2023 Undergraduate Juried Exhibition

Name: 2023 Undergraduate Juried Exhibition, 2/10/2023-3/4/2023
Start: 2023-02-10
End: 2023-03-04
Location: Stamps Gallery

A sculpture featuring the words 'Sketch your Story Inked with Permanence Blots Smears and all' in various colors and fonts, photographed against a green background green background

When

February 10 – March 4, 2023

Where

In-person Event

Stamps Gallery
201 South Division Street
Ann Arbor, Michigan 48104
Map/Directions
Hours/Access

Details

Exhibition
Open to the public
Free of charge

The Stamps School’s annual Undergraduate Juried Exhibition is a showcase of the best work produced by Stamps undergraduate students.

For this academic year, we are excited to bring back the Undergraduate Juried Exhibition to its traditional “in-person” format at the Stamps Gallery from February 10 to March 4, 2023.

A highly anticipated Stamps School tradition, the Undergraduate Juried Exhibition provides an opportunity for the school to support students whose creative work is recognized as exceptional by invited jurors, with awards announced at the exhibition reception.

Award Recipients

Allison Crawford: Opportunity Fund
Brianna Fox: Robert D. and Betsy D. Richards Memorial Award
Paige Gilstad: John H. McCluney Memorial Achievement Award
Catherine Ramsey: Guy Palazzola Memorial Award
Yasmine Safadi: Opportunity Fund
Elle Schwiderson: Guy Palazzola Memorial Award
Siyu Zhong: William A. Lewis Watercolor Prize

Learn more: 2023 Undergraduate Juried Exhibition Awards

Jurors

Helen Gotlib is from Ann Arbor, Michigan. A lifetime commitment to art has led her to a career as a full time fine artist. Over many years including study at the University Of Michigan School Of Art & Design and Kyoto Seika University she has developed a detail oriented style incorporating drawing, printmaking and mixed media processes. Much of Gotlib’s work has been focused on the life cycle of flora. She has created images of unexpected beauty and emotional power by particularly focusing her attention on dried, dead flowers. Gotlib’s work is exhibited across the country.

Parrish Hanna is a seasoned veteran leader of global User Experience and Design Strategy. His careers have spanned industries including telecom, consumer electronics, entertainment, outdoor adventure, automotive and mobility. And amongst those verticals, he has held leadership positions in global corporations, brand & marketing holding companies, strategic consulting and others.

Carrie Morris is the Founding Director of Detroit Puppet Company, a non-profit arts studio driven by the belief that something as small as a puppet can inspire large social change. You can read more about what she does at detroitpuppetcompany.com.

Related Events

2023 Undergraduate Juried Exhibition Opening - February 10, 2023
2023 Undergraduate Juried Exhibition: Walkthrough - February 11, 2023

Featured Work

A collection of four different ceramic sculptures depicting human feet with varying skin tones and varying toenail colors. The feet have been manipulated in shape to create different forms/vessels for holding or displaying items. One of the foot vessels is holding six smaller ceramic feet.

Undergraduate Ellie Behm: Carry Me

This is a large scale artwork which includes two silhouettes of young boys pointing to their surroundings in the center of the piece. Their gestures are mirrored. The figure on the left is covered in a yellow circular pattern, the figure on the right is covered in the same pattern, but in yellow. The figures are surrounded by various colorful tropical plants and depictions of various wooden face masks. Dark grass is depicted at the bottom of the piece. The background is a royal blue.

Undergraduate Grace Benjamin: Udiong

Two circular paintings depict a pixilated self portrait of the artist. One done in a pink color depicts a more calm mood, while the green portrait feels more loud and raw.

Undergraduate Catherine Bennett: Pixilated Diptych

Foliage covered trees decorating the width and background of the page along with the forest’s bushes almost hugging the stumps. Large stones sitting in the field, only touched by the overgrown grass. The leaves of the trees, grass and bushes occupying the piece’s corners. Additionally the blue sky in the back, so far due to the forest’s overgrowth

Undergraduate Laila Burke-Graves: What If We Wandered The Forest?

visual musical instrument based on processing

Undergraduate Yingxi Chen: Visual Musical Instrument

Eyes of Michigan: a collection of eye drawings of people I encountered on campus

Undergraduate Amanda Cheung: Eyes of Michigan

Emerging from a wildly whimsical palette of pastel blues, greens, pinks, and violets; ten completely transparent glass objects of all different sizes and thickness lay scattered among three tiers of green and white iridescent rectilinear platforms. The foreground of the image is distorted by a cylindrical stem flower vase, and two small bowls off to the left and right side corners of the image. Then, partially distorted behind the vase and large bowl off to the left side resides four glass oddities, an egg, an abstract paperweight almost reminiscent of the swirl of soft serve ice cream, a spherical vase, and a sherry glass. The bottom half of the egg alongside the right and left side of the paper weight is abstracted and distorted by the rims of the large stem vase and bowl in the foreground. The center of the paper weight is not distorted by any other glass form, leaving only the sides of it to be warped. All abstractions that take place through the layering of glass pieces are done so using variations of light and dark greens, blues, and violets. To the right of the egg is the mate of the first sherry glass, and right behind that is yet another flower vase. Directly behind the vase lies the third and final plain, where in the distance a final glass object can be observed looming over the still life. This object is a cylindrical box with a curved anthropomorphic lid residing on top of it. Together, all of these objects reflect and refract light, which causes a symphony and color and highlights that dance around the canvas.

