Presented By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design
Stamps Gallery at Springfest
Stamps Gallery is pleased to announce its participation in SpringFest 2018, taking place on Wednesday, April 4 from 11 - 4pm on the Diag. The gallery will present interactive and interventionist work by Stephanie Brown (Stamps MFA ‘18) and Jessica Frelinghuysen (Stamps Adjunct Professor). The Stamps Gallery booth will be located in the Art & Music tent.
SpringFest is a SXSW-style gathering designed to promote innovation, creativity, and community while displaying the achievements of University students and organizations.
The Diag is on the U-M Ann Arbor central campus north of South University Street, east of State Street, and south of North University.
This event is being presented in partnership with MUSIC MATTERS and is part of a new series of ongoing gallery events titled Stamps Gallery OFFSITE.
Stephanie Brown: Return the Melanin
Do you ever question the use of skin color in history books, movies, video games, and TV? What if someone or something told you they were darker than you are used to seeing would you believe, accept, or reject the thought?
Return the Melanin works with artists of color to provide re-imagined perspectives of important figures in history. Theses depictions are available by request and free of charge in the form of sticker and poster products. Take one share one and repeat! Post your RTM product discoveries on Instagram using #returnthemelanin
Launder is a body of work that critiques skin color discrimination and encourages positive associations with brown skin care by subverting common laundry care symbols. The do not bleach symbol is screen-printed onto black T-shirts with a bleaching agent, when worn by people of color the message can be fully embodied and become an announcement of skin color affirmation.
About the Artist:
Stephanie Brown is of Jamaican descendant, born and raised in sunny south Florida. She holds a BFA in photography from Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) and is currently completing her MFA degree in interdisciplinary arts and Museum Studies Certificate at the University of Michigan. Embracing moments of discomfort, her creative practice encourages critical consideration of self-perceptions based on skin color, confronting the complexity of colorism and its influence worldwide. In her recent exhibition at the Stamps Gallery, Am I Enough, her work challenges the psychological decisions we make as we construct our identities by pulling from dominant media, the judgement of our communities, and self-affirming family values or lack thereof.
Jessica Frelinghuysen: Listening Indicators (for Stamps Gallery)
Listening Indicators is a wearable print, when folded and worn, indicates that the user is listening, even though they would rather not. The form reflects the gesture of cupping one’s hand around the ear to amplify sound. Good for relationships, bartenders, students, or anybody who wants to give someone their full attention. The piece is designed to engage the public in discussions about relatable problems of how communication, ubiquitous device usage, and manners affect the atmosphere of public spaces today. We invite anyone to try them on and use them. It’s exciting to get a crowd wearing these and interacting with one another.
About the Artist:
Jessica Frelinghuysen sculpts objects and events to help negotiate social anxieties and continually seeks to reconcile the separation between the individual and society. Her work has been shown at the International Print Center, The Mattress Factory Museum of Contemporary Art, and recently at The Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University. Jessica has been awarded residencies at the Headlands Center for the Arts in California, Sculpture Space in New York and the Santa Fe Art Institute and is the recipient of a 2016 Joan Mitchell Foundation Emerging Artist Grant. She lives in Hamtramck, Michigan, a small city nestled within the bosom of Detroit, and holds a teaching position at the University of Michigan.
SpringFest is a SXSW-style gathering designed to promote innovation, creativity, and community while displaying the achievements of University students and organizations.
The Diag is on the U-M Ann Arbor central campus north of South University Street, east of State Street, and south of North University.
This event is being presented in partnership with MUSIC MATTERS and is part of a new series of ongoing gallery events titled Stamps Gallery OFFSITE.
Stephanie Brown: Return the Melanin
Do you ever question the use of skin color in history books, movies, video games, and TV? What if someone or something told you they were darker than you are used to seeing would you believe, accept, or reject the thought?
Return the Melanin works with artists of color to provide re-imagined perspectives of important figures in history. Theses depictions are available by request and free of charge in the form of sticker and poster products. Take one share one and repeat! Post your RTM product discoveries on Instagram using #returnthemelanin
Launder is a body of work that critiques skin color discrimination and encourages positive associations with brown skin care by subverting common laundry care symbols. The do not bleach symbol is screen-printed onto black T-shirts with a bleaching agent, when worn by people of color the message can be fully embodied and become an announcement of skin color affirmation.
About the Artist:
Stephanie Brown is of Jamaican descendant, born and raised in sunny south Florida. She holds a BFA in photography from Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) and is currently completing her MFA degree in interdisciplinary arts and Museum Studies Certificate at the University of Michigan. Embracing moments of discomfort, her creative practice encourages critical consideration of self-perceptions based on skin color, confronting the complexity of colorism and its influence worldwide. In her recent exhibition at the Stamps Gallery, Am I Enough, her work challenges the psychological decisions we make as we construct our identities by pulling from dominant media, the judgement of our communities, and self-affirming family values or lack thereof.
Jessica Frelinghuysen: Listening Indicators (for Stamps Gallery)
Listening Indicators is a wearable print, when folded and worn, indicates that the user is listening, even though they would rather not. The form reflects the gesture of cupping one’s hand around the ear to amplify sound. Good for relationships, bartenders, students, or anybody who wants to give someone their full attention. The piece is designed to engage the public in discussions about relatable problems of how communication, ubiquitous device usage, and manners affect the atmosphere of public spaces today. We invite anyone to try them on and use them. It’s exciting to get a crowd wearing these and interacting with one another.
About the Artist:
Jessica Frelinghuysen sculpts objects and events to help negotiate social anxieties and continually seeks to reconcile the separation between the individual and society. Her work has been shown at the International Print Center, The Mattress Factory Museum of Contemporary Art, and recently at The Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University. Jessica has been awarded residencies at the Headlands Center for the Arts in California, Sculpture Space in New York and the Santa Fe Art Institute and is the recipient of a 2016 Joan Mitchell Foundation Emerging Artist Grant. She lives in Hamtramck, Michigan, a small city nestled within the bosom of Detroit, and holds a teaching position at the University of Michigan.
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