Commence: A Stamps Graduating Students Exhibition

Name: Commence: A Stamps Graduating Students Exhibition, 4/26/2024-5/4/2024
Start: 2024-04-26
End: 2024-05-04
Location: Stamps Gallery

When

April 26 – May 4, 2024

Where

In-person Event

Stamps Gallery
201 South Division Street
Ann Arbor, Michigan 48104
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Hours/Access

Details

Exhibition
Open to the public
Free of charge

The Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design is featuring a new exhibition initiative to celebrate and highlight the exciting work of graduating undergraduate students from the Stamps School. Entitled Commence, the exhibition is on view at the Stamps Gallery from April 26 through May 4. A reception will be held for the student artists on May 3 beginning at 5 p.m.

The exhibition offers a vibrant snapshot of the wide-ranging and diverse artwork being produced by Stamps graduates. Commence marks the final culmination of their undergraduate studies at the Stamps School and the University of Michigan.

Commence is open during gallery hours from April 26 — May 4, 2024:

Friday, April 26: Open 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Saturday, April 27: Open 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Sunday-Tuesday, April 28 – 30: Stamps Gallery is closed.
Wednesday, May 1: Open 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Thursday, May 2: Open 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Friday, May 3: Open 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., followed by a public reception from 5 to 8 p.m.
Saturday, May 4: Open 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.

All programs are free and open to the public.

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Exhibition Reception: Commence - May 3, 2024

Gallery

Painted entirely in umber, a man sits on a chair with his right hand over his heart and his left hand held out as if he is asking "why?". He is looking up at the top left corner but the only features on his face are marks of a nose, a mouth, and a long beard. The image is high contrast with emphasis on bright light highlights against deep dark shadows. A large robe is draped across his body and books can be seen scattered on the floor below.

Jessica Allen: Repentant?

A video collection featuring different environments, including a warm and relaxing sun shower, a stormy day and some spooky candles, hiding a mysterious figure.

Undergraduate Hannah Anderson: Background Stills

A vibrant, yet moody painting of a woman walking beneath the Michigan Theater in Ann Arbor; the sidewalks covered in tents from the Art Fair.

Quinn Arnold: City Nostalgia

This animatic features the main character Minavera.

Undergraduate Allena Arteaga: Land of Fangs and Trees

The piece depicts two barbie dolls - one from the back with light skin and blonde hair, and one from the front with dark skin and brown hair. Each doll is dressed in a red/orange bathing suit, juxtaposed against a pastel blue swimming pool. The marks are very soft and all colors are shades of pastel.

Jordyn Axelrod: Aqua Barbies

front facing view of art wall taking place in 3d rendered space. there are 10 images on the wall, three stands that are intended to display information about the art and two benches . wooden floors, glass ceiling and dark pink wall

Leilani Baylis-Washington: Virtual Art Exhibition

An image of a woman on the left and a handwritten paragraph on the right. The woman looks at the camera with her back against a wall. She is wearing a cropped top and lace underwear. There are tattoos visible on her arms and her legs are covered from her feet to her hips in writing. The writing on her legs is illegible to the viewer. It is written facing towards her. The paragraph on the left reads "BLACK INK ON MY SKIN: Black in on my skin makes me feel better. It reminds the that my body is mine and not what has happened to it. It reminds me of the impermanence of permanency. It is only through acknowledgement and time and layers of my skin that I can begin to let anything fade away. And it is through the time and the ink and the impermanent and the permanent that my skin becomes my own. The urge to unzip and detach just to stop the feeling of crawling - I can scrub, lose layers of who I used to be, or I can choose to hide, leaving behind a stain of darkness and tears. Or I can write it, and look at it, and love it and despise it all at once. What is here will never truly stay and what is gone will never truly leave. What has happened, how I will choose to heal, it will all one day nothing but fire and ash. And in that there is power. In that there is choice and autonomy even where choice and autonomy have been stripped away. And for now I have my black ink. I have my skin. And when I am left with nothing else I will still have me."

Anna Boden: Black Ink on My Skin

Sarah Burg: Chair

A poster featuring two greyhounds circling a skeleton with flowers growing out of it. A quote is written across the image in red: "THE DEAD RECEIVE MORE FLOWERS THAN THE LIVING BECAUSE REGRET IS STRONGER THAN GRATITUDE". In the right corner, an ink painting of chrysthanthimums has been inverted so the background is black and the ink is white. It is contained within a drawn box. Down the center of the image, a red abstract symbol resembling a spear or sword pierces the paper, stopping around halfway down.

Dylan Chen: Regret

Screenshot of the video. Elaine enters the room looking confused as she does not know what is going on.

Undergraduate Sung Hyun "Elaine" Cho: My Messy Room

For Poppop - A ghost stands at the edge of a hospital bed, overlooking someone losing their loved one.

Undergraduate Nicole DelVecchio: For Poppop

Claudia Dempsey: Gilded

Essence is a portrait that features a woman adorned with flowers around her head and neck. She holds a parrot in her hands and sunflowers lay across her lap.

