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Latest News & Stories

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ArtPrize 2023 features Stamps alums
Santa Ono makes remarks at Michigan Union.
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iGYM featured at U-M Celebrate Invention
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Nicole Marroquin joins Stamps as Professor
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Jim Cogswell's Vinyl Euripides installation explored in exclusive interview
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Joanne Leonard exhibits at HackelBury Fine Art
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Q&A with Airspace Founder Jill Ayers (BFA ’94)
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Elsa Olander exhibits at David Shepherd Wildlife Foundation
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Two Sides of the Coin: Endi Poskovic on "Arts & Resistance"
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Pedram Baldari joins Stamps as Assistant Professor
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Okyoung Noh exhibits at Ann Arbor Art Center
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Q&A: Hana Ichikawa begins internship at Stamps Gallery
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Detroit Month of Design to feature Stamps community members

Events & Exhibitions

Jim Cogswell, Pyre, 2020: stenciled red, blue, and black hands and feet are arranged in a pile over barbed wire. The red hands appear to be flames, with white curls of smoke rising from the group.
STAMPS GALLERY Untold Stories, Part I: 2023 Stamps Faculty Exhibition September 15 – December 9, 2023
Inspired by traditional Persian miniature paintings, this large-scale depicts the rooms a vividly-detailed bathhouse in a split-scene style, filled with illustrations of men. .
PENNY STAMPS SPEAKER SERIES Orkideh Torabi: Blurring Boundaries: A Theatrical Journey Through Cultural Identity September 26, 2023
ADMISSIONS EVENT In-Person Tour September 22, 2023
STAMPS GALLERY The Blessings of the Mystery: Carolina Caycedo & David de Rozas September 28 – December 9, 2023
PENNY STAMPS SPEAKER SERIES Carolina Caycedo, David de Rozas, and Juan Mancias: Somi Se’k, The Land of the Sun and the River of Spirits September 28, 2023
STAMPS GALLERY The Blessings of the Mystery Opening Reception September 28, 2023
STAMPS GALLERY Pottery as Poetry: Learning from The Black Potters of Old Edgefield Ceramic Workshop with Ebitenyefa Baralaye October 2, 2023

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Stephanie Rowden: The Reading Room Stephanie Rowden: The Reading Room Faculty Stephanie Rowden: The Reading Room
tall stalks of reed grass in a wood and steel frame blur as they sway back and forth, creating a visual translation of physiological data Kristina Sheufelt: a wind from noplace Graduate Kristina Sheufelt: a wind from noplace
Image shows a red carpet held aloft by dozens of people while a single figure runs across it. Roland Graf and Nick Tobier: Red Crossing Faculty Roland Graf and Nick Tobier: Red Crossing
The image is of a table that has an assortment of frames with family photos, knick knacks and Sikh paintings atop of it. The wall of the room it is within is white with a blue carpet. Above the table hang two printed replicas of paintings, on the left a portrait of Guru Nanak and on the right of Guru Gobind. Simranpreet Anand: ਬੈਠਕ (the blue room) Graduate Simranpreet Anand: ਬੈਠਕ (the blue room)
'LoBack Meat Co.' is a 18” x 24” 6-layer reduction woodblock print on paper based on a photograph of a neon sign at Seattle's Pike Place Market. The sign's typography reads "LoBACK MEAT CO. QUALITY ALWAYS," but it has been cropped to "BACK MEA QUALITY ALW." The neon sign itself is a bright ocean blue in the upper foreground of the image, with the letters themselves contrasting in a rich yellow-orange. The outside of each letter is outlined in a bright purple, making the letters appear three-dimensional against the sign's blue background. A hallway leading back into space is depicted in the background, with a line of circular lights fading into the background on the faded purple ceiling. While the sign and typography stand out in a graphic way, the scene feels nostalgic and faded. Within the image's background is a faded gray rectangular sign with letters that look like words but are too illegible to read. The nostalgic feel of the words and the faded color palette are representative of a memory for me. I began to experience chronic memory loss after being diagnosed with mold poisoning shortly after graduating from high school. I was able to take a road trip across the Pacific Northwest with my stepfather in the summer of 2021. This was the first trip I was able to take since becoming well enough after my diagnosis, and I took hundreds of photos out of fear of forgetting the memories we were making. Each edition of this print explored the feeling of nostalgia, much like the flash of a memory we get of a time and place we can't quite pinpoint that's buried deep in our subconscious. Looking closer at the image, each cut is quite expressive as I explored my spirit and self through the cuts of the woodblock. As each subsequent print is printed, the previous one is carved away, leaving a fully carved block at the end. Paige Gilstad: LoBack Meat Co. Undergraduate Paige Gilstad: LoBack Meat Co.
This image is an installation view of painted canvas and mesh. The paintings are mostly vibrant, abstract color-fields. Painted meshes are layered overtop, with imagery of a young girl and a cat, along with other childhood scenes. These layers are meant to represent tangible memory. Paulina Braverman: MESH Undergraduate Paulina Braverman: MESH