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GW's Luther W. Brady Art Gallery The GW Luther W. Brady Art Gallery is the university's professional showcase for art and also administers the University’s Collection.



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🔹Hidden Treasures of Washington, D.C.🔹Tuesday, October 20, 10 a.m.–4:30 p.m. Flagg Building, Salon DoréThis symposium ma...
10/18/2026

🔹Hidden Treasures of Washington, D.C.🔹
Tuesday, October 20, 10 a.m.–4:30 p.m.
Flagg Building, Salon Doré

This symposium marks the launch of Marc Chagall: The Printmaker, an online exhibition drawn from nearly a year of research by more than 20 GW students and alumni.

Chagall’s etchings are easily overshadowed by the paintings, the stained glass, the monumental commissions, but graphic art sits at the center of how he worked. The exhibition brings together 27 etchings from the GW Collection, 14 of them from Gogol’s Dead Souls, along with a silk scarf held by the GW Museum and the Textile Museum GW Museum and Textile Museum.

The symposium looks outward from there, to the Chagall works across this city that stay hidden in plain sight: prints and watercolors too fragile to show often, bon à tirer impressions little known even to scholars, the Orpheus mosaic in the National Gallery Sculpture Garden that thousands walk past without stopping.

Free and open to all. Registration link is link in stories.

10/16/2026

Eve Rozier, one of the GW students behind Cracks & Reforms, talks through the two works that open and close the exhibition, and the thinking that put them there.

Cracks & Reforms: The 1920s Through the GW Collection was shaped by student research. Students selected the works, studied them, and built the show around the connections they found.

Student-led tour tomorrow, Saturday, October 17, at 1 p.m. Register on Eventbrite, link in bio.

10/09/2026

Hanna Ruth, a graduate student at GW and part of the exhibition design team, walks us through Cracks & Reforms: The 1920s Through the GW Collection — what the decade looked like from inside the collection, and how the show came together.
The exhibition grew out of student research led by Associate Professor Bibiana Obler. Students selected and studied the works; the connections they found became the structure of the show.

On view at the Brady Gallery through December 12. Student-led tours on Fridays and Saturdays at 1 p.m. — register on Eventbrite, link in bio.

Two conversations this month at the Brady Gallery, both growing out of student research in the GW Collection.▪️Unruly: T...
10/08/2026

Two conversations this month at the Brady Gallery, both growing out of student research in the GW Collection.

▪️Unruly: The 1920s between Revolution and Reaction
Thursday, October 15, 1–2:30 p.m. · Online

A webinar panel with Prof. Ara Merjian (Italian Studies, NYU) and Dr. Joyce Tsai (Director, Clyfford Still Museum), accompanying Cracks & Reforms.

▪️Hidden Treasures of Washington, D.C.
Tuesday, October 20, 10 a.m.–4:30 p.m. · Corcoran Flagg Building, Salon Doré

A student symposium on the work of Marc Chagall, accompanying the online exhibition Marc Chagall: The Printmaker.

And every Friday and Saturday at 1 p.m., students lead tours of Unfossilizing African Art and Cracks & Reforms — walk through the exhibitions with the people who researched them. Register on Eventbrite: tap the link in our stories and pick your date!

10/05/2026

Thank you to everyone who joined us for the opening reception. It was wonderful to see students, alumni, and faculty from across the Corcoran’s programs and disciplines, alongside longtime friends of the Brady Gallery. Seeing the galleries full of people, conversation, — and this time, even a drum performance, — is what makes years of research and months of preparation visible.

In her remarks, Corcoran Director Laura Schiavo quoted MFA Professor Michele Carlson on the work of art that cannot be stopped, and a reminder of why we’re here: to support the scholarship and creative expression of everyone in the Corcoran community.

Join us for a student-led tour on Friday, October 9, 1–2 p.m., and be part of the conversation.

And mark your calendars for the Cracks & Reforms symposium next Thursday, October 15.

Join us tomorrow, October 1, from 6–8 p.m. for an opening reception celebrating three exhibitions that bring together th...
09/30/2026

Join us tomorrow, October 1, from 6–8 p.m. for an opening reception celebrating three exhibitions that bring together the creative and scholarly work of Corcoran faculty, staff, and students.