Sarah Dettling: Essence

This print take parts the human figure to create abstract forms. The abstract forms are combined with the figure to obstruct the way a person would appear typically. Various shades of dark purples and light blues are used to create a colored ink blot test. The piece is meant to be examined to find the different interesting shapes that are present. It is open to interpretation and is intended for exploration.

Grace Dirig: Rorschach

Old man with long white hair sitting on bedroom floor, leaning against bed, using fingers to open nostril wide. The old man is wearing a pink headband with a wooden spoon, spatula, and flashlight attached to it. The flashlight is aimed at the old man’s nose and shining into his left nostril. The old man is dangling a blue mirror in between his toes that is pointed at his nose. The old man is looking at the mirror. The old man’s room is a mess with clothes, scissors, tweezers, nostril hair, etc. on the floor. His striped wallpaper is ripped.

Yassmine El-Rewini: Old Man Inspecting Nostril

This piece was made in layers. Green geometry, scattered and stacked like trees growing from reflective pools. Violet seeps upwards and creeps like roots or vines. Rusted orange is the backdrop, while six orbs reside in the absence of color--perhaps a handful of in sync fireflies lighting the path ahead.

Anna Engleman: Sinking Into The Cycle Of It All

"There Will Come Soft Rains" is a book design featuring a white background with black writing using two different fonts, one more uniform and the other with more personality to signal the speech of the electronic house. There are hand-drawn illustrations throughout the book emphasizing the grit and symbols described in the text. Later in the book, the page gradually fills with fire as the story takes a turn for the worst. The fire shines bright read standing out on the page.

Lindsay Farb: There Will Come Soft Rains

The primary image depicts the outside skeletal shell of the box with shiny ceramic trees growing out of it. This represents the restriction of the artist's mental disorder, while the trees emerging from the inside of the box represent all that helps her. Though the piece is ceramic, it has bodily aspects in its fleshy tone, spine, ribs, and restraining imprints, alluding to decay. The trees appear to be metallic with various hues, emerging through holes in the skeletal shell to suggest that there is a forest of growth inside, evoking a feeling of hope and flourishing.

Hannah Finch: Growth

Titled "Tiny Tim's Ways Of Getting The Worries Away". Pictures is a concerned grey mouse looking down while a big purple cloud of anxiety surrounds his head. Bottom of the pages states "by Helena Frawley".

Helena Frawley: Tiny Tim's Ways Of Getting The Worries Away

This image shows a long necklace with 5 opal shaped pendants that are connected by large wire jump rings. The pendants are made up of a variety of colored enamel which is powdered glass. Together the abstract colors mimic that of an opal, without having any stone present.

Lily Gandhi: Absent Opal

A meal enjoied by Inez Quezada y Chabela in El Capide, Guerrero Mexico.

Victor Luis Garcia: Inez Quezada y Chabela

The image shows the front of an opened accordion book. There are four plants of different colors shown: Dyer's Chamomile in yellow, Tango Cosmos in orange, Marigold in yellow and green, and Black Bachelor's Button in purple. Each image of each flower is hand drawn over the flower's natural print, creating a detailed drawing overtop a wild and colorfully dyed background.

Sarah Gery: Ecoprints of the Stamps Dye Garden

The artwork pictures a sleek bathroom with a free standing bathtub with a gold dolphin swimming. The tub is adorned with several turquoise stone rings to mimic a bubble bath.

Ella Gitler: Pearly Plunge

The above image contains a complete set of the Carbon 30 boardgame. The box contains Individual Game Board x 4 (Round Ring), Initial Carbon Tiles x 12, Initial Economy Tiles x 12, Carbon points x 120, 1-Billion Money Tile x 48, 3-Billion Money Tile x 24, Game Cards x 120 (40 each Phase), Collaboration Marker x 8 ,4 Side Dice x 1, 10 Side Dice x2

Selins (Boya) Gong: Carbon 30

Introducing a new way to apply perfume with The PerfumePatch for on-the-move users.

Ghida Hammoud: Perfume Patch

an up close shot of an inked black/white trace monotype of a woman wearing glasses winking towards the camera

Ikalanni Jahi: a cheeky wink (self portrait)

This painting features various elements in shades of blue, grey, pink, and green. At the center is a statue bust covered in blue toga-like fabric, with a round rock head with large divots and dramatic lighting. A large shadow extends from the rocky head, with a lighter, distorted echo beneath it. Two fish swim above the bust, one from the upper left and the other from the bottom right. The background shows a royal blue sky with simplified clouds and a gradient leading to the center. In the bottom left, there are blue folds resembling seaweed, while the bottom right has a mosaic with purple and lilac colors, ending in the middle. A mosaic face floats above the tiles, appearing weathered. The top right features rippling waves in shades of blue and teal, with a pink fishtail emerging. Another pink fishtail appears behind the bust's neck. In the top left, there's a dark purple tile-like pattern with floating clouds. A pink mysterious figure with a bird beak, horns, and human arms extends a wreath of flowers, reaching toward the swimming fish.

