Cornish College of the Arts
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. 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.
Founded in 1914 as the Cornish School of Music, the name was changed a few years later, in 1920, to The Cornish School. In the 1950s, the name was lengthened to the Cornish School of Allied Arts; in 1977 it became the Cornish Institute of Allied Arts, and in 1986, the Cornish College of the Arts.
History
Cornish College of the Arts was founded in 1914 as the Cornish School of Music, by pianist and voice teacher Nellie Cornish (1876–1956). Cornish, who served as the school's director for its first 25 years, till 1939. Cornish founded her school following the progressive pedagogical ideas of Maria Montessori as well as the ideas on music pedagogy of Evelyn Fletcher-Copp and, especially Calvin Brainerd Cady, who taught at the school until his death in 1927. The Cornish School of Music began its operations in rented space in the Boothe (or Booth) Building on Broadway and Pine Street.
