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Stamps Students Receive Awards at 2025 Undergraduate Juried Exhibition

February 21, 2025

The Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design proudly celebrates exceptional work by our undergraduate students in the 2025 Undergraduate Juried Exhibition, on view at Stamps Gallery from February 22 through March 8, 2025.

A panel of distinguished jurors – New York-based curator and writer Allison Glenn, and Detroit-based visual artists Lauren Kalman and Mario Moore – selected 65 of 236 works submitted by Stamps students for inclusion in the exhibition, recognizing seven students with individual awards.

L-R: Stamps Gallery Director Srimoyee Mitra, Katelyn Ma, Quri Kim, Associate Dean for Academic Programs Rebecca Strzelec, Kate Bonello, Victoria Selektor, and Dana Gray.
L‑R: Stamps Gallery Director Srimoyee Mitra, Katelyn Ma, Quri Kim, Associate Dean for Academic Programs Rebecca Strzelec, Kate Bonello, Victoria Selektor, and Dana Gray.

Associate Dean for Academic Programs Rebecca Strzelec announced the following awards at the exhibition’s opening reception on Friday, February 21.

The Stop Motion Animator's Cat: Kate Bonello

Kate Bonello: The Stop Motion Animator's Cat

Guy Palazzola Memorial Award: Established in memory of Professor and Associate Dean Emeritus Guy Palazzola for excellent student work at the Undergraduate Juried Exhibition.

A model wearing a large red dress with a long train, featuring multiple layers of distressed knit and fabric strips with screen printed images of an organ scope, the model is pulling on one of the strips from off camera, representing the pain and weight of being diagnosis with an incurable invisible illness

Dana Gray: Diagnosis

Opportunity Fund: Awarded from the Stamps School of Art and Design Stamps Opportunity Fund, a fund supported by annual gifts from donors to provide unrestricted resources to the Stamps School.

Grace Hardy: When Paths Align

Grace Hardy: When Paths Align

Guy Palazzola Memorial Award: Established in memory of Professor and Associate Dean Emeritus Guy Palazzola for excellent student work at the Undergraduate Juried Exhibition.

A watercolor painting of myself, surrounded by five stuffed animals floating softly in the background. The subject (myself) sits casually on a staircase in the foreground, dressed in comfortable clothes, while the blurry, charcoal-drawn imagery in the back adds depth and a sense of quiet reflection.

Leila Kerr: My Friends and Me

William A. Lewis Watercolor Prize: Established by Professor and Associate Dean Emeritus William A. Lewis (BDES '48) to support excellence in watercolor by undergraduate students.

A graphic design poster featuring the text "First Time Feeling Like the Odd One Out" displayed in a tiled pattern. The design incorporates visuals of Dum Dums and White Rabbit candies, including their distinctive wrappers, to symbolically represent cultural diversity and the feeling of being different.

Quri Kim: First Time Feeling Like The Odd One Out?

John H. McCluney Memorial Achievement Award: Established in memory of John McCluney (BS DES '67) to provide support to a senior student who displays particular excellence in the area of photography or graphic design.

The exhibition opens with a reception from 6 — 8 p.m. on Friday, February 21. On Saturday, February 22, exhibiting students will lead a walkthrough with the artists from 2 — 4 p.m. All events take place at Stamps Gallery (201 South Division Street, Ann Arbor) and are free and open to the public.

For more information and to preview the work on view in the gallery, visit the 2025 Undergraduate Juried Exhibition page.