“Here’s something you might not expect from one of the world’s leading research universities: a thriving fiber arts program with a wait list. At Johns Hopkins University, weaving has quietly become one of the most talked-about electives on campus—and the story of how it got there is worth telling.”

The Program in Visual Arts invites you to our Annual Student Exhibition 2026. May 6th-8th, 2026 Open Gallery Hours Opening Reception Program in Visual ArtsJHU/MICA Film Centre, 3rd fl.10 E. North Ave. Baltimore, MD 21202. For more information, [email protected]

The Center for Visual Arts at Johns Hopkins University invites you to a Visiting Artist Talk with Lacemaker and Historian Elena Kanagy-Loux. Elena Kanagy-Loux is a PhD student at Bard Graduate Center whose research into global lace history and the lives of lacemakers is grounded in her own experience as a maker. After earning a […]

The Center for Visual Arts at Johns Hopkins University invites you to a Visiting Artist Talk with Visual Artist Diane Burko. Diane Burko’s work in painting, photography, and time-based media considers the marks that human conversations make on the landscape. A Professor Emerita of the Community College of Philadelphia with additional teaching experience at Princeton […]

We are excited to share that the Center for Visual Arts has a new installation of student work on display at the Student Exhibition Art Wall in the Bloomberg Student Center! This exhibition showcases the works of students from Professor Murphy’s Fall 2025 Painting II course, which includes Prisha Rathi, Angela Jun, Sabrene Mechergui, Daniel […]

The Center for Visual Arts at Johns Hopkins University invites you to a Visiting Artist Talk with Visual Artist Caleb Cole. Caleb Cole is a Midwest-born, Boston-based artist whose work addresses the opportunities and difficulties of queer belonging. Using collage, assemblage, photography, and video, they bring secondhand objects and media together for chance encounters, deliberately […]

The Center for Visual Arts invites you to a Faculty Artist Talk with Senior Lecturer Tae Hwang – September 23rd, 2025. Saul Zaentz Screening Room,JHU MICA / CVA Film Centre, 2nd fl.10 E. North Ave. Baltimore, MD 21202. For more information contact [email protected]

Johns Hopkins now has a dedicated student center, a modern new space that responds to the needs and input of students, who for years have sought more campus spaces for socializing, performing arts, student support services, and much more. Located on the second floor is the new Student Visual Art Exhibition Wall featuring JHU Student […]

“A class on the absence of color goes viral. Our faculty explain why the subject is so compelling”. Check out this article from Arts & Sciences Magazine, which highlights two CVA courses and includes insights from their professors on the topic of color.

Check out the amazing reel highlighting student work from the JHU CVA Annual Student Exhibition 2025!