On view at the Brady Gallery:

▪️Cracks & Reforms: The 1920s Through the GW Collection
Developed in an art history course taught by Associate Professor Bibiana Obler, this exhibition examines a decade shaped by political upheaval, social transformation, migration, modernization, and cultural redefinition. Corcoran graphic design students designed the companion catalog.

▪️Unfossilizing African Art
Led by Assistant Professor Clement Akpang, this exhibition recontextualizes African material culture objects held in the GW Collection for nearly 50 years. Across four seminar courses, 59 students conducted original research to deepen understanding of the collection and reconsider how these objects are interpreted and exhibited.

Throughout the evening, enjoy performances in music, theatre, and dance, and meet the artists, scholars, and community members behind the work. It’s the kind of night that only happens at the Corcoran.

Thursday, October 1
6–8 p.m.
Flagg Building, 500 17th Street NW

Installation photos: William Atkins

What can the art of the 1920s tell us about a world undergoing profound change?Cracks & Reforms: The 1920s through the G...
09/04/2026

What can the art of the 1920s tell us about a world undergoing profound change?

Cracks & Reforms: The 1920s through the GW Collection is now on view at the Luther W. Brady Art Gallery through December 12, 2026.

The 1920s was a decade shaped by collapse and reconstruction, political upheaval and social transformation. Across the world, artists, journalists, and makers responded to changing ideas about identity, modernity, migration, and culture. A century later, this exhibition brings together a selection of works from the GW Collection to explore these global currents and the many ways people imagined themselves and their changing world.

The exhibition grew from student research led by Associate Professor Bibiana Obler. Students selected and studied works from the collection, with their research gradually revealing connections and shared themes that shaped the exhibition. The project also extends into design: Corcoran graphic design students, led by Professors Sharmila Karamchandani and Aasawari Kulkarni, designed the accompanying catalog.

Cracks & Reforms offers a cross-section of a transformative decade—and an opportunity to look at the 1920s through the questions and perspectives of students today.

On view August 26–December 12, 2026.

Welcome back to the Corcoran! The Luther W. Brady Art Gallery is open for the fall semester with two new exhibitions: Un...
09/04/2026

Welcome back to the Corcoran! The Luther W. Brady Art Gallery is open for the fall semester with two new exhibitions: Unfossilizing African Art and Cracks & Reforms: The 1920s through the GW Collection.

After nearly 50 years in the GW Collection, African material culture objects are being revisited. Led by Assistant Professor Clement Akpang, 59 students across four seminar courses conducted original research from Fall 2024 through Spring 2026, deepening our understanding of these objects and reconsidering how they can be interpreted and exhibited today.

The exhibition brings together 37 objects alongside photographs and video that illuminate their histories, cultural contexts, and uses. An accompanying illustrated publication presents research on the collection as a whole, creating a lasting resource for future scholarship.

Unfossilizing African Art shows what becomes possible when a university collection is treated as an active site of research, learning, and collaboration.

On view through December 12, 2026.

06/17/2026

We hope you’re enjoying the summer, whether you’re taking summer courses, taking a well-deserved break from your studies, or traveling near and far.

With the excitement of the NEXT Festival and Graduation now behind us, we’re taking a moment to look back on an extraordinary semester at the Luther W. Brady Gallery.

This spring brought inspiring collaborations across disciplines and borders:
▪️an international partnership for Callas at La Scala, exploring the artistry of costume design and the legacy of La Divina;
▪️a joint effort between Art History and Museum Studies students on Portraying the Mask, examining the boundaries between persona and character through the photography of Philippe Halsman;
▪️and American Made, a student-curated exhibition that engaged with the many layers of American identity, from overlooked stories and hidden histories to some of the nation’s most recognizable symbols.

Thank you to our students, faculty, partners, alumni, and visitors for making this semester so memorable. We look forward to welcoming you back in the fall, where more exciting projects and exhibitions will await!

05/08/2026

Final days to experience American Made at the Luther W. Brady Art Gallery.

This student-curated exhibition brings together works from the GW Collection and the Textile Museum to reflect on the many ways America has been imagined, constructed, challenged, and redefined. But conversations about America are impossible without your participation. Throughout the exhibition, students designed interactive elements that invite visitors to reflect on their own relationship to history, identity, and civic life.

In this video, Aleq Quinn shares more about these participatory aspects of the exhibition.

📅 Last public days:
• Friday, May 9
• Next Wednesday, May 13
• Next Thursday, May 14

📍 Luther W. Brady Art Gallery
🕐 1–5 PM

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