Visual Arts

Course Offerings

The Visual Art Department at Hopkins offers courses in a variety of studio arts, including a Fine Art Studio sequence for advanced study, as well as a range of courses in media arts. Students display their work in the Keator Gallery and informally in the balcony atrium in Thompson Hall.  

Drawing, painting, and printmaking take place in spacious studios on the third floor of Thompson Hall, while ceramics, architecture, wood arts, web design, and digital photography occur in the new studios on the first floor of Thompson Hall. Video classes meet in a second computer lab on campus.  

Experiential classes are supplemented with theory studies in film and art history.
Click here to visit 
...an online gallery of current student work in Visual Arts, Film, Music and Drama.

Keator Gallery


The Keator Gallery hosts five exhibitions each year, featuring work by professional artists, students and the arts faculty as well as a Hopkins community-wide exhibit.

The Keator Gallery is located in Baldwin Hall and is open during school days from 8am–4pm. All exhibits are free and open to the public. For more information please call 203.397.1001.

2025–2026 Exhibitions

Sept. 3–25
Guest Artist Austin Casebolt presents “figuring remediation”

Sept. 29–Oct. 10
Hispanic Heritage Month Showcase

Oct. 7–Nov. 14
Art-Official Intelligence Community Art Show

Nov. 20
Woodworking Showcase

Jan. 23–Feb. 11
Term One Student Art Show

Feb. 17–27
Black History Month

March 3–6
History 7 Museum of Artifacts

April 7–17
Arab American Artwork Showcase

May 4–8
Studio Art III Show

May 13–20
Pho Show Photography Show

May 26–June 4
Term Two Student Art Show
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