2025 Undergraduate Juried Exhibition

February 22 – March 8, 2025
In-person Event
Stamps Gallery
201 South Division Street
Ann Arbor, Michigan 48104
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Exhibition
Open to the public
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The Stamps School’s annual Undergraduate Juried Exhibition is a showcase of outstanding work produced by Stamps undergraduate students taking place at Stamps Gallery from February 22 – March 8, 2025. The opening reception will take place on February 21 from 6 – 8 pm.
A highly anticipated Stamps School tradition, the objectives of the Undergraduate Juried Exhibition are:
- Encourage the creation of high-quality, innovative art and design work.
- Teach students how to navigate juried exhibitions.
- Promote participation in Stamps’ vibrant cultural community.
Jurors
Allison Glenn is a New York-based curator and writer focusing on the intersection of art and public space. She is Artistic Director of The Shepherd arts campus in Detroit. Previously, she was Co-Curator of Counterpublic Triennial 2023 and Associate Curator, Contemporary Art at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. Glenn has organized major exhibitions and commissions by contemporary artists, and holds dual Master’s degrees from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a BFA in Photography with a co-Major in Urban Studies from Wayne State University.
Lauren Kalman is a Detroit-based visual artist with a PhD in Practice-led Research from the School of Art and Design at the Australian National University. Her practice spans craft, sculpture, video, photography, and performance, exploring ideals of femininity, identity, and self-image. Her work has been exhibited at the Smithsonian Museum of American Art, Museum of Contemporary Craft, Cranbrook Art Museum, and elsewhere. She currently serves as professor and department chair at Wayne State University.
Mario Moore, a Detroit native, holds a BFA from the College for Creative Studies and an MFA from Yale School of Art. His paintings explore personal, social, and political themes, with works in the permanent collections of the Detroit Institute of Arts and The Studio Museum in Harlem, among others. Moore’s most recent major traveling museum exhibition, Revolutionary Times, opened at the Flint Institute of Arts in January 2024, and closed at the Grand Rapids Art Museum in August 2024.
Timeline
- Deadline for Submissions: November 24, 2024
- Juror Decisions Announced: Week of December 16, 2024
- Accepted Student Information Session (mandatory for selected students, open to all Stamps students): January 24, 2025
- Work Drop-Off: February 13 – 14, 2025
- Exhibition Opening Reception at Stamps Gallery: February 21, 2025, 6 – 8 p.m.
- Walkthrough with the Artists & Designers: February 22, 2025 2 – 4 p.m.
- Exhibition Dates: February 22 – March 8, 2025
For more information, contact stamps-gallery@umich.edu.
Related Events
- 2025 Undergraduate Juried Exhibition Opening Reception - February 21, 2025
- 2025 Undergraduate Juried Exhibition Walkthrough - February 22, 2025
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Ronan Baumhardt: Sing
Ronan Baumhardt: SingUNDERGRADUATE"Sing" is an exploration of gender, or lack thereof. The character depicted is intentionally andr...
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Sophia Bentley: Incubation
Sophia Bentley: IncubationUNDERGRADUATE"Incubation" is a tangible stream of consciousness that aims to capture a sense of liminality as ...
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The Stop Motion Animator's Cat: Kate Bonello
The Stop Motion Animator's Cat: Kate BonelloUNDERGRADUATEDoug is learning the magic behind stop-motion animation. His cat doesn't care. This short animati...
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Lauren Boyce: Abstract Composition in Collage
Lauren Boyce: Abstract Composition in CollageUNDERGRADUATEMagazines were eviscerated, the pieces then ripped into smaller pieces that were arranged and glu...
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Kas Brajkovic: Another Perspective
Kas Brajkovic: Another PerspectiveUNDERGRADUATEThis final work in my series, "The Contemporary Artist's Experience," showcases the lingering mom...
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Amanda Brodzik: Looming Waste
Amanda Brodzik: Looming WasteUNDERGRADUATELooming Waste is a series of quilted fiber sculptures made from recycled materials that highlight...
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Sophia Cao: Storytime
Sophia Cao: StorytimeUNDERGRADUATELast semester I animated an audio recording of when I interviewed my dad back in 2019. He talks a...
