2017 Alumni Exhibition

July 18 – August 19, 2017
In-person Event
Stamps Gallery
201 South Division Street
Ann Arbor, Michigan 48104
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Special Event
Open to the public
Free of charge
Each year, our Alumni exhibition offers an opportunity for Stamps graduates from across the country and internationally to share their current creative work.
The theme for the 2017 Stamps Alumni Juried Exhibition is “Ambiguities/Innuendoes? Go Fish.”
Juror Awards
We are very pleased to welcome Brian Kennedy, the President, Director, and CEO of the Toledo Museum of Art, as the juror for this show. Kennedy selected three grand prize recipients and ten honorable mentions, with cash awards thanks to the generous support of Alumni Association of the University of Michigan.
Grand Prize Recipients
- Cynthia Greig – Representation no. 65 (fan)
- Katie St. Clair – Swale
- Alisa Yang – Please Come Again
Honorable Mentions
- Kelly Hartigan Goldstein – but…it’s a banana
- Lenea Howe – Norm Walker
- Leisa Rich – Disco Metastasis
- Robert Sedestrom – Chaulk Talk
- Michelle Sider – One the Side of the Road
- Mark Sisson – Portrait of Emma Shore: What Price Education?
- Russell Thayer – Wind Rapids
- Marjorie Tomchuk – Confluence II
- Zoë Widmer – Myself in a Series
- Robin Wilt – Fish & Unfish & still FIO
Work is on view at the new Stamps Gallery. This exhibition runs concurrently with the Ann Arbor Art Fair (July 20 — 23, 2017). With 8,000 square feet of exhibition space and a new downtown location, the Juried Alumni Show is the perfect way to celebrate the University of Michigan’s Bicentennial in 2017.
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Frederika Adam: Hampstead Heath
Link to work »Frederika Adam: Hampstead HeathFrederika is an artist and curator based in London. She received her B.F.A. and B.A. (Art History...
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Melis Agabigum: [Life] Unfolds in Pools of Black [you took it away]
Link to work »Melis Agabigum: [Life] Unfolds in Pools of Black [you took it away]I explore materiality and the physical or emotional connections that occur between body and objec...
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Luna Anna Archey: Ma Cerise
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Anneli Arms: Grouper
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Suzanne Beutler: On the Road
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Gabriella Boros: Naked and Barefoot
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Titus Brooks Heagins: Omi, From the Series “Trans-Cuba”
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Paula Brown-Gray: Child’s Game
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Lynne Buchman: Recoleta
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Hillary Butterworth: The Loss is Ours
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Nina Cambron: Recurring Patterns
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Theresa Choe-Herrington: If Words Could Kill…........
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Janna Coumoundouros: Duende
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Olivia Crowley: What Color is my Life without You?
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Maxwell Davis: Curiosity Cabinet #4
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Jocelyn Edin: Secret Spot
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Keith Ekstam: Figure Stack with Tea Bowl
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Jane E. Fitzgerald: Land of Milk and Honey
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Helen Geglio: Boro Shape Shifting 1
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Ken Giles: standing in front of or behind the fire hydrant | standing behind or in front of the fire hydrant, 2
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Carol Goodenough: Sunset Blues
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Cheryl Gordon: Essex 87
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Cynthia Greig: Representation no. 65 (fan)
Link to work »Cynthia Greig: Representation no. 65 (fan)I make images that at first glance don’t look like the photographs they are. Exploiting the decep...
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Samuel E Harper: “JUST FIVE KIDS.”
Link to work »Samuel E Harper: “JUST FIVE KIDS.”"Once Upon a Time They Were Just 5 Kids.| Five kids hanging over a railing on a Sunday afternoo...
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Brein Harpster: The Elephant In The Room
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Kelly Hartigan Goldstein: “but…it’s a banana.”
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Christine Hildebrand: The Lily Pond
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Sue (listed as Susan in DART) Holdaway-Heys: jewel box beetle
Link to work »Sue (listed as Susan in DART) Holdaway-Heys: jewel box beetleThe Jewel Box Beetle can be viewed as a beautiful insect to be treasured or an insect that should...
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Ryan Hoover: Rabeda
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Kelsey Ann Horn: Stop Being Facetious
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Laura Whitesides Host: Beware the Cyprinus Carpio
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Lenea Howe: Norm Walker
Link to work »Lenea Howe: Norm WalkerNORM WALKER. In time, what seems a bit odd becomes the Norm. Lenea Howe (BFA 1969) works in pap...
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Ruth Howell: The Gilded World of ZaraZote Koi
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Kerry Huver: Alchemy
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Vivian Babuts & Joey Christiano Diaz: Untitled
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Adrienne Kaplan: In Memory of George
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Shannon Kohlitz: A Tutorial in the Language of Trump’s Hands
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Deanna Krueger: Tartarus
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David Littell: The Impersistence of Memory
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Beatriz Lozano: Cut from the Same Cloth
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Louise Lutton: Upstream/Downstream
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Marjorie Marshall: Why wipe?
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Ms. Kathryn McDonough-Lemery: Why is Christ Fishing?
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Lisa Meeske Sloan: Fake Flowers
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Kathy Messner: It starts with one line
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Susan Michod: Tossed like a willful child
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Kimberly Moss: Mirror
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Bianca Ng: Who is Your Shero?
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Samara Pearlstein: The Absolute Wrong Thing v.2
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Bevely (Name is Beverly in DART-typo?) Peller Henson: What? When? Where?
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Viviana Pernot: Calles Cubanas
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Leisa Rich: Disco Metastasis
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Michelina Risbeck: Omitted Public Spaces
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Andy Ross: Mask
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David Rubello: Color Moves #88
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Robert Sedestrom: Chaulk Talk
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Bettyann Seltzer/Pober: Schoolyard Games A-F
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Michelle Sider: On the Side of the Road
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Mark Sisson: Portrait of Emma Shore: What Price Education?
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Jennifer Spoon: Pink Paper Pussy Hat
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Katie St. Clair: Swale
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Betsy Statman Besl: Plenty of Fish in the Tea
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Phyllis Swonk: The Alien House
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Russell Thayer: Wind Rapids
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Marjorie Tomchuk: Confluence !!
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Maureen Vachon: Untitled
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Donella Reese Vogel: The Illustrated Illustrator
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Jill Stefani Wagner: Moment or Dream?
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Zoë Widmer: Myself in a Series
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Robin Wilt: Fish & Unfish & still FIO
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Ellen Wilt: The Scholar
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Jean Wolff: Blue Fold White Lines
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Alisa Yang: Please Come Again
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Matthew Zivich: Was Siehst Du?
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