Mary Jordan: Seascape

Undergraduate Gigi Kalabat: Sleep Paralysis Animation

The project doesn't have a single image, this is the portfolio link with all images of Parallels of Power. https://alexkautz20.wixsite.com/wryd-art/parallels-of-power If you wish, I can get a single image of all 6 objects, and their plaques.

Alexander Kautz: Parallels of Power

Black background that brightens in the center revealing a dark humanoid character with purple eyes

Undergraduate Nuala Kennedy: Solace

A line art drawing with a grey, cloudy background in a painterly style shows a wind wisp (a whimsical and friendly-looking creature made from flowing, swirly lines colored different shades of pink, orange, and purple) peeks out from the left side of the image, looking at you. It has long, thin floppy ears with swirls at the base, a single big swirl at the top of its head that resembles a curly cowlick, and its mouth is shaped like a dog or cat's mouth, with a swirl on either end as if it has a smiling mustache.

Undergraduate Rory Kwan: Sky Buddies

This image displays two tunnels side-by-side, taken as stills from animated visualizations. They are meant to represent the transformation from death to birth. The tunnel on the left is formed through a dense set of particles that relate to vaginal-birth statistics, while the tunnel on the right is composed of several circling lines to convey a "gateway."

Charlotte Lee: Diagrammatic Biorhythm

Hava Liebowitz: Ein Sof Tapestry

The image is a still shot from the animation, in which it depicts a boy as he "wakes up" surprised to find himself not in the classroom anymore but in his daydream world.

Undergraduate Emily Lin: Daydream

A graphite portrait of a man’s smoldering stare drawn on a tiny yellow post-it note.

Kyler Luna: Yellowed

Regal Night Out is a mini dress with a tight fit and short skirt. The fabric is a cream Toile de Jouy with dark red prints of both nature and a man and woman on a date. Underneath the top skirt there is a second skirt peaking out made of white organza fabric.

Polinna Maknev: Regal Night Out

The image shows one woman, dressed in an ombre blue and gold Indian Saree. She is in the image twice, holding her own hand and looking at herself. She stands in a black empty space.

Santana Malnaik: Invisible Heritage

This work is a woodblock print, where the printed image in the center of the paper is 18 inches high by 12 inches wide. The image depicts a wood suspension bridge over a large body of water, positioned as though the viewer is standing on the bridge looking directly forward. The wooden planks appear to recede back into space. The other side of the bridge is attached to the top of a large cliff seen in the distance, and it is misty where the cliff face meets the water. A bit of sky can be seen above the cliffs. The planks are supported by many ropes that extend upwards on either side, which connect to two ropes at the top (one on either side) that recede into the distance and connect to the other end of the bridge. The bridge, including the planks and ropes, are black, red, and reddish-brown, while the background, including the cliffs, water, and sky, are rendered in pinks, lighter browns, and white.

Emily Mann: The Bridge

In the animation, there is a doll who is having a tea party by herself in a room. In front of her is a table with a pink heart that looks like a rabbit's head. As she moves, the heart beats faster. Then red flowers come out of her head and mouth, as the room becomes more chaotic.

Undergraduate Marilyn Mok: The Blooming Mad Party

The image shows a ceramic bust of a naked women's chest with a plate replacing the head. There is text inscribed on the plate that is incoherent and crossed out. Along the bust are carved holes through the chest revealing a small grave and mushrooms surrounding it. The headstone reads "Here lies Megan Ocelnik" . A few worms crawl along the woman's body. Splattered and dripped green, black, and beige glaze cover the work. Along the underside of the plate is an imprinted pattern texture.

Megan Ocelnik: What is this? This new thing.

A warm, early day forested scene is depicted with a fallen tree trunk very prominently displayed in the center of the image. On the top of this log, to the right end, a chipmunk stands alert. To the left side of the log, there is a stone behind it. To the left of the illustration, there is a tree with dark bark, as well as a tree on the right side in the area closest to the viewer. As it gets farther out, the other 4 trees in the background gradually fade into the warm yellow background. There is no sky depicted.

Undergraduate Kaitlyn Onela: Acorn Day

Taylor Jane Pacis: Match Day, Ann Arbor, MI, 2022

The primary image depicts two reductive linocut prints of water, filling the entire matrix. The two prints have the same matrix and different color palettes. The print on the left shows water ranging from a light sky blue to a deep peacock blue, as water might look on a bright day with a blue sky. The print on the right shows water ranging from a steeley light gray to a dark murky gray, bordering on green, as water might look on a stormy day.

Annabel Paul: The View From The Boat Diptych

Yellow screen printed tapestry with blue ink focusing on varying lines from long to small with sections of cross hatchings. The lines, curved and straight, have a strong contrast to the fabric making it pop.

