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Oct 2022

Flyer for Ann Arbor Art Center 100th All Media Exhibition featuring an all media work by Alexandria Valentine

STAMPS Ann Arbor Art Center: 100th All Media Exhibition The Ann Arbor Art Center’s 100^th All Media Exhibition opens on November 18, 2022 with a reception…

Colin Hunter holds 48” x 48” x 6” geometric paper structure using blue ink washed paper on gaterboard.

UNDERGRADUATE Student Spotlight: Colin Hunter Stamps sophomore Colin Hunter reflects on his experience at the Penny W. Stamps School of Art &…

An abstract image with layered, tactile bands of color over a depiction of a photograph

ALUMNI Ian Kimmerly: Solo Exhibition at Dolby Chadwick Gallery Dear Stranger, a solo exhibition of new paintings by Ian Kimmerly (BFA ’02), will be on view at…

Image of a hand-printed broadside, featuring the text of a poem on the right side and a gray and white illustration of hands doing various tasks on the left

FACULTY Kalamazoo Books Arts Releases Broadside by Jennifer Metsker and Emily Legleiter Lecturer IV & Writing Coordinator Jennifer Metsker’s poem “Hypergraphia and Other Failed…

FACULTY Audrey Bennett and Nicholas Lamarca: Inclusive Museum Experience Design Since March of 2022, University Diversity and Social Transformation Professor Audrey Bennett and…

UNDERGRADUATE Student Spotlight: Ryan Taylor Espitia Stamps senior Ryan Taylor Espitia reflects on his experience at the Penny W. Stamps School of Art…

Student setting up vote registration exhibition

FACULTY Stamps Professors Transform U-M Gallery Spaces Into Election Hubs Two installations make the voting process clear, welcoming, and delightful for students on both…

Two figures, costumed in round green headgear, chat on a zoom screen

FACULTY Manos/Buckius Perform at New Media Caucus "Future Bodies" Symposium Presenting as The ManosBuckius Cooperative, Stamps Collegiate Lecturer Melanie Manos and Sarah…

Red Crossing: a group of people join to lift a large, red rectangle of fabric, while another person runs across it.

FACULTY Red Crossing by Roland Graf + Nick Tobier in Germany Red Crossing, a project created by Stamps Associate Professor Roland Graf, Stamps Professor Nick…

A comic strip featuring a surprised woman, a ticking bomb, a set of red lips, and a telephone.

FACULTY Phoebe Gloeckner: October 7 Comics Panel Discussion Stamps Associate Professor Phoebe Gloeckner will participate in Critical Conversations: Comics, a…

FACULTY Allen Samuels: Design to Aid Florida Hurricane Victims A new design by Stamps Professor and Dean Emeritus Allen Samuels may be able to provide relief to…

Sep 2022

The front entrance of the Molino Family Latino Gallery at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History. A group of people are walking in the space.

ALUMNI Mariano Desmaras: A Multicultural Approach to Museums Mariano Desmaras (BFA ‘89) uses his firm to design accessible and multicultural museum exhibits.