Paintings in the Textile Museum

A wonderful Society of the Emeriti monthly meeting. The speaker was Dr. Sanjit Sethi, Director of the Corcoran School. He provided us with a very interesting update on how the Corcoran Art School has been integrated into the University.

Here is a summary in Wikipedia:

The Corcoran School of the Arts and Design currently offers the degrees of Bachelor of Fine Arts (in Fine Art, Fine Art Photography, Photojournalism, Graphic Design, Interaction Design, and Interior Architecture); Bachelor of Arts (in Fine Art, Art History, Theatre & Dance and Music); Master of Fine Arts (in Fine Arts, Interior Architecture, Classical Acting and Production Design); Master of Arts (in Art History, New Media Photojournalism, Museum Studies, Interaction Design, Exhibition Design, and—in partnership with the Smithsonian Associates—Decorative Arts and Design History); graduate certificates in Museum Collections Management and Care, and Museum Studies; and a joint BA/MA program. After merging with George Washington University, the Corcoran School of the Arts and Design discontinued their Interior Design and Art Education programs.

Students are exposed to internships with organizations including National Geographic Magazine, embassies, and White House news photographers; summer study abroad trips in Italy, Greece, and India; and visiting artists such as Annie Leibovitz, Shepard Fairey, Maya Lin, Abelardo Morell, and William Pope. For a period of time in the spring, senior students' works for their senior theses are exhibited within the museum, giving the students experience in gallery openings as well as public exposure to their work.

Following his talk, we had a tour of the current exhibit in the University's Textile Museum: The Four Freedoms by Norman Rockwell. Having this temporary exhibit of such important and well-known paintings was definitely a coup for GW!