{"id":95,"date":"2015-01-07T17:10:37","date_gmt":"2015-01-07T21:10:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/visualarts\/?page_id=95"},"modified":"2026-03-27T12:39:40","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T16:39:40","slug":"history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/visualarts\/about\/history\/","title":{"rendered":"History"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The Program in Visual Arts began in 1974 as the Homewood Art Workshops offering extracurricular courses in drawing & painting to Hopkins students. The painter and former president of Maryland Institute College of Art Eugene Leake was the first director of the program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As the Workshops\u2019 popularity steadily increased enrollment, painter Craig Hankin was hired in 1980 to share the teaching duties. Homewood\u2019s first studio art course for academic credit started the following year. Upon Leake\u2019s retirement in 1986, Hankin became the Art Workshops director until 2018 when he retired. Artist & educator Margaret Murphy became the director overseeing what was then called the Center for Visual Arts’ move to the North Ave Arts District and divisional move to KSAS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2026, the center was named the Program in Visual Arts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Right: Visual Arts founder Eugene \u201cBud\u201d Leake and long-time director Craig Hankin in 1986 (Photo: Chris Hartlove)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>

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Today, the program is part of the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences offering a minor in visual art and a full roster of offerings that including fibers, painting & drawing, printmaking, jewelry and small metals, digital and analog photography, visual communications, book arts, and advanced visual arts courses that combine contemporary art theory & practice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Located on the third floor of the iconic Film Centre building at 10 E. North Avenue, the program regularly welcomes the Hopkins and greater Baltimore community to visit the center during one of our visiting artists talks and our Conversations with Artists<\/em> events to speak directly with artists working in Maryland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Left: JHU-MICA Film Centre, 10 E. North Ave, Baltimore, MD 21202<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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