LC control no. | no 97020849 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
Corporate name heading | Cornish College of the Arts (Seattle, Wash.) |
See also | Predecessor: Cornish Institute of Allied Arts (Seattle, Wash.) |
Other standard no. | Q1134192 726610 139860508 |
Beginning date | 1986 |
Associated country | United States |
Located | Seattle (Wash.) |
Field of activity | Education, Higher Arts--Study and teaching (Higher) |
Found in | Mixed media, winter 1993: t.p. (Cornish College of the Arts) p. 12 (Seattle, WA) Phone call to Cornish College of the Arts, 3/21/97 (name changed from: Cornish Institute of Allied Arts to: Cornish College of the Arts in 1986) Cornish College of the Arts website, July 6, 2018: History (1914: Cornish School of Music founded; by 1919 the reality that the institution had become much more than a music school was recognized formally: became The Cornish School; 1955: The Cornish School is renamed Cornish School of the Allied Arts; 1976: Cornish School of Allied Arts is renamed Cornish Institute; 1977: Cornish Institute is awarded accreditation as a four-year college; 1986: Cornish Institute is renamed Cornish College of the Arts) <http://www.cornish.edu/about/history/> HistoryLink.org, July 6, 2018 (Nellie C. Cornish (1876-1956) founded the Cornish School of Music in Seattle in 1914; within three years an expanded curriculum was evidenced by a new name--the Cornish School of Music, Language, and Dancing; in 1955, to better reflect the range of its offerings, the school was renamed Cornish School of the Allied Arts; in 1977, the school, then called the Cornish Institute, became a fully accredited college, offering bachelor of fine arts and bachelor of music degrees; in 1986 the school was renamed Cornish College of the Arts to reflect its accredited status) <http://www.historylink.org/File/596> |
Associated language | eng |