CORCORAN ANONYMOUS
Purpose: Give an anonymous voice to the Corcoran community ,
an opportunity to state an opinion of past and current events, good (or bad)
memories, or generally anything that comes to mind when thinking about the
former Corcoran College of Art + Design and the Corcoran Museum of Art.
METHOD
Postcards were provided to jump start the project.
Participants were encouraged to anonymously write down their
thoughts, memories, etc. of their experience with the Corcoran and drop them in
a designated box at the school or send them via mail to a provided address.
PROMOTION
TANGIBLE MEDIA: Post Fliers on campus soliciting participation
SOCIAL MEDIA:
CONTACT:
Email students and faculty of the Corcoran
Email GWU faculty
Word of Mouth
Classroom presentations
FLIERS
SOCIAL MEDIA
As postcards were received, they were scanned and posted to
the Corcoran Anonymous Facebook page started September 2014.
The page was shared on personal sites, and while comments
could be posted, the page is not open to outside posts.
Lists of Facebook members were invited to “like”, and as
November 2014 there were 100 Likes.
CONTACT
Word of mouth, emails and classroom presentations were
canvased to help awareness of the project.
When possible, a postcard and flier was personally given to
individuals. Some were asked to fill one out on the spot.
Emails were sent to faculty of the school asking for
participation.
Emails were sent to faculty at GWU, all of which were not
replied to.
Postcards were scanned and put online for everyone to read.
The collection of postcards then made their way to the 3rd
floor galleries of the former Corcoran Museum of Art
And finally to a wall in the hallway for everyone to see firsthand
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