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Nick Tobier: Brightmoor Maker Space Awarded NEA Grant
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Support Stamps Students on Giving Tuesday
Brandie "Texas" Burks stands against a balcony in the second floor hallway at Stamps.
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Student Spotlight: Brandie “Texas” Burks
Viewers inspect Endi Poskovic's colorful large scale prints on view in a white-walled, bright gallery
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Endi Poskovic Exhibits and Lectures at the University of Split in Croatia
Large scale installations by Alejandra Salinas on view at Artspace New Haven
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Alejandra Salinas Exhibits at Artspace New Haven
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Rachel Friedman: Insights from an Environmental Design Powerhouse
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Sophia Brueckner to Moderate Nov. 11 Working Ethically in Tech Event
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Beatriz Lozano Wins Young Guns 20 Competition
Emilia White performs at Detroit Puppet Slam
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Emilia White: Detroit Puppet Slam Performance
Gabriella Meyer stands in front of fabric rolls.
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Gabriella Meyer: Sustainable Fashion Forged at Stamps
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Gabrielle DeCaro Appears in Taylor Swift Music Video
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Grace Coudal Releases New Photography Book

Events & Exhibitions

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STAMPS GALLERY Respond/ Resist/ Rethink 2022: A Stamps Student Poster Exhibition September 15, 2022 – January 14, 2023
Photograph of a group of people in a grassy lot playing in water that is being sprayed from a large truck with solar panels
STAMPS GALLERY LaToya Ruby Frazier: Flint Is Family In Three Acts August 26, 2022 – January 14, 2023
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PENNY STAMPS SPEAKER SERIES Tracy Reese: Hope for Flowers December 1, 2022
STUDENT EVENT Therapy Dog December 1, 2022
STUDENT EVENT Wellness Wednesday December December 7, 2022
STUDENT EVENT Wellness Wednesday January January 11, 2023
STAMPS GALLERY “The Water Remembers” Performance by The Sister Tour January 16, 2023

Explore Our Work

Andy Kirshner Andy Kirshner Faculty Andy Kirshner
Bear Skeleton Liz Guilmet: No.79 Faculty Liz Guilmet: No.79
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
Emery Swirbalus: The Mediator Emery Swirbalus: The Mediator Undergraduate Emery Swirbalus: The Mediator
Phoebe Gloeckner: ANGOULEME Phoebe Gloeckner: ANGOULEME Faculty Phoebe Gloeckner: ANGOULEME
Sarah Chan: Crank Screwdriver Sarah Chan: Crank Screwdriver Undergraduate Sarah Chan: Crank Screwdriver
Iris (Sue-Min) Jung: A Strong Pillar Iris (Sue-Min) Jung: A Strong Pillar Undergraduate Iris (Sue-Min) Jung: A Strong Pillar
Stephanie Rowden: The Reading Room Stephanie Rowden: The Reading Room Faculty Stephanie Rowden: The Reading Room
Rebekah Modrak: Re Made Co. website Rebekah Modrak: Re Made Co. website Faculty Rebekah Modrak: Re Made Co. website
Samantha Greenhill: The Homeless Man I Pass on My Way to Class Samantha Greenhill: The Homeless Man I Pass on My Way to Class Undergraduate Samantha Greenhill: The Homeless Man I Pass on My Way to Class
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
Susan Crowell: Solo Exhibition Susan Crowell: Solo Exhibition Faculty Susan Crowell: Solo Exhibition
Dream AV installation including radio headphones, a projection satellite dish, bags and television monitors with telephones. Natalia Rocafuerte: Dream Machine Archive Graduate Natalia Rocafuerte: Dream Machine Archive
Anne Mondro Anne Mondro Faculty Anne Mondro
Dried plant material darting across a blue field. Brad Smith: Greenfield 01 Faculty Brad Smith: Greenfield 01