Exhibition Detail

2017 Alumni Exhibition
July 18, 2017 – August 19, 2017
Each year, our Alumni exhibition offers an opportunity for Stamps graduates from across the country and internationally to share their current creative work.
The theme for the 2017 Stamps Alumni Juried Exhibition is “Ambiguities/Innuendoes? Go Fish.”
We are very pleased to welcome Brian Kennedy, the President, Director, and CEO of the Toledo Museum of Art, as the juror for this show.
2017 Awards
Kennedy selected three grand prize recipients and ten honorable mentions, with cash awards thanks to the generous support of Alumni Association of the University of Michigan.
Grand Prize Recipients
- Cynthia Greig – Representation no. 65 (fan)
- Katie St. Clair – Swale
- Alisa Yang – Please Come Again
Honorable Mentions
- Kelly Hartigan Goldstein – but…it’s a banana
- Lenea Howe – Norm Walker
- Leisa Rich – Disco Metastasis
- Robert Sedestrom – Chaulk Talk
- Michelle Sider – One the Side of the Road
- Mark Sisson – Portrait of Emma Shore: What Price Education?
- Russell Thayer – Wind Rapids
- Marjorie Tomchuk – Confluence II
- Zoë Widmer – Myself in a Series
- Robin Wilt – Fish & Unfish & still FIO
Work is on view at the new Stamps Gallery (McKinley Towne Center - 201 S. Division St.). This exhibition runs concurrently with the Ann Arbor Art Fair (July 20 - 23, 2017). With 8,000 square feet of exhibition space and a new downtown location, the Juried Alumni Show is the perfect way to celebrate the University of Michigan's Bicentennial in 2017.
Stamps Gallery
Exhibition Dates: Tuesday, July 18 - Saturday, August 19, 2017
Opening Reception & Award Ceremony: Friday, July 21, 2017 from 6 - 8 pm
Gallery Hours: Tuesday - Saturday: Noon - 7pm; Sunday, July 23 (during Ann Arbor Art Fair): Noon - 5 pm
201 S. Division Street, Ann Arbor MI 48104
First floor of the McKinley Towne Centre, between Liberty St. and Washington St. in downtown Ann Arbor
Alumni Work
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Frederika Adam: Hampstead Heath
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Melis Agabigum: [Life] Unfolds in Pools of Black [you took it away]
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Luna Anna Archey: Ma Cerise
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Anneli Arms: Grouper
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Suzanne Beutler: On the Road
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Gabriella Boros: Naked and Barefoot
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Paula Brown-Gray: Child’s Game
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Lynne Buchman: Recoleta
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Hillary Butterworth: The Loss is Ours
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Nina Cambron: Recurring Patterns
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Theresa Choe-Herrington: If Words Could Kill…........
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Janna Coumoundouros: Duende
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Olivia Crowley: What Color is my Life without You?
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Maxwell Davis: Curiosity Cabinet #4
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Jocelyn Edin: Secret Spot
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Keith Ekstam: Figure Stack with Tea Bowl
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Jane E. Fitzgerald: Land of Milk and Honey
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Helen Geglio: Boro Shape Shifting 1
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Ken Giles: standing in front of or behind the fire hydrant | standing behind or in front of the fire hydrant, 2
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Carol Goodenough: Sunset Blues
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C Gordon: Essex 87
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Cynthia Greig: Representation no. 65 (fan)
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Samuel E Harper: “JUST FIVE KIDS.”
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Brein Harpster: The Elephant In The Room
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Kelly Hartigan Goldstein: “but…it’s a banana.”
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Sue Holdaway-Heys: jewel box beetle
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Ryan Hoover: Rabeda
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Kelsey Ann Horn: Stop Being Facetious
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Laura Whitesides Host: Beware the Cyprinus Carpio
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Lenea Howe: Norm Walker
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Ruth Howell: The Gilded World of ZaraZote Koi
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Kerry Huver: Alchemy
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Vivian Babuts & Joey Christiano Diaz: Untitled
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Adrienne Kaplan: In Memory of George
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Shannon Kohlitz: A Tutorial in the Language of Trump’s Hands
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Deanna Krueger: Tartarus
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David Littell: The Impersistence of Memory
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Beatriz Lozano: Cut from the Same Cloth
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Louise Lutton: Upstream/Downstream
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Marjorie Marshall: Why wipe?
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Ms. Kathryn McDonough-Lemery: Why is Christ Fishing?
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Lisa Meeske Sloan: Fake Flowers
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Kathy Messner: It starts with one line
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Susan Michod: Tossed like a willful child
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Kimberly Moss: Mirror
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Bianca Ng: Who is Your Shero?
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Samara Pearlstein: The Absolute Wrong Thing v.2
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Bevely (Name is Beverly in DART-typo?) Peller Henson: What? When? Where?
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Viviana Pernot: Calles Cubanas
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Leisa Rich: Disco Metastasis
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Michelina Risbeck: Omitted Public Spaces
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David Rubello: Color Moves #88
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Robert Sedestrom: Chaulk Talk
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Bettyann Seltzer/Pober: Schoolyard Games A-F
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Michelle Sider: On the Side of the Road
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Mark Sisson: Portrait of Emma Shore: What Price Education?
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Jennifer Spoon: Pink Paper Pussy Hat
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Katie St. Clair: Swale
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Betsy Statman Besl: Plenty of Fish in the Tea
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Phyllis Swonk: The Alien House
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Russell Thayer: Wind Rapids
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Marjorie Tomchuk: Confluence !!
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Maureen Vachon: Untitled
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Donella Reese Vogel: The Illustrated Illustrator
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Jill Stefani Wagner: Moment or Dream?
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Zoë Widmer: Myself in a Series
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Robin Wilt: Fish & Unfish & still FIO
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Ellen Wilt: The Scholar
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Jean Wolff: Blue Fold White Lines
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Alisa Yang: Please Come Again
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Matthew Zivich: Was Siehst Du?
Exhibition Venues
Stamps Gallery
Stamps Gallery is currently only open to University of Michigan faculty, staff, and students with valid M-Cards on Tuesdays and Fridays from 2-7 pm.
All visitors must have a valid M-Card to enter Stamps Gallery. We are unable to welcome the general public to this space at this time.
201 S. Division Street, Ann Arbor MI 48104 (between Liberty St. and Washington St. in downtown Ann Arbor)