Cornish College of the Arts

Cornish College of the Arts
Cornish College of the Arts
Cornish seal.png
Established 1914
Type Private, non-profit
Location Seattle, Washington, United States
47°37′04″N 122°20′10″W / 47.617868°N 122.336171°W / 47.617868; -122.336171Coordinates: 47°37′04″N 122°20′10″W / 47.617868°N 122.336171°W / 47.617868; -122.336171
Website cornish.edu
Like Kerry Hall, Cornish's main Denny Triangle building is also on the National Register of Historic Places

Cornish College of the Arts is a fully accredited institution in the Denny Triangle and Capitol Hill neighborhoods of Seattle, Washington, USA that offers the Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Dance, Theater, Performance Production, Design, and Fine Art, as well as the Bachelor of Music degree. Cornish is considered one of the top art schools in the country[citation needed]. Cornish College of the Arts is the oldest music conservatory on the west coast. Today it is nationally recognized as a premier college for the visual and performing arts, and one of only three fully accredited private colleges in the entire nation dedicated to educating both performing and visual artists.

Cornish was founded in 1914, as the Cornish School, by pianist and voice teacher Nellie Cornish (1876–1956), who was influenced by the pedagogical ideas of Maria Montessori, as well as Calvin Brainerd Cady's ideas on music pedagogy,[citation needed] and who served as the school's director for its first 25 years. Within three years it had enrolled over 600 students, and was the country's largest music school west of Chicago.[1][2]

The Cornish School began its operations in rented space in the Boothe (or Booth[3]) Building on Broadway and Pine Street. Initially, the school taught only children, but it soon expanded to functioning also as a normal school (roughly what would now be called a teachers' college). While music was at the heart of the curriculum, Cornish recruited opportunistically where she saw talent, and the school soon offered classes as diverse as eurhythmics, French language, painting, dance (folk and ballet), and theater.[4][5] In 1916, Cornish became one of the first West Coast schools of any type to offer a summer session.[6] The school had the first marionette department in the United States.[7] By 1919, the school was offering classes and lessons from early childhood to the undergraduate level.[8] The school gathered a board of trustees from among Seattle's elite, who funded her school through the hard economic times during and after World War I, and raised money for a purpose-built school building.[5] By 1923, opera and modern dance had been added to the curriculum as well.[9]

The Cornish Trio of the 1920s—Peter Meremblum,[citation needed] Berthe Poncy (later Berthe Poncy Jacobson[10]), and Kola Levienne—may have been the first chamber music group resident at an American school.[11] In 1935, Cornish established the first (but ultimately short-lived) college-level school of radio broadcasting in the U.S.[12]

Through the 1920s, the school was often on the edge of financial failure,[13] but was of a caliber that prompted Anna Pavlova to call it "the kind of school other schools should follow."[14] Although the mortgage was paid off and the building donated to the school in 1929,[15] financial difficulties inevitably grew during the Great Depression.[16] Ultimately, convinced that finances would not allow the school to do more than "tread water," Nellie Cornish resigned her position as head of the school in 1939.[17]

Miss Aunt Nellie: The Autobiography of Nellie C. Cornish, was published by the University of Washington Press in 1964, with the assistance of funds from the Cornish School Alumnae Association.

Contents

Campus

Kerry Hall, Cornish's oldest building and the last part of Cornish remaining on Seattle's Capitol Hill.

Cornish's 1921 building, now known as Kerry Hall, is on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) as "Cornish School";[18] its Denny Triangle building is also listed on the NRHP, as the "William Volker Building".[19] The Raisbeck Performance Hall is a Seattle City Landmark under the name "Old Norway Hall".[20]

Cornish School
Cornish College of the Arts is located in Washington (state)
Location: 710 E. Roy St., Seattle, Washington
Coordinates: 47°37′32″N 122°19′19″W / 47.62556°N 122.32194°W / 47.62556; -122.32194Coordinates: 47°37′32″N 122°19′19″W / 47.62556°N 122.32194°W / 47.62556; -122.32194
Area: less than one acre
Built: 1921
Architectural style: Other, Spanish Colonial Revival
Governing body: Private
NRHP Reference#: 77001337[21]
Added to NRHP: August 29, 1977
Volker, William, Building
Location: 1000 Lenora St., Seattle, Washington
Coordinates: 47°37′6″N 122°20′30″W / 47.61833°N 122.34167°W / 47.61833; -122.34167Coordinates: 47°37′6″N 122°20′30″W / 47.61833°N 122.34167°W / 47.61833; -122.34167
Area: less than one acre
Built: 1928
Architectural style: Art Deco
Governing body: Private
NRHP Reference#: 83004236[21]
Added to NRHP: October 13, 1983


