Mind Your Head: The 2016 Stamps Senior Show

April 14 – 29, 2016
In-person Event
Work: Ann Arbor
Special Event
Open to the public
Free of charge
Mind Your Head: The 2016 Stamps Senior Show features work in a range of media by 92 graduating BFA, BA, and Interarts students at the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan. The exhibition unfolds over 17 days in five exhibition sites throughout the city of Ann Arbor: Michigan Theater, Duderstadt Video Studio, Slusser Gallery, Work Gallery, and Argus Building. Each space will be host to key exhibition events including film/video screenings, live performance, and opening receptions. The exhibition is free and open to the public.
Exhibition Openings & Events
Thursday, April 14
- Screenings: Michigan Theater, 603 East Liberty Street, 4 — 5:30 pm
- Live performance and Screenings: Duderstadt Video Studio, 2281 Bonisteel Boulevard, 7 pm
Friday, April 15
- Opening Reception: Slusser Gallery, 2000 Bonisteel Boulevard, 5 — 8 pm
- Live performance and Screenings: Duderstadt Video Studio, 2281 Bonisteel Boulevard, 7 pm
Saturday, April 16
- Opening Reception: Work Gallery, 306 South State Street, 5 — 8 pm
- Opening Reception: Argus II Building, 400 Fourth Street, 6 — 9 pm
Mind Your Head: The 2016 Stamps Senior Show will be on display at Slusser, Work, and Argus II galleries from April 15 — 30, 2016.
Gallery
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Michael Abboreno: Zephyr - Giving Life through Cooling
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Lindsey Abdale: The Universe in a Tree
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Derick Adams: John Osby
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Zoe Andersen: The Little Luminary
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Kara Argue: Goodbye Haven
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Connor Bade: Kin
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Eryn Baker: Cyclical
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Michael Benkarski: Coniferous Couch
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Christina Bennett: "You need to get out more."
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Jiaqi Bi: (un)Style
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Alexa Borromeo: stay out of the sun: a colonized consciousness
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Brianna Broderick: Flux
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Raj Brueggemann: The World is Ours
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Danielle Buffa: Noodle
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Julia Callis: Please, forgive the Mattress Blue
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Wes Chase: Safety should never be a luxury
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Nicole Cischke: The World Below
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Emma Covode: Floppy Phallics
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Maya Crosman: The Civic Subconscious
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Gabrielle DeCaro: FORGET YOUR KITTEN
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Cara Denton: Poisoned Palette
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Emily Dibble: You Touched Me
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Mary Dudek: A Stone's Throw
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Jacob Dwyer: Eyes Out
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John Ellefson: Thermocline
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Hannah Ervin: Familiar Faces
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Marc Ferraro: Instant Disassembly
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Elizabeth Fine: Extremities
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Carly Fishman: Real Fake Real Life
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Mariisa Franz: Sincerely, Parkinson's
Mariisa Franz: Sincerely, Parkinson'sTwo writing utensils that explore how the diagnosis of Parkinson's disease affects communication ...
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Jessica French: Mythological Birds
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Andrew Fuller: Legal Private Killer Volume One
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Gina Garavalia: The Wishing Stone
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Becca Garber: Testaments To Practice
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Daniel Ghastin: This Is Not A Portrait Of Marlon Brando
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Jenna Guswiler: Suspense Aligned
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Georgia Hampton: The Modern Girl's Field Guide to Lipstick, Losers, and Life
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Linh-Yen Hoang: In My Own Little Box
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Sean Horner: Sagas
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Nikki Horowitz: PERSONAL PROJECTIONS
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Dillon Irwin: Shadows of a Sighting
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Catherine Jung: Stitched
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Rebecca Julianne Kephart: Lumen Obscura
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Doo Hyun Kim: In Light of Shadows
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Sarah Knoll: A Delicate Obssesion
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Sidney Krandall: It's not a problem, until It's yours.
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Colin Leach: Layered Self
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Sanghyun Lee: Borrowed Presence
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Jean Lin: Hikikomori
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Beatriz Lozano: The Adobe Ceiling
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Laura Maier: 59 Hartington Rd
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Ellen Manson: It Was The Way She Said It
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Manami Maxted: CLAMMING UP
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Constanza McKinstry: The Inside Counts
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Morgan Nelson: SPAM
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Bianca Ng: A Better Conversation With Myself
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Hayden Nickel: Thoughts Like Bees
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Dustin Park: Dogmeat Kimchi & Gaucho Soup
Dustin Park: Dogmeat Kimchi & Gaucho SoupFood is more than just nutrition. It's about identity, bliss, culture, and satisfaction. I plan o...
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Jadzia Parker: "Once A Pancake, Always A Pancake" Imitation of Life
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Elizabeth Pearlman: Relief & Time: In Need of Passionate Abandon
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Mitchell Pilon: Music: The Transcendence of Energy
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Sarah Jane Post: Heart Beats for the Motherboard
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Michelina Risbeck: The Helpless Flame
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Carolyn Rodgers: Her Voice Guided Me
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Eva Roos: Remember Your Duty
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Matt Rosner: Isolated Incidents: Bed Room
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Jenna Rothstein: She's So Lucky, She's a Star
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Arielle Sanders: We're All Mixed Up
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Jacob Saphier: Twelve Knives
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Sophie Schneider: Naturally Synthetic: Our Interwoven World
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Natalie Schwartz: Girls Without Pearls
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Zoe Schwartz: efflorescence
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Caroline Shaver: Expectation vs. Reality
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Orlando Shaw: Menagerie: An Exploration of Man and Beast
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Justine Smith: Sweet Nothing: A Sugar-Coated Collection of Home and Family
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Emily Sneideman: Audentia
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Rachel Snyder: Abstraction in Motion
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Rose Stacey: Like Weeds, We Grow
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Eli Stirling: Brightmoor Community Kitchen Cart
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Sara Stolow: The Healing Box
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Carly Strauss: Noon Skate
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Sonia Tagari: Corporeal
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Cheryll Victuelles: The Tyranny of the OR, the Genius of the AND
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Benjamin Villella: The Violent Truth
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Elise Wescom: Seaside
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Cullen Whitmore: Golingo!
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Zoë Widmer: Does My Undercut Make Me Look Queer?
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Jane Wiley: Plastic Love Dream
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Nicholas Williams: Derelict Dandy
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Beatriz Wink: Maddie and the Photon
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