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.

2022–2023 Exhibitions

September 12
Guest Artist Kwadwo Adae Gallery Show
 
November 4
"Reigning Cats & Dogs" Community Gallery Show
 
January 9
Hopkins Against Gun Violence Pop Up Show
 
February 3
Term I Student Art Show
 
April 10
Studio Art III Gallery Show
 
May 8
Photography Gallery Show
 
May 19 
Term II Student Gallery Show

Past Exhibitions

  • Art Faculty Show

    21 photo(s)

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  • Senior Art Show

    18 photo(s)

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  • Student Art Show

    38 photo(s)

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  • junc•ture - Sculpture by Susan Clinard

    28 photo(s)

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  • IMG_0293

    Class of 2017 Senior Art Exhibition

    18 photo(s)

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  • IMG_9590

    Student Art Exhibition

    36 photo(s)

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  • Mohamad Hafez

    36 photo(s)

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  • IMG_8450

    Student Exhibition Opening

    21 photo(s)

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  • Political Circus Community Show Opening

    29 photo(s)

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  • Visual Arts Faculty Exhibition

    33 photo(s)

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  • 2016 Senior Art Exhibition Opening

    26 photo(s)

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  • Invited Artists: City Bench and Alexis Brown

    13 photo(s)

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  • Form, Function, and Whimsy- Opening Reception

    2 photo(s)

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  • 4: A Number 4 Interpretation - Opening Reception

    2 photo(s)

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  • Errol Saunders

    Underground Artists

    3 photo(s)

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Past Exhibitions by Visiting Artists

2018–2019
Rhythms of Memory: Maria Morabito and Daniel Eugene
January 18–February 14, 2019

2017–2018
Susan Clinard (sculpture)

2017
Mohamed Hafez (sculpture)

2016
City Bench (furniture)
Alexis Brown (drawings & paintings)

2015
Eric Mueller Sabbatical Work (furniture & scultpure)

2014

Hallie Mueller (paintings)

2013
Marie Wilkinsen & Cyril Christo 
Images from Africa

Claudine Burns-Smith (sculpture)

2011

Megan Craig (paintings) and Joe Saccio (sculpture)

Silas Finch: Works from Found Objects

2010
Original posters from the collection of Jim Lapides, Hopkins ’70, from International Poster Gallery.

2009

Dan Wasserman, Hopkins ’67, editorial cartoonist for the Boston Globe: original drawings of his political cartoons.  
 
2008
Urban Shape: Rashmi Talpide and Josh Gaetjen.

 
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