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WAHINGTON, D.C.—Artwork by students at the Corcoran College of Art + Design will adorn the exterior façade of the Corcoran’s Randall School in Southwest Washington. As part of the Corcoran’s benefits to the Southwest community, the College has committed to completing a beautification project at the Randall School site. Designed as part of the American Institute of Graphic Arts’ (AIGA) 2008 “Get out the Vote” campaign, the students’ poster designs will cover plywood on 20 windows facing I Street SW. The Corcoran purchased the property from the DC Government in November 2006, the project passed Zoning on January 14, 2008, and work will begin this year. The Randall facility will be the Corcoran’s third campus for its College classrooms, in addition to the Seventeenth Street gallery space and the Fillmore site in upper Georgetown. The AIGA, the professional association for design, has asked designers from all across the country to create non-partisan posters that will encourage the American public to participate in the electoral process. Graphic design and digital media design students at the Corcoran were among the first to address the concerns of this campaign. The students’ “Get out the Vote” designs reflect the importance of voting in this election year. In the 2004 United States presidential election, less than 60% of the voting age population voted. Corcoran graphic design instructors Sam Shelton and Robert Lasater asked students to research key demographics for under-represented populations and examine the reasons why these constituencies did not vote. “The students’ objectives were straightforward: motivating people to register and vote,” Shelton said. In addition to the Randall School beautification project, the Corcoran will deliver a variety of community benefits to the Southwest community—from art education in the southwest DC public schools to Continuing Education scholarships for ANC 6D residents. 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. 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 :: View images and further details from this exhibition
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