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Dancers mid-performance
Theatre
Beneath boisterous surface, something dark
Published April 11, 2018
JHU Barnstormers stage an enchanting performance of Broadway favorite 'Pippin'
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
Hip-hop class instructor dancing
Intersession
So you think you can dance?
Published Jan 26, 2017
Members of SLAM Hip Hop student dance group lead Intersession personal enrichment workshops
Students paint during art therapy course
Intersession
Art as therapy
Published Jan 20, 2017
Therapeutic Intersession class teaches students that art is 'something you do, not something you make'
When the air is a playground
Published Summer 2016
The Aerial Circus Club hangs, spins, and twists on silks and rings for the most artistic of core workouts / Johns Hopkins Magazine
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
Carly Bales
Q+A
Blurring lines
Published Oct 27, 2015
Baltimore artist, actor Carly Bales on what performance art, theater can learn from each other
Christopher Wren and Mollie Ralston argue
Whodunit
Murder, red herrings
Published Oct 23, 2015 Photos
JHU's Barnstormers present Agatha Christie's murder-mystery 'The Mousetrap'