Undergraduate Alexandra Collins: Les Yeux Sans Visage (Eyes Without A Face)

The image depicts two figures identifying as male and female with their faces smooshed together surrounded by marigolds and roses. They both have lipstick smeared across their lips.

Undergraduate Allison Crawford: Modern Day Lovers

This image is a self portrait of the artist. The artist is pale with hair pulled back and slightly facing upwards with the eyes upon the viewer. The portrait is from the bottom of the neck up and takes up most of the canvas. The canvas is 5 planes of wood each about 4 inches high and 16 inches wide. There is thick pink paint trailing up the neck of the artist. The background consists of a light blue thick paint covering slight shades of light pink and dark red. The figure appears with glassy dark eyes and slightly pursed lips and gazes through the viewer. The pink paint on the neck is thick and travels up the neck and stops on the jawline.

Undergraduate Aria Deason: Self Portrait (2021)

Undergraduate Rachel DeVeyra: Concealment

Found object sculpture made from various materials such as cardboard, metal scraps, and plastic objects. The sculpture sits on an old window frame as a base and all objects are bound together by yarn. Various sheer, textured fabrics are then draped over the found objects.

Undergraduate Gillian Donoghue: Found then Bound

This image is gritty in texture and is in greyscale ink on white paper. This image shows the bottom 3/4 of a man wearing a coat held together with buttons and dark pants as he leans against the front of a car. There is a fluffy dog sitting in front of the man facing the right side of the image. The man is holding a cigarette in his right hand and his left hand is bandaged as he faces toward the viewer.

Undergraduate Lindsay Farb: Memories Unshared

Two block art print in black & pink that shows a feminine figure braiding their hair.

Undergraduate Brianna Fox: tedious

A life sized female self portrait sits on the floor with chest exposed, surrounded in a cloud of deep blue. Her body is decorated with brightly colored strokes of color, greens, pinks, purples. She thoughtfully looks out at us, hands in lap.

Undergraduate Marta Frank: Sitting In

In the center of the work are old shoes who belonged to a child tied together by their laces. They hang from a rusted piece of barbed wire. The background is full of dead and dried wildlife. Broken bricks and terracotta roofing can be seen on the right side. The photograph is very dull and focuses on the shoes. Nothing is happening. It is an intimate moment between the viewer and the history implied.

Undergraduate Victor Luis Garcia: What I Could've Been

'LoBack Meat Co.' is a 18” x 24” 6-layer reduction woodblock print on paper based on a photograph of a neon sign at Seattle's Pike Place Market. The sign's typography reads "LoBACK MEAT CO. QUALITY ALWAYS," but it has been cropped to "BACK MEA QUALITY ALW." The neon sign itself is a bright ocean blue in the upper foreground of the image, with the letters themselves contrasting in a rich yellow-orange. The outside of each letter is outlined in a bright purple, making the letters appear three-dimensional against the sign's blue background. A hallway leading back into space is depicted in the background, with a line of circular lights fading into the background on the faded purple ceiling. While the sign and typography stand out in a graphic way, the scene feels nostalgic and faded. Within the image's background is a faded gray rectangular sign with letters that look like words but are too illegible to read. The nostalgic feel of the words and the faded color palette are representative of a memory for me. I began to experience chronic memory loss after being diagnosed with mold poisoning shortly after graduating from high school. I was able to take a road trip across the Pacific Northwest with my stepfather in the summer of 2021. This was the first trip I was able to take since becoming well enough after my diagnosis, and I took hundreds of photos out of fear of forgetting the memories we were making. Each edition of this print explored the feeling of nostalgia, much like the flash of a memory we get of a time and place we can't quite pinpoint that's buried deep in our subconscious. Looking closer at the image, each cut is quite expressive as I explored my spirit and self through the cuts of the woodblock. As each subsequent print is printed, the previous one is carved away, leaving a fully carved block at the end.

Undergraduate Paige Gilstad: LoBack Meat Co.

Black T-Shirt with line drawings depicting bodies of people with female reproductive organs in green.

Undergraduate Rachel Grabow: Planned Parenthood Fundraiser T-Shirt

A paper puppet cut-out of environmental activist, Julia Butterfly Hill, is waving at the viewer. She is surrounded by protest signs that say "respect your elders" and "Julia". She is standing in paper cut-out recreation of a redwood forest.

Undergraduate Madison Grosvenor: Luna: The Julia Butterfly Story

A 12 inch by 12 inch wooden board with insects burned into it. The piece of wood is round and has sanded edges. There are tens of different species, including a Hercules beetle, giant desert centipede, scorpion, rusty spotted moth, mosquito, ants, yellow jacket, inch worm, earth worm, firefly, stinkbug, pill bug, earwig, daddy long leg, damsel fly, snail, house fly, lady bug, cockroach, millipede, house spider, wood-boring beetle, cocoon, acorn weevil and gnats!

