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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Shane Darwent: The Garden (detail)
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Ruth Burke: Gopi
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Photo by Emily Schiffer.Ruth Burke: GopiGRADUATEShania, the barren heifer, refuses to be a symbol and bucks the object off her. Documentation of ...
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Carolyn Clayton: DeCORE Sample (video still)
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Emily Schiffer: untitled
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Emily Schiffer: untitledGRADUATEMy great-grandparents left Guardiagrele, Italy for the United States in 1909, and a powerful long...
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Jon Verney: thermophile
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Nate Morgan: Mouth at All Ends
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Alisa Yang: Please Come Again
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Carolyn Clayton: Chain of Contagion
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Molly Dierks: Untitled
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Mia Cinelli: Untitled
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Katie St. Clair: Untitled
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Molly Dierks: home/Body
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Molly Dierks: home/BodyGRADUATEThe sculptures in home/Body deal with the mother-daughter bond, gendered role-play, and self and ...
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Parisa Ghaderi: Only an Inch Away
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Parisa Ghaderi: Only an Inch AwayGRADUATEUsing research in American Culture, Social Work and Public Health, Parisa uses video and audio in...
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Ann Bartges: Holding Still
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Ann Bartges: Holding StillGRADUATEWorking with the School of Music, Theater and Dance, Holding Still uses video projection and live...
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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 GalleryGRADUATELGBTQ studies, women’s studies and art history inform this project, featuring artist and healer "...
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Juliet Hinely: Per Mr. Handy
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Juliet Hinely: Per Mr. HandyGRADUATEPer Mr. Handy is a site-specific audio-walk and performance installation in the Jam Handy Buildin...
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Siyang Chen: Untitled
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Alisha Wessler: Untitled
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Alisha Wessler: UntitledGRADUATEOften working with hundreds of individual objects in display cases, Alisha Wessler’s work explore...
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Emilia Javanica: Red Blob Massacre
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Emilia Javanica: Red Blob MassacreGRADUATEMaddy Blitz is a young woman with horrendous-looking teeth. Maddy’s nightmares about not fitting ...
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Collin McRae: Untitled
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Jessica Joy London: Phenomena
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Jessica Joy London: PhenomenaGRADUATEEach painting is an artifact of chance, conscious decision-making, fixed laws of natural phenomen...
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Amanda Lilleston: Animal
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Meghan Reynard: One Year Daylight: Ann Arbor
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Meghan Reynard: One Year Daylight: Ann ArborGRADUATEInvestigating the experiences of daylight, latitude and time, and how the daylight phenomenon can...
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Charles Fairbanks: Untitled
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Charles Fairbanks: UntitledGRADUATECharles is a filmmaker and wrestler whose work focuses on Lucha Libre in Mexico. He fights as the...
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"Close But not Touching" Reviewed in Michigan Daily
Close But Not Touching: the 2022 MFA Thesis Exhibition, was reviewed by Kaya Ginsky in the April…
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Close But Not Touching: The 2022 MFA Thesis Exhibition
Featuring thesis work from the 2022 graduating cohort of the Stamps School of Art & Design’s…
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Abhishek Narula: Wave Farm Artist-in-Residence 2022
Abhishek Narula (MFA ’20) has been accepted into the Wave Farm summer residency program. Narula…
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Nathan Byrne: NEW POINT OF BEGINNING
Nathan Byrne (MFA ’21) was recently featured in an exhibition at Roy G Biv in Columbus, Ohio. NEW…
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TEDxUofM Conference Features Stamps Connections
The annual TEDxUofM conference features a student and Dean’s Council Advisory member from the…
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Breaking Down Silos, Making Change: 2021 Stamps DEI Team Grants
Designed to support projects developed in reaction to a relevant social issue or proactively…
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Stamps Shines Bright at DLECTRICITY
Inspired by Nuit Blanche arts festivals from around the world, DLECTRICITY is a spectacular…
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Nick Azzaro on Arts in Education Panel
Nick Azzaro (MFA ’22), will be speaking on a panel regarding arts in education at Mount Clemens…
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Razi Jafri selected as Sundance Producing Lab Fellow
Sundance Institute recently announced participants for its weeklong Producers Lab, taking place…
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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…
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Razi Jafri: "Hamtramck, USA" to Air on PBS May 25
Directed and produced by Justin Feltman and Stamps MFA student Razi Jafri, “Hamtramck, USA”…
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Natalia Rocafuerte Wins Best Michigan Filmmaker Award in 59th AAFF
Stamps first-year graduate student Natalia Rocafuerte (MFA ‘22) was awarded the Best Michigan…
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Professor Beili Liu Named Fulbright Arctic Chair
Beili Liu (MFA ‘03) has been named the Fulbright Arctic Chair, one of the most prestigious…
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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 with…
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Beili Liu Featured in Sculpture Magazine
Beili Liu (MFA ‘03) is featured on the cover of the March/April issue of Sculpture Magazine. In a…
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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 MoMA…
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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” is…
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Parisa Ghaderi Curates “Address Unknown: an incomplete map of belonging”
Parisa Ghaderi (MFA ‘14) curates Address Unknown: an incomplete map of belonging, an exhibition…
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Sally Clegg Receives International Sculpture Center Award
Stamps Lecturer and MFA alumna Sally Clegg has received a 2020 Outstanding Student Achievement in…
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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 for…