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Students in our new Hand Papermaking course, taught by Professor @zchamera_art, wrapped up their Narratives and Visual Metaphors project!

Beginning with a handmade opaque base sheet created from cotton pulp, students incorporate found materials, photographs, and magazine cutouts into a collage. Using a lamination technique, they apply a translucent layer of paper made from flax and abaca pulp over the composition, embedding the collage elements directly into the final handmade paper piece.

#papermaking #pulp #collage by @jhuvisualarts

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Final works from the Embroidered Merit Badge project in Professor @sashbask Fiber Art and the String Revolution course! For this project, students learned the basics of embroidery and used those techniques to design and stitch their own merit badges. Each piece represents something each student has accomplished or is proud to share with the class.

#fiberart #embroidery #meritbadge by @jhuvisualarts

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A huge thank you to Erin M. Riley for her visit with the Program in Visual Arts last Tuesday!

@erinmriley gave a thoughtful artist talk where she discussed her hand-woven tapestries and art practice. Riley then joined Professor Baskin’s Fiber Art course (with guests from Dr. Schopp’s History of Art course) to give a tapestry demonstration including a color blending technique used in her practice.

This talk was supported by @jhuvisualarts, @jhuarts_innovation, The Department of the History of Art, and The Program for the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality.

#tapestry #fiberart #artisttalk by @jhuvisualarts

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Please mark your calendars for our upcoming Visiting Artist Talk, featuring photographer Phyllis Arbesman Berger!

This artist talk is free and open to the public, and will take place at the JHU/MICA Film Centre, located at 10 E. North Ave. (2nd FL in the Saul Z. Screening Room, 1 floor below the Program in Visual Arts) on October 21st, 2026 from 4-5 PM.

We hope you can join us!

#artisttalk #jhuartssciences #photography #baltimorephotographer #digitalphotography by @jhuvisualarts

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Tomorrow, September 29th, 2026 from 2-3 PM join us for our first Visiting Artist Talk of the Fall 26 semester, featuring Erin M. Riley!

Supported by @jhuvisualarts, @jhuarts_innovation, The Department of the History of Art, and The Program for the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality.

@erinmriley is a prominent textile artist who creates large-scale, hand-woven tapestries that expertly depict imagery sourced from her personal life, internet culture, and newspapers.

This artist talk is free and open to the public, and will take place at the JHU/MICA Film Centre, located at 10 E. North Ave. (2nd FL in the Saul Z. Screening Room, 1 floor below the Program in Visual Arts) on September 29th, 2026 from 2-3 PM.

We hope to see you there!

#artisttalk #jhuartssciences #weaving #textilearts #floorloom by @jhuvisualarts

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Final works from the Collage Reimagined project in Professor @taeokstudio Collage & Assemblage: 2-D & 3-D Art Practices course.

For this project, students were invited to reinterpret a well-known collage by a contemporary artist, using the original work as a point of departure for their own creative exploration. Through this process of reimagining and transformation, they examined how collage can generate new meanings, perspectives, and visual narratives while engaging in a dialogue with art history.

#collage #mixedmedia by @jhuvisualarts

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How are we already midway through week one of our courses?!

We wanted to kick off the semester by highlighting works from our annual student exhibition last May, and to thank everyone who came to the reception to show their support for the hard work of our students. A big thank you to President Ronald J. Daniels for attending the exhibition and supporting what we do here in the Program in Visual Arts.

We hope you all have an enriching and successful semester!

#art #studentexhibition #johnshopkins by @jhuvisualarts

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Please mark your calendars for our first Visiting Artist Talk for the Fall 26 semester, featuring Erin M. Riley!

@erinmriley is a prominent textile artist who creates large-scale, hand-woven tapestries that expertly depict imagery sourced from her personal life, internet culture, and newspapers.

This artist talk is free and open to the public, and will take place at the JHU/MICA Film Centre, located at 10 E. North Ave. (2nd FL in the Saul Z. Screening Room, 1 floor below the Program in Visual Arts) on September 29th, 2026 from 2-3 PM.

We hope you can join us then!

#artisttalk #jhuartssciences #weaving #textilearts #floorloom by @jhuvisualarts

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🎨✨ 𝗖𝗔𝗟𝗟 𝗙𝗢𝗥 𝗝𝗛𝗨 𝗔𝗥𝗧𝗜𝗦𝗧𝗦!✨🎨

Create • Connect • Exhibit

As part of 𝗝𝗼𝗵𝗻𝘀 𝗛𝗼𝗽𝗸𝗶𝗻𝘀 𝗨𝗻𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗶𝘁𝘆’𝘀 𝟭𝟱𝟬𝘁𝗵 𝗔𝗻𝗻𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝗖𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗯𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻, we’re excited to announce 𝗣𝗮𝘀𝘁, 𝗣𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘁, 𝗙𝘂𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲: 𝗖𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗯𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝗿𝘁𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗝𝗼𝗵𝗻𝘀 𝗛𝗼𝗽𝗸𝗶𝗻𝘀, a juried exhibition in partnership with @creativealliancebaltimore coming 𝗙𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲.

