Exhibitions Mark Third and Final Year of For Freedoms Residency at Corcoran School

For Freedoms, an artist-led organization deepening civic engagement by centering artists as essential to shaping a free and pluralist society, presents two new exhibitions marking the third and final year of its three-year artist residency with the Corcoran School of the Arts and Design at the George Washington University. Night and Day, by artist Eric Gottesman, and Reflect, by artist Cannupa Hanska Luger, will be on view at the Corcoran October 28, 2026 – February 19, 2027. Night and Day centers on Ethiopian journalist and author Baalu Girma’s controversial 1983 Amharic novel Oromay, written under Ethiopia’s Derg regime and banned shortly after its publication. Drawing on artist Eric Gottesman’s longstanding engagement with the novel, the exhibition considers how artists create, communicate, and sustain cultural memory within and against