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Aryan Chaudhry: Indigo Winter Saffron Spring
Aryan Chaudhry: Indigo Winter Saffron SpringUNDERGRADUATEBorn in America and raised in India, I navigate the complexities of dual identity, feeling both e...
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Ella Chun: Into the Unknown
Ella Chun: Into the UnknownUNDERGRADUATEI captured this moment of an abandoned house while I was traveling around Southern France. Its de...
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Lily Collins: Sixteen
Lily Collins: SixteenUNDERGRADUATEMy project targets the gender-based violence that is often experienced by women. I want to connec...
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Tanvi Dalvi: Flavors of Festivity: An Illustrated Cookbook
Tanvi Dalvi: Flavors of Festivity: An Illustrated CookbookUNDERGRADUATEFlavors of Festivity is an illustrated cookbook that blends my love for cooking and design into a...
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Aria Deason: In My Bed
Aria Deason: In My BedUNDERGRADUATEWorking off a prompt of exploring figure and environment relationship I focused on depicting an e...
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Madison Dennis: Everything Bad Happens in Threes
Madison Dennis: Everything Bad Happens in ThreesUNDERGRADUATEAfter the deaths of my grandmother and father, I was left alone to not only bear the emotional bu...
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Leah Elliott: Hands Off
Leah Elliott: Hands OffUNDERGRADUATEAnxiety can be extremely lonely. As someone who has had to live with it for years, it has been al...
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Viktoriya Finyak: Mosaic Light
Viktoriya Finyak: Mosaic LightUNDERGRADUATEThis piece is a self-portrait of myself that I painted for my ARTDES 205 Intro to Painting course...
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claire fuller: Spill the Tea
claire fuller: Spill the TeaUNDERGRADUATEThroughout this piece I sought to dramatize the idea of overconsumption in media. The trend “spil...
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Victor Garcia: Goliath (Reprise)
Victor Garcia: Goliath (Reprise)UNDERGRADUATEGoliath is a titan of war, seen as invincible by most. Come along little shepherd David and this ...
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Maria Garcia Rivera: Sentimientos Resurgentes: un pasado no tan distante pero a veces olvidado / Resurgent Feelings: a not-so-distant but sometimes forgotten Past
Maria Garcia Rivera: Sentimientos Resurgentes: un pasado no tan distante pero a veces olvidado / Resurgent Feelings: a not-so-distant but sometimes forgotten PastUNDERGRADUATEThis figure personifies the overwhelming emotions that overtake me when I encounter an artifact f...
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María Elena García-Murguía: Redeeming Eve
María Elena García-Murguía: Redeeming EveUNDERGRADUATEA tree of life inspired by the traditional Mexican sculptures depicting the Christian story of cr...
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Denali Gere: Emotional Energy
Denali Gere: Emotional EnergyUNDERGRADUATEHair is energy, strength, and vitality. The strands intertwine bodies and perception through tact...
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Dana Gray: Diagnosis
Dana Gray: DiagnosisUNDERGRADUATEDiagnosis is a garment manifestation of the path to becoming diagnosed with an incurable invisibl...
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Deja Green: MINE
Deja Green: MINEUNDERGRADUATEIn a way, one only has true ownership over their body. We are both born within and will die withi...
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Lauren Hahn: I Just Really Love Food: A Half-Korean Foodie Zine
Lauren Hahn: I Just Really Love Food: A Half-Korean Foodie ZineUNDERGRADUATEAs a half-Korean American, I often have trouble feeling connected with my Korean side. After goin...
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Soyeon Han: Winter Scenescape
Soyeon Han: Winter ScenescapeUNDERGRADUATEThis painting is a photomontage of multiple different scenes. I’m interested in the ways in which...
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Grace Hardy: When Paths Align
Grace Hardy: When Paths AlignUNDERGRADUATEWhen Paths Align tells a story about people and memories moving through my being and the impact t...
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Eleanor Heibel: (Dis)Connection
Eleanor Heibel: (Dis)ConnectionUNDERGRADUATE"(Dis)Connection” is a ceramic series aimed at exploring the intricate tapestry of human relation...