Undergraduate Mimi Hourihane: Entomology Board

a self portrait of the african american artist wearing floral-like patterns and holding a teacup; main feature is a curved band that alters the natural skin and hair tones to vibrant reds, pinks and purples, starting from the bottom left corner and arching into the tea cup. The bird and the flowers are not the subjects but help break up the bright red and brown background. The artist (the subject) is almost toasting to you with a smile!

Undergraduate Ikalanni Jahi: untitled self portrait

The image displayed is a black and white linoleum print featuring tall trees casting dramatic shadows across a natural environment littered leafy plants and mushrooms. A young girl with a billowing dress playfully runs through the shadowy evening-lit landscape.

Undergraduate Natalie Keating: With the Woods

Thin strings of rolled napkins spiral across a sheet of paper creating a tapestry like effect. The thin strings are two varying shades of white. The two shades alternate in bands that roll and curve in a linear fashion across the paper. Circles and blobs of one shade disturb the flow of the other. The work is gentle yet filled with movement like a slow brook babbling over sticks and rocks.

Undergraduate Sabrina Kliza: Spiraling

A medieval gown with a pleated bodice panel that leads into an upside down v at the neck. It is framed by two strips of ruffles leading down to another V at the bottom of the bodice piece. The dress has long tapered sleeves that almost reach the floor with a floor length skirt.

Undergraduate Lauren Kopp: Medieval Gown

On a black background, a dog being walked on a harness and leash is drawn in white pencil. Overtop, there are colorful, paint-like streaks beginning to overtake the image.

Undergraduate Youhong Rory-Elise Kwan: Almost

A female subject wears a pair of massive wings roughly 12 feet in total length. Each wing resembles that of a bird’s and is covered in black goose feathers that are layered on to give the surface a dense appearance. At the tip of each wing is a handful of green-tinted rooster feathers that hang loosely off the larger structure. Where the wings are thickest lie an assortment of fluffy feathers that almost resemble cotton. The wings stretch outward to the model’s side and almost seem to engulf the landscape. Snow falls through the air onto green grass, though some flakes catch onto the wings and shine bright on the black surface. A large brick building, bare trees, and a gawking crowd of people can be seen in the background.

Undergraduate Madeline Leja: “Fallen Angel” Realized

A large, life-size replica of a vending machine with all the right buttons and features, including a cute label that says "Aesthetic! Trendy! Asian Vending Machine". . Though beaten and dirt-ridden on the outside, the inside remains in perfect conditions. The outside is covered in graphic posters and articles relating to the part of Asian culture that is hated and demonized among society. The inside is illuminated with LED lights and displays rows of delicious Asian snacks that have been altered and customized to fit Western preferences. Each product has been personally designed by us to show unauthentic cuisine that has been ruled as cultural food.

Undergraduate Elaine Liu and Sue-Min (Iris) Jung: Aesthetic! Trendy! Asian Vending Machine

The piece is rectangular, it exhibits a large central shape that radiates from the center. The shape is made up of rounded edges and organic shapes. It is composed of grayscale collage images, laid out in strips. It is near symmetrical in appearance and cut, while the coloring of the collaged images slightly varies. The shape is highlighted by an absolute black background. At its center are two light colored circles, the brighter and smaller of which is positioned on top of the other.

Undergraduate Thaddeus MacKrell: Surrender

This image is of a two-dimensional mixed media artwork, measuring 80 inches wide by 30 inches high. The work is composed of two illustration boards, which are placed right next to each other so that the image appears continuous. There is a horizon line which divides the picture in half. At the top, in the sky, are pieces of colorful collaged paper that are cut from printouts of photographs. Some of these paper pieces have strange faces drawn on them with Posca paint pen. The sky is a dark grayish-blue, with some white chalk pastel on top that resembles cloud textures. Scores of geometric shapes populate the bottom half of the picture, with a light brown ground/background behind them. The shapes are rendered in graphite, and their edges are outlined with black Micron pen. On the shapes are dozens of small stick figures that seem to interact with each other and with the architecture of the shapes. They are in groups of one to four, in different poses and doing different activities. On the left side of the picture, the collage-creatures seem to be holding two shapes in the air, which are not rendered and outlined as cleanly as the many shapes at the bottom, and on the right, the creatures seem to be placing a few fully-rendered shapes into the environment.

Undergraduate Emily Mann: Landscape

This painting is 24in. x 24in. and appears to be a collage of semi-transparent images. There are what appear to be windows in the background and the image of the side of a house. The background is mostly soft blue and purple. The rest of the painting is primarily neon pink and red. There's a white line that extends from the top right corner and creates a shape that is suggestive of a heart. Below that, to the bottom left, there is the suggestion of smiling faces. The figures are primarily blue and purple. Throughout the painting there are smaller shapes and details that are more hidden amongst the chaos but add depth and texture to the piece as a whole.

