Please email the Director a list of your group's graduating seniors. Over time this list can be used for funding requests and invitations to special performances by your group.
HAP sponsors the Arts Certificate Program. The certificate is awarded to graduating seniors who have made a significant contribution to the non-academic arts at Johns Hopkins University. The Certificate acknowledges and rewards long-term and dedicated participation in one of five areas: Dance, Digital Media, Fine Arts, Music, and Theatre. Applications are due March 1 of your junior year. For further information, click here.
Please put the Director (ebeatty@jhu.edu) on your group’s general info email list. This allows the Director to keep up to date on all your group’s activities via your mass emails.
For all re-imbursements, payment of contracts, inquiries about your group accounts, etc, contact the financial staff of the Office of Student Activities in Jones Building North, or at x6-4873. Waqiba Strother is the staff person in charge. This office also has a part time staff person and student assistants.
Funding sources include: Annual requests for Class A groups. Ongoing requests for Class A & B groups.
This money is primarily to support appropriate items or trips that can not be funded by SAC. The money set aside annually for each arts group is approximately $300-$500. For an application form, click here
Homewood Arts Programs also has money available to fund guest artists for your groups. This could include professionals to lead special workshops, master classes, dialect sessions, etc. To enquire about funds, email the Director of HAP
Semi-annual grants for up to $2000. To support and inspire the artistic efforts of students, either those currently engaged in arts activities or those wishing to create a new venture. Applications are due early October for student projects that will begin during the spring semester and in early March for student projects that will begin during the summer or fall semester. Note that in March students may also apply for funding for a summer internship. For more information and application materials: Arts Innovation Program Grants web site
Money is available from a committee that funds projects/events which are sponsored by at least two on campus groups/departments/organizations. For information: HSA Programming Collaboration Committee web site
Graduate Student Organization offers funds if you have grad students as members. The office is in Levering Hall or at x6-7682.
The JHU Alumni Relations staff can assist your group in soliciting JHU alums who were active in your group. This can only happen in late spring, after the Office has already made their solicitations. However, you should start planning your request early in the spring semester. This is not recommended on an annual basis. For further information, contact the Director of HAP.
These including the Community Service Grant Program & the Student Services Grant Program. For further info, contact Jay Rubin at x6-0363
All arts groups must register on-line every fall with the Office of Student Activities. To link to their web site, click here.
Groups that are not registered by that time will not be allowed to schedule space or receive any of the other privileges extended to registered groups. If you are not an SAC group, you must be “sponsored” either by Homewood Arts Programs (HAP) or another campus department. Contact the Director of HAP for details.
SAC groups may only have JHU students, faculty and staff as members. Students from other universities and members of the local community may not take part in SAC group activities. HAP sponsored groups may have community members, if approved by the Director of HAP.
The Performing Arts Coucil (PAC) oversees the activities of all audition-based, student-run performing arts organizations. Representatitves of PAC meet monthly to plan performances and discuss current issues. PAC groups currently include all the a cappella groups, the dance groups JOSH and Ladybirds, and the Buttered Niblets comedy improv troupe.
Info for planning and publicizing all JHU student group events is on the website for the Office of Student Activities. Please give the HAP Director 4-6 copies of any fliers and/or posters for your shows as soon as you have printed them. These will be put up in the Mattin Center café display cases and kept for archives or distribution to Mattin Center donors.
When a student a cappella or choral group records copywrighted songs for production on a CD, the group must work with the Director to ensure that all licensing fees have been paid. General information is available through the Harry Fox Agency.
The Performing Arts Liaison to SAC for the current academic semester is Rose Xie. For any SAC related issues (applying to join SAC, group status, funding requests, fines, etc…), contact Rose.
To schedule the following, email the Director of HAP:
Mattin SDS Room
Mattin 105
Mattin Dance Studio
Swirnow Theater, Mattin Center
Silk Road Cafe, Mattin Center
Arellano Theater, Levering Union
To schedule the following, contact Pat Forster’s office in Student Development & Programming at: pataf@jhu.edu or x6-2224:
Mattin Meeting Rooms: 160, 161, 162
Shriver Hall
All other rooms in Levering The last week of each semester is “scheduling week” for the next semester. Usually arts groups sign up on Monday for appointments on Tuesday during this week. Priority for scheduling arts groups is determined by group status, not by order of appointments. Regular weekly rehearsals start the first day of classes each semester and end on the last day of classes. Any other times before classes start, during exam periods, or during the summer must be requested in a separate email to the Director of HAP.
All student groups are required to register off campus social events which are group related. Examples for the Arts Groups include but are not limited to cast parties, parties with guest groups from other universities, end of semester dinners, or award celebrations. To access the registration form for social events, click here.
Please submit at least 5 business days before your event. All forms from Arts Groups will be forwarded to the HAP Director. Assuming all items are agreed to and the form is properly filled out, approval will be granted. Any incident reports of violations of the agreement will be forwarded to the Director of Student Activities, who will initiate appropriate meetings with students and staff. A new form must be submitted for each of your group’s social events off campus.
All student groups must follow the Student Life policies which are described in the Undergraduate Student Handbook. To access the policies, click here.
There are two annual prizes for JHU students, the Sudler Arts Prize and the President's Commendation for Achievement in the Arts. For info and application materials: click here.
All off-campus travel and group activities should be conducted under the same JHU policies and regulations that are in effect for campus activities and behavior. You are ambassadors for JHU and the guests of the university or company where the performance or activity takes place. Page Top
All information & policies subject to revision | 