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Hana Ichikawa: Ligabue
Hana Ichikawa: LigabueUNDERGRADUATEInspired by a video essay on Antonio Ligabue’s legacy and informed by Daniel Quinn’s Ishmael, my ...
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Jett Jacobsen: All Words, No Ears.
Jett Jacobsen: All Words, No Ears.UNDERGRADUATETwo figures painted in red and blue engage in an argument with one another. The two personas clas...
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Ruoqi Jiang: 72 Hours A Day
Ruoqi Jiang: 72 Hours A DayUNDERGRADUATEI personified and symbolized the life of homemakers with a pair of red high heels. In their middl...
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Sory Keita: Afrocentrism
Sory Keita: AfrocentrismUNDERGRADUATEAfrocentrism celebrates the shared values and pride that connect descendants of Africa, embracing...
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Leila Kerr: My Friends and Me
Leila Kerr: My Friends and MeUNDERGRADUATEI'm an only child who often found solace in conversations with my stuffed animals. While my paren...
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Quri Kim: First Time Feeling Like The Odd One Out?
Quri Kim: First Time Feeling Like The Odd One Out?UNDERGRADUATEThis poster series, commissioned by Michigan Medicine, advocates for the mental health of interna...
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Chloe Kreindler: Horse
Chloe Kreindler: HorseUNDERGRADUATEOne day on a power walk, I thought about building a giant pink wooden horse. So I made a giant pi...
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Katharine Kuba: Atlas
Katharine Kuba: AtlasUNDERGRADUATECreated completely freehand with no pattern assistance this sculpture was created in a little und...
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Ellie Lee: Data Visualization Ethics: The Technical and Holistic Approaches to Tackling Bias
Ellie Lee: Data Visualization Ethics: The Technical and Holistic Approaches to Tackling BiasUNDERGRADUATEIn my second semester of sophomore year (2024), I researched, wrote, and designed this 60-page bo...
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Karen Lin: Rendition of Self Portrait of Godfried Schalken
Karen Lin: Rendition of Self Portrait of Godfried SchalkenUNDERGRADUATEGodfried Schalcken, a Dutch artist renowned for genre paintings and portraits, mastered the inter...
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Elaine Liu: Build Your Own Garden - Michigan Medicine Mental Health Posters
Elaine Liu: Build Your Own Garden - Michigan Medicine Mental Health PostersUNDERGRADUATEIn a collaboration with Michigan Medicine, I designed a series of six posters centered on mental ...
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Yitong Lyu: Mascotas
Yitong Lyu: MascotasUNDERGRADUATEThis product was designed with the initial goal of addressing the challenges pet owners face in i...
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Katelyn Ma: Love as a Faith Based Practice
Katelyn Ma: Love as a Faith Based PracticeUNDERGRADUATEOrganically interwoven, perched delicately and interlocking, I rest with this creature. I wonde...
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Fiona Maier: Past Me, Present Me, And Some Guy Off The Street
Fiona Maier: Past Me, Present Me, And Some Guy Off The StreetUNDERGRADUATEInitially, this piece was started in my early twenties, on a board I found by the side of a Brook...
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Ruth Marks: Living Room c. 2009
Ruth Marks: Living Room c. 2009UNDERGRADUATEThis suite of prints explores the disruption of space, perception, and memory. Inspired by the li...
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Ben Michalsky: Profilo Continuo (Testa d'il Dunce)
Ben Michalsky: Profilo Continuo (Testa d'il Dunce)UNDERGRADUATEParodying Renato Bertelli's 1933 bust, Profilo Continuo (Testa di Mussolini), Profilo Continuo (T...
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Abby Moschel: THIC (This Isn't Chocolate)
Abby Moschel: THIC (This Isn't Chocolate)UNDERGRADUATETHIC (This Isn't Chocolate) is a Copenhagen-based company that creates a cocoa-free chocolate alt...
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Silvia Negrut: Romania Resaturated
Silvia Negrut: Romania ResaturatedUNDERGRADUATEI’ve recently reconnected with the colors of the Romanian flag, and I’ve been incorporating them ...