Undergraduate Caitlin Martens: Between Friends

This is a black and white image with four major parts. First, centered on the top 1/3 of the piece, there is a huge hand with a stippled effect that gives it a realistic look. However, by looking so real in comparison to other parts of the piece, it appears ominous in that way. The hand is facing down with strings attached, and attached to the strings are very stark white scissors. These scissors are open as if they’re about to cut. Between the open blades is a woman, who has long hair that stretches to the outer bottom corners of paper. This woman is in the middle, sandwiched between the hand and scissors. The woman’s face is made of lines, and her expression is emotionless as she gazes at the viewer. From the bottom of the paper up, behind the woman, there is a gradient that can be described as falling apart. This surrounds the woman and the gradient acts as legs to very box-like torsos with no design besides a tie. Attached to the torsos are scribbled lines that act as faces to these people. They are small in comparison to the lady, and 8 main figures fill up the background, while there are more figures that are smaller and fainter, to show depth and resemble a crowd. The woman almost appears to be trapped, she can’t go up, back or even forward, all she can do is stare as if to see if you will do something.

Undergraduate Abby Mason: Y

Pictured is 4 large charcoal drawings toned sepia with gouache depicting each of the artist's family members. The pictures are detailed abstract collages that amalgamate nostalgic images of her family members.

Undergraduate Alex McRill: Intrusion

There are two monoprints. The first print has a crow that represents misfortune and sadness. I scraped the ink to capture the realistic reflections of its feathers, symbolizing reality. The second is a magpie which I took inspiration from the brush strokes of Chinese ink paintings to represent the dreamlike world.

Undergraduate Marilyn Mok: It is Better to be an Honest Crow than a Deceitful Magpie

Black figure with white face in a catchers stance on red and black background with white and black hands rolling up the fabric at the top and bottom of the piece

Undergraduate Moteniola Ogundipe: You’re Not a Team Player

This painting is a personal painting describing my life and how myself and others view it. It was difficult to bring a blur image in my mind to reality, but it worked through lots of trials and happy accidents. It is comprised of a girl in an afro (advocating black gurl magic) showing her back wearing an icy shade of blue dress made of yarn which is a representation of myself when people refer to me as the Ice Queen from Frozen almost every time, I introduce myself, as I am also Elsa. She’s painting with two hands, just like me. On the left is an image of giraffes, acacia trees and mt. Kenya in the distant signifying my life when I lived in Kenya. On the left image is the UMMA, which centers me on my life and goals here at the University ever since I moved to Ann Arbor. Her head is facing a golden moon, which is important to me because it’s a connection I share with my dad. Almost every full moon he steps outside and howls at the moon, and I picked that up too. Behind the two paintings on the easels is the universe full of tiny white stars (one of my favorite sceneries to view) which gives the painting a calm and relaxing effect as well as highlights the contrasting colors. It is connected to the ground where there is another girl dressing in black sweatpants and a grey hoodie painting on a small easel. She is sited under the dress of the other girl and her face can be seen. She has an afro as well, but she is me in the future still juggling academics, art, and work. There are paints and brushes on the right side of the ground and two books on the right side. The book on top says ‘Trust the Process’ which is a phrase that my dad tells me when things get tough because that’s all I can do for I can’t go back to my past or foretell what’s in my future, but only embrace the journey as I walk through it.

Undergraduate Elsa Olander: Trust the Process

The title frame of my animation, The Commute. It depicts the North Acton tube station in London, England. The pink and purple train slows to a stop as the blue silhouettes of people enter the train to start their journey.

Undergraduate Olivia Ortiz: The Commute

This image is called "Horizon", it depicts a man sitting on an unstable and unknown object with nothing but oblivion surrounding him in all directions. The man is waiting for the sun to rise and for his feet to feel the ground again.

Undergraduate Ian Paglia: The Labyrinths

This is an image of a pair of earrings side by side. Each earring is about three inches tall, one inch wide and has the depth of 18 gauge copper (approx. 0.05 inches). The earrings are made to look like stained glass windows and have a domed rectangle shape. There are thin rectangles outlining the shape of each earring that are filled with a dark, royal blue enamel. The other cells of enamel are stacked in a grid going up the length of the earring and taper off at the top in a teardrop shape. The cells of each earring are the same size and shape but, aside from the dark, royal blue, are filled with a multitude of different colors that differ from earring to earring. The colors emanate a soft glowing light, especially when lit from behind (as they are in the photograph). The colors represented are: a buttery yellow, burnt sienna, rose pink, turquoise, tortoise shell brown and various shades of purple. The metal itself is copper and is patinated black with a fine silver, handmade earhook.

Undergraduate Annabel Paul: Stained Glass Earrings

This painting depicts a figure from the shoulders up, with seemingly no clothing, the only fabric is a thin, gauzy fabric that covers the face. Hints of the figure's facial features are muted but visible through the somewhat transparent material. They are positioned predominantly in the bottom left quadrant of the page, allowing for the background to fill a notable amount of the composition. Chest toward the viewer, they peer over their right shoulder, as short, dark, wavy hair frames their face and hangs just at their pale shoulders. A faint shadow is cast along their left (our right) shoulder, positioning them in front of the background, which is nondescript and hazy. Created by painting thin layer upon thin layer, there is a richness to the fog that covers the background. It is lighter toward the top, a grayish white, as it gets darker and warmer near the bottom third, hinting at a potential landscape hidden in the haze. The color of the fabric mimics the color of the background, almost implying that the background is what the figure struggles to see as they look through the material. The piece has cool tones and a somber yet eerie mood, evoked by a looming sense of the unknown.

