small and hold still– protecting ourselves from being buried in an avalanche of words\, images\, and media. That we will arrest ourselves in motion whi le they shore up their own positions. \n\nAnd yet\, within these very wall s\, directly across the street from a seat of power\, faculty\, staff\, an d students of the Corcoran School of the Arts & Design come together daily \, to write\, make\, exchange\, build\, perform\, sing\, play\, fail\, gro w\, learn\, move\, and voice through creative and academic research across generations\, demographics\, belief systems\, and cultural experiences— whether they see us\, or not. \n\nto free this dream. is evidence that the re is a space for us all here—to be. We make and remake this space every semester\, over years\, decades. In this space\, we come together\, movin g through the every day and building practices of choice in each studio or archive\, on each stage or book\, right across the street from those who overlook us. In doing so\, we cannot help but create our own irrefutable t erms–building meaning and transforming through systemic reduction\, like a poem. Like a nation. It is as artists and scholars and communities do. Our irreducibility is material\, source\, or chord—and is our refutation .\n\nContributors are full-time faculty and staff of the Corcoran School o f the Arts & Design: \n\nAasawari Kulkarni\, Alessandra Echeverri\, Allyso n Vieira\, Andrea Dietz\, Anna Jayne Kimmel\, Babette Pendleton\, Bella Ma ria Varela\, Bibi Obler\, Maria del Carmen Montoya\, Caroline Casey\, Cath erine Anderson\, Clement Akpang\, Daniel Jonas\, Dean Kessmann\, Douglas B oyce\, Douglas Crawford\, Em Petro\, Heather Stebbins\, Isaiah Aladejobi\, James Huckenpahler\, Joe Bradley\, Kaitlin Jencso\, Kamille Jackson\, Ker ry McAleer-Keeler\, Kiara Rivera\, Kirk Kristlibas\, Laura Schiavo\, Laure n Onkey\, Lisa Lipinski\, Loren Kajikawa\, Marc Choi\, Mary Coughlin\, Mat t Eich\, Maurice Tyree\, Max Van Balgooy\, Melina Misri\, Michele Carlson\ , Nick Hemenway\, Nidhi Singh Rathore\, Ning Yu\, Paul Reuther\, Siobhan R igg\, Stephanie Travis\, Susan Sterner\, Suse Anderson\n\nOrganized by Mic hele Carlson (Program Head\, Studio Arts and Associate Professor\, Printma king) GEO:38.895809;-77.040024 LOCATION:Flagg Building\, Second Floor Galleries SUMMARY:to free this dream. URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.gwu.edu/event/to-free-this-dream CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibition END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260909T091738Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50524472587162 DTSTART:20251010T170000Z DTEND:20251010T210000Z DESCRIPTION:A multidisciplinary showcase from the artists and scholars of t he full-time faculty and staff at the Corcoran School of the Arts & Design .\n\nThe line “to free this dream.” is borrowed from the last stanza i n DC-poet Essex Hemphill’s American Wedding and is a prophetic reminder that those in power will always underestimate those on the ground\, in par t\, because they refuse to look closely—to see\; us. Often using strateg ies of reduction\, via language\, they assume we will make ourselves small and hold still– protecting ourselves from being buried in an avalanche of words\, images\, and media. That we will arrest ourselves in motion whi le they shore up their own positions. \n\nAnd yet\, within these very wall s\, directly across the street from a seat of power\, faculty\, staff\, an d students of the Corcoran School of the Arts & Design come together daily \, to write\, make\, exchange\, build\, perform\, sing\, play\, fail\, gro w\, learn\, move\, and voice through creative and academic research across generations\, demographics\, belief systems\, and cultural experiences— whether they see us\, or not. \n\nto free this dream. is evidence that the re is a space for us all here—to be. We make and remake this space every semester\, over years\, decades. In this space\, we come together\, movin g through the every day and building practices of choice in each studio or archive\, on each stage or book\, right across the street from those who overlook us. In doing so\, we cannot help but create our own irrefutable t erms–building meaning and transforming through systemic reduction\, like a poem. Like a nation. It is as artists and scholars and communities do. Our irreducibility is material\, source\, or chord—and is our refutation .\n\nContributors are full-time faculty and staff of the Corcoran School o f the Arts & Design: \n\nAasawari Kulkarni\, Alessandra Echeverri\, Allyso n Vieira\, Andrea Dietz\, Anna Jayne Kimmel\, Babette Pendleton\, Bella Ma ria Varela\, Bibi Obler\, Maria del Carmen Montoya\, Caroline Casey\, Cath erine Anderson\, Clement Akpang\, Daniel Jonas\, Dean Kessmann\, Douglas B oyce\, Douglas Crawford\, Em Petro\, Heather Stebbins\, Isaiah Aladejobi\, James Huckenpahler\, Joe Bradley\, Kaitlin Jencso\, Kamille Jackson\, Ker ry McAleer-Keeler\, Kiara Rivera\, Kirk Kristlibas\, Laura Schiavo\, Laure n Onkey\, Lisa Lipinski\, Loren Kajikawa\, Marc Choi\, Mary Coughlin\, Mat t Eich\, Maurice Tyree\, Max Van Balgooy\, Melina Misri\, Michele Carlson\ , Nick Hemenway\, Nidhi Singh Rathore\, Ning Yu\, Paul Reuther\, Siobhan R igg\, Stephanie Travis\, Susan Sterner\, Suse Anderson\n\nOrganized by Mic hele Carlson (Program Head\, Studio Arts and Associate Professor\, Printma king) GEO:38.895809;-77.040024 LOCATION:Flagg Building\, Second Floor Galleries SUMMARY:to free this dream. URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.gwu.edu/event/to-free-this-dream CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibition END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260909T091738Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50524472588187 DTSTART:20251011T170000Z DTEND:20251011T210000Z DESCRIPTION:A multidisciplinary showcase from the artists and scholars of t he full-time faculty and staff at the Corcoran School of the Arts & Design .\n\nThe line “to free this dream.” is borrowed from the last stanza i n DC-poet Essex Hemphill’s American Wedding and is a prophetic reminder that those in power will always underestimate those on the ground\, in par t\, because they refuse to look closely—to see\; us. Often using strateg ies of reduction\, via language\, they assume we will make ourselves small and hold still– protecting ourselves from being buried in an avalanche of words\, images\, and media. That we will arrest ourselves in motion whi le they shore up their own positions. \n\nAnd yet\, within these very wall s\, directly across the street from a seat of power\, faculty\, staff\, an d students of the Corcoran School of the Arts & Design come together daily \, to write\, make\, exchange\, build\, perform\, sing\, play\, fail\, gro w\, learn\, move\, and voice through creative and academic research across generations\, demographics\, belief systems\, and cultural experiences— whether they see us\, or not. \n\nto free this dream. is evidence that the re is a space for us all here—to be. We make and remake this space every semester\, over years\, decades. In this space\, we come together\, movin g through the every day and building practices of choice in each studio or archive\, on each stage or book\, right across the street from those who overlook us. In doing so\, we cannot help but create our own irrefutable t erms–building meaning and transforming through systemic reduction\, like a poem. Like a nation. It is as artists and scholars and communities do. Our irreducibility is material\, source\, or chord—and is our refutation .\n\nContributors are full-time faculty and staff of the Corcoran School o f the Arts & Design: \n\nAasawari Kulkarni\, Alessandra Echeverri\, Allyso n Vieira\, Andrea Dietz\, Anna Jayne Kimmel\, Babette Pendleton\, Bella Ma ria Varela\, Bibi Obler\, Maria del Carmen Montoya\, Caroline Casey\, Cath erine Anderson\, Clement Akpang\, Daniel Jonas\, Dean Kessmann\, Douglas B oyce\, Douglas Crawford\, Em Petro\, Heather Stebbins\, Isaiah Aladejobi\, James Huckenpahler\, Joe Bradley\, Kaitlin Jencso\, Kamille Jackson\, Ker ry McAleer-Keeler\, Kiara Rivera\, Kirk Kristlibas\, Laura Schiavo\, Laure n Onkey\, Lisa Lipinski\, Loren Kajikawa\, Marc Choi\, Mary Coughlin\, Mat t Eich\, Maurice Tyree\, Max Van Balgooy\, Melina Misri\, Michele Carlson\ , Nick Hemenway\, Nidhi Singh Rathore\, Ning Yu\, Paul Reuther\, Siobhan R igg\, Stephanie Travis\, Susan Sterner\, Suse Anderson\n\nOrganized by Mic hele Carlson (Program Head\, Studio Arts and Associate Professor\, Printma king) GEO:38.895809;-77.040024 LOCATION:Flagg Building\, Second Floor Galleries SUMMARY:to free this dream. URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.gwu.edu/event/to-free-this-dream CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibition END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260909T091738Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50524472590236 DTSTART:20251015T170000Z DTEND:20251015T210000Z DESCRIPTION:A multidisciplinary showcase from the artists and scholars of t he full-time faculty and staff at the Corcoran School of the Arts & Design .\n\nThe line “to free this dream.” is borrowed from the last stanza i n DC-poet Essex Hemphill’s American Wedding and is a prophetic reminder that those in power will always underestimate those on the ground\, in par t\, because they refuse to look closely—to see\; us. Often using strateg ies of reduction\, via language\, they assume we will make ourselves small and hold still– protecting ourselves from being buried in an avalanche of words\, images\, and media. That we will arrest ourselves in motion whi le they shore up their own positions. \n\nAnd yet\, within these very wall s\, directly across the street from a seat of power\, faculty\, staff\, an d students of the Corcoran School of the Arts & Design come together daily \, to write\, make\, exchange\, build\, perform\, sing\, play\, fail\, gro w\, learn\, move\, and voice through creative and academic research across generations\, demographics\, belief systems\, and cultural experiences— whether they see us\, or not. \n\nto free this dream. is evidence that the re is a space for us all here—to be. We make and remake this space every semester\, over years\, decades. In this space\, we come together\, movin g through the every day and building practices of choice in each studio or archive\, on each stage or book\, right across the street from those who overlook us. In doing so\, we cannot help but create our own irrefutable t erms–building meaning and transforming through systemic reduction\, like a poem. Like a nation. It is as artists and scholars and communities do. Our irreducibility is material\, source\, or chord—and is our refutation .\n\nContributors are full-time faculty and staff of the Corcoran School o f the Arts & Design: \n\nAasawari Kulkarni\, Alessandra Echeverri\, Allyso n Vieira\, Andrea Dietz\, Anna Jayne Kimmel\, Babette Pendleton\, Bella Ma ria Varela\, Bibi Obler\, Maria del Carmen Montoya\, Caroline Casey\, Cath erine Anderson\, Clement Akpang\, Daniel Jonas\, Dean Kessmann\, Douglas B oyce\, Douglas Crawford\, Em Petro\, Heather Stebbins\, Isaiah Aladejobi\, James Huckenpahler\, Joe Bradley\, Kaitlin Jencso\, Kamille Jackson\, Ker ry McAleer-Keeler\, Kiara Rivera\, Kirk Kristlibas\, Laura Schiavo\, Laure n Onkey\, Lisa Lipinski\, Loren Kajikawa\, Marc Choi\, Mary Coughlin\, Mat t Eich\, Maurice Tyree\, Max Van Balgooy\, Melina Misri\, Michele Carlson\ , Nick Hemenway\, Nidhi Singh Rathore\, Ning Yu\, Paul Reuther\, Siobhan R igg\, Stephanie Travis\, Susan Sterner\, Suse Anderson\n\nOrganized by Mic hele Carlson (Program Head\, Studio Arts and Associate Professor\, Printma king) GEO:38.895809;-77.040024 LOCATION:Flagg Building\, Second Floor Galleries SUMMARY:to free this dream. URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.gwu.edu/event/to-free-this-dream CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibition END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260909T091738Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50524472592285 DTSTART:20251016T170000Z DTEND:20251016T210000Z DESCRIPTION:A multidisciplinary showcase from the artists and scholars of t he full-time faculty and staff at the Corcoran School of the Arts & Design .\n\nThe line “to free this dream.” is borrowed from the last stanza i n DC-poet Essex Hemphill’s American Wedding and is a prophetic reminder that those in power will always underestimate those on the ground\, in par t\, because they refuse to look closely—to see\; us. Often using strateg ies of reduction\, via language\, they assume we will make ourselves small and hold still– protecting ourselves from being buried in an avalanche of words\, images\, and media. That we will arrest ourselves in motion whi le they shore up their own positions. \n\nAnd yet\, within these very wall s\, directly across the street from a seat of power\, faculty\, staff\, an d students of the Corcoran School of the Arts & Design come together daily \, to write\, make\, exchange\, build\, perform\, sing\, play\, fail\, gro w\, learn\, move\, and voice through creative and academic research across generations\, demographics\, belief systems\, and cultural experiences— whether they see us\, or not. \n\nto free this dream. is evidence that the re is a space for us all here—to be. We make and remake this space every semester\, over years\, decades. In this space\, we come together\, movin g through the every day and building practices of choice in each studio or archive\, on each stage or book\, right across the street from those who overlook us. In doing so\, we cannot help but create our own irrefutable t erms–building meaning and transforming through systemic reduction\, like a poem. Like a nation. It is as artists and scholars and communities do. Our irreducibility is material\, source\, or chord—and is our refutation .