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BFA Fine Art

Lynne Sures BFA Fine Art As a major in Fine Art, you have the freedom to work independently across multiple studio disciplines and media while benefiting from close mentoring relationships with a talented faculty and enjoying the encouragement and feedback of your peers.

Lager

Barba

Freidt

Hadley

Oneill

BFA Fine Art Photography

Muriel Hasbun Photo Chair

Pennington

Tillman

Canipe

Butterworth

Purcell

BFA Photojournalism

The Corcoran’s 120-credit photojournalism program is one of the most innovative in the country, offering an ideal training ground for a new generation of creative visual reporters and documentarians. Our faculty includes working photographers from The Washington Post and other news media, White House photography staff, and picture editors from The National Geographic. The curriculum includes a variety of fine-art components that stress how important individual creativity is in today’s marketplace.

Corum

Walsh

Browning

Allen

Jones

BFA Graphic Design

This 120-credit degree program provides students with the skills necessary to communicate complex information in creative and diverse formats. Students will gain competence in fundamentals of design, creating narratives with form, image, and typography. Learn design processes, methods, and communication strategies which include theory, aesthetics, culture, and practice. Students will learn state-of-the-art hardware and software used by design professionals in the field.

Palm

Carberry

Cortez

Zinser

Long

BFA Digital Media Design

The Corcoran’s 120-credit Digital Media Design program concentrates on interactive design, motion graphics, animation, 3D modeling, character design, and digital filmmaking. With faculty comprised of professional animators, digital video editors, and interactive designers, students benefit from excellent instruction, an intimate classroom setting, and detailed critique feedback. During your four years of study, you will become engaged in an immersive educational experience in design, design history, interactive design, motion graphics, and animation.

Birdie & Roster Man
Abigail Fairfax

Bodoni Machine
Abdalla Khashoggi

Imaginarium Parnassus
Noha Khashoggi

The Fall
Noha Khashoggi

Kashoggi

BFA Interior Design

The 120-credit Bachelor of Fine Arts in Interior Design degree program is designed for students who wish to achieve expertise in this broad-based and fulfilling profession, channeling their creative talents to this important component of the built environment. The program addresses both commercial and residential design while ensuring students have an equally strong background in the humanities, including the essentials of the history of art and design.

Doerr

Breeze Giannasio

O. Amatayakul

Tania Cholakova

Your First Year 2013

Your First Year at the Corcoran is not an independent Foundations program but rather an integrated, interdisciplinary experience involving not only all studio programs and faculty but also Arts and Humanities. This yearlong journey focuses on discovery, independence, and community, transitioning seamlessly into students’ second-year and departments.

Personal one-on-one advising and individual faculty mentoring help students understand the full range of experience at the college, their best choice for classes and course of study, and issues that arise en route to success.

Amy Chmara

Elliot Bryant

Ameshia Stukes

Abdalla Khashogar

MA Art and the Book

The Master of Arts in the Art and the Book Program offers a comprehensive approach to studying the history and theory of book culture, as well as contemporary methods of artist book production. The program draws on the culturally rich collections and visiting artists at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, as well as resources at the Library of Congress, the National Museum of Women In the Arts, and other regional institutions.

Verdant (outside shot)
Tia Blassingame, Natalie Jackson, Patti Harden, Tatiana Shukhin, and Vanessa Bados

Jackson

Duality and Our Path
Handmade paper, letterpress, screenprint & monoprint

No More Guessing Games
Letterpress

Symbiosis
Screenprint

Lynette A. Spencer

Blassingame

Stills
letterpress, modified case binding, video projection
Stephanie A. Hess

MA Exhibition Design

This is one of the few accredited graduate programs in the nation devoted to interpretive exhibition design. The curriculum is a balanced integration of academic, technical, and design courses. Students attain the professional skills needed to create experiences that engage, educate, and entertain audiences, and to assume the responsibilities of storytellers, communicators, and visitor advocates.