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The CAMPAIGN FOR CORNISH
The mission of Cornish College of the Arts is to
provide students aspiring to become practicing
artists with an educational program of the highest
possible quality, in an environment that nurtures
creativity and intellectual curiosity, while preparing
them to contribute to society as artists, citizens,
and innovators.
Cornish realizes this mission by offering baccalau-
reate studies in the performing and visual arts and
by serving as a focal point in the community for
public presentation, artistic criticism, participation
and discussion of the arts.
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Every important city in the world has
the great fabric of cultural life to enhance its existence and to help identify it. — G e r a r d S c h w a r z
Conductor Laureate, S e a t t l e S y m p h o n y o r c h e S t r a
music students in the recording studio
painting studiobfa exhibition
‘the pajama game’, a collaboration between theater and performance production departments
a theater student prepares for a performance
A sTudenT sCrATChes ideAs in A noTebook. Music swells down the hall. A sculpture takes shape and
dancers prepare to take the stage. under the low-slung grey of a city on the edge, the halls, classrooms,
studios and performance spaces at Cornish brim with creativity.
Few cultural institutions existed in our gritty, hard-
scrabble town when nellie Cornish first established
her music school. nearly a century later, Cornish
College of the Arts assembles some of the most
promising young artists from around the world,
offering each of them a rigorous education that
cultivates individual vision and voice.
We are innovators. our students, faculty and alumni
have transformed modern dance, revolutionized con-
temporary music and pushed the boundaries of visual
and performing art. They bring to life the galleries,
stages and creative enterprise throughout our city.
They invigorate the city itself, helping to keep seattle
on the leading edge of ingenuity.
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The CAMpus is Where Cornish CoMes TogeTher – a laboratory of ideas and
imagination where artists intersect. dancers alongside pianists, painters working
with performers. because collaboration is only possible when students interact.
shared space is a necessary ingredient for creative discovery and every budding
artist needs a room where she can work. That room must invite the inspiration of
her peers and provide the tools, materials and light she needs to discover her voice.
Cornish students arrive on campus with new ideas, new ways of interpreting the
world around them. They experiment with media and explore technology. To remain
vital, Cornish must meet the evolving creative and academic needs of our students,
our faculty and the community.
The arts are dynamic. So are we.
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‘the good person of szechwan’, a student performance staged at broadway performance hall
art department alumni sculpture exhibition in recording studio with jovino santos-neto
c o r n i S h c o l l e G e o f t h e a r t S
BuIldINg a laBORatORy OF IdeAs & IMAGINATIoN
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dreamers, daredevils, virtuosos, firebrands – The Campaign for Cornish is a cam-
paign for every student who comes to study and create at one of the country’s
finest arts colleges.
The Campaign will usher Cornish into the next century by creating an urban
campus and growing our endowment. it will provide the space and stimulation
to hatch new ideas and create bold new work – studios where sculptors shape
or actors improvise. A growing endowment will secure our future for genera-
tions of students yet to come.
These aims are a means to an end, pushing Cornish ever closer to the center
of art, culture and innovation. Where engaged citizens feed the creative heart-
beat of our workforce, schools and civic life. Where art and creativity thrive.
ArTs eduCATion hAs never been More iMporTAnT. it provokes creativity.
it kindles innovative thinking. it equips young people to take risks and tackle the
challenges of an uncertain future. An arts education asks every student to peel
back, dig deep and find his voice in this world.
c o r n i S h c o l l e G e o f t h e a r t S
PuRSuINg a FutuRe WHeRe CReATIVITY BLooMs
The new Cornish campus eliminates the boundary
between classrooms and the verve of city life, feed-
ing an already strong connection among our students,
faculty, alumni and seattle’s arts community. if you’ve
been carried away by a performance on one of the
many stages in this city, admired a piece of art at
a local gallery, or marveled at the work of a commu-
nity arts organization, then you’ve intersected with
Cornish College of the Arts. our new campus will
strengthen this exchange.