\n\nContributors are full-time faculty and staff of the Corcoran School o f the Arts & Design: \n\nAasawari Kulkarni\, Alessandra Echeverri\, Allyso n Vieira\, Andrea Dietz\, Anna Jayne Kimmel\, Babette Pendleton\, Bella Ma ria Varela\, Bibi Obler\, Maria del Carmen Montoya\, Caroline Casey\, Cath erine Anderson\, Clement Akpang\, Daniel Jonas\, Dean Kessmann\, Douglas B oyce\, Douglas Crawford\, Em Petro\, Heather Stebbins\, Isaiah Aladejobi\, James Huckenpahler\, Joe Bradley\, Kaitlin Jencso\, Kamille Jackson\, Ker ry McAleer-Keeler\, Kiara Rivera\, Kirk Kristlibas\, Laura Schiavo\, Laure n Onkey\, Lisa Lipinski\, Loren Kajikawa\, Marc Choi\, Mary Coughlin\, Mat t Eich\, Maurice Tyree\, Max Van Balgooy\, Melina Misri\, Michele Carlson\ , Nick Hemenway\, Nidhi Singh Rathore\, Ning Yu\, Paul Reuther\, Siobhan R igg\, Stephanie Travis\, Susan Sterner\, Suse Anderson\n\nOrganized by Mic hele Carlson (Program Head\, Studio Arts and Associate Professor\, Printma king) GEO:38.895809;-77.040024 LOCATION:Flagg Building\, Second Floor Galleries SUMMARY:to free this dream. URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.gwu.edu/event/to-free-this-dream CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibition END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260909T091738Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50524472593310 DTSTART:20251017T170000Z DTEND:20251017T210000Z DESCRIPTION:A multidisciplinary showcase from the artists and scholars of t he full-time faculty and staff at the Corcoran School of the Arts & Design .\n\nThe line “to free this dream.” is borrowed from the last stanza i n DC-poet Essex Hemphill’s American Wedding and is a prophetic reminder that those in power will always underestimate those on the ground\, in par t\, because they refuse to look closely—to see\; us. Often using strateg ies of reduction\, via language\, they assume we will make ourselves small and hold still– protecting ourselves from being buried in an avalanche of words\, images\, and media. That we will arrest ourselves in motion whi le they shore up their own positions. \n\nAnd yet\, within these very wall s\, directly across the street from a seat of power\, faculty\, staff\, an d students of the Corcoran School of the Arts & Design come together daily \, to write\, make\, exchange\, build\, perform\, sing\, play\, fail\, gro w\, learn\, move\, and voice through creative and academic research across generations\, demographics\, belief systems\, and cultural experiences— whether they see us\, or not. \n\nto free this dream. is evidence that the re is a space for us all here—to be. We make and remake this space every semester\, over years\, decades. In this space\, we come together\, movin g through the every day and building practices of choice in each studio or archive\, on each stage or book\, right across the street from those who overlook us. In doing so\, we cannot help but create our own irrefutable t erms–building meaning and transforming through systemic reduction\, like a poem. Like a nation. It is as artists and scholars and communities do. Our irreducibility is material\, source\, or chord—and is our refutation .\n\nContributors are full-time faculty and staff of the Corcoran School o f the Arts & Design: \n\nAasawari Kulkarni\, Alessandra Echeverri\, Allyso n Vieira\, Andrea Dietz\, Anna Jayne Kimmel\, Babette Pendleton\, Bella Ma ria Varela\, Bibi Obler\, Maria del Carmen Montoya\, Caroline Casey\, Cath erine Anderson\, Clement Akpang\, Daniel Jonas\, Dean Kessmann\, Douglas B oyce\, Douglas Crawford\, Em Petro\, Heather Stebbins\, Isaiah Aladejobi\, James Huckenpahler\, Joe Bradley\, Kaitlin Jencso\, Kamille Jackson\, Ker ry McAleer-Keeler\, Kiara Rivera\, Kirk Kristlibas\, Laura Schiavo\, Laure n Onkey\, Lisa Lipinski\, Loren Kajikawa\, Marc Choi\, Mary Coughlin\, Mat t Eich\, Maurice Tyree\, Max Van Balgooy\, Melina Misri\, Michele Carlson\ , Nick Hemenway\, Nidhi Singh Rathore\, Ning Yu\, Paul Reuther\, Siobhan R igg\, Stephanie Travis\, Susan Sterner\, Suse Anderson\n\nOrganized by Mic hele Carlson (Program Head\, Studio Arts and Associate Professor\, Printma king) GEO:38.895809;-77.040024 LOCATION:Flagg Building\, Second Floor Galleries SUMMARY:to free this dream. URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.gwu.edu/event/to-free-this-dream CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibition END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260909T091738Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50524472594335 DTSTART:20251018T170000Z DTEND:20251018T210000Z DESCRIPTION:A multidisciplinary showcase from the artists and scholars of t he full-time faculty and staff at the Corcoran School of the Arts & Design .\n\nThe line “to free this dream.” is borrowed from the last stanza i n DC-poet Essex Hemphill’s American Wedding and is a prophetic reminder that those in power will always underestimate those on the ground\, in par t\, because they refuse to look closely—to see\; us. Often using strateg ies of reduction\, via language\, they assume we will make ourselves small and hold still– protecting ourselves from being buried in an avalanche of words\, images\, and media. That we will arrest ourselves in motion whi le they shore up their own positions. \n\nAnd yet\, within these very wall s\, directly across the street from a seat of power\, faculty\, staff\, an d students of the Corcoran School of the Arts & Design come together daily \, to write\, make\, exchange\, build\, perform\, sing\, play\, fail\, gro w\, learn\, move\, and voice through creative and academic research across generations\, demographics\, belief systems\, and cultural experiences— whether they see us\, or not. \n\nto free this dream. is evidence that the re is a space for us all here—to be. We make and remake this space every semester\, over years\, decades. In this space\, we come together\, movin g through the every day and building practices of choice in each studio or archive\, on each stage or book\, right across the street from those who overlook us. In doing so\, we cannot help but create our own irrefutable t erms–building meaning and transforming through systemic reduction\, like a poem. Like a nation. It is as artists and scholars and communities do. Our irreducibility is material\, source\, or chord—and is our refutation .\n\nContributors are full-time faculty and staff of the Corcoran School o f the Arts & Design: \n\nAasawari Kulkarni\, Alessandra Echeverri\, Allyso n Vieira\, Andrea Dietz\, Anna Jayne Kimmel\, Babette Pendleton\, Bella Ma ria Varela\, Bibi Obler\, Maria del Carmen Montoya\, Caroline Casey\, Cath erine Anderson\, Clement Akpang\, Daniel Jonas\, Dean Kessmann\, Douglas B oyce\, Douglas Crawford\, Em Petro\, Heather Stebbins\, Isaiah Aladejobi\, James Huckenpahler\, Joe Bradley\, Kaitlin Jencso\, Kamille Jackson\, Ker ry McAleer-Keeler\, Kiara Rivera\, Kirk Kristlibas\, Laura Schiavo\, Laure n Onkey\, Lisa Lipinski\, Loren Kajikawa\, Marc Choi\, Mary Coughlin\, Mat t Eich\, Maurice Tyree\, Max Van Balgooy\, Melina Misri\, Michele Carlson\ , Nick Hemenway\, Nidhi Singh Rathore\, Ning Yu\, Paul Reuther\, Siobhan R igg\, Stephanie Travis\, Susan Sterner\, Suse Anderson\n\nOrganized by Mic hele Carlson (Program Head\, Studio Arts and Associate Professor\, Printma king) GEO:38.895809;-77.040024 LOCATION:Flagg Building\, Second Floor Galleries SUMMARY:to free this dream. URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.gwu.edu/event/to-free-this-dream CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibition END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260909T091738Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50524472596384 DTSTART:20251022T170000Z DTEND:20251022T210000Z DESCRIPTION:A multidisciplinary showcase from the artists and scholars of t he full-time faculty and staff at the Corcoran School of the Arts & Design .\n\nThe line “to free this dream.” is borrowed from the last stanza i n DC-poet Essex Hemphill’s American Wedding and is a prophetic reminder that those in power will always underestimate those on the ground\, in par t\, because they refuse to look closely—to see\; us. Often using strateg ies of reduction\, via language\, they assume we will make ourselves small and hold still– protecting ourselves from being buried in an avalanche of words\, images\, and media. That we will arrest ourselves in motion whi le they shore up their own positions. \n\nAnd yet\, within these very wall s\, directly across the street from a seat of power\, faculty\, staff\, an d students of the Corcoran School of the Arts & Design come together daily \, to write\, make\, exchange\, build\, perform\, sing\, play\, fail\, gro w\, learn\, move\, and voice through creative and academic research across generations\, demographics\, belief systems\, and cultural experiences— whether they see us\, or not. \n\nto free this dream. is evidence that the re is a space for us all here—to be. We make and remake this space every semester\, over years\, decades. In this space\, we come together\, movin g through the every day and building practices of choice in each studio or archive\, on each stage or book\, right across the street from those who overlook us. In doing so\, we cannot help but create our own irrefutable t erms–building meaning and transforming through systemic reduction\, like a poem. Like a nation. It is as artists and scholars and communities do. Our irreducibility is material\, source\, or chord—and is our refutation .\n\nContributors are full-time faculty and staff of the Corcoran School o f the Arts & Design: \n\nAasawari Kulkarni\, Alessandra Echeverri\, Allyso n Vieira\, Andrea Dietz\, Anna Jayne Kimmel\, Babette Pendleton\, Bella Ma ria Varela\, Bibi Obler\, Maria del Carmen Montoya\, Caroline Casey\, Cath erine Anderson\, Clement Akpang\, Daniel Jonas\, Dean Kessmann\, Douglas B oyce\, Douglas Crawford\, Em Petro\, Heather Stebbins\, Isaiah Aladejobi\, James Huckenpahler\, Joe Bradley\, Kaitlin Jencso\, Kamille Jackson\, Ker ry McAleer-Keeler\, Kiara Rivera\, Kirk Kristlibas\, Laura Schiavo\, Laure n Onkey\, Lisa Lipinski\, Loren Kajikawa\, Marc Choi\, Mary Coughlin\, Mat t Eich\, Maurice Tyree\, Max Van Balgooy\, Melina Misri\, Michele Carlson\ , Nick Hemenway\, Nidhi Singh Rathore\, Ning Yu\, Paul Reuther\, Siobhan R igg\, Stephanie Travis\, Susan Sterner\, Suse Anderson\n\nOrganized by Mic hele Carlson (Program Head\, Studio Arts and Associate Professor\, Printma king) GEO:38.895809;-77.040024 LOCATION:Flagg Building\, Second Floor Galleries SUMMARY:to free this dream. URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.gwu.edu/event/to-free-this-dream CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibition END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260909T091738Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50524472598433 DTSTART:20251023T170000Z DTEND:20251023T210000Z DESCRIPTION:A multidisciplinary showcase from the artists and scholars of t he full-time faculty and staff at the Corcoran School of the Arts & Design .\n\nThe line “to free this dream.” is borrowed from the last stanza i n DC-poet Essex Hemphill’s American Wedding and is a prophetic reminder that those in power will always underestimate those on the ground\, in par t\, because they refuse to look closely—to see\; us. Often using strateg ies of reduction\, via language\, they assume we will make ourselves small and hold still– protecting ourselves from being buried in an avalanche of words\, images\, and media. That we will arrest ourselves in motion whi le they shore up their own positions. \n\nAnd yet\, within these very wall s\, directly across the street from a seat of power\, faculty\, staff\, an d students of the Corcoran School of the Arts & Design come together daily \, to write\, make\, exchange\, build\, perform\, sing\, play\, fail\, gro w\, learn\, move\, and voice through creative and academic research across generations\, demographics\, belief systems\, and cultural experiences— whether they see us\, or not. \n\nto free this dream. is evidence that the re is a space for us all here—to be. We make and remake this space every semester\, over years\, decades. In this space\, we come together\, movin g through the every day and building practices of choice in each studio or archive\, on each stage or book\, right across the street from those who overlook us. In doing so\, we cannot help but create our own irrefutable t erms–building meaning and transforming through systemic reduction\, like a poem. Like a nation. It is as artists and scholars and communities do. Our irreducibility is material\, source\, or chord—and is our refutation .\n\nContributors are full-time faculty and staff of the Corcoran School o f the Arts & Design: \n\nAasawari Kulkarni\, Alessandra Echeverri\, Allyso n Vieira\, Andrea Dietz\, Anna Jayne Kimmel\, Babette Pendleton\, Bella Ma ria Varela\, Bibi Obler\, Maria del Carmen Montoya\, Caroline Casey\, Cath erine Anderson\, Clement Akpang\, Daniel Jonas\, Dean Kessmann\, Douglas B oyce\, Douglas Crawford\, Em Petro\, Heather Stebbins\, Isaiah Aladejobi\, James Huckenpahler\, Joe Bradley\, Kaitlin Jencso\, Kamille Jackson\, Ker ry McAleer-Keeler\, Kiara Rivera\, Kirk Kristlibas\, Laura Schiavo\, Laure n Onkey\, Lisa Lipinski\, Loren Kajikawa\, Marc Choi\, Mary Coughlin\, Mat t Eich\, Maurice Tyree\, Max Van Balgooy\, Melina Misri\, Michele Carlson\ , Nick Hemenway\, Nidhi Singh Rathore\, Ning Yu\, Paul Reuther\, Siobhan R igg\, Stephanie Travis\, Susan Sterner\, Suse Anderson\n\nOrganized by Mic hele Carlson (Program Head\, Studio Arts and Associate Professor\, Printma king) GEO:38.895809;-77.040024 LOCATION:Flagg Building\, Second Floor Galleries SUMMARY:to free this dream. URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.gwu.edu/event/to-free-this-dream CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibition END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260909T091738Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50524472599458 DTSTART:20251024T170000Z DTEND:20251024T210000Z DESCRIPTION:A multidisciplinary showcase from the artists and scholars of t he full-time faculty and staff at the Corcoran School of the Arts & Design .