Undergraduate Grace Queen: Optical Asphyxiation

A multimedia sculpture of a decomposing deer surrounded by moss. The deer lies on its side in a fetal position with its legs curled in front of it and its ribcage exposed, showing the dark red flesh and ribs inside. Its skull is angular and off-white, with rows of uneven teeth and empty eye sockets. A small yellow bird is perched on one of the antlers. The deer lies on a bed of green moss, which crawls up into the interior of the ribcage, the floor of which is covered by thick vegetation and grasses, some of which is painted with glitter and soft pastels of pink, blue, and purple. This mossy world inside the ribcage is scattered with sparkling iridescent stones and small fairy lights that are hidden among the vegetation. Small shiny beads hang from the “ceiling” of the ribcage on clear strings, and are lit by the lights inside.

Undergraduate Catherine Ramsey: ...And God taketh away

A series of 8 posters of lyric and written words to songs and poems combined with my own hand drawn typography and photographs.

Undergraduate Casey Rheault: Songs and poems that have kept me company

Colorful rectangles offset from each other in a circular manner, create a kaleidoscope-like, spinning image in the center of the square paper.

Undergraduate Kristina Rogers: Löcher

This is an observational painting of a nude woman wearing a covid mask. She is laying down on a lounge chair, which is covered in bright green, loose fabric. The background is a variation of gray values. I was expressive with my mark making, building up layers of paint with bold, large brush strokes. Looking closely, one can see my magenta under painting peeking through in some spots.

Undergraduate Eleanor Rupp: A New Normal

Ceramic vessel painting with underglaze incorporating Arabesque patterns

Undergraduate Yasmine Safadi: Mazhariyah

The image shows three photos one my older brother. In the photos, he is wearing a light jacket. My brother wears round glasses and has long hair made into dreads. One of the photos is very colorful while the others are black and white.

Undergraduate Amber Sankofa: My older brother Malik

This work is a large woodblock print of a portrait of a woman framed by a window and is surrounded by religious symbols. Snakes, doves, wings, and foliage emerge from inside the frame around the woman. The woman is staring directly at viewers with an ambiguous and almost suggestive expression. A bright lime green fills the negative space of the black key image that lies on top.

Undergraduate Rylie Schrotenboer: Gouge Your Eyes

This image features the main character, Elle, sitting on a couch as psychedelic imagery fills the entire room.

Undergraduate Elle Schwiderson: Scraping the Edge

This is a painting of a young woman facing the canvas at an angle. She is holding a candle in her left hand and using a clawed hand (right) to pull at her face. She is wearing a nightgown in the Victorian era style of clothing.

Undergraduate Divya Shankar: Ghost

A 3/4 view of DISAMBIGUATION, a muslin coat inspired by the universal semiotics of death and order. The coat is completely adorned with 3D ribs, chains, and other interpretations of death and order crafted entirely out of muslin.

Undergraduate Saima Siddiqui: DISAMBIGUATION

Person wearing a black hoodie, embroidered with overlapping blind-contour drawings, all in multiple bright colors.

Undergraduate LaNaysha Simms: Faces

Portrait of a man from the shoulders up wearing red racing helmet with the visor flipped up to see his eyes.

Undergraduate Annika Smits: No. 55

The image shows three men each carrying wood logs. Two are carrying them on their shoulders. They are walking through the snowy woods.

Undergraduate Sawyer Spink: Building the Cabin

Portrait of a young girl with curly brown hair. She wears a white lace tank top and two pendant necklaces. Her body is angled to the left with an arm slightly braced in front, preventing full access to her. She stares down viewers with her light brown eyes. Her skin is iridescent with hues of pink, yellow and blue while stark shadows accentuate the planes of her face and collarbones. She is painted to be smooth and soft against the violent and jagged layering of deep red paint in the background. She seems to be glowing from within, pushing the darkness to the outer corners of the painting. A smeared bloody handprint lies just to the left of her head

Undergraduate Sophia Strasburg: How Dare You

The image shows a graphite drawing of a Smilodon skeleton, otherwise know as a saber-toothed cat. Rendered completely in black and white, this piece showcases the anatomical aspects of the specimen’s skeleton, giving the piece the eeriness that would accompany an encounter with a predator of this magnitude.

Undergraduate Ella Summerhill: Smilodon

A book cover and back. The cover reads "We are Stardust, written and illustrated by Lucy Sun" depicting shooting stars against a black background representing space. The back cover depicts a landscape of a flowery field and lake at night with shooting stars in the sky.

Undergraduate Lucy Sun: We are Stardust

I included the original images of the sculptures in the additional images section. I would also like to display these alongside the original poster. Each one is only a foot tall.

Undergraduate Emery Swirbalus: Supply Chain Issues

A comic strip shows a classroom full of high schoolers in uniforms taking a test, walking out of a gothic style building to find a boy with buzzed hair and black clothing and a motorcycle parked out front.

