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Join the Corcoran on Saturdays this summer for Gallery tours, workshops, demonstrations, and performances! Enjoy our summer exhibitions and programming free of admission Memorial Day weekend through Labor Day weekend.
Special programs—many of which feature staff, faculty, and students—have been planned to celebrate the Corcoran’s collection and the temporary exhibitions Helios: Eadweard Muybridge in a Time of Change and Chuck Close Prints: Process and Collaboration.
New activities will be added regularly, so please check back frequently for the most up-to-date calendar of events. Programs are free and no pre-registration is required unless otherwise noted.
Every Saturday:
11 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Chalk Drawings
Corcoran alumn, Randolph Williams, recreates highlights from the Corcoran’s collections with chalk on the corner of 17th Street and New York Avenue.
12 p.m. and 3 p.m.
Highlights Tours
Join one of the Corcoran’s trained docents on a tour through the collection and temporary exhibitions.
June 23, 24, 25 and 26
7:00PM to 11:00PM
$65 Public $55 Corcoran and 1869 Society Members
Pre-registration is required.
ArtJamz
Artjamz in Gallery 31
Get in on the newest, hottest, and most creative way to spend an evening with old friends and potential new ones — ArtJamz! Be one of 25 lucky ArtJammers to take over Gallery 31 and paint your very own masterpiece in the halls of the famous Corcoran Gallery of Art. Each ArtJammer receives a canvas on an easel and enough paint and materials to create a wonderful work of art — which is yours to take home! Wine and soft drinks, hors devours, great music, and an artsy ArtJamz host and hostess will help keep the creative juices flowing in even the most uncreative of souls. Unleash your inner artist with ArtJamz, a Genki Media production. Get five ArtJammers to register and you ArtJam for free! Register now to secure your canvas at www.artjamzdc.com.
Saturday, June 26
12 p.m. — 3 p.m.
Sketching in the Atrium
Join us for sketching from a life model. All materials are provided.
Saturday, July 3
Chuck Close Prints: Process and Collaboration opens
Saturday, July 10
10:30 a.m. — Noon
Pulp to Paper - SOLD OUT
$8 per child, Corcoran Members at the Family level and above
$12 per child, Public
Paint and canvas are not the only tools artists use to create. See portraits made from wood blocks, strings, and even paper pulp in the special exhibition Chuck Close Prints: Process and Collaboration. Following the tour, create your own hand-made paper from bits of paper pulp.
1 p.m.
Play it Forward: The Domino Effect
Tim Fort's kinetic gadgets go beyond ordinary domino tumbling to encompass other chain-reaction techniques like the Muybridgeoscope, an animated device resembling a flip book. For the show, Fort takes over the Corcoran’s North Atrium to create one of his unique kinetic gadgets that mixes several of Eadweard Muybridge's motion studies into the design. Click here to view the artist's videos.
2-3:30 p.m.
Adult workshop Pulp to Paper
$8 Corcoran Members
$12 Public
Paint and canvas are not the only tools artists use to create. See portraits made from wood blocks, strings, and even paper pulp in the special exhibition Chuck Close Prints: Process and Collaboration. Following the tour, create your own hand-made paper from bits of paper pulp.
Saturday, July 17
2 p.m.
MONTAGE Music Society Performance
Saturday, July 24
11 a.m. — 3 p.m.
Community Art Project in the Atrium
Pre-registration is required.
Visitors work collaboratively on a Chuck Close inspired mystery portrait project in the Corcoran’s education workshop. Please join us to create a large-scale image of an artwork from the Corcoran collection that will then be displayed in the atrium.
Saturday, July 31
12 p.m. — 3 p.m.
Sketching in the Atrium
Join us for sketching from a life model. All materials are provided.
2 p.m. — 4:30 p.m.
Art and Architecture at the Corcoran Gallery of Art: A Photo Safari
$15 Members; $20 Public
Join E. David Luria of Washington Photo Safari in our galleries to learn how to successfully photograph art in museums without using a flash or tripod. The program focuses on 18th through 20th century American and European paintings, sculpture, and architecture at the Corcoran.
Saturday, August 7
11 a.m. — 3 p.m.
Community Art Project in the Atrium
Pre-registration is required.
Visitors work collaboratively on a Chuck Close inspired mystery portrait project in the Corcoran’s education workshop. Please join us to create a large-scale image of an artwork from the Corcoran collection that will then be displayed in the atrium.
Saturday, August 14
10:30 a.m.—12 p.m.- Sold Out
1 p.m.—2:30 p.m.- New Session
What a Relief!
$8 per child, Corcoran Members at the Family level and above
$12 per child, Public
Come face to face with the many colors and shapes that make up a portrait in the special exhibition, Chuck Close Prints: Process and Collaboration. Then in our printmaking studio, create an original relief print and remember to sign each edition for your friends and family!
Saturday, August 21
11 a.m. — 3 p.m.
Community Art Project in the Atrium
Visitors work collaboratively on a Chuck Close inspired mystery portrait project in the Corcoran’s education workshop. Please join us to create a large-scale image of an artwork from the Corcoran collection that will then be displayed in the atrium.
Saturday, August 28
11 a.m. — 1:30 p.m.
Virginia Virtuosi
Let the music of Virginia Virtuosi animate your gallery experience. Enjoy a thirty-minute, interactive musical tour based on works from the Corcoran’s permanent collection. Devoted to challenging musical boundaries and engaging new audiences, the Virginia Virtuosi performs innovative chamber music concerts throughout the greater Washington DC area.
Saturday, September 4
12 p.m. — 3 p.m.
Sketching in the Atrium
Join us for sketching from a life model. All materials are provided.
11 a.m. and 12:30 p.m.
Songs of Americana: Washington Revels Celebrate Historic American Art
To complement the Corcoran’s Collection of Historic American Art, the Washington Revels present a program celebrating the songs and traditions of early American life. Washington Revels have been a Washington area institution for over 25 years, dedicated to reviving and celebrating cultural traditions—music, dance, storytelling, drama, and ritual—that have bound communities together over the ages and across the globe.
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