\n\nThe line “to free this dream.” is borrowed from the last stanza i n DC-poet Essex Hemphill’s American Wedding and is a prophetic reminder that those in power will always underestimate those on the ground\, in par t\, because they refuse to look closely—to see\; us. Often using strateg ies of reduction\, via language\, they assume we will make ourselves small and hold still– protecting ourselves from being buried in an avalanche of words\, images\, and media. That we will arrest ourselves in motion whi le they shore up their own positions. \n\nAnd yet\, within these very wall s\, directly across the street from a seat of power\, faculty\, staff\, an d students of the Corcoran School of the Arts & Design come together daily \, to write\, make\, exchange\, build\, perform\, sing\, play\, fail\, gro w\, learn\, move\, and voice through creative and academic research across generations\, demographics\, belief systems\, and cultural experiences— whether they see us\, or not. \n\nto free this dream. is evidence that the re is a space for us all here—to be. We make and remake this space every semester\, over years\, decades. In this space\, we come together\, movin g through the every day and building practices of choice in each studio or archive\, on each stage or book\, right across the street from those who overlook us. In doing so\, we cannot help but create our own irrefutable t erms–building meaning and transforming through systemic reduction\, like a poem. Like a nation. It is as artists and scholars and communities do. Our irreducibility is material\, source\, or chord—and is our refutation .\n\nContributors are full-time faculty and staff of the Corcoran School o f the Arts & Design: \n\nAasawari Kulkarni\, Alessandra Echeverri\, Allyso n Vieira\, Andrea Dietz\, Anna Jayne Kimmel\, Babette Pendleton\, Bella Ma ria Varela\, Bibi Obler\, Maria del Carmen Montoya\, Caroline Casey\, Cath erine Anderson\, Clement Akpang\, Daniel Jonas\, Dean Kessmann\, Douglas B oyce\, Douglas Crawford\, Em Petro\, Heather Stebbins\, Isaiah Aladejobi\, James Huckenpahler\, Joe Bradley\, Kaitlin Jencso\, Kamille Jackson\, Ker ry McAleer-Keeler\, Kiara Rivera\, Kirk Kristlibas\, Laura Schiavo\, Laure n Onkey\, Lisa Lipinski\, Loren Kajikawa\, Marc Choi\, Mary Coughlin\, Mat t Eich\, Maurice Tyree\, Max Van Balgooy\, Melina Misri\, Michele Carlson\ , Nick Hemenway\, Nidhi Singh Rathore\, Ning Yu\, Paul Reuther\, Siobhan R igg\, Stephanie Travis\, Susan Sterner\, Suse Anderson\n\nOrganized by Mic hele Carlson (Program Head\, Studio Arts and Associate Professor\, Printma king) GEO:38.895809;-77.040024 LOCATION:Flagg Building\, Second Floor Galleries SUMMARY:to free this dream. URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.gwu.edu/event/to-free-this-dream CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibition END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260909T091738Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50524472600483 DTSTART:20251025T170000Z DTEND:20251025T210000Z DESCRIPTION:A multidisciplinary showcase from the artists and scholars of t he full-time faculty and staff at the Corcoran School of the Arts & Design .\n\nThe line “to free this dream.” is borrowed from the last stanza i n DC-poet Essex Hemphill’s American Wedding and is a prophetic reminder that those in power will always underestimate those on the ground\, in par t\, because they refuse to look closely—to see\; us. Often using strateg ies of reduction\, via language\, they assume we will make ourselves small and hold still– protecting ourselves from being buried in an avalanche of words\, images\, and media. That we will arrest ourselves in motion whi le they shore up their own positions. \n\nAnd yet\, within these very wall s\, directly across the street from a seat of power\, faculty\, staff\, an d students of the Corcoran School of the Arts & Design come together daily \, to write\, make\, exchange\, build\, perform\, sing\, play\, fail\, gro w\, learn\, move\, and voice through creative and academic research across generations\, demographics\, belief systems\, and cultural experiences— whether they see us\, or not. \n\nto free this dream. is evidence that the re is a space for us all here—to be. We make and remake this space every semester\, over years\, decades. In this space\, we come together\, movin g through the every day and building practices of choice in each studio or archive\, on each stage or book\, right across the street from those who overlook us. In doing so\, we cannot help but create our own irrefutable t erms–building meaning and transforming through systemic reduction\, like a poem. Like a nation. It is as artists and scholars and communities do. Our irreducibility is material\, source\, or chord—and is our refutation .\n\nContributors are full-time faculty and staff of the Corcoran School o f the Arts & Design: \n\nAasawari Kulkarni\, Alessandra Echeverri\, Allyso n Vieira\, Andrea Dietz\, Anna Jayne Kimmel\, Babette Pendleton\, Bella Ma ria Varela\, Bibi Obler\, Maria del Carmen Montoya\, Caroline Casey\, Cath erine Anderson\, Clement Akpang\, Daniel Jonas\, Dean Kessmann\, Douglas B oyce\, Douglas Crawford\, Em Petro\, Heather Stebbins\, Isaiah Aladejobi\, James Huckenpahler\, Joe Bradley\, Kaitlin Jencso\, Kamille Jackson\, Ker ry McAleer-Keeler\, Kiara Rivera\, Kirk Kristlibas\, Laura Schiavo\, Laure n Onkey\, Lisa Lipinski\, Loren Kajikawa\, Marc Choi\, Mary Coughlin\, Mat t Eich\, Maurice Tyree\, Max Van Balgooy\, Melina Misri\, Michele Carlson\ , Nick Hemenway\, Nidhi Singh Rathore\, Ning Yu\, Paul Reuther\, Siobhan R igg\, Stephanie Travis\, Susan Sterner\, Suse Anderson\n\nOrganized by Mic hele Carlson (Program Head\, Studio Arts and Associate Professor\, Printma king) GEO:38.895809;-77.040024 LOCATION:Flagg Building\, Second Floor Galleries SUMMARY:to free this dream. URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.gwu.edu/event/to-free-this-dream CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibition END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260909T091738Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50524472602532 DTSTART:20251029T170000Z DTEND:20251029T210000Z DESCRIPTION:A multidisciplinary showcase from the artists and scholars of t he full-time faculty and staff at the Corcoran School of the Arts & Design .\n\nThe line “to free this dream.” is borrowed from the last stanza i n DC-poet Essex Hemphill’s American Wedding and is a prophetic reminder that those in power will always underestimate those on the ground\, in par t\, because they refuse to look closely—to see\; us. Often using strateg ies of reduction\, via language\, they assume we will make ourselves small and hold still– protecting ourselves from being buried in an avalanche of words\, images\, and media. That we will arrest ourselves in motion whi le they shore up their own positions. \n\nAnd yet\, within these very wall s\, directly across the street from a seat of power\, faculty\, staff\, an d students of the Corcoran School of the Arts & Design come together daily \, to write\, make\, exchange\, build\, perform\, sing\, play\, fail\, gro w\, learn\, move\, and voice through creative and academic research across generations\, demographics\, belief systems\, and cultural experiences— whether they see us\, or not. \n\nto free this dream. is evidence that the re is a space for us all here—to be. We make and remake this space every semester\, over years\, decades. In this space\, we come together\, movin g through the every day and building practices of choice in each studio or archive\, on each stage or book\, right across the street from those who overlook us. In doing so\, we cannot help but create our own irrefutable t erms–building meaning and transforming through systemic reduction\, like a poem. Like a nation. It is as artists and scholars and communities do. Our irreducibility is material\, source\, or chord—and is our refutation .\n\nContributors are full-time faculty and staff of the Corcoran School o f the Arts & Design: \n\nAasawari Kulkarni\, Alessandra Echeverri\, Allyso n Vieira\, Andrea Dietz\, Anna Jayne Kimmel\, Babette Pendleton\, Bella Ma ria Varela\, Bibi Obler\, Maria del Carmen Montoya\, Caroline Casey\, Cath erine Anderson\, Clement Akpang\, Daniel Jonas\, Dean Kessmann\, Douglas B oyce\, Douglas Crawford\, Em Petro\, Heather Stebbins\, Isaiah Aladejobi\, James Huckenpahler\, Joe Bradley\, Kaitlin Jencso\, Kamille Jackson\, Ker ry McAleer-Keeler\, Kiara Rivera\, Kirk Kristlibas\, Laura Schiavo\, Laure n Onkey\, Lisa Lipinski\, Loren Kajikawa\, Marc Choi\, Mary Coughlin\, Mat t Eich\, Maurice Tyree\, Max Van Balgooy\, Melina Misri\, Michele Carlson\ , Nick Hemenway\, Nidhi Singh Rathore\, Ning Yu\, Paul Reuther\, Siobhan R igg\, Stephanie Travis\, Susan Sterner\, Suse Anderson\n\nOrganized by Mic hele Carlson (Program Head\, Studio Arts and Associate Professor\, Printma king) GEO:38.895809;-77.040024 LOCATION:Flagg Building\, Second Floor Galleries SUMMARY:to free this dream. URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.gwu.edu/event/to-free-this-dream CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibition END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260909T091738Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50524472603557 DTSTART:20251030T170000Z DTEND:20251030T210000Z DESCRIPTION:A multidisciplinary showcase from the artists and scholars of t he full-time faculty and staff at the Corcoran School of the Arts & Design .\n\nThe line “to free this dream.” is borrowed from the last stanza i n DC-poet Essex Hemphill’s American Wedding and is a prophetic reminder that those in power will always underestimate those on the ground\, in par t\, because they refuse to look closely—to see\; us. Often using strateg ies of reduction\, via language\, they assume we will make ourselves small and hold still– protecting ourselves from being buried in an avalanche of words\, images\, and media. That we will arrest ourselves in motion whi le they shore up their own positions. \n\nAnd yet\, within these very wall s\, directly across the street from a seat of power\, faculty\, staff\, an d students of the Corcoran School of the Arts & Design come together daily \, to write\, make\, exchange\, build\, perform\, sing\, play\, fail\, gro w\, learn\, move\, and voice through creative and academic research across generations\, demographics\, belief systems\, and cultural experiences— whether they see us\, or not. \n\nto free this dream. is evidence that the re is a space for us all here—to be. We make and remake this space every semester\, over years\, decades. In this space\, we come together\, movin g through the every day and building practices of choice in each studio or archive\, on each stage or book\, right across the street from those who overlook us. In doing so\, we cannot help but create our own irrefutable t erms–building meaning and transforming through systemic reduction\, like a poem. Like a nation. It is as artists and scholars and communities do. Our irreducibility is material\, source\, or chord—and is our refutation .\n\nContributors are full-time faculty and staff of the Corcoran School o f the Arts & Design: \n\nAasawari Kulkarni\, Alessandra Echeverri\, Allyso n Vieira\, Andrea Dietz\, Anna Jayne Kimmel\, Babette Pendleton\, Bella Ma ria Varela\, Bibi Obler\, Maria del Carmen Montoya\, Caroline Casey\, Cath erine Anderson\, Clement Akpang\, Daniel Jonas\, Dean Kessmann\, Douglas B oyce\, Douglas Crawford\, Em Petro\, Heather Stebbins\, Isaiah Aladejobi\, James Huckenpahler\, Joe Bradley\, Kaitlin Jencso\, Kamille Jackson\, Ker ry McAleer-Keeler\, Kiara Rivera\, Kirk Kristlibas\, Laura Schiavo\, Laure n Onkey\, Lisa Lipinski\, Loren Kajikawa\, Marc Choi\, Mary Coughlin\, Mat t Eich\, Maurice Tyree\, Max Van Balgooy\, Melina Misri\, Michele Carlson\ , Nick Hemenway\, Nidhi Singh Rathore\, Ning Yu\, Paul Reuther\, Siobhan R igg\, Stephanie Travis\, Susan Sterner\, Suse Anderson\n\nOrganized by Mic hele Carlson (Program Head\, Studio Arts and Associate Professor\, Printma king) GEO:38.895809;-77.040024 LOCATION:Flagg Building\, Second Floor Galleries SUMMARY:to free this dream. URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.gwu.edu/event/to-free-this-dream CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibition END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260909T091738Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50524472606630 DTSTART:20251031T170000Z DTEND:20251031T210000Z DESCRIPTION:A multidisciplinary showcase from the artists and scholars of t he full-time faculty and staff at the Corcoran School of the Arts & Design .