2026 Second Year Studio Exhibition

August 24 — October 18, 2026
Exhibition Reception: October 1, 1 – 2:30 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. At the end of the semester, students formally report on their experience in a presentation called the Sophomore Review and receive direct feedback from a panel of Stamps faculty members. 

Installed throughout the Art & Architecture Building, the Second Year Studio Exhibition showcases the art and design work created in this pivotal course by our rising third-year and transfer students, and invites first-year students and other newcomers to explore both the building and the creative possibilities ahead. The show features 50 students who have volunteered to participate, yet it honors every Stamps major who reaches the SYS milestone. 

The works in this year’s exhibition engage a wide range of questions and concerns. Students investigate memory, identity, materiality, ecology, technology, labor, social relationships, and the built environment through equally diverse formal approaches. While these subjects recur across the exhibition, what stands out most is not a dominant thematic direction, but a shared commitment to sustained inquiry.

–Sally Clegg, Lecturer & Student Exhibitions Coordinator & Pedram Baldari, Assistant Professor

Exhibiting Artists and Designers

• Nailah Aguilar
• Akylah Archer
• Zachary Berenbaum
• Samantha Blaine
• Lauren Boyce
• Kas Brajkovic
• Anna Browne
• Lilah Chow
• Isabella Cortes
• Magdalena Dimovski
• Leah Elliott
• Aya Fadlelzebair
• M. Faurote
• Claire Fuller
• Noelle Gall
• Lacy Galligan
• Abigail Garcia
• Elise Goldberg
• Ava Grace
• Ella Graeb
• Deja Green
• Grace Hardy
• Kore Hernández
• Mikayla Holcomb
• Reese Johnson
• Oonagh Kossman
• Kade Kuba
• Avelina Kusiak
• Oliver Levans
• Alef Liu
• Fiona Maier
• Caitlyn McConville
• Tyler Meerschaert
• Eve Mellis
• Erica Meunier
• Alexis Minor
• Catherine Mitzel
• Charlotte Mullin
• Anupama Narayan
• Mia Noël
• Ava Paananen
• Dominique Robinson
• Sophie Scott
• Victoria Selektor
• Samridhi Sharma
• Janet Shasha
• Sadie Smith
• Gabriella Spagnuolo
• Ava Sproull
• Jesse Strohauer
• David Wang
• Zimu Wang
• Lily Whitcomb
• Lexi Wu
• Melaniya Zazovskaya