Undergraduate Sutton Theodore: Catholic Boy[s]

Undergraduate Samuel Turner: Bigger Fish

In the frame is a round basket of thickly braided fabric. It stands about 20 inches high and is approximately 4 inches wide at the top and widens to 18 inches at the bottom. Portions of the braids have silver plastic woven into them. The basket is dyed an ombre brown with darker brown at the bottom and a light tan at the top. There is a section of un-dyed tan braid curving along the side of the basket running from top to bottom. There are speckles of black, blue, red, and yellow on the bottommost coils.

Undergraduate Danielle Tutak: Midden

A black and white line drawing of three characters in a typical living room. Standing in the corner holding a giant to-do list is an alien being covered with eyes. Sitting on the couch is a young girl, in the process of getting up to get away from the to-do list. Behind her is a giant fish-like alien.

Undergraduate Maddie Vassalo: A Visit From a Multi-Dimensional Being

This is a still image of the artwork showing two white polyester boxes connected at a 120 degree angle, emanating with a myriad of vibrant colors. At this point in the projection loop, the colors are mostly blues and greens with some hints of pink, orange and yellow.

Undergraduate Teddy Verrone: Symbiosis III

This is a 6 page printmaking book. Inside are relief landscape woodcuts depicting Ann Arbor in various locations.

Undergraduate Joshua Weiss: Watching The World Spin

This image is a portrait of the artist from about the shoulders up. She is placed centrally on a background of a light blue floral pattern. She wears a sweater which is pink and her face/skin is made up of green, a plate yellow, and a blend of pink. She looks at the viewer with her face gently resting upon her hand.

Undergraduate Daphne Wilson: In Her Blue Room

Image shows a hand-sewn off white stuffed human heart, embroidered with various different flowers on the front. The heart sits in an entirely off-white background. It is alone in the center of the frame. The image feels serious.

Undergraduate Marissa Woods: Martha

beloved stands in the river, looking up with arms raised.

Undergraduate Idris Young: The Only Grace They Could Have Is The Grace They Could Imagine

This a portrait of a girl surrounded by the undulating waves. The girl is looking at the red sun in the distance, the koi print on her face leap towards the light. The work is mainly covered in the green and blue color pallet of the waves, yet the sun and koi print are in visually striking red.

Undergraduate Siyu Zhong: Koi

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Ellie Behm: Carry Me
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Ellie Behm: Carry Me
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These four ceramic pieces were formed with a handmade plaster mold and then altered to contain a ...
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Grace Benjamin: Udiong
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Grace Benjamin: Udiong
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“Udiong” is a large-scale multi-media piece named after my favorite uncle, and created in dedicat...
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Catherine Bennett: Pixilated Diptych
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Catherine Bennett: Pixilated Diptych
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About the effects of social media on our generation, everything can be changed, manipulated, and ...
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Laila Burke-Graves: What If We Wandered The Forest?
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Laila Burke-Graves: What If We Wandered The Forest?
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My work emulates the unconventional tactics artist Kazuo Oga utilizes to capture the beauty of na...
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Yingxi Chen: Visual Musical Instrument
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Yingxi Chen: Visual Musical Instrument
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Creative computing based on software 'processing.' This visual instrument will react acc...
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Amanda Cheung: Eyes of Michigan
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Amanda Cheung: Eyes of Michigan
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“Eyes of Michigan” is a collective body of work that consists of 50 illustrations of the eyes of ...
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Alexandra Collins: Les Yeux Sans Visage (Eyes Without A Face)
$Emerging from a wildly whimsical palette of pastel blues, greens, pinks, and violets; ten completely transparent glass objects of all different sizes and thickness lay scattered among three tiers of green and white iridescent rectilinear platforms. The foreground of the image is distorted by a cylindrical stem flower vase, and two small bowls off to the left and right side corners of the image. Then, partially distorted behind the vase and large bowl off to the left side resides four glass oddities, an egg, an abstract paperweight almost reminiscent of the swirl of soft serve ice cream, a spherical vase, and a sherry glass. The bottom half of the egg alongside the right and left side of the paper weight is abstracted and distorted by the rims of the large stem vase and bowl in the foreground. The center of the paper weight is not distorted by any other glass form, leaving only the sides of it to be warped. All abstractions that take place through the layering of glass pieces are done so using variations of light and dark greens, blues, and violets. To the right of the egg is the mate of the first sherry glass, and right behind that is yet another flower vase. Directly behind the vase lies the third and final plain, where in the distance a final glass object can be observed looming over the still life. This object is a cylindrical box with a curved anthropomorphic lid residing on top of it. Together, all of these objects reflect and refract light, which causes a symphony and color and highlights that dance around the canvas.$
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Alexandra Collins: Les Yeux Sans Visage (Eyes Without A Face)
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Spurred out of a curiosity surrounding my own limitations as a maker, “Les Yeux Sans Visage” acts...
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Allison Crawford: Modern Day Lovers
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Allison Crawford: Modern Day Lovers
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This is a piece that explores the concept of modern day lovers and directly highlights a public d...
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Aria Deason: Self Portrait (2021)
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Aria Deason: Self Portrait (2021)
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This is the first piece in a planned lifelong series of creating a self-portrait every year to re...
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Rachel DeVeyra: Concealment
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Rachel DeVeyra: Concealment
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Am I getting lost in the entanglement of clothes or am I hiding behind them? Nevertheless, appare...
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11/66

