Presented By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design
Penny Stamps Distinguished Speakers Series
Fall 2012
September 27 - Documentalist Jennifer Karady has received acclaim for her large-scale staged portraits telling Soldiers’ Stories from Iraq and Afghanistan. She is joined by the Founding Executive Director of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA) Paul Rieckhoff.
October 4 - Silicon Valley executive Peter Hirshberg is an innovative thinker with interests and expertise at the intersections between media technology, art, and the civic sphere.
October 11 - Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries (YHCHI), a collective of web artists from Korea, is featured in a UMMA solo exhibition, through December 30. The Penny Stamps presentation will be “designed especially for students interested in a career in the arts.”
October 18 - The beautiful yet dark visions in Alexis Rockman’s paintings show worlds where civilization and nature have collided. They are fictions but based on a lot of scientific understanding of the natural world.
October 25 - Famous and controversial film director Oliver Stone joins the Penny Stamps series to give a presentation entitled “Untold,” his current project being a 10-part TV documentary on American history entitled “The Untold History of the United States.”
November 1 - CANCELED, due to the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy. (This lecture has been rescheduled for April 4, 2013.) Paola Antonelli is Senior Curator in the Department of Architecture and Design and Director of Research and Development at the Museum of Modern Art. A visionary in design, according to Time Magazine, she is also an accomplished writer and editor.
November 8 - Designer and Typographer Stefan Sagmeister has had a successful career designing for big clients, from Rolling Stone to HBO, to musicians David Byrne and Lou Reed. For his Penny Stamps presentation, he will explore “how to achieve happiness as a designer.”
November 15 - Artist and activist Chris Jordan’s photographs will be featured in a U-M campus-wide exhibition, Running the Numbers, which look at “contemporary western culture through statistics.” It will run October 26 to November 20.
November 29 - Janine Antoni, a sculptor, photographer, and performance artist, explores the body and its everyday activities through her acclaimed artworks.
October 4 - Silicon Valley executive Peter Hirshberg is an innovative thinker with interests and expertise at the intersections between media technology, art, and the civic sphere.
October 11 - Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries (YHCHI), a collective of web artists from Korea, is featured in a UMMA solo exhibition, through December 30. The Penny Stamps presentation will be “designed especially for students interested in a career in the arts.”
October 18 - The beautiful yet dark visions in Alexis Rockman’s paintings show worlds where civilization and nature have collided. They are fictions but based on a lot of scientific understanding of the natural world.
October 25 - Famous and controversial film director Oliver Stone joins the Penny Stamps series to give a presentation entitled “Untold,” his current project being a 10-part TV documentary on American history entitled “The Untold History of the United States.”
November 1 - CANCELED, due to the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy. (This lecture has been rescheduled for April 4, 2013.) Paola Antonelli is Senior Curator in the Department of Architecture and Design and Director of Research and Development at the Museum of Modern Art. A visionary in design, according to Time Magazine, she is also an accomplished writer and editor.
November 8 - Designer and Typographer Stefan Sagmeister has had a successful career designing for big clients, from Rolling Stone to HBO, to musicians David Byrne and Lou Reed. For his Penny Stamps presentation, he will explore “how to achieve happiness as a designer.”
November 15 - Artist and activist Chris Jordan’s photographs will be featured in a U-M campus-wide exhibition, Running the Numbers, which look at “contemporary western culture through statistics.” It will run October 26 to November 20.
November 29 - Janine Antoni, a sculptor, photographer, and performance artist, explores the body and its everyday activities through her acclaimed artworks.
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