Sydney Payton: Against The Grain

Three sculptural paintings organized by the frames' main color, pink, yellow, then blue, positioned in a horizontal line. Made of clay, the frames have an organic texture, contrasting with the spikes growing from their edges. The subjects are abstract lines, made from building up hot glue, appearing three dimensional. The lines alternating sharp and flowing forms, echo into the design of the frame and background.

Summer Pengelly: Within the Delicate Mind: Inexplicable Pink, Impulse Yellow, Intense Blue

this is a work in progress photo of a life size, figurative clay sculpture. It is standing on a cart with wheels and has clay supports sitting on the toes going up to the knees. There are seams in the sculpture where it has been separated into pieces that sit on top of each other. One seam is just above the belly button and the other is just under the chin. The figure is nude, standing in a relaxed posture with hands crossed in front of their body. The figure has visible surgical scars on the chest from the removal of breasts. The genitalia of the figure isn't unclear. The hands and feet are simplified, without defined fingers or toes. The figure has short hair and thick eyebrows and its expression is tranquil to neutral. There are photos on the wall behind the sculpture and evidence of tables in the foreground and background of the photo.

Jay Petrowski: Trans Figure

Annie Tianping Poorman: Our Wonderful Becoming

Maisie Prince: Come Back to Me

A cool, greyscale, article of fabric is positioned on a dark green background that contains cream figures in skirts, blurred by motion, fading into the darkness. A thin red string is positioned to the right of the fabric, spanning nearly the height of the painting

Grace Queen: Unravel

This is a self patterned jacket, fitted perfectly to my dimensions and created painstakingly. It is made of a teal faux leather material with snakeskin texture.

Abby Rapoport: Snakeskin Blazer

Two framed images stacked atop one another each contain a series of small images: a waterfall, a man peeking though a tree, a stone skipper at a lake's edge, a ambiguous gather of flowers, and small rectangles of color. The images have been drawn on and are arranged along a non-visible three dimensional plane. In the white space, printed in white ink are lines from the novel Autobiography of Red by Ann Carson. They read, "how does distance look? it extends from a spaceless within to the edge of what can be loved. it depends on light."

Casey Rheault: Circle Park, diptych

This is a screenprint of a woman's body that has been edited and distorted, printed with black dye on sheer fabric.

Isabella Sachs: Naked Ladies: Abstracting the Female Form

The piece is an oil painting on a medium-sized square canvas. It is rendered semi-realistically and has an overall unnerving or unsettling tone. On a bright orange background, a constricted figure wearing a white bra and underwear sits in the middle of the composition. She has vivid, unnaturally green-tinted skin and dark hair that reaches her chest. She is harshly lit from the left, casting a stark shadow on the right side of the composition. Her head is turned to the left, but her large, tearful, bloodshot eyes stare straight at the viewer. Mascara runs faintly down her cheeks, and she is wearing thickly-applied red lipstick. She is clearly in a state of distress or delirium. A white bra strap wraps around her mouth and around the back of her head. Her arms and legs extend to the four corners of the painting, constricted in certain spots by small white straps. The straps are wound so tightly around the body parts that they appear to be bisecting them. The torso is unnaturally squeezed into three distinct lumps of flesh. The figure’s bra appears rigid and raises her chest from the rest of her torso. The skin is red and irritated in all of the spots where the bra, underwear, or bra straps squeeze the body. Blue, purple, and green veins appear in the torso, chest, thighs, and arms. The armpits, inner thighs, and left shin (from the audience’s perspective) are dotted with small red razor bumps.

Chloe Schans: THE CONFINES

Figure drawing study of a skeleton being burned in a fire pit in the video (im)permanent death by Jake Schraga and Chloe Chandler for the Commence exhibition at the University of Michigan Stamps School of Art & Design in the Stamps Gallery

Undergraduate Jake Schraga: (im)permanent death

Self-Portrait of Artist dragging fingers down cheek

Divya Shankar: Ghost

Three wood panels sit next to each other, the left most panel shows a human back with an imprint of a bra near the armpit. The middle panel shows part of a calf with the imprint of the top of a sock, the texture mimics a wound or burn of some kind. The panel on the far right shows a belly, with a horizontal line going across the belly button, surrounded by organic, irregular lines. These panels also feature light washes of blue, red, and orange to mimic flesh and fabric.

Ashlyn Slaviero: In and of the Flesh

The right image shows Japanese macaques enjoying a hot spring in the fall. There are seven monkeys all enjoying the water. There is a Japanese maple tree in the background that has orange leaves. The second image shows four capybaras and four ducklings enjoying a hot spring in the spring. The water has oranges and a watermelon in it. In the background there is a tree with pink cherry blossoms.

Enid Smith: Spa Day

This artwork is a ceramic sculpture of a female body bent over backwards. The sculpture is cut off above the elbows and around the mid thigh, however it is missing its right arm. There are also holes cut out where there nipples and vagina should be, and in their place are salmon pink and purple artificial floral arrangements. The piece is covered in white Terra Sigillata, with touches of pink outlining the hollowed out body parts.