\n\nThe line “to free this dream.” is borrowed from the last stanza i n DC-poet Essex Hemphill’s American Wedding and is a prophetic reminder that those in power will always underestimate those on the ground\, in par t\, because they refuse to look closely—to see\; us. Often using strateg ies of reduction\, via language\, they assume we will make ourselves small and hold still– protecting ourselves from being buried in an avalanche of words\, images\, and media. That we will arrest ourselves in motion whi le they shore up their own positions. \n\nAnd yet\, within these very wall s\, directly across the street from a seat of power\, faculty\, staff\, an d students of the Corcoran School of the Arts & Design come together daily \, to write\, make\, exchange\, build\, perform\, sing\, play\, fail\, gro w\, learn\, move\, and voice through creative and academic research across generations\, demographics\, belief systems\, and cultural experiences— whether they see us\, or not. \n\nto free this dream. is evidence that the re is a space for us all here—to be. We make and remake this space every semester\, over years\, decades. In this space\, we come together\, movin g through the every day and building practices of choice in each studio or archive\, on each stage or book\, right across the street from those who overlook us. In doing so\, we cannot help but create our own irrefutable t erms–building meaning and transforming through systemic reduction\, like a poem. Like a nation. It is as artists and scholars and communities do. Our irreducibility is material\, source\, or chord—and is our refutation .\n\nContributors are full-time faculty and staff of the Corcoran School o f the Arts & Design: \n\nAasawari Kulkarni\, Alessandra Echeverri\, Allyso n Vieira\, Andrea Dietz\, Anna Jayne Kimmel\, Babette Pendleton\, Bella Ma ria Varela\, Bibi Obler\, Maria del Carmen Montoya\, Caroline Casey\, Cath erine Anderson\, Clement Akpang\, Daniel Jonas\, Dean Kessmann\, Douglas B oyce\, Douglas Crawford\, Em Petro\, Heather Stebbins\, Isaiah Aladejobi\, James Huckenpahler\, Joe Bradley\, Kaitlin Jencso\, Kamille Jackson\, Ker ry McAleer-Keeler\, Kiara Rivera\, Kirk Kristlibas\, Laura Schiavo\, Laure n Onkey\, Lisa Lipinski\, Loren Kajikawa\, Marc Choi\, Mary Coughlin\, Mat t Eich\, Maurice Tyree\, Max Van Balgooy\, Melina Misri\, Michele Carlson\ , Nick Hemenway\, Nidhi Singh Rathore\, Ning Yu\, Paul Reuther\, Siobhan R igg\, Stephanie Travis\, Susan Sterner\, Suse Anderson\n\nOrganized by Mic hele Carlson (Program Head\, Studio Arts and Associate Professor\, Printma king) GEO:38.895809;-77.040024 LOCATION:Flagg Building\, Second Floor Galleries SUMMARY:to free this dream. URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.gwu.edu/event/to-free-this-dream CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibition END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260909T091738Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50524472607655 DTSTART:20251101T170000Z DTEND:20251101T210000Z DESCRIPTION:A multidisciplinary showcase from the artists and scholars of t he full-time faculty and staff at the Corcoran School of the Arts & Design .\n\nThe line “to free this dream.” is borrowed from the last stanza i n DC-poet Essex Hemphill’s American Wedding and is a prophetic reminder that those in power will always underestimate those on the ground\, in par t\, because they refuse to look closely—to see\; us. Often using strateg ies of reduction\, via language\, they assume we will make ourselves small and hold still– protecting ourselves from being buried in an avalanche of words\, images\, and media. That we will arrest ourselves in motion whi le they shore up their own positions. \n\nAnd yet\, within these very wall s\, directly across the street from a seat of power\, faculty\, staff\, an d students of the Corcoran School of the Arts & Design come together daily \, to write\, make\, exchange\, build\, perform\, sing\, play\, fail\, gro w\, learn\, move\, and voice through creative and academic research across generations\, demographics\, belief systems\, and cultural experiences— whether they see us\, or not. \n\nto free this dream. is evidence that the re is a space for us all here—to be. We make and remake this space every semester\, over years\, decades. In this space\, we come together\, movin g through the every day and building practices of choice in each studio or archive\, on each stage or book\, right across the street from those who overlook us. In doing so\, we cannot help but create our own irrefutable t erms–building meaning and transforming through systemic reduction\, like a poem. Like a nation. It is as artists and scholars and communities do. Our irreducibility is material\, source\, or chord—and is our refutation .\n\nContributors are full-time faculty and staff of the Corcoran School o f the Arts & Design: \n\nAasawari Kulkarni\, Alessandra Echeverri\, Allyso n Vieira\, Andrea Dietz\, Anna Jayne Kimmel\, Babette Pendleton\, Bella Ma ria Varela\, Bibi Obler\, Maria del Carmen Montoya\, Caroline Casey\, Cath erine Anderson\, Clement Akpang\, Daniel Jonas\, Dean Kessmann\, Douglas B oyce\, Douglas Crawford\, Em Petro\, Heather Stebbins\, Isaiah Aladejobi\, James Huckenpahler\, Joe Bradley\, Kaitlin Jencso\, Kamille Jackson\, Ker ry McAleer-Keeler\, Kiara Rivera\, Kirk Kristlibas\, Laura Schiavo\, Laure n Onkey\, Lisa Lipinski\, Loren Kajikawa\, Marc Choi\, Mary Coughlin\, Mat t Eich\, Maurice Tyree\, Max Van Balgooy\, Melina Misri\, Michele Carlson\ , Nick Hemenway\, Nidhi Singh Rathore\, Ning Yu\, Paul Reuther\, Siobhan R igg\, Stephanie Travis\, Susan Sterner\, Suse Anderson\n\nOrganized by Mic hele Carlson (Program Head\, Studio Arts and Associate Professor\, Printma king) GEO:38.895809;-77.040024 LOCATION:Flagg Building\, Second Floor Galleries SUMMARY:to free this dream. URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.gwu.edu/event/to-free-this-dream CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibition END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260909T091738Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50524472609704 DTSTART:20251105T180000Z DTEND:20251105T220000Z DESCRIPTION:A multidisciplinary showcase from the artists and scholars of t he full-time faculty and staff at the Corcoran School of the Arts & Design .\n\nThe line “to free this dream.” is borrowed from the last stanza i n DC-poet Essex Hemphill’s American Wedding and is a prophetic reminder that those in power will always underestimate those on the ground\, in par t\, because they refuse to look closely—to see\; us. Often using strateg ies of reduction\, via language\, they assume we will make ourselves small and hold still– protecting ourselves from being buried in an avalanche of words\, images\, and media. That we will arrest ourselves in motion whi le they shore up their own positions. \n\nAnd yet\, within these very wall s\, directly across the street from a seat of power\, faculty\, staff\, an d students of the Corcoran School of the Arts & Design come together daily \, to write\, make\, exchange\, build\, perform\, sing\, play\, fail\, gro w\, learn\, move\, and voice through creative and academic research across generations\, demographics\, belief systems\, and cultural experiences— whether they see us\, or not. \n\nto free this dream. is evidence that the re is a space for us all here—to be. We make and remake this space every semester\, over years\, decades. In this space\, we come together\, movin g through the every day and building practices of choice in each studio or archive\, on each stage or book\, right across the street from those who overlook us. In doing so\, we cannot help but create our own irrefutable t erms–building meaning and transforming through systemic reduction\, like a poem. Like a nation. It is as artists and scholars and communities do. Our irreducibility is material\, source\, or chord—and is our refutation .\n\nContributors are full-time faculty and staff of the Corcoran School o f the Arts & Design: \n\nAasawari Kulkarni\, Alessandra Echeverri\, Allyso n Vieira\, Andrea Dietz\, Anna Jayne Kimmel\, Babette Pendleton\, Bella Ma ria Varela\, Bibi Obler\, Maria del Carmen Montoya\, Caroline Casey\, Cath erine Anderson\, Clement Akpang\, Daniel Jonas\, Dean Kessmann\, Douglas B oyce\, Douglas Crawford\, Em Petro\, Heather Stebbins\, Isaiah Aladejobi\, James Huckenpahler\, Joe Bradley\, Kaitlin Jencso\, Kamille Jackson\, Ker ry McAleer-Keeler\, Kiara Rivera\, Kirk Kristlibas\, Laura Schiavo\, Laure n Onkey\, Lisa Lipinski\, Loren Kajikawa\, Marc Choi\, Mary Coughlin\, Mat t Eich\, Maurice Tyree\, Max Van Balgooy\, Melina Misri\, Michele Carlson\ , Nick Hemenway\, Nidhi Singh Rathore\, Ning Yu\, Paul Reuther\, Siobhan R igg\, Stephanie Travis\, Susan Sterner\, Suse Anderson\n\nOrganized by Mic hele Carlson (Program Head\, Studio Arts and Associate Professor\, Printma king) GEO:38.895809;-77.040024 LOCATION:Flagg Building\, Second Floor Galleries SUMMARY:to free this dream. URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.gwu.edu/event/to-free-this-dream CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibition END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260909T091738Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50524472610729 DTSTART:20251106T180000Z DTEND:20251106T220000Z DESCRIPTION:A multidisciplinary showcase from the artists and scholars of t he full-time faculty and staff at the Corcoran School of the Arts & Design .\n\nThe line “to free this dream.” is borrowed from the last stanza i n DC-poet Essex Hemphill’s American Wedding and is a prophetic reminder that those in power will always underestimate those on the ground\, in par t\, because they refuse to look closely—to see\; us. Often using strateg ies of reduction\, via language\, they assume we will make ourselves small and hold still– protecting ourselves from being buried in an avalanche of words\, images\, and media. That we will arrest ourselves in motion whi le they shore up their own positions. \n\nAnd yet\, within these very wall s\, directly across the street from a seat of power\, faculty\, staff\, an d students of the Corcoran School of the Arts & Design come together daily \, to write\, make\, exchange\, build\, perform\, sing\, play\, fail\, gro w\, learn\, move\, and voice through creative and academic research across generations\, demographics\, belief systems\, and cultural experiences— whether they see us\, or not. \n\nto free this dream. is evidence that the re is a space for us all here—to be. We make and remake this space every semester\, over years\, decades. In this space\, we come together\, movin g through the every day and building practices of choice in each studio or archive\, on each stage or book\, right across the street from those who overlook us. In doing so\, we cannot help but create our own irrefutable t erms–building meaning and transforming through systemic reduction\, like a poem. Like a nation. It is as artists and scholars and communities do. Our irreducibility is material\, source\, or chord—and is our refutation .\n\nContributors are full-time faculty and staff of the Corcoran School o f the Arts & Design: \n\nAasawari Kulkarni\, Alessandra Echeverri\, Allyso n Vieira\, Andrea Dietz\, Anna Jayne Kimmel\, Babette Pendleton\, Bella Ma ria Varela\, Bibi Obler\, Maria del Carmen Montoya\, Caroline Casey\, Cath erine Anderson\, Clement Akpang\, Daniel Jonas\, Dean Kessmann\, Douglas B oyce\, Douglas Crawford\, Em Petro\, Heather Stebbins\, Isaiah Aladejobi\, James Huckenpahler\, Joe Bradley\, Kaitlin Jencso\, Kamille Jackson\, Ker ry McAleer-Keeler\, Kiara Rivera\, Kirk Kristlibas\, Laura Schiavo\, Laure n Onkey\, Lisa Lipinski\, Loren Kajikawa\, Marc Choi\, Mary Coughlin\, Mat t Eich\, Maurice Tyree\, Max Van Balgooy\, Melina Misri\, Michele Carlson\ , Nick Hemenway\, Nidhi Singh Rathore\, Ning Yu\, Paul Reuther\, Siobhan R igg\, Stephanie Travis\, Susan Sterner\, Suse Anderson\n\nOrganized by Mic hele Carlson (Program Head\, Studio Arts and Associate Professor\, Printma king) GEO:38.895809;-77.040024 LOCATION:Flagg Building\, Second Floor Galleries SUMMARY:to free this dream. URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.gwu.edu/event/to-free-this-dream CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibition END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260909T091738Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50524472612778 DTSTART:20251107T180000Z DTEND:20251107T220000Z DESCRIPTION:A multidisciplinary showcase from the artists and scholars of t he full-time faculty and staff at the Corcoran School of the Arts & Design .\n\nThe line “to free this dream.” is borrowed from the last stanza i n DC-poet Essex Hemphill’s American Wedding and is a prophetic reminder that those in power will always underestimate those on the ground\, in par t\, because they refuse to look closely—to see\; us. Often using strateg ies of reduction\, via language\, they assume we will make ourselves small and hold still– protecting ourselves from being buried in an avalanche of words\, images\, and media. That we will arrest ourselves in motion whi le they shore up their own positions. \n\nAnd yet\, within these very wall s\, directly across the street from a seat of power\, faculty\, staff\, an d students of the Corcoran School of the Arts & Design come together daily \, to write\, make\, exchange\, build\, perform\, sing\, play\, fail\, gro w\, learn\, move\, and voice through creative and academic research across generations\, demographics\, belief systems\, and cultural experiences— whether they see us\, or not. \n\nto free this dream. is evidence that the re is a space for us all here—to be. We make and remake this space every semester\, over years\, decades. In this space\, we come together\, movin g through the every day and building practices of choice in each studio or archive\, on each stage or book\, right across the street from those who overlook us. In doing so\, we cannot help but create our own irrefutable t erms–building meaning and transforming through systemic reduction\, like a poem. Like a nation. It is as artists and scholars and communities do. Our irreducibility is material\, source\, or chord—and is our refutation .