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Center for visual arts

Students paint with found objects
Intersession
Creating art from scratch
Published Jan 30, 2019 Photos
Color Theory class teaches students the principles of design and color
A student holds a mask sculpted to appear like a deer skull
Visual Arts
Making faces in class
Published Jan 31, 2018 Video
Students learn the cultural significance of masks before creating their own in Intersession course
A man stares seriously out from this portrait; he clasps his hands with interlaced fingers and bends his left hand backwards; his skin is in a gray tone; he wears a white tee shirt and a color hat topped with flowers
Visual art
Amy Sherald to speak at JHU
Published Oct 16, 2017
Baltimore artist known for striking portraits of African-Americans was recently commissioned to paint official portrait of Michelle Obama
Award-winning cartoonist to speak at Hopkins
Published March 17, 2017
Illustrator Barry Blitt, whose has drawn more than 80 covers for 'The New Yorker,' will visit on April 3
Black and white illustration of a dance theater
Q+A
Urban artistry
Published March 29, 2016
Comics artist Ben Katchor on city living, urban sprawl, and art as activism
Visual arts
'Hand-Drying in America'
Published March 14, 2016
Award-winning cartoonist, graphic novelist Ben Katchor to visit JHU on April 4
Painting of Brooklyn Bridge with streetlights, cars, and taillights at dusk
Art Talk
An artist of textures
Published Oct 12, 2015
Jane Dickson employs unusual mediums such as sandpaper, Astroturf
Alfresco
Campus on canvas
Published Sept 22, 2014 Photos
Forty-five artists set up their easels in various Homewood locations, showing the creative process in action