Jaelynn Sviglin-Krell: Bending Over Backwards

The image is a 2D render replication of a paper collage. The main subject of the image is a woman whose head and shoulder are visible. She is the only black and white subject in the image, and she is standing in front of a wall of rippling water. The water is filled with various shades of blues, purples, and pinks. Two betafish are placed near her head, as if they are circling a conversation around her. One fish is a mix of blues and purples, while the other one is a combination of shifting oranges, reds, purples, and blues. Her eyes are covered by a cutout of a strip of blue silk. In the lower right corner of the image, there is another extended rectangular cutout of blue silk that runs diagonally across her shoulder, and a yellow sunflower sits on top of it.

Jennie Vang: blindfolded

Drawing of 4 customers enjoying the smells and feel of highland coffeehouse.

Lana Victoria: Highland; A true slice of life

Front and back of a booklet layed flat on a white table. The cover image is red with a big, block text in white displaying "A Conversation With My Anxiety" set to the left of the page with black tentacles over the text. The back image is red with a large, black jellyfish in the middle of the image. At the bottom in the same block, white text is the name “Madalynn Walker”.

Madalynn Walker: A Conversation With My Anxiety

This is a five-page comic, with a cover page beforehand. On it are the title and author in bold font, "The Father Is Present by Kaye Weatherly." There is a blank background with an old man sitting in a chair, facing away from viewer. / On page one, we see the old man from the front and his eyes are cast over with shadow. The text boxes are a voiceover from someone not yet seen, and it reads, "He was sentimental. He was wicked and sentimental. I must have been thirteen when I found out the truth..." The man is visibly conversing with someone, smiling initially, and then frowning in the third panel as the camera slowly zooms in on him. The panels become shorter when he gets up to point a gun at a man's face. The last text box reads, "I couldn't live like this anymore." In the last, shortest panel, the younger man is seen sweating as the gun reaches his forehead. / On page two, we are introduced to the speaker of the prior text boxes—a young girl with light-colored hair and a beret is speaking to another girl at a diner. She says to her, "It's like... a social murder. I've been dead my whole life. He refused to have me aborted, yet raised me in a cage." In the next panel, she says, "It frightens me to wonder what happened to mother—" and she is cut off by a director yelling "CUT!" The panel shows a film crew in the foreground of the diner, all of whom are in the dark. In the third panel, the director says, "Scarlet! There's a call for you." She replies, "Okay, coming!" In the next panel he says "Oh, and uh—don't veer too far off the script, alright?" As she walks away she replies "Right, got it..." The last three panels, which are all equal in size, show her gradually running off to the payphone in the corridor. / Page three. On the phone, Scarlet says, “They what? They found him?” There are three people from her film crew standing off in the distance, watching her. Her speech bubble wraps around to the second panel, where she says, “Oh, for Christ’s sake—call later, I don’t have time for this!” Here there is a closer shot of the three individuals making faces at one another while they listen in on their actress’s call. In the third panel, we see Scarlet again, visibly huddling closer to the mic when she says, “Alright, fine—but make it quick! I’m wasting everyone’s time and money.” The panel has a zigzag transition line into a shot of a man with a ten gallon hat and eye mask on the other end of the line. There is a man with a full face mask sitting at a table behind him with one bright light shining down on him. The hatted man on the phone says, “Not much time left until we move on in. Any last words for the old man?” In the next panel we see the fully masked man up close, where he is handed the magazine of a pistol by someone else, and he is about to load it into a pistol from the stack of guns he is preparing. He wears a black suit and tie. In overhearing the call, he says, “Tell her we won’t be there to hear his. Our mole got him cornered and his guys—however many are left—are scrambling away.” The next few diagonal panels are quick shots of him loading the next gun, and in the last, he is pointing it directly outward. He says, “The clock is ticking.” / Page four. There is a close up of the lower half of Scarlet’s face and the phone she’s holding. On the other end of the line the man continues, “I wonder… Will you carry on his legacy, or cower away ’til they find and kill you… Sinovia Kazimirovna?” With a sharp “clang!” she slams the phone back onto the handles. In the next panel she is startled that two of the three crew members are up close now: the man on the left dons headphones and is holding a boom mic stand. The woman on the right has frizzy hair and librarian glasses. She says to Scarlet, “Scarlet, honey? Don’t tell me, was it the one exec?” The man says in response to this, “Tell him lighting department wants to kick his ass.” The next panel, which lacks borders, has Scarlet in an isolated white background as she replies “Oh, no, those were just… my dad’s colleagues.” In the next shot we see her walking back with the woman’s arm around her shoulders, saying to her “Oh, okay, well come on back over! We don’t got all day. Donna’s been dying to go to that new salon with you after work.” In the next panel we get closer to Scarlet once again, where we shift to her inner thoughts: here she thinks to herself, “Can I lead a normal life like this?” In the bottom panel we cut to a close-up of her bloodied palms from a previous incident. Debilitating over this, she continues, “I recently killed in self-defense. He had it out for me because my father murdered his brother. He couldn’t pay off his debt.” The last, smaller thought box reads, “An eye for an eye. The cycle continues out of self-preservation.” / Page five. We see a montage of a few memories. In the first panel she is dying her darker colored hair and her inner thoughts continue, “I’m trying to reclaim my life.” In the second panel, she is on a theater stage auditioning for three individuals in the front seats. The thought box here reads, “I dyed my hair. Started wearing makeup. I auditioned under a new name.” The next panel, which is slimmer in height, shows her back in her original seat at the diner, laughing along to whatever conversation has been had with her crew. The thought box reads, “But… he is a part of me so long as he lives.” The next panel, slightly zoomed out and expanded in size, shows her casting her gaze elsewhere and looking a bit more concerned. The last box reads, “Until he sheds blood, I cannot shed this mold.” In the final panel she is looking out towards the camera, distraught, while a boom mic hovers above her, a film camera is aimed at her, and her co-star is laughing in a conversation with other film crew members. The size of this panel is the biggest of the three. This composition is an inverted callback to the panel size order in the beginning of the comic, in which the shots of her father gradually shrink in size. The last text box at the bottom right of the panel reads in italicized text, “End.”