Gillian Donoghue: Found then Bound
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Gillian Donoghue: Found then Bound
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“Found then Bound” is composed of a collection of unrelated objects, many of which were going to ...
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12/66

Lindsay Farb: Memories Unshared
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Lindsay Farb: Memories Unshared
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Created based on a cropped photograph of my late father from when he was my age in the 1970s, thi...
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Brianna Fox: tedious
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Brianna Fox: tedious
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“tedious” is describing both visual processes involved with making this print. Both carving the l...
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14/66

Marta Frank: Sitting In
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Marta Frank: Sitting In
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My body has been “the thing” for so long. There are times I feel totally trapped in it, and I've ...
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15/66

Victor Luis Garcia: What I Could've Been
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Victor Luis Garcia: What I Could've Been
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Attending the University of Michigan is a privilege and studying Art and Design is a luxury. As a...
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Paige Gilstad: LoBack Meat Co.
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Paige Gilstad: LoBack Meat Co.
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This print was inspired by an original photograph of a neon sign at Seattle's Pike Place Market, ...
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Rachel Grabow: Planned Parenthood Fundraiser T-Shirt
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Rachel Grabow: Planned Parenthood Fundraiser T-Shirt
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I designed these T-Shirts to sell and raise money for Planned Parenthood. Planned Parenthood is a...
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18/66

Madison Grosvenor: Luna: The Julia Butterfly Story
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Madison Grosvenor: Luna: The Julia Butterfly Story
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This animated documentary film follows the life of Julia Butterfly Hill, an environmental activis...
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19/66

Mimi Hourihane: Entomology Board
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Mimi Hourihane: Entomology Board
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As an artist, I am drawn (pun intended) towards subject matter that tends to be considered beauti...
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20/66

Ikalanni Jahi: untitled self portrait
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Ikalanni Jahi: untitled self portrait
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This piece was created as a final project for a figure painting course I took, meant to emulate a...
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21/66

Natalie Keating: With the Woods
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Natalie Keating: With the Woods
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This piece showcases the enchanting connection between children and nature. Exploring and playing...
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Sabrina Kliza: Spiraling
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Sabrina Kliza: Spiraling
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Carrying a week's worth of trash with you sounds like a typical, outlandish, environmental studie...
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23/66

Lauren Kopp: Medieval Gown
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Lauren Kopp: Medieval Gown
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I created this gown in my Garment Design class as a historical piece. I drew inspiration from 19t...
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24/66

Youhong Rory-Elise Kwan: Almost
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Youhong Rory-Elise Kwan: Almost
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My short film “Almost” is a reflection on my personal journey and growth regarding mental health,...
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25/66

Madeline Leja: “Fallen Angel” Realized
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Madeline Leja: “Fallen Angel” Realized
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“‘Fallen Angel’ Realized” is heavily inspired by Alexandre Cabanel’s 1868 painting “Fallen Angel....
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Elaine Liu and Sue-Min (Iris) Jung: Aesthetic! Trendy! Asian Vending Machine
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Elaine Liu and Sue-Min (Iris) Jung: Aesthetic! Trendy! Asian Vending Machine
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This is a collaborative work by Elaine Liu and Sue-Min (Iris) Jung. Through this project, we in...
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27/66

Thaddeus MacKrell: Surrender
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Thaddeus MacKrell: Surrender
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To look past the mirror was my intention. Creating a self portrait that accurately reflects what ...
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28/66

Emily Mann: Landscape
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Emily Mann: Landscape
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The organic forms in the sky are composed of original photographs collected over many years, whic...
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29/66

Caitlin Martens: Between Friends
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Caitlin Martens: Between Friends
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“Between Friends” is an ode to platonic love. It's one part of a larger series of paintings celeb...
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30/66

Abby Mason: Y
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Abby Mason: Y
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Inspired by Japanese Feminism, “Y” is based on a fluxus performance by Yoko Ono titled, “Cut Piec...
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Alex McRill: Intrusion
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Alex McRill: Intrusion
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Find an old box. Look pictures. Old family pictures. Physical pictures. Been awhile. Old times. S...
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Marilyn Mok: It is Better to be an Honest Crow than a Deceitful Magpie
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Marilyn Mok: It is Better to be an Honest Crow than a Deceitful Magpie
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In my work, I explore the juxtaposition of truth and lie by using a crow and a magpie which have ...
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Moteniola Ogundipe: You’re Not a Team Player
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Moteniola Ogundipe: You’re Not a Team Player
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“You’re Not a Team Player” is a piece that explores the microaggressive notion prevalent in acade...
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Elsa Olander: Trust the Process
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Elsa Olander: Trust the Process
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Change, which has provided many opportunities for growth, is the best way to describe how my life...
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35/66

Olivia Ortiz: The Commute
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Olivia Ortiz: The Commute
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“The Commute” follows an observant character’s dream-like gaze as she searches for meaning and co...
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Ian Paglia: The Labyrinths
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Ian Paglia: The Labyrinths
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Although I tend to focus my work in real world illustration, I found that by utilizing 3D molding...
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37/66

