2025 Second Year Studio Exhibition

August 18 — October 24, 2025
Exhibition Reception: September 11, 3 – 5 p.m.

“In their second year, Stamps students complete a major milestone: Second Year Studio (SYS). It’s a course where, per the syllabus, students ​‘develop the capacity to work independently by identifying, exploring, and pursuing a single independent project that involves multiple iterations.’ Each student takes their own path, encountering questions that can shape the direction of their creative practice — how do I manage my time? How much constraint vs. freedom do I thrive on? What subject matter do I care about most deeply? How do my ideas about my future goals intersect with the work I want to make now? At the end of the semester, students formally report on their experience in a presentation called the Sophomore Review, and a faculty panel offers individualized feedback. 

Until now, the classroom studios and review rooms have been the only place to catch a glimpse of the art and design work resulting from this pivotal course. Last year, Associate Dean for Academic Programs Rebecca Strzelec proposed something new: an exhibition installed throughout the Art & Architecture Building during the summer that would celebrate Second Year Studio work and help to welcome the community back in the Fall. This inaugural 2025 Second Year Studio Exhibition showcases our rising third-years and transfer students, and invites first-years and other newcomers to explore both the building, and the creative possibilities ahead. The show features 44 students who have volunteered to participate, yet it honors every Stamps major who reaches the SYS milestone. 

The pieces on view span a wide array of media and capture a specific moment in each maker’s path — experiments in previously unfamiliar methods, emergent passions, creative risks taken, iterations and reiterations, and the seeds of so much future work.”

- Sally Clegg, Lecturer and Student Exhibitions Coordinator

Exhibiting Artists and Designers

• Robin Beaney
• Adi Behar
• David Byun
• Zoë Corley
• Chloe Dennis
• Viktoriya Finyak
• Maria Elena García-Murguía
• Elisa Gasser
• Olivia Glynn
• Roe Halbert
• Nadav Havilio
• Dee Holmes
• Ruby Hough
• Urvi Joshi
• Eunice Kim
• Hannah Kryzhan
• Ben Levitsky
• Joyce Liu
• Katelyn Ma
• Alexandria Mainor
• Erin Malone
• Summer Mansi
• Cheyenne Moore
• Ella Moxon
• Shafiq Muqit
• Alex Nguyen
• Anna Noh
• Leanna Mokihana Paik
• Eva Park
• Michelle Peng
• Eliana Pettigrew
• Zainab Rahmani
• Olivia Reed
• Sky Roberts
• Zachary Sebestyen
• Oliver Lee St Cyr
• Sophie Stillwagon
• Veronica Weinberg
• Caitlin Weingarden
• Nala Arielle White
• Ariel Williams
• Silas Williams
• Katherine Xu
• Joy Yang