Kaye Weatherly: The Father Is Present

Josh Weiss: A Cherry Tree in Washington D.C.

Handbound book composed of various sheets of paper, each with a different spice used as a natural dye. The images on the sheets are laser cut drawings of the raw plants associated with each spice; those featured are: cinnamon, cocoa, chilli powder, black pepper, and garlic.

Alyssa Wilcome: What I've Learned

Multimedia paper sculpture using handmade kozo paper attached to oil based relief prints with nori paste. The printed image is an abstracted interior of the knee printed in dusty pink. The prints are collages into a curved shape.Beige Kozo paper is layered on top with shredded areas, holes, and distressed edges. Pink dyed paper strips are attached to the outer edges and hang off of the form.

Daphne Wilson: Unspecified Chronicity

oil painting shows a robotic figure with a wire throat, bearing teeth, and wide, shiny, eyes. The backdrop is all monotone blue. The background includes many plushies, pillows, and blankets of different shade and texture. On top of the blanket is an ash-tray, lighter, and tv remote.

Maya Zimmerman: "Existing Manually"

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Jessica Allen: Repentant?
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Jessica Allen: Repentant?
This was one of the first paintings I made in Introduction to Painting. Through this chiaroscuro ...
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Hannah Anderson: Background Stills
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Hannah Anderson: Background Stills
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This is a collection of digital paintings created and animated in 2022. My primary focus was to c...
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Quinn Arnold: City Nostalgia
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Quinn Arnold: City Nostalgia
A joyful ode to my childhood, browsing the streets of Ann Arbor during the Art Fair. My first tim...
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Allena Arteaga: Land of Fangs and Trees
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Allena Arteaga: Land of Fangs and Trees
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The Land of Fangs and Trees is a passion project featuring original characters in a fantastical w...
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Jordyn Axelrod: Aqua Barbies
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Jordyn Axelrod: Aqua Barbies
Aqua Barbies is a mono print diptych that depicts my nostalgia and love for Barbie dolls. Like ch...
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Leilani Baylis-Washington: Virtual Art Exhibition
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Leilani Baylis-Washington: Virtual Art Exhibition
An interactive art museum meant to showcase my work as well as my friends. With multiple rooms to...
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Anna Boden: Black Ink on My Skin
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Anna Boden: Black Ink on My Skin
"Black Ink on My Skin" documents and reflects on the process of journaling on my body about my se...
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Sarah Burg: Chair
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Sarah Burg: Chair
Inspired by Danish design, I designed and built a three-legged chair that combines both minimalis...
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Dylan Chen: Regret
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Dylan Chen: Regret
I encountered this anonymous quote spontaneously online, and was immediately struck to design a p...
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Sung Hyun "Elaine" Cho: My Messy Room
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Sung Hyun "Elaine" Cho: My Messy Room
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My Messy Room is a piece that depicts an imaginary conversation between the objects in my room ab...
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11/67

Nicole DelVecchio: For Poppop
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Nicole DelVecchio: For Poppop
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"For Poppop" is an animated short that visualizes death as a comforting spirit to those who have ...
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12/67

Claudia Dempsey: Gilded
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Claudia Dempsey: Gilded
This illustration was made when I began to come back to illustration after focusing on design for...
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13/67

Sarah Dettling: Essence
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Sarah Dettling: Essence
This piece was created as a final work for a figure painting course. We were challenged to create...
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14/67

Grace Dirig: Rorschach
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Grace Dirig: Rorschach
Inspired by the Rorschach Ink Blot Test, parts of the figure were used to create abstract shapes ...
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15/67

Yassmine El-Rewini: Old Man Inspecting Nostril
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Yassmine El-Rewini: Old Man Inspecting Nostril
This scene is from a story about an old man who’s trying to get rid of the booger creatures livin...
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16/67

