August 24 - October 18, 2026
Exhibition Reception: October 1, 1-2:30 p.m.

In their second year, Stamps students complete a major milestone: Second Year Studio (SYS). It’s a course where, per the syllabus, students "develop the capacity to work independently by identifying, exploring, and pursuing a single independent project that involves multiple iterations." Each student takes their own path, encountering questions that can shape the direction of their creative practice. At the end of the semester, students formally report on their experience in a presentation called the Sophomore Review and receive direct feedback from a panel of Stamps faculty members.

Installed throughout the Art & Architecture Building, the Second Year Studio Exhibition showcases the art and design work created in this pivotal course by our rising third-year and transfer students, and invites first-year students and other newcomers to explore both the building and the creative possibilities ahead. The show features 50 students who have volunteered to participate, yet it honors every Stamps major who reaches the SYS milestone.

The works in this year’s exhibition engage a wide range of questions and concerns. Students investigate memory, identity, materiality, ecology, technology, labor, social relationships, and the built environment through equally diverse formal approaches. While these subjects recur across the exhibition, what stands out most is not a dominant thematic direction, but a shared commitment to sustained inquiry.

–Sally Clegg, Lecturer & Student Exhibitions Coordinator & Pedram Baldari, Assistant Professor

Exhibiting Artists and Designers
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Nailah Aguilar

Akylah Archer

Zachary Berenbaum

Samantha Blaine

Lauren Boyce

Kas Brajkovic

Anna Browne

Lilah Chow

Isabella Cortes

Magdalena Dimovski

Leah Elliott

Aya Fadlelzebair

M. Faurote

Claire Fuller

Noelle Gall

Lacy Galligan

Abigail Garcia

Elise Goldberg

Ava Grace

Ella Graeb

Deja Green

Grace Hardy

Kore Hernández

Mikayla Holcomb

Reese Johnson

Oonagh Kossman

Kade Kuba

Avelina Kusiak

Oliver Levans

Alef Liu

Fiona Maier

Caitlyn McConville

Tyler Meerschaert

Eve Mellis

Erica Meunier

Alexis Minor

Catherine Mitzel

Charlotte Mullin

Anupama Narayan

Mia Noel

Ava Paananen

Dominique Robinson

Sophie Scott

Victoria Selektor

Samridhi Sharma

Janet Shasha

Sadie Smith

Gabriella Spagnuolo

Ava Sproull

Jesse Strohauer

David Wang

Zimu Wang

Lily Whitcomb

Lexi Wu

Melaniya Zazovskaya