MFA Research & Creative Work

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MFA Work

Graduate Alisha Wessler: Untitled

Graduate Molly Dierks: Untitled

Graduate Collin McRae: Untitled

Graduate Mia Cinelli: Untitled

Graduate Emilia Javanica: Red Blob Massacre

Graduate Alisa Yang: Please Come Again

Graduate Amanda Lilleston: Animal

Graduate Parisa Ghaderi: Only an Inch Away

Graduate Ruth Burke: Performance

Graduate Siyang Chen: Untitled

Graduate Jessica Joy London: Phenomena

Graduate Ann Bartges: Holding Still

Graduate Jon Verney: Thermophile

Graduate Carolyn Clayton: DeCORE Sample (video still)

Graduate Katie St. Clair: Untitled

Graduate Shane Darwent: The Garden (detail)

Graduate Carolyn Clayton: Chain of Contagion

Graduate Emily Schiffer: untitled

Graduate Nate Morgan: Mouth at All Ends

Graduate Ruth Burke: Gopi

Graduate Molly Dierks: home/Body

Graduate Meghan Reynard: One Year Daylight: Ann Arbor

Graduate Jon Verney: thermophile

Graduate Juliet Hinely: Per Mr. Handy

Graduate Charles Fairbanks: Untitled

Graduate John Gutoskey: Shaman Johnny’s Pop-Up Shop and Gallery

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Alisha Wessler: Untitled
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Alisha Wessler: Untitled
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Often working with hundreds of individual objects in display cases, Alisha Wessler’s work explore...
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Molly Dierks: Untitled
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Molly Dierks: Untitled
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Collin McRae: Untitled
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Collin McRae: Untitled
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Mia Cinelli: Untitled
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Mia Cinelli: Untitled
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Emilia Javanica: Red Blob Massacre
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Emilia Javanica: Red Blob Massacre
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Maddy Blitz is a young woman with horrendous-looking teeth. Maddy’s nightmares about not fitting ...
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Alisa Yang: Please Come Again
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Alisa Yang: Please Come Again
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Amanda Lilleston: Animal
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Amanda Lilleston: Animal
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Parisa Ghaderi: Only an Inch Away
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Parisa Ghaderi: Only an Inch Away
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Using research in American Culture, Social Work and Public Health, Parisa uses video and audio in...
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Ruth Burke: Performance
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Ruth Burke: Performance
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Siyang Chen: Untitled
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Siyang Chen: Untitled
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Jessica Joy London: Phenomena
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Jessica Joy London: Phenomena
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Each painting is an artifact of chance, conscious decision-making, fixed laws of natural phenomen...
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Ann Bartges: Holding Still
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Ann Bartges: Holding Still
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Working with the School of Music, Theater and Dance, Holding Still uses video projection and live...
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Jon Verney: Thermophile
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Jon Verney: Thermophile
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Carolyn Clayton: DeCORE Sample (video still)
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Carolyn Clayton: DeCORE Sample (video still)
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Katie St. Clair: Untitled
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Katie St. Clair: Untitled
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Shane Darwent: The Garden (detail)
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Shane Darwent: The Garden (detail)
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Carolyn Clayton: Chain of Contagion
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Carolyn Clayton: Chain of Contagion
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Emily Schiffer: untitled
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Emily Schiffer: untitled
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My great-grandparents left Guardiagrele, Italy for the United States in 1909, and a powerful long...
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Nate Morgan: Mouth at All Ends
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Nate Morgan: Mouth at All Ends
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Ruth Burke: Gopi
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Ruth Burke: Gopi
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Shania, the barren heifer, refuses to be a symbol and bucks the object off her. Documentation of ...
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Molly Dierks: home/Body
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Molly Dierks: home/Body
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The sculptures in home/Body deal with the mother-daughter bond, gendered role-play, and self and ...
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Meghan Reynard: One Year Daylight: Ann Arbor
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Meghan Reynard: One Year Daylight: Ann Arbor
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Investigating the experiences of daylight, latitude and time, and how the daylight phenomenon can...
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Jon Verney: thermophile
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Jon Verney: thermophile
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Juliet Hinely: Per Mr. Handy
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Juliet Hinely: Per Mr. Handy
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Per Mr. Handy is a site-specific audio-walk and performance installation in the Jam Handy Buildin...
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Charles Fairbanks: Untitled
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Charles Fairbanks: Untitled
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Charles is a filmmaker and wrestler whose work focuses on Lucha Libre in Mexico. He fights as the...
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John Gutoskey: Shaman Johnny’s Pop-Up Shop and Gallery
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John Gutoskey: Shaman Johnny’s Pop-Up Shop and Gallery
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LGBTQ studies, women’s studies and art history inform this project, featuring artist and healer "...
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MFA Video Profiles

Graduate Ben Winans: Profile

Graduate Nathan Byrne: Profile

Graduate Rey Jeong: Profile

Erin McKenna: finding the shape of the overlap

Graduate Erin McKenna: Profile

Graduate Sally Clegg: Profile

Graduate Abhishek Narula: Profile

Graduate Kim Karlsrud: Profile

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Ben Winans: Profile
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Ben Winans: Profile
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Nathan Byrne: Profile
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Nathan Byrne: Profile
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Rey Jeong: Profile
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Rey Jeong: Profile
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Erin McKenna: Profile
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Erin McKenna: Profile
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Sally Clegg: Profile
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Sally Clegg: Profile
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Abhishek Narula: Profile
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Abhishek Narula: Profile
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Kim Karlsrud: Profile
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Kim Karlsrud: Profile
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Thesis Work & Exhibitions

2021 MFA Thesis Exhibition

Heartened Surfaces: The 2021 MFA Thesis Exhibition brings together culminating projects by second-year graduate students Christine Bruening, Nathan Byrne, Rey Jeong, and Benjamin Winans.