Anna Engleman: Sinking Into The Cycle Of It All
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Anna Engleman: Sinking Into The Cycle Of It All
soggy socks soaked from a mourning spree through dew incased blades sap stained skin i remember ...
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17/67

Lindsay Farb: There Will Come Soft Rains
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Lindsay Farb: There Will Come Soft Rains
“There Will Come Soft Rains”, this designed, illustrated, and bound book, was created based on th...
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18/67

Hannah Finch: Growth
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Hannah Finch: Growth
This figure's outer shell represents restriction inflicted by mental illness. The interior depict...
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19/67

Helena Frawley: Tiny Tim's Ways Of Getting The Worries Away
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Helena Frawley: Tiny Tim's Ways Of Getting The Worries Away
A children's illustrated book about a mouse named Tiny Tim and his techniques for getting the wor...
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20/67

Lily Gandhi: Absent Opal
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Lily Gandhi: Absent Opal
Absent Opal is a necklace that was created by using the cloisonné enameling technique. This techn...
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21/67

Victor Luis Garcia: Inez Quezada y Chabela
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Victor Luis Garcia: Inez Quezada y Chabela
Inez Quezada (Left) Chabela (Right) While researching the practices of my Indigenous Mexican ance...
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22/67

Sarah Gery: Ecoprints of the Stamps Dye Garden
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Sarah Gery: Ecoprints of the Stamps Dye Garden
This artists' book was hand printed with seven dye plants from the new Stamps Sustainable Paper a...
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23/67

Ella Gitler: Pearly Plunge
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Ella Gitler: Pearly Plunge
I created this piece as an intern for Bleecker & Prince Jewelry in 2022. I enjoyed interpreti...
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24/67

Selins (Boya) Gong: Carbon 30
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Selins (Boya) Gong: Carbon 30
While serving as an educational tool that introduces the mechanism of the global carbon credit sy...
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25/67

Ghida Hammoud: Perfume Patch
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Ghida Hammoud: Perfume Patch
Introducing a new way to apply perfume with The PerfumePatch for on-the-move users. Need to meet...
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26/67

Ikalanni Jahi: a cheeky wink (self portrait)
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Ikalanni Jahi: a cheeky wink (self portrait)
an experiment from my first printmaking class in about 5 years. using a hatching technique, the g...
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27/67

Mary Jordan: Seascape
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Mary Jordan: Seascape
Immersed in the rich tapestry of the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, I found myself entranced by th...
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28/67

Gigi Kalabat: Sleep Paralysis Animation
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Gigi Kalabat: Sleep Paralysis Animation
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Sleep paralysis is a state of consciousness accompanied by full-body paralysis. Episodes may incl...
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29/67

Alexander Kautz: Parallels of Power
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Alexander Kautz: Parallels of Power
What is the ultimate weapon? Is it something of the gods, or forged from the conflicts of man? My...
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30/67

Nuala Kennedy: Solace
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Nuala Kennedy: Solace
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Solace tells a story of isolation and the desire for companionship. Coming out of quarantine gave...
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31/67

Rory Kwan: Sky Buddies
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Rory Kwan: Sky Buddies
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While studying abroad at the Burren College of Art in Ireland, I made Sky Buddies as a response t...
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32/67

Charlotte Lee: Diagrammatic Biorhythm
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Charlotte Lee: Diagrammatic Biorhythm
“Diagrammatic Biorhythm” visualizes statistical data about vaginal births and tunnel-visions in n...
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33/67

Hava Liebowitz: Ein Sof Tapestry
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Hava Liebowitz: Ein Sof Tapestry
repurpose my statement from the juried show please
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34/67

Emily Lin: Daydream
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Emily Lin: Daydream
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Exploring the captivating world of the mind, “Daydream” is a 2D animated short film that follows ...
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35/67

Kyler Luna: Yellowed
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Kyler Luna: Yellowed
A graphite drawing from a series of portraits on post-it notes made while studying abroad in London.
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36/67

Polinna Maknev: Regal Night Out
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Polinna Maknev: Regal Night Out
Regal Night Out is a dress created during my time at the London College of Fashion. This dress se...
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37/67

Santana Malnaik: Invisible Heritage
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Santana Malnaik: Invisible Heritage
Invisible Heritage is an exploration of my identity as a mixed-race Asian American woman. Here, I...
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38/67

Emily Mann: The Bridge
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Emily Mann: The Bridge
My work reflects intermingling feelings of hope and terror in the face of rapidly approaching fut...
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39/67

Marilyn Mok: The Blooming Mad Party
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Marilyn Mok: The Blooming Mad Party
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The Blooming Mad Party is a whimsical animation that explores the intricate feelings of one’s min...
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40/67

Megan Ocelnik: What is this? This new thing.
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Megan Ocelnik: What is this? This new thing.
"What is this? This new thing?" represents the death and rebirth of the self as we enter new vers...
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41/67

Kaitlyn Onela: Acorn Day
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Kaitlyn Onela: Acorn Day
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Acorn Day is a light-hearted short film about a chipmunk that finds a large acorn in the woods. T...
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42/67

