Washington, DC - Showcasing artwork by local students, Expressions 2003: Art by DC Youth reveals the imagination, talent and creativity of the more than 200 young people involved in the award-winning Corcoran ArtReach program. Corcoran ArtReach provides free visual arts and design education to DC youth through three component programs: ArtReach In-School, ArtReach After-School and ArtReach Mentorship. Featuring student work from each of these components, Expressions 2003: Art by DC Youth will be on view at the Corcoran from May 23 through June 16, 2003.
"ArtReach is an innovative and exciting program that brings together students, artists and teachers to enrich our community," comments Diane Arkin, Corcoran Curator of Education and Director of ArtReach. "The annual Expressions show is a wonderful celebration of this collaborative effort."
This year’s Expressions exhibition features approximately 50 works by ArtReach students. The multimedia installation - which includes paintings, drawings, prints, photography and sculpture - represents the creativity and diversity that characterize the ArtReach community. Highlights of the exhibition include landscape design studies by students in ArtReach’s In-School program at Woodrow Wilson Senior High School as well as works on paper by students from the Anacostia-based SEED School. Students in the Mentorship program selected pieces from their own portfolios that complement a series of artworks they created in collaboration with their mentors. Representing the After-School program are works by students from Asian American LEAD, the Latin American Youth Center, Calvary Bilingual Multicultural Center and the Patricia M. Sitar Center for the Arts.
ABOUT CORCORAN ARTREACH
Since its inception in 1992, Corcoran ArtReach has served thousands of students. Each year, the program extends the resources of the Corcoran Gallery of Art and the Corcoran College of Art + Design to young people throughout Washington, DC through three components:
ArtReach In-School provides advanced studio arts courses at four DC public schools (Fletcher-Johnson Educational Center, Stuart Hobson Middle School, Woodrow Wilson Senior High School and the SEED School).
ArtReach After-School offers free 90-minute studio arts courses twice a week during the academic year at four community centers located in Mt. Pleasant and Columbia Heights: Asian American LEAD, the Latin American Youth Center, Calvary Bilingual Multicultural Center and the Patricia M. Sitar Center for the Arts.
ArtReach Mentorship pairs talented high school students (ages 15 to 18) with professional artists in long-term partnerships complemented by specialized college and career counseling services.
Corcoran ArtReach has won national recognition for its work with young people in the nation’s capital. In 1999, the President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities and the National Endowment for the Arts gave ArtReach’s Mentorship program a Coming Up Taller award. The prestigious Coming Up Taller awards focus attention on exemplary community arts and humanities programs that foster the creative and intellectual development of America’s young people. More recently, The National Multicultural Institute recognized Corcoran ArtReach for its success in promoting multiculturalism and understanding within ethnically diverse groups.
EXHIBITION ORGANIZATION AND SPONSORSHIP
Expressions 2003: Art by DC Youth is organized by the Corcoran Gallery of Art and supported by The Women’s Committee of the Corcoran Gallery of Art and the FRIENDS of the Corcoran Gallery of Art.
The Corcoran also extends its gratitude to the following generous patrons for their support of Corcoran ArtReach’s work in the Washington community this year: Anonymous, Susan Spicer Angell, BET Holdings Inc., the BAND Foundation, the Brimstone Fund, the D.C. Commission on the Arts & Humanities, the Richard and Lois England Family Foundation, the Fannie Mae Foundation, the Corina Higginson Trust, the Mark and Carol Hyman Fund, the Morningstar Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, Samsonite, the StorageTek Foundation, the Surdna Foundation, and the Weissberg Foundation.
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