Annabel Paul: Stained Glass Earrings
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Annabel Paul: Stained Glass Earrings
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Designed so that light can shine through them, these earrings were inspired by a past family trip...
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Grace Queen: Optical Asphyxiation
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Grace Queen: Optical Asphyxiation
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Through meticulous washes of oil paint, and an accumulation of transparent layers, the hazy depth...
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Catherine Ramsey: ...And God taketh away
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Catherine Ramsey: ...And God taketh away
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What instills fear in us, what disgusts us, what makes us want to avert our eyes; this is precise...
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Casey Rheault: Songs and poems that have kept me company
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Casey Rheault: Songs and poems that have kept me company
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Songs and poems can often become steady companions. Pieces that beg for you to get to know them m...
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Kristina Rogers: Löcher
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Kristina Rogers: Löcher
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“Löcher” creates a fictional three-dimensional space on a two-dimensional surface. By creating a ...
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Eleanor Rupp: A New Normal
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Eleanor Rupp: A New Normal
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I painted this model during Fall 2021. During the pandemic, we attempted to carry on with our liv...
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Yasmine Safadi: Mazhariyah
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Yasmine Safadi: Mazhariyah
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This is a piece done in intro to ceramics. It is a historical piece incorporating traditional Isl...
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Amber Sankofa: My older brother Malik
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Amber Sankofa: My older brother Malik
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This piece was an assignment I did last year for ArtDes 125. It features three pictures of my old...
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Rylie Schrotenboer: Gouge Your Eyes
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Rylie Schrotenboer: Gouge Your Eyes
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In this piece I explored the roots and consequences of purity culture in the Christian church as ...
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Elle Schwiderson: Scraping the Edge
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Elle Schwiderson: Scraping the Edge
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“Scraping the Edge” is a stop motion animation created by Elle Schwiderson emulating a psychedeli...
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Divya Shankar: Ghost
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Divya Shankar: Ghost
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In an attempt to portray my alter ego, I have created a version of myself showcasing the anxiety ...
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48/66

Saima Siddiqui: DISAMBIGUATION
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Saima Siddiqui: DISAMBIGUATION
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“DISAMBIGUATION” is project that begun with my interest in the six fundamentals of earth life fou...
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49/66

LaNaysha Simms: Faces
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LaNaysha Simms: Faces
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“Faces” is textile-based piece that was an exploration of blind-contour drawing and a further exp...
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Annika Smits: No. 55
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Annika Smits: No. 55
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In the past year, I have become a fan of Formula 1, a high-stakes division of motorsports. The te...
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Sawyer Spink: Building the Cabin
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Sawyer Spink: Building the Cabin
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The image in this linoleum block print is based on the stories I heard growing up about the const...
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Sophia Strasburg: How Dare You
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Sophia Strasburg: How Dare You
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From a young age, girls are taught to banish their anger and carry pain in silence; as we reach w...
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Ella Summerhill: Smilodon
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Ella Summerhill: Smilodon
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This drawing was done as a still life of the Smilodon skeleton displayed in the Evolution: Life T...
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Lucy Sun: We are Stardust
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Lucy Sun: We are Stardust
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“We are Stardust” is a poetry book I wrote and illustrated to find comfort in the juxtaposition t...
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Emery Swirbalus: Supply Chain Issues
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Emery Swirbalus: Supply Chain Issues
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Back in February of 2022 I was asked to create a tour poster for Jack White's upcoming Supply Cha...
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Sutton Theodore: Catholic Boy[s]
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Sutton Theodore: Catholic Boy[s]
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This narrative gives a quick glimpse into the uncanny story of my two most cherished characters: ...
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Samuel Turner: Bigger Fish
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Samuel Turner: Bigger Fish
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When making this piece, I was overtaken by a fear of nuclear annihilation. Painting it helped me ...
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Danielle Tutak: Midden
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Danielle Tutak: Midden
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“Midden” is an interdisciplinary work that explores the intersections of art and waste from an ar...
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Maddie Vassalo: A Visit From a Multi-Dimensional Being
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Maddie Vassalo: A Visit From a Multi-Dimensional Being
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A black and white line drawing of three characters in a typical living room. Standing in the corn...
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Teddy Verrone: Symbiosis III
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Teddy Verrone: Symbiosis III
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This installation is the third iteration in a series of artworks highlighting the increasingly in...
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Joshua Weiss: Watching The World Spin
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Joshua Weiss: Watching The World Spin
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“Watching the World Spin” is a handmade relief woodcut printmaking book about living through my f...
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Daphne Wilson: In Her Blue Room
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Daphne Wilson: In Her Blue Room
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This is a three-plate laser engraved woodblock self portrait. This self portrait reflects on my c...
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Marissa Woods: Martha
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Marissa Woods: Martha
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My artworks focus on gender roles, familial ties, and sustainable practices. This piece represent...
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Idris Young: The Only Grace They Could Have Is The Grace They Could Imagine
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Idris Young: The Only Grace They Could Have Is The Grace They Could Imagine
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These three photographs are a part of a collection of 8 images inspired by Toni Morrison's Belove...
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Siyu Zhong: Koi
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Siyu Zhong: Koi
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Koi, commonly seen as the symbol of peace and good luck in Chinese culture, was usually kept for ...
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