Taylor Jane Pacis: Match Day, Ann Arbor, MI, 2022
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Taylor Jane Pacis: Match Day, Ann Arbor, MI, 2022
In my photographic exploration, I aim to combine the excitement of sports with the technical elem...
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43/67

Annabel Paul: The View From The Boat Diptych
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Annabel Paul: The View From The Boat Diptych
This reductive linocut diptych shows the expanse of water you might see when looking down, off th...
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44/67

Sydney Payton: Against The Grain
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Sydney Payton: Against The Grain
As an artist, my journey at Loughborough University studying textiles began with the creation of ...
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45/67

Summer Pengelly: Within the Delicate Mind: Inexplicable Pink, Impulse Yellow, Intense Blue
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Summer Pengelly: Within the Delicate Mind: Inexplicable Pink, Impulse Yellow, Intense Blue
Within the Delicate Mind, is a triptych consisting of the works Inexplicable Pink, Impulse Yellow...
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46/67

Jay Petrowski: Trans Figure
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Jay Petrowski: Trans Figure
transfigure; verb; to transform outwardly and usually for the better.
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47/67

Annie Tianping Poorman: Our Wonderful Becoming
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Annie Tianping Poorman: Our Wonderful Becoming
Our Wonderful Becoming, is a watercolor illustrated children’s book that follows a girl named Han...
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48/67

Maisie Prince: Come Back to Me
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Maisie Prince: Come Back to Me
‘Come Back to Me' epitomizes the perpetual restlessness and ceaseless motion inherent to the batt...
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49/67

Grace Queen: Unravel
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Grace Queen: Unravel
This piece brings realistic forms into abstract spaces, rearranging the context and relationship ...
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50/67

Abby Rapoport: Snakeskin Blazer
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Abby Rapoport: Snakeskin Blazer
In my junior year I spent a semester at the Paris College of Art, studying as a fashion design st...
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51/67

Casey Rheault: Circle Park, diptych
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Casey Rheault: Circle Park, diptych
A time-space realm achieved through meditation. A reflecting pool, a sense-maker, a meeting plac...
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52/67

Isabella Sachs: Naked Ladies: Abstracting the Female Form
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Isabella Sachs: Naked Ladies: Abstracting the Female Form
Looking into the perception of the female form brings about questions about how we traditionally ...
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53/67

Chloe Schans: THE CONFINES
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Chloe Schans: THE CONFINES
Womanhood is not something I feel connected to– I feel more like a person without a subcategory. ...
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54/67

Jake Schraga: (im)permanent death
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Jake Schraga: (im)permanent death
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Jake Schraga (visual artist) and Chloe Chandler (performing artist) spent time at the Croft Resid...
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55/67

Divya Shankar: Ghost
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Divya Shankar: Ghost
A reflection of the artist's appearance, and inner turmoil.
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56/67

Ashlyn Slaviero: In and of the Flesh
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Ashlyn Slaviero: In and of the Flesh
You are made to fit the clothes, the clothes are not made to fit you. Clothes exist as a point o...
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57/67

Enid Smith: Spa Day
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Enid Smith: Spa Day
These two illustrations are companion pieces meant to have a relaxing atmosphere. The right featu...
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58/67

Jaelynn Sviglin-Krell: Bending Over Backwards
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Jaelynn Sviglin-Krell: Bending Over Backwards
At the Kelsey Museum, I saw Ancient Greek fertility sculptures traditionally given to newlyweds a...
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59/67

Jennie Vang: blindfolded
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Jennie Vang: blindfolded
This illustration was my final project for ArtDes 100: Drawing Observation, in which I replicated...
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60/67

Lana Victoria: Highland; A true slice of life
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Lana Victoria: Highland; A true slice of life
Highland Coffeehouse is a unique ohio-based Coffeehouse thats open 5pm-2am every night, serving a...
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61/67

Madalynn Walker: A Conversation With My Anxiety
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Madalynn Walker: A Conversation With My Anxiety
Through A Conversation With My Anxiety, I want to help bridge the gap of mental health between ar...
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62/67

Kaye Weatherly: The Father Is Present
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Kaye Weatherly: The Father Is Present
"The Father Is Present" is an excerpt from a larger story of mine, but operates as a standalone c...
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63/67

Josh Weiss: A Cherry Tree in Washington D.C.
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Josh Weiss: A Cherry Tree in Washington D.C.
A relief woodcut print.
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64/67

Alyssa Wilcome: What I've Learned
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Alyssa Wilcome: What I've Learned
The meticulous process of making paper by hand includes measuring, beating, pouring, and waiting-...
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65/67

Daphne Wilson: Unspecified Chronicity
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Daphne Wilson: Unspecified Chronicity
This work was created after getting the diagnosis of 'unspecified chronicity' in my knee followin...
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66/67

Maya Zimmerman: "Existing Manually"
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Maya Zimmerman: "Existing Manually"
This is a print of painting 4/4 of a series of oil paintings titled "Existing Manually". This ser...
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