\n\nContributors are full-time faculty and staff of the Corcoran School o f the Arts & Design: \n\nAasawari Kulkarni\, Alessandra Echeverri\, Allyso n Vieira\, Andrea Dietz\, Anna Jayne Kimmel\, Babette Pendleton\, Bella Ma ria Varela\, Bibi Obler\, Maria del Carmen Montoya\, Caroline Casey\, Cath erine Anderson\, Clement Akpang\, Daniel Jonas\, Dean Kessmann\, Douglas B oyce\, Douglas Crawford\, Em Petro\, Heather Stebbins\, Isaiah Aladejobi\, James Huckenpahler\, Joe Bradley\, Kaitlin Jencso\, Kamille Jackson\, Ker ry McAleer-Keeler\, Kiara Rivera\, Kirk Kristlibas\, Laura Schiavo\, Laure n Onkey\, Lisa Lipinski\, Loren Kajikawa\, Marc Choi\, Mary Coughlin\, Mat t Eich\, Maurice Tyree\, Max Van Balgooy\, Melina Misri\, Michele Carlson\ , Nick Hemenway\, Nidhi Singh Rathore\, Ning Yu\, Paul Reuther\, Siobhan R igg\, Stephanie Travis\, Susan Sterner\, Suse Anderson\n\nOrganized by Mic hele Carlson (Program Head\, Studio Arts and Associate Professor\, Printma king) GEO:38.895809;-77.040024 LOCATION:Flagg Building\, Second Floor Galleries SUMMARY:to free this dream. URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.gwu.edu/event/to-free-this-dream CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibition END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260909T091738Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50524472613803 DTSTART:20251108T180000Z DTEND:20251108T220000Z DESCRIPTION:A multidisciplinary showcase from the artists and scholars of t he full-time faculty and staff at the Corcoran School of the Arts & Design .\n\nThe line “to free this dream.” is borrowed from the last stanza i n DC-poet Essex Hemphill’s American Wedding and is a prophetic reminder that those in power will always underestimate those on the ground\, in par t\, because they refuse to look closely—to see\; us. Often using strateg ies of reduction\, via language\, they assume we will make ourselves small and hold still– protecting ourselves from being buried in an avalanche of words\, images\, and media. That we will arrest ourselves in motion whi le they shore up their own positions. \n\nAnd yet\, within these very wall s\, directly across the street from a seat of power\, faculty\, staff\, an d students of the Corcoran School of the Arts & Design come together daily \, to write\, make\, exchange\, build\, perform\, sing\, play\, fail\, gro w\, learn\, move\, and voice through creative and academic research across generations\, demographics\, belief systems\, and cultural experiences— whether they see us\, or not. \n\nto free this dream. is evidence that the re is a space for us all here—to be. We make and remake this space every semester\, over years\, decades. In this space\, we come together\, movin g through the every day and building practices of choice in each studio or archive\, on each stage or book\, right across the street from those who overlook us. In doing so\, we cannot help but create our own irrefutable t erms–building meaning and transforming through systemic reduction\, like a poem. Like a nation. It is as artists and scholars and communities do. Our irreducibility is material\, source\, or chord—and is our refutation .\n\nContributors are full-time faculty and staff of the Corcoran School o f the Arts & Design: \n\nAasawari Kulkarni\, Alessandra Echeverri\, Allyso n Vieira\, Andrea Dietz\, Anna Jayne Kimmel\, Babette Pendleton\, Bella Ma ria Varela\, Bibi Obler\, Maria del Carmen Montoya\, Caroline Casey\, Cath erine Anderson\, Clement Akpang\, Daniel Jonas\, Dean Kessmann\, Douglas B oyce\, Douglas Crawford\, Em Petro\, Heather Stebbins\, Isaiah Aladejobi\, James Huckenpahler\, Joe Bradley\, Kaitlin Jencso\, Kamille Jackson\, Ker ry McAleer-Keeler\, Kiara Rivera\, Kirk Kristlibas\, Laura Schiavo\, Laure n Onkey\, Lisa Lipinski\, Loren Kajikawa\, Marc Choi\, Mary Coughlin\, Mat t Eich\, Maurice Tyree\, Max Van Balgooy\, Melina Misri\, Michele Carlson\ , Nick Hemenway\, Nidhi Singh Rathore\, Ning Yu\, Paul Reuther\, Siobhan R igg\, Stephanie Travis\, Susan Sterner\, Suse Anderson\n\nOrganized by Mic hele Carlson (Program Head\, Studio Arts and Associate Professor\, Printma king) GEO:38.895809;-77.040024 LOCATION:Flagg Building\, Second Floor Galleries SUMMARY:to free this dream. URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.gwu.edu/event/to-free-this-dream CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibition END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260909T091739Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50524472615852 DTSTART:20251112T180000Z DTEND:20251112T220000Z DESCRIPTION:A multidisciplinary showcase from the artists and scholars of t he full-time faculty and staff at the Corcoran School of the Arts & Design .\n\nThe line “to free this dream.” is borrowed from the last stanza i n DC-poet Essex Hemphill’s American Wedding and is a prophetic reminder that those in power will always underestimate those on the ground\, in par t\, because they refuse to look closely—to see\; us. Often using strateg ies of reduction\, via language\, they assume we will make ourselves small and hold still– protecting ourselves from being buried in an avalanche of words\, images\, and media. That we will arrest ourselves in motion whi le they shore up their own positions. \n\nAnd yet\, within these very wall s\, directly across the street from a seat of power\, faculty\, staff\, an d students of the Corcoran School of the Arts & Design come together daily \, to write\, make\, exchange\, build\, perform\, sing\, play\, fail\, gro w\, learn\, move\, and voice through creative and academic research across generations\, demographics\, belief systems\, and cultural experiences— whether they see us\, or not. \n\nto free this dream. is evidence that the re is a space for us all here—to be. We make and remake this space every semester\, over years\, decades. In this space\, we come together\, movin g through the every day and building practices of choice in each studio or archive\, on each stage or book\, right across the street from those who overlook us. In doing so\, we cannot help but create our own irrefutable t erms–building meaning and transforming through systemic reduction\, like a poem. Like a nation. It is as artists and scholars and communities do. Our irreducibility is material\, source\, or chord—and is our refutation .\n\nContributors are full-time faculty and staff of the Corcoran School o f the Arts & Design: \n\nAasawari Kulkarni\, Alessandra Echeverri\, Allyso n Vieira\, Andrea Dietz\, Anna Jayne Kimmel\, Babette Pendleton\, Bella Ma ria Varela\, Bibi Obler\, Maria del Carmen Montoya\, Caroline Casey\, Cath erine Anderson\, Clement Akpang\, Daniel Jonas\, Dean Kessmann\, Douglas B oyce\, Douglas Crawford\, Em Petro\, Heather Stebbins\, Isaiah Aladejobi\, James Huckenpahler\, Joe Bradley\, Kaitlin Jencso\, Kamille Jackson\, Ker ry McAleer-Keeler\, Kiara Rivera\, Kirk Kristlibas\, Laura Schiavo\, Laure n Onkey\, Lisa Lipinski\, Loren Kajikawa\, Marc Choi\, Mary Coughlin\, Mat t Eich\, Maurice Tyree\, Max Van Balgooy\, Melina Misri\, Michele Carlson\ , Nick Hemenway\, Nidhi Singh Rathore\, Ning Yu\, Paul Reuther\, Siobhan R igg\, Stephanie Travis\, Susan Sterner\, Suse Anderson\n\nOrganized by Mic hele Carlson (Program Head\, Studio Arts and Associate Professor\, Printma king) GEO:38.895809;-77.040024 LOCATION:Flagg Building\, Second Floor Galleries SUMMARY:to free this dream. URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.gwu.edu/event/to-free-this-dream CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibition END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260909T091739Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50524472616877 DTSTART:20251113T180000Z DTEND:20251113T220000Z DESCRIPTION:A multidisciplinary showcase from the artists and scholars of t he full-time faculty and staff at the Corcoran School of the Arts & Design .\n\nThe line “to free this dream.” is borrowed from the last stanza i n DC-poet Essex Hemphill’s American Wedding and is a prophetic reminder that those in power will always underestimate those on the ground\, in par t\, because they refuse to look closely—to see\; us. Often using strateg ies of reduction\, via language\, they assume we will make ourselves small and hold still– protecting ourselves from being buried in an avalanche of words\, images\, and media. That we will arrest ourselves in motion whi le they shore up their own positions. \n\nAnd yet\, within these very wall s\, directly across the street from a seat of power\, faculty\, staff\, an d students of the Corcoran School of the Arts & Design come together daily \, to write\, make\, exchange\, build\, perform\, sing\, play\, fail\, gro w\, learn\, move\, and voice through creative and academic research across generations\, demographics\, belief systems\, and cultural experiences— whether they see us\, or not. \n\nto free this dream. is evidence that the re is a space for us all here—to be. We make and remake this space every semester\, over years\, decades. In this space\, we come together\, movin g through the every day and building practices of choice in each studio or archive\, on each stage or book\, right across the street from those who overlook us. In doing so\, we cannot help but create our own irrefutable t erms–building meaning and transforming through systemic reduction\, like a poem. Like a nation. It is as artists and scholars and communities do. Our irreducibility is material\, source\, or chord—and is our refutation .\n\nContributors are full-time faculty and staff of the Corcoran School o f the Arts & Design: \n\nAasawari Kulkarni\, Alessandra Echeverri\, Allyso n Vieira\, Andrea Dietz\, Anna Jayne Kimmel\, Babette Pendleton\, Bella Ma ria Varela\, Bibi Obler\, Maria del Carmen Montoya\, Caroline Casey\, Cath erine Anderson\, Clement Akpang\, Daniel Jonas\, Dean Kessmann\, Douglas B oyce\, Douglas Crawford\, Em Petro\, Heather Stebbins\, Isaiah Aladejobi\, James Huckenpahler\, Joe Bradley\, Kaitlin Jencso\, Kamille Jackson\, Ker ry McAleer-Keeler\, Kiara Rivera\, Kirk Kristlibas\, Laura Schiavo\, Laure n Onkey\, Lisa Lipinski\, Loren Kajikawa\, Marc Choi\, Mary Coughlin\, Mat t Eich\, Maurice Tyree\, Max Van Balgooy\, Melina Misri\, Michele Carlson\ , Nick Hemenway\, Nidhi Singh Rathore\, Ning Yu\, Paul Reuther\, Siobhan R igg\, Stephanie Travis\, Susan Sterner\, Suse Anderson\n\nOrganized by Mic hele Carlson (Program Head\, Studio Arts and Associate Professor\, Printma king) GEO:38.895809;-77.040024 LOCATION:Flagg Building\, Second Floor Galleries SUMMARY:to free this dream. URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.gwu.edu/event/to-free-this-dream CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibition END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260909T091739Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50524472618926 DTSTART:20251114T180000Z DTEND:20251114T220000Z DESCRIPTION:A multidisciplinary showcase from the artists and scholars of t he full-time faculty and staff at the Corcoran School of the Arts & Design .\n\nThe line “to free this dream.” is borrowed from the last stanza i n DC-poet Essex Hemphill’s American Wedding and is a prophetic reminder that those in power will always underestimate those on the ground\, in par t\, because they refuse to look closely—to see\; us. Often using strateg ies of reduction\, via language\, they assume we will make ourselves small and hold still– protecting ourselves from being buried in an avalanche of words\, images\, and media. That we will arrest ourselves in motion whi le they shore up their own positions. \n\nAnd yet\, within these very wall s\, directly across the street from a seat of power\, faculty\, staff\, an d students of the Corcoran School of the Arts & Design come together daily \, to write\, make\, exchange\, build\, perform\, sing\, play\, fail\, gro w\, learn\, move\, and voice through creative and academic research across generations\, demographics\, belief systems\, and cultural experiences— whether they see us\, or not. \n\nto free this dream. is evidence that the re is a space for us all here—to be. We make and remake this space every semester\, over years\, decades. In this space\, we come together\, movin g through the every day and building practices of choice in each studio or archive\, on each stage or book\, right across the street from those who overlook us. In doing so\, we cannot help but create our own irrefutable t erms–building meaning and transforming through systemic reduction\, like a poem. Like a nation. It is as artists and scholars and communities do. Our irreducibility is material\, source\, or chord—and is our refutation .\n\nContributors are full-time faculty and staff of the Corcoran School o f the Arts & Design: \n\nAasawari Kulkarni\, Alessandra Echeverri\, Allyso n Vieira\, Andrea Dietz\, Anna Jayne Kimmel\, Babette Pendleton\, Bella Ma ria Varela\, Bibi Obler\, Maria del Carmen Montoya\, Caroline Casey\, Cath erine Anderson\, Clement Akpang\, Daniel Jonas\, Dean Kessmann\, Douglas B oyce\, Douglas Crawford\, Em Petro\, Heather Stebbins\, Isaiah Aladejobi\, James Huckenpahler\, Joe Bradley\, Kaitlin Jencso\, Kamille Jackson\, Ker ry McAleer-Keeler\, Kiara Rivera\, Kirk Kristlibas\, Laura Schiavo\, Laure n Onkey\, Lisa Lipinski\, Loren Kajikawa\, Marc Choi\, Mary Coughlin\, Mat t Eich\, Maurice Tyree\, Max Van Balgooy\, Melina Misri\, Michele Carlson\ , Nick Hemenway\, Nidhi Singh Rathore\, Ning Yu\, Paul Reuther\, Siobhan R igg\, Stephanie Travis\, Susan Sterner\, Suse Anderson\n\nOrganized by Mic hele Carlson (Program Head\, Studio Arts and Associate Professor\, Printma king) GEO:38.895809;-77.040024 LOCATION:Flagg Building\, Second Floor Galleries SUMMARY:to free this dream. URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.gwu.edu/event/to-free-this-dream CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibition END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260909T091739Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50524472619951 DTSTART:20251115T180000Z DTEND:20251115T220000Z DESCRIPTION:A multidisciplinary showcase from the artists and scholars of t he full-time faculty and staff at the Corcoran School of the Arts & Design .