Cornish College of the Arts
The Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle , Washington State, is an arts school that offers courses in dance , theater , music , performance , design, and fine arts.
history
The Cornish College of the Arts was founded in 1914 as the Cornish School by the pianist and singing teacher Nellie Cornish, who was influenced by the pedagogical concept of Maria Montessoris (1870-1952). Cornish headed the institute until 1944 and expanded it to become the largest music school in the northwestern United States . Originally the school was only intended for children. Today the college enables the completion of the Bachelor of Fine Arts in the subjects offered .
The oldest building on the college, the 1921 Kerry Hall , is in the Capitol Hill neighborhood . The main building is in the Denny Regrade district in the William Volker Building designed in 1928 by architects Henry Bittman and Harold Adams . Both buildings are on the National Register of Historic Places .
Personalities
Famous teachers included the painter Mark Tobey (1890–1976), the founder of modern dance Martha Graham (1884–1991) and the composer and painter John Cage (1912–1992). Gary Peacock , the American jazz - bassist taught from 1976 to 1983 music theory . Legendary dancer and choreographer Merce Cunningham studied at Cornish College in the late 1930s. The American-Canadian film actor Brendan Fraser graduated here. Well-known artists such as Imogen Cunningham , Lou Harrison , Meredith Monk , Mark Morris and Bill Frisell were artist in residence at the Cornish .
Web links
- College of the Arts. (English, website of Cornish College).
- Cornish College of the Arts. (English, entry in the online encyclopedia HistoryLink ).
- Roger Downey: The Kids Are All Right - Cornish comes back from the brink of mediocrity. Seattle Weekly (Cornish article).
Individual evidence
- ^ Mission, History, and Values. In: www.cornish.edu. Retrieved March 13, 2020 .
Coordinates: 47 ° 37 '4.3 " N , 122 ° 20' 10.2" W.