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2020 MFA Thesis Exhibition

sometimes something, the 2020 MFA Thesis Exhibition brings together culminating projects by second-year graduate students Sally Clegg, Kim Karlsrud, Erin McKenna, and Abhishek Narula.

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News: MFA Research & Creative Work

Learn more about recent graduate research and creative work in these feature stories.

Installation view of Rowan Renee’s That Day, We Looked Happy (2021), which includes images of the artist’s family and father’s grave.

ALUMNI Rowan Renee: "That Day, We Looked Happy" Reviewed in New York Times Rowan Renee’s (MFA ’19) solo exhibition, That Day, We Looked Happy, was reviewed by Holland…

Poster for the documentary Hamtramck, USA: an illustration of 5 figures standing on a city street

GRADUATE Razi Jafri: "Hamtramck, USA" to Air on PBS May 25 Directed and produced by Justin Feltman and Stamps MFA student Razi Jafri, “Hamtramck, USA”…

GRADUATE Natalia Rocafuerte Wins Best Michigan Filmmaker Award in 59th AAFF Stamps first-year graduate student Natalia Rocafuerte (MFA ‘22) was awarded the Best…

GRADUATE Professor Beili Liu Named Fulbright Arctic Chair Beili Liu (MFA ‘03) has been named the Fulbright Arctic Chair, one of the most prestigious…

ALUMNI Brenna K. Murphy: Online Exhibition at New Bedford Art Museum Brenna K. Murphy’s (MFA ‘18) piece Grief Work (Shroud), a 100-foot long weaving she created…

ALUMNI Beili Liu Featured in Sculpture Magazine Beili Liu (MFA ‘03) is featured on the cover of the March/April issue of Sculpture…

ALUMNI Rowan Renee: Artist Talk with Mary Baxter for MoMA Stamps alum Rowan Renee (MFA ’19) will speak about their installation, No Spirit For Me, on…

ALUMNI STAMPS Graduate Student’s film selected for 59th Ann Arbor Film Festival STAMPS first-year graduate student Natalia Rocafuerte’s short film “I Dream of Emma and Tony”…

ALUMNI Parisa Ghaderi Curates “Address Unknown: an incomplete map of belonging” Parisa Ghaderi (MFA ‘14) curates Address Unknown: an incomplete map of belonging, an…

ALUMNI Sally Clegg Receives International Sculpture Center Award Stamps Lecturer and MFA alumna Sally Clegg has received a 2020 Outstanding Student…

ALUMNI Rowan Renee named 2020 NYFA Artist Fellowship Finalist in Craft/Sculpture Rowan Renee (MFA ‘19) was named a finalist for the NYFA Artist Fellowship in Craft/Sculpture…

ALUMNI Cosmo Whyte Receives Tiffany Foundation Grant In May 2020, the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation announced the 20 recipients of its 2019…

ALUMNI Mayela Rodriguez Selected As NALAC Adovcacy Leadership Institute Fellow Stamps alumna Mayela Rodriguez (MFA ’19) has been selected as an Advocacy Leadership…

Dr. Jane Prophet addresses attendees of the 2019 New Media Caucus Symposium, <i>Border Control</i>.

FACULTY Stamps Community at the 108th Annual CAA Conference Stamps will participate in the 108th annual College Art Association conference, held…

ALUMNI Brynn Higgins-Stirrup: Artist-in-Residence Fellowship at VCU Arts Qatar Stamps alumna Brynn Higgins-Stirrup (MFA ’18) is currently working as an…

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ALUMNI Ruth Burke: Susurrus at Mantle Art Space Mantle Art Space presents “Susurrus,” a solo exhibition of work by Ruth K. Burke (MFA ‘17).…

ALUMNI Emily Schiffer Launches Largest Social Impact Photography Project Across the U.S. Emily Schiffer (MFA ‘16) co-created We, Women, a nationwide platform to support women,…

ALUMNI Juliet Hinely and Believed Team Win a Peabody The Believed podcast, produced by Michigan Radio with Stamps alumna Juliet Hinely (MFA ‘14)…

MFA Research & Creative Work

MFA Work

Alisha Wessler: Untitled

Molly Dierks: Untitled

Collin McRae: Untitled

Mia Cinelli: Untitled

Emilia Javanica: Red Blob Massacre

Alisa Yang: Please Come Again

Amanda Lilleston: Animal

Parisa Ghaderi: Only an Inch Away

Ruth Burke: Performance

Siyang Chen: Untitled

Jessica Joy London: Phenomena

Ann Bartges: Holding Still

Jon Verney: Thermophile

Carolyn Clayton: DeCORE Sample (video still)

Katie St. Clair: Untitled

Shane Darwent: The Garden (detail)

Carolyn Clayton: Chain of Contagion

Emily Schiffer: untitled

Nate Morgan: Mouth at All Ends

Ruth Burke: Gopi

Molly Dierks: home/Body

Meghan Reynard: One Year Daylight: Ann Arbor

Jon Verney: thermophile

Juliet Hinely: Per Mr. Handy

Charles Fairbanks: Untitled

John Gutoskey: Shaman Johnny’s Pop-Up Shop and Gallery

MFA Video Profiles

Ben Winans: Profile

Nathan Byrne: Profile

Rey Jeong: Profile

Erin McKenna: Profile

Sally Clegg: Profile

Abhishek Narula: Profile

Kim Karlsrud: Profile

The­sis Work & Exhibitions

2021 MFA Thesis Exhibition

2020 MFA Thesis Exhibition

News: MFA Research & Cre­ative Work

Thesis Work & Exhibitions

News: MFA Research & Creative Work