Library

The library at Cornish College specializes in art, dance, design, music, performance production, and theatre. As of 2011 it holds 4700 CDs, 40,000 books, has 2,200 videos, and subscribes to 154 periodicals. Its special collections include an image collection and 35mm slides.[22]

Presidents

Notable faculty

Music

Dance

Theater

Performance Production

  • Karen Gjelsteen
  • Ron Erickson
  • Greg Carter
  • Dave Tosti-Lane

Fine Art

Notable alumni

Dance

Music

Theater

Fine Art

Film

Notes

  1. ^ Berner 1991, pp. 92–93
  2. ^ Nate Lippens, short item on Cornish as part of "People Who Shaped Seattle", Seattle Metropolitan, May 2006, p. 59. Brenden Fraser went to Cornish and graduated with honors.
  3. ^ Mildred Andrews, Cornish School, HistoryLink Essay 596, December 26, 1998, updated on June 28, 2006. Retrieved 2010-05-25.
  4. ^ Cornish 1964, pp. 89–113
  5. ^ a b Berner 1991, pp. 93–94
  6. ^ Cornish 1964, p. 97
  7. ^ Cornish 1964, p. 109
  8. ^ Cornish 1964, pp. 112–113
  9. ^ Cornish 1964, pp. 133–134
  10. ^ Cornish 1964, pp. 170–171
  11. ^ Cornish 1964, pp. 160–161
  12. ^ Cornish 1964, pp. 245–249
  13. ^ Cornish 1964, pp. 154, 161–162
  14. ^ Cornish 1964, p. 163
  15. ^ Cornish 1964, pp. 204–205
  16. ^ Cornish 1964, p. passim.
  17. ^ Cornish 1964, pp. passim, esp. p. 252–261. The reference to "treading water" is on p. 255.
  18. ^ WASHINGTON - King County (page 2), National Register of Historic Places. Accessed online 31 January 2008.
  19. ^ WASHINGTON - King County (page 5), National Register of Historic Places. Accessed online 31 January 2008.
  20. ^ Landmarks Alphabetical Listing for O, Individual Landmarks, City of Seattle. Accessed 28 December 2007.
  21. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2010-07-09. http://nrhp.focus.nps.gov/natreg/docs/All_Data.html. 
  22. ^ American Library Directory. 2 (64th ed.). Information Today, Inc. 2011-2012. pp. 2568-2576. ISBN 978-1-57387-411-3. 
  23. ^ Chansanchai, Athima. "Looking for a Blue Man Isn't All Black and White - Seattlepi.com." Seattle News, Sports, Events, Entertainment | Seattlepi.com - Seattlepi.com. Web. 14 Oct. 2011. <http://www.seattlepi.com/ae/article/Looking-for-a-Blue-Man-isn-t-all-black-and-white-1191787.php>.
  24. ^ http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Content?oid=23584
  25. ^ http://heartmonger.blogspot.com/2009_03_01_archive.html
  26. ^ "Who dresses Johnny Depp? Costumer Colleen Atwood, a Northwest native". The Seattle Times. December 11, 2010. http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/movies/2013630076_atwood12.html?syndication=rss. 

References

  • Mildred Andrews, Cornish School, HistoryLink Essay 596, December 26, 1998, updated on June 28, 2006.
  • Berner, Richard C. (1991), Seattle 1900-1920: From Boomtown, Urban Turbulence, to Restoration, Charles Press, ISBN 0962988901 
  • Cornish, Nellie C. (1964), Browne, Ellen Van Volkenburg; Beck, Edward Nordhoff, eds., Miss Aunt Nellie. The autobiography of Nellie C. Cornish, foreword by Nancy Wilson Ross, Seattle: Univ. of Washington Press 

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