National Gallery

About the Collaboration

In 2023, a new agreement between the George Washington University, the Trustees of the Corcoran Gallery of Art and the National Gallery of Art unveiled a new initiative to facilitate immersive learning, art-making and interdisciplinary research that will drive exhibitions, performances and curriculum at the Corcoran School.

The partnership includes space for students, artists, community members, museum professionals and faculty to collaborate as well as opportunities for students to gain hands-on learning with National Gallery experts. We want to foster work that is civically engaged, interdisciplinary and collaborative. The work will be experimental and help us consider how to do what we do differently.

For Freedoms Residency

The partnership is supporting a three-year residency program (2024-2027) with For Freedoms, an artist-led organization that centers art as a catalyst for creative civic engagement, discourse, and direct action. The residency is driven by a theme of interdependence and supports long term projects that have a lasting impact on the school, the National Gallery, and broader DC community beyond the typical school year schedule.

For Freedoms will develop collaborative programming centered around research, inquiry, and experiments that expand systematic modes of thinking and participation within traditional art structures. Civic engagement will be a central component running through the programming series.