🖌️ Open to all 𝗝𝗛𝗨 𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗶𝘀𝘁𝘀, 𝗝𝗛𝗨 𝘀𝘁𝘂𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗝𝗛𝗨 𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗺𝗻𝗶 𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲𝘀.

We invite submissions in all media, disciplines, and styles. This is your chance to showcase your work alongside fellow Hopkins’ creatives and contribute to a community-wide dialogue through art.

𝗗𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲: September 15, 2026

𝗦𝘂𝗯𝗺𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗸: In bio

𝗤𝘂𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀: artshopkins150@gmail.com by @jhuvisualarts

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We are incredibly excited about our recent acquisition of four floor looms and the wonderful write-up about our purchase on the Fiber Art Now blog! Please read our press release below and click on our links section to read the Fiber Art Now article. Please also enjoy the images in this post of recent fiber student and JHU graduate Iheoma Anaemeribe performing her piece “Threading the Semester” on one of the new looms as part of our Annual Student Exhibition!

Thank you Cami Smith @fiberartnow for helping to share our story!

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Johns Hopkins University’s Program in Visual Art is expanding its fiber curriculum with the acquisition of four new floor looms from Philadelphia’s Weaver House (@weaverhouseco). This acquisition expands on the program’s single existing floor loom, which has become integral to Visual Arts courses such as Advanced Fibers, Looms and Computers, and Fiber Art and the String Revolution. Floor looms allow students to study weaving as a foundational digital technology and explore the relationship between woven patterning and computer programming.

Originally obtained from the University of Arts in Philadelphia upon the University’s closing in 2024, Rachel Snack (artist and founder of local Philadelphia workshop “Weaver House”) crowd-sourced to rescue 16 Maccomber rising-shed jack looms from heading to a landfill or being split up and lost from an educational environment. After years of serving the Philadelphia fiber community, Weaver House announced in October 2025 that it was closing. With the impending closure, Snack announced a desire to find the right steward and prioritize the educational goals of these historic looms. Johns Hopkins University’s Program in Visual Arts proved to be the ideal home. JHU Visual Arts Lecturer, Sasha Baskin, with the support of departmental administrator Caitlin Curtis and Program Director Professor Margaret Murphy, negotiated the acquisition of the looms and safely moved them from Philadelphia to Baltimore, where they now reside.

We will spend the summer months performing minor maintenance on the looms to ensure they are fully prepared for our Fall course offerings! taken in Jhu-Mica Film Centre by @jhuvisualarts

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Annual Student Exhibition Post 2: The Award Winners

Every year, the faculty from the Program in Visual Arts award select students from the program through two very distinct awards, The Eugene Leake Award and The Prof. B Excellence in Photography Award. These awards were presented during the reception of our Annual Student Exhibition. This year’s awards were as follows:

The 2026 Eugene Leake Award for outstanding achievement in the Program in Visual Arts was awarded to:

-Naina Gupta
-Naomi Klein
-Emilia Gonzalez
-Caroline Fredericks
-Camille Skala

The Prof. B Excellence in Photography Award for 2026 was awarded to:

-Raven McCoy

congratulations to you six, we couldn’t be more proud of the work you created and the dedication you have given to the arts during your time at Johns Hopkins University.

Award Descriptions:

The Eugene Leake Award
The Eugene Leake Awards are given to students each year who show outstanding achievement in the arts as minors in the Program in Visual Arts. Eugene Leake, the namesake of the award, was the first Johns Hopkins University artist-in-residence. He founded the Homewood Arts Workshop in 1974 as an informal opportunity for Hopkins students, regardless of experience, to learn the fundamentals of drawing and painting.

The Prof. B Excellence in Photography Award
Presented to a graduating Art Minor in the Program in Visual Arts at Johns Hopkins University, this award highlights excellence, dedication, and growth through the medium of photography. Professor Phyllis Arbesman Berger, known as Prof. B to her students, founded the photography area at Johns Hopkins University in 1995, teaching all levels of the medium until her retirement in 2026. This award honors her commitment to teaching students the perfect balance of technical proficiency and storytelling. taken in Jhu-Mica Film Centre by @jhuvisualarts

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Annual Student Exhibition Post 1: The Artwork

A big thank you to everyone who came to our 2026 Annual Student Exhibition!

Ranging from such mediums as painting, drawing, photography, fiber arts, jewelry, screen printing, graphic design, and mixed media, this exhibition represented hundreds of students from over 30 classes at the Program in Visual Arts. It also highlighted the work made by our three special project based courses, for which we will highlight in separate post later this week!

Congratulations to all of the students involved, any a special congratulations to those who just graduated! taken in Jhu-Mica Film Centre by @jhuvisualarts

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