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Latest News & Stories

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Gabriella Meyer Competes On "Making the Cut"
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Interdisciplinary Team Awarded for Arts + Curriculum Grant Program
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Introducing 2022-2023 Stamps Engaging Leaders
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Annica Cuppetelli: Tight/Laced at the Muskegon Museum of Art
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Sophia Brueckner Interviewed by Bridge Michigan
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Caroline Sinders Receives 2023 Roman Witt Artist Residency
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Sherri Smith Explains the Impact of Webb Space Telescope Images on Art
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Mariano Desmaras: Exhibit Design for First Smithsonian Latinx Gallery
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TENFOLD: Wins National ADDY Award
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Razi Jafri Receives Kresge Gilda Fellowship Award
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Stamps Students Join Detroit Neighborhood Entrepreneurs Project
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Introducing the 2022-2023 Student Advisory Board

Events & Exhibitions

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STAMPS GALLERY LaToya Ruby Frazier: Flint Is Family In Three Acts August 26, 2022 – January 14, 2023
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STAMPS GALLERY Respond/ Resist/ Rethink 2022: A Stamps Student Poster & Video Exhibition September 15, 2022 – January 14, 2023
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PENNY STAMPS SPEAKER SERIES LaToya Ruby Frazier: Flint Is Family In Three Acts September 15, 2022
STAMPS GALLERY Opening Reception and Book Signing for LaToya Ruby Frazier: Flint is Family in Three Acts at Stamps Gallery September 15, 2022
STAMPS GALLERY Exhibition walkthrough with the Artist, Shea Cobb, and Amber Hasan September 16, 2022
STAMPS GALLERY Opening Reception for LaToya Ruby Frazier: Flint is Family in Three Acts at MSU Broad Art Museum September 16, 2022
STAMPS GALLERY Opening Reception, Panel Discussion, and Book Signing for LaToya Ruby Frazier: Flint is Family in Three Acts at Flint Institute of Arts September 17, 2022

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MDes 2022: Stephanie Szemetylo Stephanie Szemetylo: Profile Graduate Stephanie Szemetylo: Profile
Iris (Sue-Min) Jung: A Strong Pillar Iris (Sue-Min) Jung: A Strong Pillar Undergraduate Iris (Sue-Min) Jung: A Strong Pillar
Image shows the exhibition set up for Erotic Ecologies. The studio exhibition walls are painted all black, the light is dimmed, and the set up is backlit with a LED light fixture. On the left wall, there is a shelf installed with zines on top. The set up is a plaster sculpture of a hole suspended on clear acrylic rods. It is surrounded by 4 monitors on the top of poles. The monitors are angled looking into the hole. The sculpture and monitors are all held in place with an elevated black wooden platform Jenna John: Erotic Ecologies Undergraduate Jenna John: Erotic Ecologies
John Marshall: Detroit Square (DSQ) 2019 John Marshall: Detroit Square (DSQ) 2019 Faculty John Marshall: Detroit Square (DSQ) 2019
Dried plant material darting across a blue field. Brad Smith: Greenfield 01 Faculty Brad Smith: Greenfield 01
Sun Young Park: Patient Study Sun Young Park: Patient Study Faculty Sun Young Park: Patient Study
Heidi Kumao: Egress Heidi Kumao: Egress Faculty Heidi Kumao: Egress
Danielle Tutak: Artifact [Human] c. 2021 Danielle Tutak: Artifact [Human] c. 2021 Undergraduate Danielle Tutak: Artifact [Human] c. 2021
The image featured above shows the piece titled: The Frustration of the Growing Girl. The large soft sculpture is quilted and constructed into a cone shaped monument about four feet tall and created entirely out of deep blue cyanotypes. The images on the cyanotypes are old family pictures with the figures partaking in jewish ceremonies. The cyanotypes stretch past the base of the cone and climb up the wall. Around the base of the cone there are a series of collaged Polaroid images. The Polaroids show signs of physically deconstructing the images and working back into them using materials such as thread, printed images, cutout and human hair. Jessie Rice: Cracks on Both Sides Now Undergraduate Jessie Rice: Cracks on Both Sides Now
Bruce M. Tharp: BABYBOTTLE Bruce M. Tharp: BABYBOTTLE Faculty Bruce M. Tharp: BABYBOTTLE
The image shows a cubical shopping area, illuminated by neon red lighting. White flooring and walls serve as a backdrop for display cases made out of wood, glass and acrylic. The floating shelving units, paired with transparent containers and circular windows, give the space a more contemporary finish. With the exception of the display pedastal placed in the center, wide walkways divide the mounted displays and create an open layout. The vision for this space is rooted in a desire to downplay the grotesque–the reality that what‘s being displayed are organs and tissues extracted from living people. Their fleshy textures appear in stark contrast to the uncluttereddisplays. Bright, red letters accomany each product. The signages are reminiscent of those found in common retain chains, though what they relay is something completely out of the ordinary. Penny Lam: Commodified Bodies Undergraduate Penny Lam: Commodified Bodies
Phoebe Gloeckner: ANGOULEME Phoebe Gloeckner: ANGOULEME Faculty Phoebe Gloeckner: ANGOULEME
Sarah Chan: Crank Screwdriver Sarah Chan: Crank Screwdriver Undergraduate Sarah Chan: Crank Screwdriver
Andy Kirshner Andy Kirshner Faculty Andy Kirshner
Studio cubicle, three larger canvas's at 36"x 36", 36"x 48", and 48"x 4*". Three smaller canvas's at 7.5" x11". Kendra Eaton: Casual Crevice Undergraduate Kendra Eaton: Casual Crevice