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Suzy Parker: Synesthesia
Suzy Parker: SynesthesiaUNDERGRADUATE"One of the greatest constants in my life, as long as I can remember— is music." "Synesthesia" i...
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Olivia Payne: Reflective Drifting
Olivia Payne: Reflective DriftingUNDERGRADUATEThe thought process behind this piece is quite simple and stems from the most common prompt for m...
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Isabel Pohrt: Til Cora, med Kærlighed
Isabel Pohrt: Til Cora, med KærlighedUNDERGRADUATEThis is a portrait of one of the most important people in my life, my friend Cora, who I have kno...
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Asia Rothenberger: Absent Beauty
Asia Rothenberger: Absent BeautyUNDERGRADUATEThis collection of work explores an interest in the absent mark. What does it mean to mold someth...
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Nik Roy: Lump of Flesh
Nik Roy: Lump of FleshUNDERGRADUATEMy Lump of Flesh is a representation of my idea of body neutrality, in which I accept the body at...
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Victoria Selektor: Warrior's Garb
Victoria Selektor: Warrior's GarbUNDERGRADUATEGoing into battle can mean many things—taking an exam, attending an interview, or simply stepping...
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Kyeongwon Seo: Leukémyš
Kyeongwon Seo: LeukémyšUNDERGRADUATELeukémyš is an illustration made with only oil pastels on hard cardboard. The title is a portmant...
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Samridhi Sharma: You Were a Child
Samridhi Sharma: You Were a ChildUNDERGRADUATEThis painting was initially created as a gift for my brothers 24th birthday, but I went through t...
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Janet Shasha: Ink
Janet Shasha: InkUNDERGRADUATEThis self-directed animated short spawned from a challenge I inked from a friend’s blind scribble...
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LaNaysha Simms: nostalgia
LaNaysha Simms: nostalgiaUNDERGRADUATEHair has been apart of my identity since I was a child and has been a staple of expression presen...
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Grace Sirman: The Circle of an Ill Life
Grace Sirman: The Circle of an Ill LifeUNDERGRADUATEI am disabled, and have battled fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue for six years now. While I visua...
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Oliver St Cyr: Portrait of My Consumption
Oliver St Cyr: Portrait of My ConsumptionUNDERGRADUATEThis self-portrait was created by developing a digital 3D model, then slicing it into vertical cr...
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Ieva Surantas: Indeterminacy of infinity
Ieva Surantas: Indeterminacy of infinityUNDERGRADUATEThis piece explores the complex relationship between infinity and human time through the medium o...
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Emery Swirbalus: I Keep Rewatching Our Sextape
Emery Swirbalus: I Keep Rewatching Our SextapeUNDERGRADUATEI started this piece in October 2024 after making some realizations about my struggles with codep...
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Ana Trujillo Garcia: A Bloom
Ana Trujillo Garcia: A BloomUNDERGRADUATEThe A Bloom chair was designed through an iterative process blooming from concept of previous stu...
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Maddie Vassalo: Iphis and Ianthe
Maddie Vassalo: Iphis and IantheUNDERGRADUATEWritten and directed by Rory Hunt, Miles Hionis, and Maddie Vassalo, Iphis and Ianthe is a short ...
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Maggie Watson: Red Caps
Maggie Watson: Red CapsUNDERGRADUATEThis comic is an alternate telling of "Little Red Cap" as recorded by the Grimm Brothers, also kn...
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Veronica Weinberg: Speak No Evil
Veronica Weinberg: Speak No EvilUNDERGRADUATEMy time studying my body as I recreated it caused me to ponder the politicization of the human fo...
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Sarah Westrick: Heart of Roses
Sarah Westrick: Heart of RosesUNDERGRADUATEI created a vase shaped like heart with preserved flowers comeing out of the vaules. This is to s...
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Subin Yang: "곽정순" (Jeong Soon Kwak)
Subin Yang: "곽정순" (Jeong Soon Kwak)UNDERGRADUATEThree weeks before Thanksgiving, my grandfather collapsed from a cerebral hemorrhage. We were for...
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Idris Young: Gate To Robben Island
Idris Young: Gate To Robben IslandUNDERGRADUATEWith specific reference to the infamous Robben Island prison which operated during apartheid Sout...
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