News & Events
Penny Stamps Speaker Series
Past Lectures
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 >
David Adjaye: Output
February 25, 2019
Note: this event has been rescheduled for Monday, February 25, 6:00 pm / Michigan Theater, 603 E Liberty St, Ann Arbor, MI… Read More >
