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How does healing begin? Impossible Conversations is on view through Feb. 8 at Stamps Gallery.

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The words "Impossible Conversations" appear over a vertically divided image: on the top, a man wearing a turban is shown in profile, and on the bottom a fist tattooed with the letters "LOVE."
STAMPS GALLERY Impossible Conversations January 18 – February 8, 2025
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PENNY STAMPS SPEAKER SERIES George Rodriguez: Guardians, Altars, and Community January 30, 2025
STAMPS GALLERY The Stampede January 18 – February 8, 2025
STAMPS GALLERY Michelle Hinojosa: Logcabins June 21, 2024 – May 8, 2025
PENNY STAMPS SPEAKER SERIES Jarod Lew: Strange You Never Knew February 1, 2025
PENNY STAMPS SPEAKER SERIES Stacey Kirby: The Bureau of Personal Belonging February 6, 2025
PENNY STAMPS SPEAKER SERIES asses.masses: Ya Herd? Theatre, Games, Democracy and Donkeys February 13, 2025

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A slide carousel projector projects MRI images of soft tissue growths in the artist’s spinal column. The projector sits upon a table full of parts from a previous project. The right was is filled with papers full of a previous project’s thinking and then overlapped by a poetry collection by the artist. On the left wall hang cassettes, some spooled with poems on paper rather than tape, slide carousels, rolls of paper, and various papers and tools, all parts of the previous project put on hold. Sky Christoph: [previous work has been put on hold] Undergraduate Sky Christoph: [previous work has been put on hold]
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