A performing Arts Complex will be pivotal to our
new campus. This exceptional facility will provide
a new home to the dance and music departments.
surrounding the performing Arts Complex, we will
renovate and expand existing buildings to create
enhanced learning spaces, including additional
classrooms and a space for the study of media
arts, an expanded Cornish Main gallery, and a new
home for the Art department senior studios and
sculpture program.
Cornish begAn As A sMAll MusiC sChool nesTled on The norTh end oF seATTle’s CApiTol hill.
nearly 100 years later, we’re building our future in the city’s urban core.
cornish campus located in seattle’s urban core
‘cunningham in the northwest’ at the cornish main galleryfuture performing arts complex
c o r n i S h c o l l e G e o f t h e a r t S
BLURRING The BoUNdARY BetWeeN ClaSSROOmS & CIty lIFe
The goal of the Campaign for Cornish is to create a
dynamic urban campus that inspires and transforms
our students.
Your investment in the Campaign for Cornish helps
complete this vision and ensures a vibrant future
for our students and the arts.
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perForMing ArTs CoMplex $38.9m A new home for Dance and Music
The performing Arts Complex will unite the Cornish
Campus and student body. The Complex will provide
dance studios and practice rooms, a dance perfor-
mance studio, a public recital hall and other spaces
designed to inspire creativity and learning.
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visuAl ArTs CoMplex $5.6m A new home for the Sculpture Program
and Senior Art Studios
This building will provide the essential space to
create works of sculpture of any form, material or
size. it will also house individual studios for each
senior student in the Art department.
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MAin CAMpus CenTer Annex
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MAin CAMpus CenTer $1m An expanded Main Gallery
The Campaign will fund the expansion of the Cornish
Main gallery, which will offer greater exhibition op-
portunities and better community access through a
street-level entrance.
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noTion building $7.3m Additional classrooms and new media arts space
The building will be renovated and expanded to pro-
vide additional classroom space. it will also be home
to a new media arts space, providing a dedicated
environment for study and practice in film, video
and multimedia.
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An investment in the Cornish endowment guaran-
tees that all of our students will have this chance to
make an impact. it ensures that future generations
of Cornish students will receive the distinctive, holis-
tic and personalized arts education that has defined
us for a century.
A robust endowment opens doors, making it pos-
sible for students to reach their dreams and find their
voices. it readies them to define the future and
secures the cultural vitality of our region for many
years to come.
You never know if the students breezing through
the halls at Cornish are the next Coltrane, picasso
or Martha graham. but they are most certainly
tomorrow’s innovators and artists, designers and en-
trepreneurs, setting out to create a world we have
yet to imagine.
ArT And innovATion prosper in seATTle. Artists defy expectation. entrepreneurs rattle tradition.
Community leaders make history. in every pocket of our city, individuals are leaving their mark, redefining
the way we live and teaching us to see things differently.
c o r n i S h c o l l e G e o f t h e a r t S
SeCuRINg a legaCy OF INNoVATIoN
Today, Cornish remains ripe with possibility. our campus continues to buzz with
creativity and intellectual curiosity as students from around the world work to
develop their voices and crafts – preparing for a life in the arts and the world.
Your investment in the Campaign for Cornish is an investment in a great legacy
of dreamers. of imagination. it is an investment in the lasting character of our
city, forever transformed by the young artists who come to Cornish to learn,
create and inspire.
100 YeArs Ago, nell ie Cornish insT igATed A CulTurAl revoluT ion.
she strong-armed great artists of her day to help her school take flight, trekking
to the wilds of the far northwest with them to teach a motley crew of budding
young visionaries. she helped put seattle on the cultural map.
‘the cherry sisters’ production
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Celebrating the future OF tHe aRtS
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CornisH College of tHe Arts
offICe of INsTITUTIoNAL AdVANCeMeNT
1000 lenora street seattle, WA 98121
206.726.5064 [email protected]
www.cornish.edu
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If you’re going to make an investment in the arts, why not make an investment
in the point where art begins,where training of artists happens, where
the dialogue from one generation of artists to the next takes place.
— J o h n G o r d o n h i l l
Campaign Donor and Alumni Parent
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