Master of Arts in the Field of Exhibition Design
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Exhibition design, in the MA–EX program at GW’s Corcoran School, is more than the design of spaces that convey information, share stories, or promote products. It does more than relate artworks, objects, and audiences in experiential compositions. It has the potential to tell us about how we are living and how we could be living.
MA–EX students take up the charge to rethink connections in the world. They find shapes for ideas and identities and orient them for diverse publics. They choreograph forms, facts, and fictions that put people in touch with each other and with the (built) environment. They design exhibitions as sites of material expression and activism.
The interdisciplinarity of the MA–EX program prepares students to innovate through exhibitions. Students work with curators, artists, and institutions. You will design in dialogue—drawing on multiple art, design, and social practices. And, you will develop dexterity, through training in analog craft and digital fabrication, studies in history and theory and exercises in real-world application.
The MA–EX program coordinates with Washington, DC’s extensive network of national museums. It also engages the city at-large, identifying opportunities for exhibition in its places of memory and monument, performance and protest, and commerce and leisure.
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Subjects
- Design
- Exhibition
- Art
- Complementing
- Structure
- Studio
- Knowledge
- Fieldwork
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- Skills
Course programme
The MA–EX curriculum is studio-centered. Each semester, the exhibition design studio acts as a hub for complementing coursework. Through the studio structure, students do fieldwork, navigate exhibition settings and scenarios, and apply external knowledge and skills in design for exhibitions.
Supporting classes are topical, in exhibition design history, theory, and criticism, in exhibition design practices, and in specializations. Specialized electives allow students to advance as designers or to acquire expertise in digital humanities, programming and performance and museum studies.
The MA–EX program is a sequential, 48-unit, two-year course of study.
Master of Arts in the Field of Exhibition Design
The following requirements must be fulfilled:
The general requirements stated under Columbian College of Arts and Sciences, Graduate Programs.
48 credits. A recommended sequence of courses is outlined below; the sequence will vary for part-time students.
Course ListCode Title Credits
Required
- History of Architecture and Interior Design
- Core Studio: Introduction to Exhibition Planning and Design
- Core Studio: Advanced Exhibition Design and Planning: Museum Environments
- Advanced 3D Modeling and Rendering: Vectorworks
- Lighting Exhibitions
- Materials, Finishes and Methods for Exhibition Design
- Core Studio: Advanced Tools and Methods of Visual Representation
- Exhibition Design Studio III: Visual Storytelling
- Museum Management and Operations
- Construction and Detailing for Exhibition Design
- Curatorial Studies for Exhibition Designers
- Conservation and Art Handling: The Art of Exhibition Mount Making
- Exhibition Design Capstone/Thesis Part 1
- Exhibition Design Capstone/Thesis Part 2
Six credits from the following:
Any CAH 6000- or 7000-level course
- Independent Study: Exhibition Design
- Exhibition Design Internship
Master of Arts in the Field of Exhibition Design