\n\nThe line “to free this dream.” is borrowed from the last stanza i n DC-poet Essex Hemphill’s American Wedding and is a prophetic reminder that those in power will always underestimate those on the ground\, in par t\, because they refuse to look closely—to see\; us. Often using strateg ies of reduction\, via language\, they assume we will make ourselves small and hold still– protecting ourselves from being buried in an avalanche of words\, images\, and media. That we will arrest ourselves in motion whi le they shore up their own positions. \n\nAnd yet\, within these very wall s\, directly across the street from a seat of power\, faculty\, staff\, an d students of the Corcoran School of the Arts & Design come together daily \, to write\, make\, exchange\, build\, perform\, sing\, play\, fail\, gro w\, learn\, move\, and voice through creative and academic research across generations\, demographics\, belief systems\, and cultural experiences— whether they see us\, or not. \n\nto free this dream. is evidence that the re is a space for us all here—to be. We make and remake this space every semester\, over years\, decades. In this space\, we come together\, movin g through the every day and building practices of choice in each studio or archive\, on each stage or book\, right across the street from those who overlook us. In doing so\, we cannot help but create our own irrefutable t erms–building meaning and transforming through systemic reduction\, like a poem. Like a nation. It is as artists and scholars and communities do. Our irreducibility is material\, source\, or chord—and is our refutation .\n\nContributors are full-time faculty and staff of the Corcoran School o f the Arts & Design: \n\nAasawari Kulkarni\, Alessandra Echeverri\, Allyso n Vieira\, Andrea Dietz\, Anna Jayne Kimmel\, Babette Pendleton\, Bella Ma ria Varela\, Bibi Obler\, Maria del Carmen Montoya\, Caroline Casey\, Cath erine Anderson\, Clement Akpang\, Daniel Jonas\, Dean Kessmann\, Douglas B oyce\, Douglas Crawford\, Em Petro\, Heather Stebbins\, Isaiah Aladejobi\, James Huckenpahler\, Joe Bradley\, Kaitlin Jencso\, Kamille Jackson\, Ker ry McAleer-Keeler\, Kiara Rivera\, Kirk Kristlibas\, Laura Schiavo\, Laure n Onkey\, Lisa Lipinski\, Loren Kajikawa\, Marc Choi\, Mary Coughlin\, Mat t Eich\, Maurice Tyree\, Max Van Balgooy\, Melina Misri\, Michele Carlson\ , Nick Hemenway\, Nidhi Singh Rathore\, Ning Yu\, Paul Reuther\, Siobhan R igg\, Stephanie Travis\, Susan Sterner\, Suse Anderson\n\nOrganized by Mic hele Carlson (Program Head\, Studio Arts and Associate Professor\, Printma king) GEO:38.895809;-77.040024 LOCATION:Flagg Building\, Second Floor Galleries SUMMARY:to free this dream. URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.gwu.edu/event/to-free-this-dream CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibition END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260909T091739Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50524472622000 DTSTART:20251119T180000Z DTEND:20251119T220000Z DESCRIPTION:A multidisciplinary showcase from the artists and scholars of t he full-time faculty and staff at the Corcoran School of the Arts & Design .\n\nThe line “to free this dream.” is borrowed from the last stanza i n DC-poet Essex Hemphill’s American Wedding and is a prophetic reminder that those in power will always underestimate those on the ground\, in par t\, because they refuse to look closely—to see\; us. Often using strateg ies of reduction\, via language\, they assume we will make ourselves small and hold still– protecting ourselves from being buried in an avalanche of words\, images\, and media. That we will arrest ourselves in motion whi le they shore up their own positions. \n\nAnd yet\, within these very wall s\, directly across the street from a seat of power\, faculty\, staff\, an d students of the Corcoran School of the Arts & Design come together daily \, to write\, make\, exchange\, build\, perform\, sing\, play\, fail\, gro w\, learn\, move\, and voice through creative and academic research across generations\, demographics\, belief systems\, and cultural experiences— whether they see us\, or not. \n\nto free this dream. is evidence that the re is a space for us all here—to be. We make and remake this space every semester\, over years\, decades. In this space\, we come together\, movin g through the every day and building practices of choice in each studio or archive\, on each stage or book\, right across the street from those who overlook us. In doing so\, we cannot help but create our own irrefutable t erms–building meaning and transforming through systemic reduction\, like a poem. Like a nation. It is as artists and scholars and communities do. Our irreducibility is material\, source\, or chord—and is our refutation .\n\nContributors are full-time faculty and staff of the Corcoran School o f the Arts & Design: \n\nAasawari Kulkarni\, Alessandra Echeverri\, Allyso n Vieira\, Andrea Dietz\, Anna Jayne Kimmel\, Babette Pendleton\, Bella Ma ria Varela\, Bibi Obler\, Maria del Carmen Montoya\, Caroline Casey\, Cath erine Anderson\, Clement Akpang\, Daniel Jonas\, Dean Kessmann\, Douglas B oyce\, Douglas Crawford\, Em Petro\, Heather Stebbins\, Isaiah Aladejobi\, James Huckenpahler\, Joe Bradley\, Kaitlin Jencso\, Kamille Jackson\, Ker ry McAleer-Keeler\, Kiara Rivera\, Kirk Kristlibas\, Laura Schiavo\, Laure n Onkey\, Lisa Lipinski\, Loren Kajikawa\, Marc Choi\, Mary Coughlin\, Mat t Eich\, Maurice Tyree\, Max Van Balgooy\, Melina Misri\, Michele Carlson\ , Nick Hemenway\, Nidhi Singh Rathore\, Ning Yu\, Paul Reuther\, Siobhan R igg\, Stephanie Travis\, Susan Sterner\, Suse Anderson\n\nOrganized by Mic hele Carlson (Program Head\, Studio Arts and Associate Professor\, Printma king) GEO:38.895809;-77.040024 LOCATION:Flagg Building\, Second Floor Galleries SUMMARY:to free this dream. URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.gwu.edu/event/to-free-this-dream CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibition END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260909T091739Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50524472624049 DTSTART:20251120T180000Z DTEND:20251120T220000Z DESCRIPTION:A multidisciplinary showcase from the artists and scholars of t he full-time faculty and staff at the Corcoran School of the Arts & Design .\n\nThe line “to free this dream.” is borrowed from the last stanza i n DC-poet Essex Hemphill’s American Wedding and is a prophetic reminder that those in power will always underestimate those on the ground\, in par t\, because they refuse to look closely—to see\; us. Often using strateg ies of reduction\, via language\, they assume we will make ourselves small and hold still– protecting ourselves from being buried in an avalanche of words\, images\, and media. That we will arrest ourselves in motion whi le they shore up their own positions. \n\nAnd yet\, within these very wall s\, directly across the street from a seat of power\, faculty\, staff\, an d students of the Corcoran School of the Arts & Design come together daily \, to write\, make\, exchange\, build\, perform\, sing\, play\, fail\, gro w\, learn\, move\, and voice through creative and academic research across generations\, demographics\, belief systems\, and cultural experiences— whether they see us\, or not. \n\nto free this dream. is evidence that the re is a space for us all here—to be. We make and remake this space every semester\, over years\, decades. In this space\, we come together\, movin g through the every day and building practices of choice in each studio or archive\, on each stage or book\, right across the street from those who overlook us. In doing so\, we cannot help but create our own irrefutable t erms–building meaning and transforming through systemic reduction\, like a poem. Like a nation. It is as artists and scholars and communities do. Our irreducibility is material\, source\, or chord—and is our refutation .\n\nContributors are full-time faculty and staff of the Corcoran School o f the Arts & Design: \n\nAasawari Kulkarni\, Alessandra Echeverri\, Allyso n Vieira\, Andrea Dietz\, Anna Jayne Kimmel\, Babette Pendleton\, Bella Ma ria Varela\, Bibi Obler\, Maria del Carmen Montoya\, Caroline Casey\, Cath erine Anderson\, Clement Akpang\, Daniel Jonas\, Dean Kessmann\, Douglas B oyce\, Douglas Crawford\, Em Petro\, Heather Stebbins\, Isaiah Aladejobi\, James Huckenpahler\, Joe Bradley\, Kaitlin Jencso\, Kamille Jackson\, Ker ry McAleer-Keeler\, Kiara Rivera\, Kirk Kristlibas\, Laura Schiavo\, Laure n Onkey\, Lisa Lipinski\, Loren Kajikawa\, Marc Choi\, Mary Coughlin\, Mat t Eich\, Maurice Tyree\, Max Van Balgooy\, Melina Misri\, Michele Carlson\ , Nick Hemenway\, Nidhi Singh Rathore\, Ning Yu\, Paul Reuther\, Siobhan R igg\, Stephanie Travis\, Susan Sterner\, Suse Anderson\n\nOrganized by Mic hele Carlson (Program Head\, Studio Arts and Associate Professor\, Printma king) GEO:38.895809;-77.040024 LOCATION:Flagg Building\, Second Floor Galleries SUMMARY:to free this dream. URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.gwu.edu/event/to-free-this-dream CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibition END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260909T091739Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50524472625074 DTSTART:20251121T180000Z DTEND:20251121T220000Z DESCRIPTION:A multidisciplinary showcase from the artists and scholars of t he full-time faculty and staff at the Corcoran School of the Arts & Design .\n\nThe line “to free this dream.” is borrowed from the last stanza i n DC-poet Essex Hemphill’s American Wedding and is a prophetic reminder that those in power will always underestimate those on the ground\, in par t\, because they refuse to look closely—to see\; us. Often using strateg ies of reduction\, via language\, they assume we will make ourselves small and hold still– protecting ourselves from being buried in an avalanche of words\, images\, and media. That we will arrest ourselves in motion whi le they shore up their own positions. \n\nAnd yet\, within these very wall s\, directly across the street from a seat of power\, faculty\, staff\, an d students of the Corcoran School of the Arts & Design come together daily \, to write\, make\, exchange\, build\, perform\, sing\, play\, fail\, gro w\, learn\, move\, and voice through creative and academic research across generations\, demographics\, belief systems\, and cultural experiences— whether they see us\, or not. \n\nto free this dream. is evidence that the re is a space for us all here—to be. We make and remake this space every semester\, over years\, decades. In this space\, we come together\, movin g through the every day and building practices of choice in each studio or archive\, on each stage or book\, right across the street from those who overlook us. In doing so\, we cannot help but create our own irrefutable t erms–building meaning and transforming through systemic reduction\, like a poem. Like a nation. It is as artists and scholars and communities do. Our irreducibility is material\, source\, or chord—and is our refutation .\n\nContributors are full-time faculty and staff of the Corcoran School o f the Arts & Design: \n\nAasawari Kulkarni\, Alessandra Echeverri\, Allyso n Vieira\, Andrea Dietz\, Anna Jayne Kimmel\, Babette Pendleton\, Bella Ma ria Varela\, Bibi Obler\, Maria del Carmen Montoya\, Caroline Casey\, Cath erine Anderson\, Clement Akpang\, Daniel Jonas\, Dean Kessmann\, Douglas B oyce\, Douglas Crawford\, Em Petro\, Heather Stebbins\, Isaiah Aladejobi\, James Huckenpahler\, Joe Bradley\, Kaitlin Jencso\, Kamille Jackson\, Ker ry McAleer-Keeler\, Kiara Rivera\, Kirk Kristlibas\, Laura Schiavo\, Laure n Onkey\, Lisa Lipinski\, Loren Kajikawa\, Marc Choi\, Mary Coughlin\, Mat t Eich\, Maurice Tyree\, Max Van Balgooy\, Melina Misri\, Michele Carlson\ , Nick Hemenway\, Nidhi Singh Rathore\, Ning Yu\, Paul Reuther\, Siobhan R igg\, Stephanie Travis\, Susan Sterner\, Suse Anderson\n\nOrganized by Mic hele Carlson (Program Head\, Studio Arts and Associate Professor\, Printma king) GEO:38.895809;-77.040024 LOCATION:Flagg Building\, Second Floor Galleries SUMMARY:to free this dream. URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.gwu.edu/event/to-free-this-dream CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibition END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260909T091739Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50524472627123 DTSTART:20251122T180000Z DTEND:20251122T220000Z DESCRIPTION:A multidisciplinary showcase from the artists and scholars of t he full-time faculty and staff at the Corcoran School of the Arts & Design .