RANDALL SCHOOL PASSES ZONING COMMISSION

January 17, 2008–

WASHINGTON, D.C.—The Corcoran Gallery of Art and College of Art + Design announces the approval of its plan for the Randall School property in Southwest Washington. On Monday, January 14, the DC Zoning Commission voted unanimously in favor of the project.

The Corcoran purchased the property from the DC Government in November 2006. The Randall facility will be the Corcoran’s third campus for its College classrooms, which will continue to be offered at the Seventeenth Street gallery space and at the Fillmore site in upper Georgetown.

At Randall, undergraduate students will have expanded classrooms for ceramics, sculpture and other equipment-intensive arts, as well as additional rooms for student exhibition display. The first undergraduates to use the new facility will be the entering class in fall 2011. Development of the facility is part of the Corcoran’s current strategic planning process, aimed at, among many priorities, expanding the College’s program scope, student base and competitive edge. The Corcoran College of Art + Design currently enrolls 350 undergraduates and 150 graduate students, as well as 2,500 students in continuing education programs.

“For the Corcoran, it allows us to not only expand our facilities and offer our students state-of-the-art studios and advanced creative technologies, but it will also afford us the opportunity to offer innovative art programs that will take advantage of our unique milieu: a museum school in the heart of the nation’s capital,” said Paul Greenhalgh, Director and President of the Corcoran.

The Corcoran will deliver a variety of community benefits—from art education in the southwest DC public schools to Continuing Education scholarships for ANC 6D residents.

“We are excited about this wonderful opportunity to expand our educational programs and community outreach,” said Jocelyn File, Director of Special Projects at the Corcoran. “We have already started working with the southwest community in anticipation of the Randall School opening in 2011; we are looking forward to being an integral part of the neighborhood.”

“The Corcoran is aimed at organizing itself to be the art school of the future,” Greenhalgh said. “This unique combination of the historic and the state-of-the-art is exactly in line with the Corcoran’s own identity as one of the oldest art galleries in the country and an energetic arts school for students of all ages. Proper facilities on every account—galleries and student spaces—are key to the future.”

Monument Realty—one of Washington’s most active real estate developers and a firm committed to the Southwest region—is the developer of the Randall property.

For more information regarding the Corcoran’s project, visit http://corcoran.edu/randall.

ABOUT THE CORCORAN
The Corcoran Gallery of Art, a privately funded institution, was founded in 1869 as Washington’s first and largest non-federal museum of art. It is known internationally for its distinguished collection of historical and modern American art as well as contemporary art, photography, European painting, sculpture and the decorative arts. Founded in 1890, the Corcoran College of Art + Design is Washington’s only college of art and design offering Bachelor of Fine Art degrees in Photojournalism, Digital Media Design, Fine Art, Graphic Design, Interior Design, and Photography; Associate of Fine Art degrees in Digital Media Design, Fine Art, Graphic Design and Photography; a five-year Bachelor of Fine Arts/Master of Arts degree in Fine Art and Teaching (BFA/MAT); and two-year Master of Arts degrees in Teaching, Art Education, Interior Design, Exhibition Design, and the History of Decorative Arts. The College’s Continuing Education program offers part-time credit and non-credit classes for children and adults.

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