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Encyclopedia > Cornish College of the Arts
Kerry Hall, Cornish's oldest building and the last part of Cornish remaining on Seattle's Capitol Hill.
Kerry Hall, Cornish's oldest building and the last part of Cornish remaining on Seattle's Capitol Hill.
Like Kerry Hall, Cornish's main Denny Triangle building is also on the National Register of Historic Places
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. Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (2592 × 1944 pixels, file size: 904 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) File historyClick on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time. ... Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (2592 × 1944 pixels, file size: 904 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) File historyClick on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time. ... Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (2592 × 1944 pixels, file size: 759 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) File historyClick on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time. ... Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (2592 × 1944 pixels, file size: 759 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) File historyClick on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time. ... A typical plaque showing entry on the National Register of Historic Places. ... The Denny Regrade is a neighborhood in Seattle, Washington that stretches north of the central business district to the grounds of Seattle Center. ... Capitol Hill Capitol Hill is the second most densely populated neighborhood in Seattle, Washington, United States, after Belltown (the north part of downtown). ... Seattle redirects here. ... For other uses, see Dance (disambiguation). ... For other usages see Theatre (disambiguation) Theater (American English) or Theatre (British English and widespread usage among theatre professionals in the US) is that branch of the performing arts concerned with acting out stories in front of an audience using combinations of speech, gesture, music, dance, sound and spectacle &#8212... All Saints Chapel in the Cathedral Basilica of St. ... Fine art refers to arts that are concerned with beauty or which appealed to taste (SOED 1991). ... For other uses, see Music (disambiguation). ...


Cornish was founded in 1914, as the Cornish School, by pianist and voice teacher Nellie Cornish, who was influenced by the pedagogical ideas of Maria Montessori, 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] This article is being considered for deletion in accordance with Wikipedias deletion policy. ... Maria Montessori (August 31, 1870 – May 6, 1952) was an Italian physician, educator, philosopher, humanitarian and devout Catholic; she is best known for her philosophy and method of education of children from birth to adolescence. ...

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Notable faculty

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Notable alumni

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Notes and references

  1. ^ Nate Lippens, short item on Cornish as part of "People Who Shaped Seattle", Seattle Metropolitan, May 2006, p. 59.
  • Mildred Andrews, Cornish School, HistoryLink.org Essay 596, December 26, 1998, updated on June 28, 2006.

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