\n\nThe line “to free this dream.” is borrowed from the last stanza i n DC-poet Essex Hemphill’s American Wedding and is a prophetic reminder that those in power will always underestimate those on the ground\, in par t\, because they refuse to look closely—to see\; us. Often using strateg ies of reduction\, via language\, they assume we will make ourselves small and hold still– protecting ourselves from being buried in an avalanche of words\, images\, and media. That we will arrest ourselves in motion whi le they shore up their own positions. \n\nAnd yet\, within these very wall s\, directly across the street from a seat of power\, faculty\, staff\, an d students of the Corcoran School of the Arts & Design come together daily \, to write\, make\, exchange\, build\, perform\, sing\, play\, fail\, gro w\, learn\, move\, and voice through creative and academic research across generations\, demographics\, belief systems\, and cultural experiences— whether they see us\, or not. \n\nto free this dream. is evidence that the re is a space for us all here—to be. We make and remake this space every semester\, over years\, decades. In this space\, we come together\, movin g through the every day and building practices of choice in each studio or archive\, on each stage or book\, right across the street from those who overlook us. In doing so\, we cannot help but create our own irrefutable t erms–building meaning and transforming through systemic reduction\, like a poem. Like a nation. It is as artists and scholars and communities do. Our irreducibility is material\, source\, or chord—and is our refutation .\n\nContributors are full-time faculty and staff of the Corcoran School o f the Arts & Design: \n\nAasawari Kulkarni\, Alessandra Echeverri\, Allyso n Vieira\, Andrea Dietz\, Anna Jayne Kimmel\, Babette Pendleton\, Bella Ma ria Varela\, Bibi Obler\, Maria del Carmen Montoya\, Caroline Casey\, Cath erine Anderson\, Clement Akpang\, Daniel Jonas\, Dean Kessmann\, Douglas B oyce\, Douglas Crawford\, Em Petro\, Heather Stebbins\, Isaiah Aladejobi\, James Huckenpahler\, Joe Bradley\, Kaitlin Jencso\, Kamille Jackson\, Ker ry McAleer-Keeler\, Kiara Rivera\, Kirk Kristlibas\, Laura Schiavo\, Laure n Onkey\, Lisa Lipinski\, Loren Kajikawa\, Marc Choi\, Mary Coughlin\, Mat t Eich\, Maurice Tyree\, Max Van Balgooy\, Melina Misri\, Michele Carlson\ , Nick Hemenway\, Nidhi Singh Rathore\, Ning Yu\, Paul Reuther\, Siobhan R igg\, Stephanie Travis\, Susan Sterner\, Suse Anderson\n\nOrganized by Mic hele Carlson (Program Head\, Studio Arts and Associate Professor\, Printma king) GEO:38.895809;-77.040024 LOCATION:Flagg Building\, Second Floor Galleries SUMMARY:to free this dream. URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.gwu.edu/event/to-free-this-dream CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibition END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260909T091739Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50524472629172 DTSTART:20251126T180000Z DTEND:20251126T220000Z DESCRIPTION:A multidisciplinary showcase from the artists and scholars of t he full-time faculty and staff at the Corcoran School of the Arts & Design .\n\nThe line “to free this dream.” is borrowed from the last stanza i n DC-poet Essex Hemphill’s American Wedding and is a prophetic reminder that those in power will always underestimate those on the ground\, in par t\, because they refuse to look closely—to see\; us. Often using strateg ies of reduction\, via language\, they assume we will make ourselves small and hold still– protecting ourselves from being buried in an avalanche of words\, images\, and media. That we will arrest ourselves in motion whi le they shore up their own positions. \n\nAnd yet\, within these very wall s\, directly across the street from a seat of power\, faculty\, staff\, an d students of the Corcoran School of the Arts & Design come together daily \, to write\, make\, exchange\, build\, perform\, sing\, play\, fail\, gro w\, learn\, move\, and voice through creative and academic research across generations\, demographics\, belief systems\, and cultural experiences— whether they see us\, or not. \n\nto free this dream. is evidence that the re is a space for us all here—to be. We make and remake this space every semester\, over years\, decades. In this space\, we come together\, movin g through the every day and building practices of choice in each studio or archive\, on each stage or book\, right across the street from those who overlook us. In doing so\, we cannot help but create our own irrefutable t erms–building meaning and transforming through systemic reduction\, like a poem. Like a nation. It is as artists and scholars and communities do. Our irreducibility is material\, source\, or chord—and is our refutation .\n\nContributors are full-time faculty and staff of the Corcoran School o f the Arts & Design: \n\nAasawari Kulkarni\, Alessandra Echeverri\, Allyso n Vieira\, Andrea Dietz\, Anna Jayne Kimmel\, Babette Pendleton\, Bella Ma ria Varela\, Bibi Obler\, Maria del Carmen Montoya\, Caroline Casey\, Cath erine Anderson\, Clement Akpang\, Daniel Jonas\, Dean Kessmann\, Douglas B oyce\, Douglas Crawford\, Em Petro\, Heather Stebbins\, Isaiah Aladejobi\, James Huckenpahler\, Joe Bradley\, Kaitlin Jencso\, Kamille Jackson\, Ker ry McAleer-Keeler\, Kiara Rivera\, Kirk Kristlibas\, Laura Schiavo\, Laure n Onkey\, Lisa Lipinski\, Loren Kajikawa\, Marc Choi\, Mary Coughlin\, Mat t Eich\, Maurice Tyree\, Max Van Balgooy\, Melina Misri\, Michele Carlson\ , Nick Hemenway\, Nidhi Singh Rathore\, Ning Yu\, Paul Reuther\, Siobhan R igg\, Stephanie Travis\, Susan Sterner\, Suse Anderson\n\nOrganized by Mic hele Carlson (Program Head\, Studio Arts and Associate Professor\, Printma king) GEO:38.895809;-77.040024 LOCATION:Flagg Building\, Second Floor Galleries SUMMARY:to free this dream. URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.gwu.edu/event/to-free-this-dream CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibition END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260909T091739Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50524472630197 DTSTART:20251127T180000Z DTEND:20251127T220000Z DESCRIPTION:A multidisciplinary showcase from the artists and scholars of t he full-time faculty and staff at the Corcoran School of the Arts & Design .\n\nThe line “to free this dream.” is borrowed from the last stanza i n DC-poet Essex Hemphill’s American Wedding and is a prophetic reminder that those in power will always underestimate those on the ground\, in par t\, because they refuse to look closely—to see\; us. Often using strateg ies of reduction\, via language\, they assume we will make ourselves small and hold still– protecting ourselves from being buried in an avalanche of words\, images\, and media. That we will arrest ourselves in motion whi le they shore up their own positions. \n\nAnd yet\, within these very wall s\, directly across the street from a seat of power\, faculty\, staff\, an d students of the Corcoran School of the Arts & Design come together daily \, to write\, make\, exchange\, build\, perform\, sing\, play\, fail\, gro w\, learn\, move\, and voice through creative and academic research across generations\, demographics\, belief systems\, and cultural experiences— whether they see us\, or not. \n\nto free this dream. is evidence that the re is a space for us all here—to be. We make and remake this space every semester\, over years\, decades. In this space\, we come together\, movin g through the every day and building practices of choice in each studio or archive\, on each stage or book\, right across the street from those who overlook us. In doing so\, we cannot help but create our own irrefutable t erms–building meaning and transforming through systemic reduction\, like a poem. Like a nation. It is as artists and scholars and communities do. Our irreducibility is material\, source\, or chord—and is our refutation .\n\nContributors are full-time faculty and staff of the Corcoran School o f the Arts & Design: \n\nAasawari Kulkarni\, Alessandra Echeverri\, Allyso n Vieira\, Andrea Dietz\, Anna Jayne Kimmel\, Babette Pendleton\, Bella Ma ria Varela\, Bibi Obler\, Maria del Carmen Montoya\, Caroline Casey\, Cath erine Anderson\, Clement Akpang\, Daniel Jonas\, Dean Kessmann\, Douglas B oyce\, Douglas Crawford\, Em Petro\, Heather Stebbins\, Isaiah Aladejobi\, James Huckenpahler\, Joe Bradley\, Kaitlin Jencso\, Kamille Jackson\, Ker ry McAleer-Keeler\, Kiara Rivera\, Kirk Kristlibas\, Laura Schiavo\, Laure n Onkey\, Lisa Lipinski\, Loren Kajikawa\, Marc Choi\, Mary Coughlin\, Mat t Eich\, Maurice Tyree\, Max Van Balgooy\, Melina Misri\, Michele Carlson\ , Nick Hemenway\, Nidhi Singh Rathore\, Ning Yu\, Paul Reuther\, Siobhan R igg\, Stephanie Travis\, Susan Sterner\, Suse Anderson\n\nOrganized by Mic hele Carlson (Program Head\, Studio Arts and Associate Professor\, Printma king) GEO:38.895809;-77.040024 LOCATION:Flagg Building\, Second Floor Galleries SUMMARY:to free this dream. URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.gwu.edu/event/to-free-this-dream CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibition END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260909T091739Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50524472632246 DTSTART:20251128T180000Z DTEND:20251128T220000Z DESCRIPTION:A multidisciplinary showcase from the artists and scholars of t he full-time faculty and staff at the Corcoran School of the Arts & Design .\n\nThe line “to free this dream.” is borrowed from the last stanza i n DC-poet Essex Hemphill’s American Wedding and is a prophetic reminder that those in power will always underestimate those on the ground\, in par t\, because they refuse to look closely—to see\; us. Often using strateg ies of reduction\, via language\, they assume we will make ourselves small and hold still– protecting ourselves from being buried in an avalanche of words\, images\, and media. That we will arrest ourselves in motion whi le they shore up their own positions. \n\nAnd yet\, within these very wall s\, directly across the street from a seat of power\, faculty\, staff\, an d students of the Corcoran School of the Arts & Design come together daily \, to write\, make\, exchange\, build\, perform\, sing\, play\, fail\, gro w\, learn\, move\, and voice through creative and academic research across generations\, demographics\, belief systems\, and cultural experiences— whether they see us\, or not. \n\nto free this dream. is evidence that the re is a space for us all here—to be. We make and remake this space every semester\, over years\, decades. In this space\, we come together\, movin g through the every day and building practices of choice in each studio or archive\, on each stage or book\, right across the street from those who overlook us. In doing so\, we cannot help but create our own irrefutable t erms–building meaning and transforming through systemic reduction\, like a poem. Like a nation. It is as artists and scholars and communities do. Our irreducibility is material\, source\, or chord—and is our refutation .\n\nContributors are full-time faculty and staff of the Corcoran School o f the Arts & Design: \n\nAasawari Kulkarni\, Alessandra Echeverri\, Allyso n Vieira\, Andrea Dietz\, Anna Jayne Kimmel\, Babette Pendleton\, Bella Ma ria Varela\, Bibi Obler\, Maria del Carmen Montoya\, Caroline Casey\, Cath erine Anderson\, Clement Akpang\, Daniel Jonas\, Dean Kessmann\, Douglas B oyce\, Douglas Crawford\, Em Petro\, Heather Stebbins\, Isaiah Aladejobi\, James Huckenpahler\, Joe Bradley\, Kaitlin Jencso\, Kamille Jackson\, Ker ry McAleer-Keeler\, Kiara Rivera\, Kirk Kristlibas\, Laura Schiavo\, Laure n Onkey\, Lisa Lipinski\, Loren Kajikawa\, Marc Choi\, Mary Coughlin\, Mat t Eich\, Maurice Tyree\, Max Van Balgooy\, Melina Misri\, Michele Carlson\ , Nick Hemenway\, Nidhi Singh Rathore\, Ning Yu\, Paul Reuther\, Siobhan R igg\, Stephanie Travis\, Susan Sterner\, Suse Anderson\n\nOrganized by Mic hele Carlson (Program Head\, Studio Arts and Associate Professor\, Printma king) GEO:38.895809;-77.040024 LOCATION:Flagg Building\, Second Floor Galleries SUMMARY:to free this dream. URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.gwu.edu/event/to-free-this-dream CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibition END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260909T091739Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50524472633271 DTSTART:20251129T180000Z DTEND:20251129T220000Z DESCRIPTION:A multidisciplinary showcase from the artists and scholars of t he full-time faculty and staff at the Corcoran School of the Arts & Design .\n\nThe line “to free this dream.” is borrowed from the last stanza i n DC-poet Essex Hemphill’s American Wedding and is a prophetic reminder that those in power will always underestimate those on the ground\, in par t\, because they refuse to look closely—to see\; us. Often using strateg ies of reduction\, via language\, they assume we will make ourselves small and hold still– protecting ourselves from being buried in an avalanche of words\, images\, and media. That we will arrest ourselves in motion whi le they shore up their own positions. \n\nAnd yet\, within these very wall s\, directly across the street from a seat of power\, faculty\, staff\, an d students of the Corcoran School of the Arts & Design come together daily \, to write\, make\, exchange\, build\, perform\, sing\, play\, fail\, gro w\, learn\, move\, and voice through creative and academic research across generations\, demographics\, belief systems\, and cultural experiences— whether they see us\, or not. \n\nto free this dream. is evidence that the re is a space for us all here—to be. We make and remake this space every semester\, over years\, decades. In this space\, we come together\, movin g through the every day and building practices of choice in each studio or archive\, on each stage or book\, right across the street from those who overlook us. In doing so\, we cannot help but create our own irrefutable t erms–building meaning and transforming through systemic reduction\, like a poem. Like a nation. It is as artists and scholars and communities do. Our irreducibility is material\, source\, or chord—and is our refutation .