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Penny Stamps Speaker Series
Past Lectures
Oskar Eustis: Theater and Democracy
January 16, 2020
Oskar Eustis has served as artistic director of The Public Theater in New York City since 2005. In the past four years, Eustis has… Read More >
Edel Rodriguez: On Freedom and Risk
November 21, 2019
Edel Rodriguez is a Cuban American artist who is inspired by personal history, religious rituals, politics, memory, and nostalgia,… Read More >
Suzanne Lacy: We Are Here
November 14, 2019
Los Angeles-based artist Suzanne Lacy is internationally renowned as a pioneer in the field of socially engaged and public art. Her… Read More >
Artur Żmijewski: Working Around, Against, and Without
November 11, 2019
Special Event: Monday, November 11, 5:30pm / Helmut Stern Auditorium, UMMA, 525 S State St, Ann Arbor 48109 Multi media artist,… Read More >
Marina Willer: Design Why?
November 7, 2019
Marina Willer is a graphic designer and filmmaker responsible for ground-breaking brand identities such as Tate, Serpentine, Oxfam,… Read More >
John Cameron Mitchell: In Conversation
November 1, 2019
Special Event: Friday, November 1, 7:00pm / Bethlehem United Church, 423 S. 4th Ave., Ann Arbor, MI Best known for his double Tony… Read More >
Joe Caslin: Is Street art Capable of Advancing a Society?
October 31, 2019
Designboom Magazine has Described the work of Joe Caslin as “towering works of art [that] appear like massive sketch books across… Read More >
Marilyn Minter: In Person
October 24, 2019
Appropriating the aesthetics of fashion editorials and advertising, New York-based Marilyn Minter’s photorealist paintings examine… Read More >
Lauren Bon: Life is Abundant
October 17, 2019
Lauren Bon is an environmental artist from Los Angeles, CA. Her practice, Metabolic Studio, explores self-sustaining and… Read More >
Mari Katayama: My Body as Material
October 10, 2019
Japanese artist Mari Katayama features her own body in a provocative series of works combining photography, sculpture, and… Read More >
Lucy Lippard & Faith Wilding: Then & Now
October 8, 2019
Special Event: Tuesday, October 8, 5:30pm / Helmut Stern Auditorium, UMMA, 525 S State St, Ann Arbor 48109 Award-winning author,… Read More >
Stephen Jones: Hatology
October 3, 2019
Born in Cheshire, England, and schooled in Liverpool, milliner Stephen Jones is a fashion icon. Coming of age during London’s… Read More >
Ibrahim Mahama: Failures Promises
September 26, 2019
Ibrahim Mahama is a Ghanaian artist who considers the ways in which capital and labor are expressed in common materials through… Read More >
Meleko Mokgosi: Pan-African Pulp
September 21, 2019
Special Event: Saturday, September 21, 7:30pm / Helmut Stern Auditorium, UMMA, 525 S State St, Ann Arbor 48109 For his UMMA… Read More >
Vinay Gupta: The Cities That Will Walk Away
September 19, 2019
Vinay Gupta is an engineer, strategist, digital visionary, and future-builder. London-based and Scottish-born, Gupta has worked to… Read More >
Cyborg Arts / Neil Harbisson & Moon Ribas: Transpecies
September 12, 2019
Catalan-based artists, self-identified cyborgs, and influencers in the global cyborg art movement, Neil Harbisson and Moon Ribas… Read More >
Sarah Vowell: Live
April 4, 2019
Sarah Vowell is the New York Times bestselling author of seven nonfiction books on American history and culture. By examining the… Read More >
Meow Wolf: Enter the Multiverse
March 28, 2019
Founded in 2008 as an art collective for DIY artists in Santa Fe, Meow Wolf creates immersive, multimedia experiences that… Read More >
Peter Sellars: Art as Moral Action
March 21, 2019
MacArthur Genius Fellow Peter Sellars is an American theater director, noted for his unique contemporary stagings of classical and… Read More >
Mapplethorpe in Performance: Featuring Bryce Dessner and Korde Arrington Tuttle
March 14, 2019
This talk brings together the creative team behind Triptych (Eyes of One on Another), a University Musical Society (UMS)… Read More >
