The University of Michigan Stamps School of Art & Design is pleased to announce Reach: A Stamps Faculty Exhibition, on view Tuesday, May 16 - Saturday July 8, 2017 in the new downtown Ann Arbor Stamps Gallery (201 S. Division St., Ann Arbor). An exhibition reception will take place on Friday, June 16 from 6 - 8 pm. The exhibition and the reception are free and open to the public.

Reach: A Stamps Faculty Exhibition brings together a cross-section of rigorous and research-based works that highlight the range and diversity of creative practices emerging from the University of Michigan’s Stamps School of Art & Design. Stamps Faculty wear multiple hats as educators, storytellers, artists, and designers.  Their work is a vehicle to deepen research and expand the pedagogical frameworks of contemporary art and design practices in the 21st Century. By experimenting with mediums, materials, audience interaction, and participation, Reach brings together energizing and compelling paintings, sculpture, new media installations, collage and found objects, video, performance, and textile design. Reach is the first of a series of projects that will examine and highlight art, design and creative work produced by Stamps faculty in the years to come.

Participating faculty members include:


James Cogswell
Roland Graf
Holly Hughes
Osman Khan
Heidi Kumao
Louis Marinaro
Rebekah Modrak
Anne Mondro
Robert Platt
Marianetta Porter
Michael Rodemer
Stephanie Rowden and Jennifer Metsker
Sherri Smith
Bruce Tharp and Stephanie Tharp
Nick Tobier
Joseph Trumpey


Reach: A Stamps Faculty Exhibition
Exhibition Dates: Tuesday, May 16 - Saturday July 8, 2017
Exhibition Reception: Friday, June 16 from 6 - 8 pm

Image: Sherri Smith, Mercury, 2015. Woven fiber, 114” x 60”