\n\nContributors are full-time faculty and staff of the Corcoran School o f the Arts & Design: \n\nAasawari Kulkarni\, Alessandra Echeverri\, Allyso n Vieira\, Andrea Dietz\, Anna Jayne Kimmel\, Babette Pendleton\, Bella Ma ria Varela\, Bibi Obler\, Maria del Carmen Montoya\, Caroline Casey\, Cath erine Anderson\, Clement Akpang\, Daniel Jonas\, Dean Kessmann\, Douglas B oyce\, Douglas Crawford\, Em Petro\, Heather Stebbins\, Isaiah Aladejobi\, James Huckenpahler\, Joe Bradley\, Kaitlin Jencso\, Kamille Jackson\, Ker ry McAleer-Keeler\, Kiara Rivera\, Kirk Kristlibas\, Laura Schiavo\, Laure n Onkey\, Lisa Lipinski\, Loren Kajikawa\, Marc Choi\, Mary Coughlin\, Mat t Eich\, Maurice Tyree\, Max Van Balgooy\, Melina Misri\, Michele Carlson\ , Nick Hemenway\, Nidhi Singh Rathore\, Ning Yu\, Paul Reuther\, Siobhan R igg\, Stephanie Travis\, Susan Sterner\, Suse Anderson\n\nOrganized by Mic hele Carlson (Program Head\, Studio Arts and Associate Professor\, Printma king) GEO:38.895809;-77.040024 LOCATION:Flagg Building\, Second Floor Galleries SUMMARY:to free this dream. URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.gwu.edu/event/to-free-this-dream CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibition END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260909T091739Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50524472635320 DTSTART:20251203T180000Z DTEND:20251203T220000Z DESCRIPTION:A multidisciplinary showcase from the artists and scholars of t he full-time faculty and staff at the Corcoran School of the Arts & Design .\n\nThe line “to free this dream.” is borrowed from the last stanza i n DC-poet Essex Hemphill’s American Wedding and is a prophetic reminder that those in power will always underestimate those on the ground\, in par t\, because they refuse to look closely—to see\; us. Often using strateg ies of reduction\, via language\, they assume we will make ourselves small and hold still– protecting ourselves from being buried in an avalanche of words\, images\, and media. That we will arrest ourselves in motion whi le they shore up their own positions. \n\nAnd yet\, within these very wall s\, directly across the street from a seat of power\, faculty\, staff\, an d students of the Corcoran School of the Arts & Design come together daily \, to write\, make\, exchange\, build\, perform\, sing\, play\, fail\, gro w\, learn\, move\, and voice through creative and academic research across generations\, demographics\, belief systems\, and cultural experiences— whether they see us\, or not. \n\nto free this dream. is evidence that the re is a space for us all here—to be. We make and remake this space every semester\, over years\, decades. In this space\, we come together\, movin g through the every day and building practices of choice in each studio or archive\, on each stage or book\, right across the street from those who overlook us. In doing so\, we cannot help but create our own irrefutable t erms–building meaning and transforming through systemic reduction\, like a poem. Like a nation. It is as artists and scholars and communities do. Our irreducibility is material\, source\, or chord—and is our refutation .\n\nContributors are full-time faculty and staff of the Corcoran School o f the Arts & Design: \n\nAasawari Kulkarni\, Alessandra Echeverri\, Allyso n Vieira\, Andrea Dietz\, Anna Jayne Kimmel\, Babette Pendleton\, Bella Ma ria Varela\, Bibi Obler\, Maria del Carmen Montoya\, Caroline Casey\, Cath erine Anderson\, Clement Akpang\, Daniel Jonas\, Dean Kessmann\, Douglas B oyce\, Douglas Crawford\, Em Petro\, Heather Stebbins\, Isaiah Aladejobi\, James Huckenpahler\, Joe Bradley\, Kaitlin Jencso\, Kamille Jackson\, Ker ry McAleer-Keeler\, Kiara Rivera\, Kirk Kristlibas\, Laura Schiavo\, Laure n Onkey\, Lisa Lipinski\, Loren Kajikawa\, Marc Choi\, Mary Coughlin\, Mat t Eich\, Maurice Tyree\, Max Van Balgooy\, Melina Misri\, Michele Carlson\ , Nick Hemenway\, Nidhi Singh Rathore\, Ning Yu\, Paul Reuther\, Siobhan R igg\, Stephanie Travis\, Susan Sterner\, Suse Anderson\n\nOrganized by Mic hele Carlson (Program Head\, Studio Arts and Associate Professor\, Printma king) GEO:38.895809;-77.040024 LOCATION:Flagg Building\, Second Floor Galleries SUMMARY:to free this dream. URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.gwu.edu/event/to-free-this-dream CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibition END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260909T091739Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50524472636345 DTSTART:20251204T180000Z DTEND:20251204T220000Z DESCRIPTION:A multidisciplinary showcase from the artists and scholars of t he full-time faculty and staff at the Corcoran School of the Arts & Design .\n\nThe line “to free this dream.” is borrowed from the last stanza i n DC-poet Essex Hemphill’s American Wedding and is a prophetic reminder that those in power will always underestimate those on the ground\, in par t\, because they refuse to look closely—to see\; us. Often using strateg ies of reduction\, via language\, they assume we will make ourselves small and hold still– protecting ourselves from being buried in an avalanche of words\, images\, and media. That we will arrest ourselves in motion whi le they shore up their own positions. \n\nAnd yet\, within these very wall s\, directly across the street from a seat of power\, faculty\, staff\, an d students of the Corcoran School of the Arts & Design come together daily \, to write\, make\, exchange\, build\, perform\, sing\, play\, fail\, gro w\, learn\, move\, and voice through creative and academic research across generations\, demographics\, belief systems\, and cultural experiences— whether they see us\, or not. \n\nto free this dream. is evidence that the re is a space for us all here—to be. We make and remake this space every semester\, over years\, decades. In this space\, we come together\, movin g through the every day and building practices of choice in each studio or archive\, on each stage or book\, right across the street from those who overlook us. In doing so\, we cannot help but create our own irrefutable t erms–building meaning and transforming through systemic reduction\, like a poem. Like a nation. It is as artists and scholars and communities do. Our irreducibility is material\, source\, or chord—and is our refutation .\n\nContributors are full-time faculty and staff of the Corcoran School o f the Arts & Design: \n\nAasawari Kulkarni\, Alessandra Echeverri\, Allyso n Vieira\, Andrea Dietz\, Anna Jayne Kimmel\, Babette Pendleton\, Bella Ma ria Varela\, Bibi Obler\, Maria del Carmen Montoya\, Caroline Casey\, Cath erine Anderson\, Clement Akpang\, Daniel Jonas\, Dean Kessmann\, Douglas B oyce\, Douglas Crawford\, Em Petro\, Heather Stebbins\, Isaiah Aladejobi\, James Huckenpahler\, Joe Bradley\, Kaitlin Jencso\, Kamille Jackson\, Ker ry McAleer-Keeler\, Kiara Rivera\, Kirk Kristlibas\, Laura Schiavo\, Laure n Onkey\, Lisa Lipinski\, Loren Kajikawa\, Marc Choi\, Mary Coughlin\, Mat t Eich\, Maurice Tyree\, Max Van Balgooy\, Melina Misri\, Michele Carlson\ , Nick Hemenway\, Nidhi Singh Rathore\, Ning Yu\, Paul Reuther\, Siobhan R igg\, Stephanie Travis\, Susan Sterner\, Suse Anderson\n\nOrganized by Mic hele Carlson (Program Head\, Studio Arts and Associate Professor\, Printma king) GEO:38.895809;-77.040024 LOCATION:Flagg Building\, Second Floor Galleries SUMMARY:to free this dream. URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.gwu.edu/event/to-free-this-dream CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibition END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260909T091739Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50524472638394 DTSTART:20251205T180000Z DTEND:20251205T220000Z DESCRIPTION:A multidisciplinary showcase from the artists and scholars of t he full-time faculty and staff at the Corcoran School of the Arts & Design .\n\nThe line “to free this dream.” is borrowed from the last stanza i n DC-poet Essex Hemphill’s American Wedding and is a prophetic reminder that those in power will always underestimate those on the ground\, in par t\, because they refuse to look closely—to see\; us. Often using strateg ies of reduction\, via language\, they assume we will make ourselves small and hold still– protecting ourselves from being buried in an avalanche of words\, images\, and media. That we will arrest ourselves in motion whi le they shore up their own positions. \n\nAnd yet\, within these very wall s\, directly across the street from a seat of power\, faculty\, staff\, an d students of the Corcoran School of the Arts & Design come together daily \, to write\, make\, exchange\, build\, perform\, sing\, play\, fail\, gro w\, learn\, move\, and voice through creative and academic research across generations\, demographics\, belief systems\, and cultural experiences— whether they see us\, or not. \n\nto free this dream. is evidence that the re is a space for us all here—to be. We make and remake this space every semester\, over years\, decades. In this space\, we come together\, movin g through the every day and building practices of choice in each studio or archive\, on each stage or book\, right across the street from those who overlook us. In doing so\, we cannot help but create our own irrefutable t erms–building meaning and transforming through systemic reduction\, like a poem. Like a nation. It is as artists and scholars and communities do. Our irreducibility is material\, source\, or chord—and is our refutation .\n\nContributors are full-time faculty and staff of the Corcoran School o f the Arts & Design: \n\nAasawari Kulkarni\, Alessandra Echeverri\, Allyso n Vieira\, Andrea Dietz\, Anna Jayne Kimmel\, Babette Pendleton\, Bella Ma ria Varela\, Bibi Obler\, Maria del Carmen Montoya\, Caroline Casey\, Cath erine Anderson\, Clement Akpang\, Daniel Jonas\, Dean Kessmann\, Douglas B oyce\, Douglas Crawford\, Em Petro\, Heather Stebbins\, Isaiah Aladejobi\, James Huckenpahler\, Joe Bradley\, Kaitlin Jencso\, Kamille Jackson\, Ker ry McAleer-Keeler\, Kiara Rivera\, Kirk Kristlibas\, Laura Schiavo\, Laure n Onkey\, Lisa Lipinski\, Loren Kajikawa\, Marc Choi\, Mary Coughlin\, Mat t Eich\, Maurice Tyree\, Max Van Balgooy\, Melina Misri\, Michele Carlson\ , Nick Hemenway\, Nidhi Singh Rathore\, Ning Yu\, Paul Reuther\, Siobhan R igg\, Stephanie Travis\, Susan Sterner\, Suse Anderson\n\nOrganized by Mic hele Carlson (Program Head\, Studio Arts and Associate Professor\, Printma king) GEO:38.895809;-77.040024 LOCATION:Flagg Building\, Second Floor Galleries SUMMARY:to free this dream. URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.gwu.edu/event/to-free-this-dream CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibition END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260909T091739Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50524472639419 DTSTART:20251206T180000Z DTEND:20251206T220000Z DESCRIPTION:A multidisciplinary showcase from the artists and scholars of t he full-time faculty and staff at the Corcoran School of the Arts & Design .\n\nThe line “to free this dream.” is borrowed from the last stanza i n DC-poet Essex Hemphill’s American Wedding and is a prophetic reminder that those in power will always underestimate those on the ground\, in par t\, because they refuse to look closely—to see\; us. Often using strateg ies of reduction\, via language\, they assume we will make ourselves small and hold still– protecting ourselves from being buried in an avalanche of words\, images\, and media. That we will arrest ourselves in motion whi le they shore up their own positions. \n\nAnd yet\, within these very wall s\, directly across the street from a seat of power\, faculty\, staff\, an d students of the Corcoran School of the Arts & Design come together daily \, to write\, make\, exchange\, build\, perform\, sing\, play\, fail\, gro w\, learn\, move\, and voice through creative and academic research across generations\, demographics\, belief systems\, and cultural experiences— whether they see us\, or not. \n\nto free this dream. is evidence that the re is a space for us all here—to be. We make and remake this space every semester\, over years\, decades. In this space\, we come together\, movin g through the every day and building practices of choice in each studio or archive\, on each stage or book\, right across the street from those who overlook us. In doing so\, we cannot help but create our own irrefutable t erms–building meaning and transforming through systemic reduction\, like a poem. Like a nation. It is as artists and scholars and communities do. Our irreducibility is material\, source\, or chord—and is our refutation .\n\nContributors are full-time faculty and staff of the Corcoran School o f the Arts & Design: \n\nAasawari Kulkarni\, Alessandra Echeverri\, Allyso n Vieira\, Andrea Dietz\, Anna Jayne Kimmel\, Babette Pendleton\, Bella Ma ria Varela\, Bibi Obler\, Maria del Carmen Montoya\, Caroline Casey\, Cath erine Anderson\, Clement Akpang\, Daniel Jonas\, Dean Kessmann\, Douglas B oyce\, Douglas Crawford\, Em Petro\, Heather Stebbins\, Isaiah Aladejobi\, James Huckenpahler\, Joe Bradley\, Kaitlin Jencso\, Kamille Jackson\, Ker ry McAleer-Keeler\, Kiara Rivera\, Kirk Kristlibas\, Laura Schiavo\, Laure n Onkey\, Lisa Lipinski\, Loren Kajikawa\, Marc Choi\, Mary Coughlin\, Mat t Eich\, Maurice Tyree\, Max Van Balgooy\, Melina Misri\, Michele Carlson\ , Nick Hemenway\, Nidhi Singh Rathore\, Ning Yu\, Paul Reuther\, Siobhan R igg\, Stephanie Travis\, Susan Sterner\, Suse Anderson\n\nOrganized by Mic hele Carlson (Program Head\, Studio Arts and Associate Professor\, Printma king) GEO:38.895809;-77.040024 LOCATION:Flagg Building\, Second Floor Galleries SUMMARY:to free this dream. URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.gwu.edu/event/to-free-this-dream CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibition END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR