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DTSTAMP:20261021T094427
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T163000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Small Works: Prints & Book Objects from Detroit\, 2020–2026
DESCRIPTION:Small Works\nPrints & Book Objects from Detroit 2020–2026\n\nOctober 27 - November 19 \nPublic Reception: Friday\, November 13 from 4:30-6pm.\n\nSmall Works was a print shop ran by Li Chen & Gerald Schulze\, in Detroit\, MI\, from 2020–2026. Mariana Matos joined as the studio assistant\, and later studio manager\, in 2024. Over those six years\, the business grew from an extension of their design practice to a community space that hosts more than 70 classes a year\, open studio for the public\, and year long funded fellowships that investigate practice in art and design related to the Book Arts. In 2026\, they decided to expand community programming\, and to accommodate this expansion closed Small Works\, and formed Center for the Book Arts Detroit (BAD) which operates in the same space.\n\nThis exhibition is a eulogy for the former Small Works shop\, and a celebration of all the people who made work here. It also serves to show what is possible as a community\, when they share space and create work together. \n\nThe work featured is a collection of things printed by Small Works\, by their studiomates Diskette Press\, the publisher Maamoul Press\, and by the community that uses the space.
UID:152872-21914636@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152872
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Ann Arbor,Art,art and design,artists,artists and curators,arts,Arts And Ideas In The Humanities,arts at michigan,Arts Initiative,Book,book discussion,book event,Detroit,Exhibition,Michigan Arts,Michigan Arts Festival
LOCATION:East Quadrangle - RC Art Gallery
CONTACT:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20261012T121522
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Fore-Site (Phase 3): The Stamps Gallery Pillar Project
DESCRIPTION:\n\nFrom September 2025 through December 2026\, Stamps Gallery is partnering in a curatorial collaboration with two Southeast Michigan-based\, artist-run project spaces led by Stamps alumni: C.Y.N.K. Studios\, directed by Sally Clegg (Lecturer III and Student Exhibition Coordinator\, MFA ’20) and Abhishek Narula (MFA ’20)\; and Sometimes Space\, directed by Nathan Byrne (Lecturer I\, MFA ’21). Each space hosts dozens of artists annually for exhibitions\, performances\, and events\, fostering experimental work and building community. For this project\, Byrne\, Clegg\, and Narula have been commissioned to reimagine the pillars on Division Street that flank the gallery. In response\, they’ve curated six artists to create new work for the pillars over three cycles:\n\nPhase 1 (September 12 - December 12) artists: Amelia Burns (Cranbrook MFA ’23) and Erin McKenna (MFA ’20)\nPhase 2 (January 12 - August 12) artists: Sally Clegg (MFA ’20) and Kim Karlsrud (MFA ’20)\nPhase 3 (September 11 - December 11) artists: Abhishek Narula (MFA ’20) and Nathan Byrne (MFA ’21)\nPhase 3 \n\nCurated by Sometimes Space: Abhishek Narula (entry pillar)\nCurated by CYNK Studios: Nathan Byrne (courtyard pillar)\n\nArtist Statements/Bios\n\nAbhishek Narula\, Compressions \nCompressions is an installation comprised of 416 industrial-grade zip ties\, cinched around the entry pillar of the Stamps Gallery. The pillar measures roughly 110 inches in circumference\, requiring two ties per row to wrap around it\, resulting in 208 rows. The humble zip tie\, typically used to hang and bind other material\, is relegated to its functional properties rendering it unprepossessing and easily dismissed. The zip tie in this installation\, instead serves as an object of aesthetic possibility\, pulling it out of its usual background role to become the work itself. The resulting composition is a proposal to dwell\, to slow down\, and to simply see the pillar.\n\nAbhishek Narula is an artist\, designer\, and educator who works across sculpture\, installation\, sound\, and video. His practice takes the form of interventions\, working with what is already present. He reorients and disrupts objects and sites in order to open up formal possibilities and poetic experiences within the familiar. He is influenced by physical and digital infrastructural systems that sustain modern life and culture. His work treats this ambience itself as raw material for aesthetic inquiry\, exploring themes of labor\, precarity\, temporality and the sublime. Narula earned his MFA in Studio Art from the University of Michigan Stamps School of Art & Design and his MS/BS in Electrical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology. His work has been exhibited at national and international venues such as the Ammerman Center for Arts and Technology\, Science Gallery Detroit\, Speculum Artium Media Festival in Slovenia\, New Media Caucus (NMC)\, WaveFarm\, The Boulder Public Library\, The Hyde Park Art Center\, Sector 2337 Art Gallery & Printing Press\, Tangible Embedded Interaction (TEI)\, International Symposium of Electronic Arts (ISEA)\, among others. He is a Robotics Systems Designer and Lecturer in the Robotics Department at the University of Michigan. Website / Instagram\n\nNathan Byrne\, Equally To Be Loved\nEqually To Be Loved is an image / object scaled to and installed upon the courtyard pillar of Stamps Gallery. The image is of a spontaneous sculpture made in 2017 during the first day of an artist residency at the Recology San Francisco A.I.R. Program. The sculpture was constructed in a storage container studio using 14 discrete objects that were in his studio upon entry. For Byrne\, this work embodies the energy and spirit of a studio at the start of a particularly fecund period of making. This work speaks to the artist’s interest in embodied experience of space\, archival and site responsiveness\, as well as his ongoing engagement with found materials. Byrne considers this project to be a far-flung sequel to his MFA thesis exhibition Equally Empty\, which was shown at Stamps Gallery in 2021. Equally To Be Loved is the second line of the Buddhist mantra from which both titles are derived.\n\nNathan Byrne is an artist / educator / curator currently based in Detroit\, MI. Through spatial and archive responsive projects\, he reimagines\, and explores within frameworks such as language\, the passage of time\, and contemplation. Intrigued by the potential of conveying phenomenal\, transformative\, and emotive states through materiality\, process\, and placement\, he negotiates the pliability of the viewer’s encounters with objects and environments. Byrne holds an MFA in Art from the University of Michigan Stamps School of Art & Design and a BA in Studio Art and Art History from San Francisco State University. He has been a Lecturer at Stamps School of Art & Design since the Fall of 2022. His work is exhibited widely nationally and he is a recipient of the VSC Fellowship at Vermont Studio Center. He has been awarded numerous artist residencies including Anderson Ranch Arts Center\, I-Park\, KHN Center for the Arts\, Prairie Ronde\, Recology San Francisco A.I.R. Program\, and Rockland Woods. Website / Instagram
UID:138033-21881353@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138033
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260930T181533
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Reverie: The Student-led Exhibition Committee Fall 2026 Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:\n\n\nA reverie is a state between waking and dreaming\, a moment when the mind drifts beyond the immediate. It is a space where memory\, imagination\, desire\, and reality can overlap\, distort\, and take on new forms. In these moments\, the familiar can become strange\, and the ordinary can become something unexpected.\n\nReverie brings together student works that explore the space between what is known and what is felt. Across painting\, oil pastel\, ceramic\, digital art\, animation\, and mixed media\, the artists move through imagined landscapes\, intimate encounters\, memories\, figures\, and fragments of the everyday. These works blur the boundaries between observation and imagination\, allowing emotion and perception to reshape what we recognize.\n\nRather than depicting dreams literally\, Reverie considers dreaming as a way of seeing. The works reflect moments of escape\, introspection\, fantasy\, and transformation\, where the subconscious can surface and reality becomes open to interpretation. \n\nReverie was conceived and curated by members of the Student-led Exhibition Committee (SEC)\, and features work by eight SEC members at the Stamps School of Art & Design. The exhibition includes ten works across oil on canvas\, oil pastel\, ceramic\, digital art\, digital animation\, and mixed media.
UID:150344-21909059@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150344
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260924T121524
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Cosmo Whyte: Under the Quiet\, Beyond the Eye
DESCRIPTION:\n\nCurated by Srimoyee Mitra\n\nStamps Gallery kicks off the fall 2026 semester with an ambitious mid-career survey of interdisciplinary artist Cosmo Whyte. Born and raised in Jamaica\, Whyte completed a BFA from Bennington College and earned an MFA from the University of Michigan. He is currently a faculty member at the School of the Arts and Architecture\, UCLA.\n\nThis exhibition brings together two central concerns that animate Whyte’s artistic practice: the archive\, both personal and public\, as a site of disturbance\; and migration as a lived experience of refuge\, refusal\, and reinvention. In Whyte’s work\, the archive is never static or neutral. Rather\, it is a contested space where official histories encounter memory\, inheritance\, and the fragments of stories carried across generations. His practice moves within this charged interstitial terrain\, between what has been recorded and what has been remembered\, between institutional knowledge and embodied experience. Whyte invites the viewer to consider the fluidity of geographic borders and layered cultural identities that have persisted despite societal unrest caused by racial and socio-economic hierarchies across generations. In an era of intensified border politics and renewed debates over national identity\, Whyte’s work offers a timely meditation on memory\, movement\, and belonging.\n\nPresented with support from the U-M Institute for Humanities\, the U-M LSA Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies\, and the U-M Library.
UID:149541-21906627@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149541
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20261021T094427
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261029T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261029T163000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Small Works: Prints & Book Objects from Detroit\, 2020–2026
DESCRIPTION:Small Works\nPrints & Book Objects from Detroit 2020–2026\n\nOctober 27 - November 19 \nPublic Reception: Friday\, November 13 from 4:30-6pm.\n\nSmall Works was a print shop ran by Li Chen & Gerald Schulze\, in Detroit\, MI\, from 2020–2026. Mariana Matos joined as the studio assistant\, and later studio manager\, in 2024. Over those six years\, the business grew from an extension of their design practice to a community space that hosts more than 70 classes a year\, open studio for the public\, and year long funded fellowships that investigate practice in art and design related to the Book Arts. In 2026\, they decided to expand community programming\, and to accommodate this expansion closed Small Works\, and formed Center for the Book Arts Detroit (BAD) which operates in the same space.\n\nThis exhibition is a eulogy for the former Small Works shop\, and a celebration of all the people who made work here. It also serves to show what is possible as a community\, when they share space and create work together. \n\nThe work featured is a collection of things printed by Small Works\, by their studiomates Diskette Press\, the publisher Maamoul Press\, and by the community that uses the space.
UID:152872-21914637@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152872
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Ann Arbor,Art,art and design,artists,artists and curators,arts,Arts And Ideas In The Humanities,arts at michigan,Arts Initiative,Book,book discussion,book event,Detroit,Exhibition,Michigan Arts,Michigan Arts Festival
LOCATION:East Quadrangle - RC Art Gallery
CONTACT:
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20261012T121522
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261029T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261029T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Fore-Site (Phase 3): The Stamps Gallery Pillar Project
DESCRIPTION:\n\nFrom September 2025 through December 2026\, Stamps Gallery is partnering in a curatorial collaboration with two Southeast Michigan-based\, artist-run project spaces led by Stamps alumni: C.Y.N.K. Studios\, directed by Sally Clegg (Lecturer III and Student Exhibition Coordinator\, MFA ’20) and Abhishek Narula (MFA ’20)\; and Sometimes Space\, directed by Nathan Byrne (Lecturer I\, MFA ’21). Each space hosts dozens of artists annually for exhibitions\, performances\, and events\, fostering experimental work and building community. For this project\, Byrne\, Clegg\, and Narula have been commissioned to reimagine the pillars on Division Street that flank the gallery. In response\, they’ve curated six artists to create new work for the pillars over three cycles:\n\nPhase 1 (September 12 - December 12) artists: Amelia Burns (Cranbrook MFA ’23) and Erin McKenna (MFA ’20)\nPhase 2 (January 12 - August 12) artists: Sally Clegg (MFA ’20) and Kim Karlsrud (MFA ’20)\nPhase 3 (September 11 - December 11) artists: Abhishek Narula (MFA ’20) and Nathan Byrne (MFA ’21)\nPhase 3 \n\nCurated by Sometimes Space: Abhishek Narula (entry pillar)\nCurated by CYNK Studios: Nathan Byrne (courtyard pillar)\n\nArtist Statements/Bios\n\nAbhishek Narula\, Compressions \nCompressions is an installation comprised of 416 industrial-grade zip ties\, cinched around the entry pillar of the Stamps Gallery. The pillar measures roughly 110 inches in circumference\, requiring two ties per row to wrap around it\, resulting in 208 rows. The humble zip tie\, typically used to hang and bind other material\, is relegated to its functional properties rendering it unprepossessing and easily dismissed. The zip tie in this installation\, instead serves as an object of aesthetic possibility\, pulling it out of its usual background role to become the work itself. The resulting composition is a proposal to dwell\, to slow down\, and to simply see the pillar.\n\nAbhishek Narula is an artist\, designer\, and educator who works across sculpture\, installation\, sound\, and video. His practice takes the form of interventions\, working with what is already present. He reorients and disrupts objects and sites in order to open up formal possibilities and poetic experiences within the familiar. He is influenced by physical and digital infrastructural systems that sustain modern life and culture. His work treats this ambience itself as raw material for aesthetic inquiry\, exploring themes of labor\, precarity\, temporality and the sublime. Narula earned his MFA in Studio Art from the University of Michigan Stamps School of Art & Design and his MS/BS in Electrical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology. His work has been exhibited at national and international venues such as the Ammerman Center for Arts and Technology\, Science Gallery Detroit\, Speculum Artium Media Festival in Slovenia\, New Media Caucus (NMC)\, WaveFarm\, The Boulder Public Library\, The Hyde Park Art Center\, Sector 2337 Art Gallery & Printing Press\, Tangible Embedded Interaction (TEI)\, International Symposium of Electronic Arts (ISEA)\, among others. He is a Robotics Systems Designer and Lecturer in the Robotics Department at the University of Michigan. Website / Instagram\n\nNathan Byrne\, Equally To Be Loved\nEqually To Be Loved is an image / object scaled to and installed upon the courtyard pillar of Stamps Gallery. The image is of a spontaneous sculpture made in 2017 during the first day of an artist residency at the Recology San Francisco A.I.R. Program. The sculpture was constructed in a storage container studio using 14 discrete objects that were in his studio upon entry. For Byrne\, this work embodies the energy and spirit of a studio at the start of a particularly fecund period of making. This work speaks to the artist’s interest in embodied experience of space\, archival and site responsiveness\, as well as his ongoing engagement with found materials. Byrne considers this project to be a far-flung sequel to his MFA thesis exhibition Equally Empty\, which was shown at Stamps Gallery in 2021. Equally To Be Loved is the second line of the Buddhist mantra from which both titles are derived.\n\nNathan Byrne is an artist / educator / curator currently based in Detroit\, MI. Through spatial and archive responsive projects\, he reimagines\, and explores within frameworks such as language\, the passage of time\, and contemplation. Intrigued by the potential of conveying phenomenal\, transformative\, and emotive states through materiality\, process\, and placement\, he negotiates the pliability of the viewer’s encounters with objects and environments. Byrne holds an MFA in Art from the University of Michigan Stamps School of Art & Design and a BA in Studio Art and Art History from San Francisco State University. He has been a Lecturer at Stamps School of Art & Design since the Fall of 2022. His work is exhibited widely nationally and he is a recipient of the VSC Fellowship at Vermont Studio Center. He has been awarded numerous artist residencies including Anderson Ranch Arts Center\, I-Park\, KHN Center for the Arts\, Prairie Ronde\, Recology San Francisco A.I.R. Program\, and Rockland Woods. Website / Instagram
UID:138033-21881354@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138033
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260930T181533
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261029T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261029T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Reverie: The Student-led Exhibition Committee Fall 2026 Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:\n\n\nA reverie is a state between waking and dreaming\, a moment when the mind drifts beyond the immediate. It is a space where memory\, imagination\, desire\, and reality can overlap\, distort\, and take on new forms. In these moments\, the familiar can become strange\, and the ordinary can become something unexpected.\n\nReverie brings together student works that explore the space between what is known and what is felt. Across painting\, oil pastel\, ceramic\, digital art\, animation\, and mixed media\, the artists move through imagined landscapes\, intimate encounters\, memories\, figures\, and fragments of the everyday. These works blur the boundaries between observation and imagination\, allowing emotion and perception to reshape what we recognize.\n\nRather than depicting dreams literally\, Reverie considers dreaming as a way of seeing. The works reflect moments of escape\, introspection\, fantasy\, and transformation\, where the subconscious can surface and reality becomes open to interpretation. \n\nReverie was conceived and curated by members of the Student-led Exhibition Committee (SEC)\, and features work by eight SEC members at the Stamps School of Art & Design. The exhibition includes ten works across oil on canvas\, oil pastel\, ceramic\, digital art\, digital animation\, and mixed media.
UID:150344-21909060@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150344
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260924T121524
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261029T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261029T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Cosmo Whyte: Under the Quiet\, Beyond the Eye
DESCRIPTION:\n\nCurated by Srimoyee Mitra\n\nStamps Gallery kicks off the fall 2026 semester with an ambitious mid-career survey of interdisciplinary artist Cosmo Whyte. Born and raised in Jamaica\, Whyte completed a BFA from Bennington College and earned an MFA from the University of Michigan. He is currently a faculty member at the School of the Arts and Architecture\, UCLA.\n\nThis exhibition brings together two central concerns that animate Whyte’s artistic practice: the archive\, both personal and public\, as a site of disturbance\; and migration as a lived experience of refuge\, refusal\, and reinvention. In Whyte’s work\, the archive is never static or neutral. Rather\, it is a contested space where official histories encounter memory\, inheritance\, and the fragments of stories carried across generations. His practice moves within this charged interstitial terrain\, between what has been recorded and what has been remembered\, between institutional knowledge and embodied experience. Whyte invites the viewer to consider the fluidity of geographic borders and layered cultural identities that have persisted despite societal unrest caused by racial and socio-economic hierarchies across generations. In an era of intensified border politics and renewed debates over national identity\, Whyte’s work offers a timely meditation on memory\, movement\, and belonging.\n\nPresented with support from the U-M Institute for Humanities\, the U-M LSA Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies\, and the U-M Library.
UID:149541-21906628@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149541
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20261026T102258
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261029T164500
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261029T184500
SUMMARY:Other:Staff Explorer Pass | Meet & Greet with Penny Stamps Speaker James Baxter
DESCRIPTION:Join fellow staff members for a special U-M Staff backstage Meet & Greet with Penny Stamps Distinguished Speaker James Baxter\, followed by his public lecture at 5:30 p.m.\n\nEvent Details:\nMeet in the lobby of the Michigan Theatre at 4:45PM\nLook for staff members with teal Michigan Arts Fest t-shirts!\nReceive Michigan Arts Fest swag!\n\nPlease Note:\nBackstage Meet & Greet is limited to U-M staff members.\nCan't make it? Let us know so your spot may be released.\n\nStaff Art Meetups are staff-led excursions designed to explore the arts on campus and connect with colleagues who share similar interests. These meetups are being organized throughout October as part of the Michigan Arts Festival.\n\nQuestions? Contact your staff hosts: Meaghan Blanchard (mblanch@umich.edu) and Clarissa Santana (cmsantan@umich.edu)\n\nAbout the Speaker:\nJames Baxter is an award-winning character animator whose work has shaped some of the most beloved animated films and television series of the past four decades. Renowned for his expressive draftsmanship and mastery of performance through movement\, Baxter has animated some of animation’s most iconic characters\, including Belle in Beauty and the Beast\, Rafiki in The Lion King\, Quasimodo in The Hunchback of Notre Dame\, and the title character in Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron. His work has also appeared in films including The Prince of Egypt\, Kung Fu Panda\, How to Train Your Dragon\, and Enchanted\, among many others.\n\nThroughout his career\, Baxter has held creative and leadership roles at Walt Disney Feature Animation\, DreamWorks Animation\, and Netflix Animation\, where he currently serves as vice president of animation. Working across both hand-drawn and computer animation\, he has helped shape performances in some of the medium’s most recognizable films while also teaching and mentoring artists throughout the industry. His contributions to animation can also be seen in Adventure Time\, where the recurring character James Baxter the Horse was created as a tribute to the animator.\n\nBaxter will share stories from his four decades in animation and discuss the craft of character performance\, offering a behind-the-scenes look at how movement\, emotion\, and storytelling come together to create memorable animated characters.\n\n+Backstage Meet & Greet is limited to U-M staff members.+ \n+Availability is extremely limited.+ \n+Register for yourself only.+\n+Can't make it? Let us know so your space may be released.+\n+Wayfinding & logistical info will be shared with registrants prior to event.+ \n\n••••••\n*This program is part of the Michigan Arts Festival Staff Explorer Pass. In partnership with Voices of the Staff\, the U-M Arts Initiative is offering limited complimentary tickets for select campus events and extra special experiences for U-M staff members all throughout October!*\n+For a list of all Staff Explorer Pass events\, visit umarts.info/staffpass+
UID:152081-21912860@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152081
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Lecture,Michigan Arts Festival,Staff,Staff Explorer Pass,Voices Of The Staff
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260821T154323
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261029T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261029T190000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Penny Stamps Speaker Series - James Baxter
DESCRIPTION:\n\nJames Baxter is an award-winning character animator whose work has shaped some of the most beloved animated films and television series of the past four decades. Renowned for his expressive draftsmanship and mastery of performance through movement\, Baxter has animated some of animation’s most iconic characters\, including Belle in Beauty and the Beast\, Rafiki in The Lion King\, Quasimodo in The Hunchback of Notre Dame\, and the title character in Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron. His work has also appeared in films including The Prince of Egypt\, Kung Fu Panda\, How to Train Your Dragon\, and Enchanted\, among many others.\n\nThroughout his career\, Baxter has held creative and leadership roles at Walt Disney Feature Animation\, DreamWorks Animation\, and Netflix Animation\, where he currently serves as vice president of animation. Working across both hand-drawn and computer animation\, he has helped shape performances in some of the medium’s most recognizable films while also teaching and mentoring artists throughout the industry. His contributions to animation can also be seen in Adventure Time\, where the recurring character James Baxter the Horse was created as a tribute to the animator.\n\nBaxter will share stories from his four decades in animation and discuss the craft of character performance\, offering a behind-the-scenes look at how movement\, emotion\, and storytelling come together to create memorable animated characters.\n\nWith support from the Ann Arbor District Library.\n\nSeries presenting partners: Detroit PBS\, ALL ARTS\, and PBS Books. Media partner: Michigan Public.\n
UID:150483-21909506@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150483
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Animation,Art,Cartoons,Disney,Film,Storytelling
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20261021T094427
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261030T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261030T163000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Small Works: Prints & Book Objects from Detroit\, 2020–2026
DESCRIPTION:Small Works\nPrints & Book Objects from Detroit 2020–2026\n\nOctober 27 - November 19 \nPublic Reception: Friday\, November 13 from 4:30-6pm.\n\nSmall Works was a print shop ran by Li Chen & Gerald Schulze\, in Detroit\, MI\, from 2020–2026. Mariana Matos joined as the studio assistant\, and later studio manager\, in 2024. Over those six years\, the business grew from an extension of their design practice to a community space that hosts more than 70 classes a year\, open studio for the public\, and year long funded fellowships that investigate practice in art and design related to the Book Arts. In 2026\, they decided to expand community programming\, and to accommodate this expansion closed Small Works\, and formed Center for the Book Arts Detroit (BAD) which operates in the same space.\n\nThis exhibition is a eulogy for the former Small Works shop\, and a celebration of all the people who made work here. It also serves to show what is possible as a community\, when they share space and create work together. \n\nThe work featured is a collection of things printed by Small Works\, by their studiomates Diskette Press\, the publisher Maamoul Press\, and by the community that uses the space.
UID:152872-21914638@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152872
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Ann Arbor,Art,art and design,artists,artists and curators,arts,Arts And Ideas In The Humanities,arts at michigan,Arts Initiative,Book,book discussion,book event,Detroit,Exhibition,Michigan Arts,Michigan Arts Festival
LOCATION:East Quadrangle - RC Art Gallery
CONTACT:
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20261012T121522
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261030T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261030T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Fore-Site (Phase 3): The Stamps Gallery Pillar Project
DESCRIPTION:\n\nFrom September 2025 through December 2026\, Stamps Gallery is partnering in a curatorial collaboration with two Southeast Michigan-based\, artist-run project spaces led by Stamps alumni: C.Y.N.K. Studios\, directed by Sally Clegg (Lecturer III and Student Exhibition Coordinator\, MFA ’20) and Abhishek Narula (MFA ’20)\; and Sometimes Space\, directed by Nathan Byrne (Lecturer I\, MFA ’21). Each space hosts dozens of artists annually for exhibitions\, performances\, and events\, fostering experimental work and building community. For this project\, Byrne\, Clegg\, and Narula have been commissioned to reimagine the pillars on Division Street that flank the gallery. In response\, they’ve curated six artists to create new work for the pillars over three cycles:\n\nPhase 1 (September 12 - December 12) artists: Amelia Burns (Cranbrook MFA ’23) and Erin McKenna (MFA ’20)\nPhase 2 (January 12 - August 12) artists: Sally Clegg (MFA ’20) and Kim Karlsrud (MFA ’20)\nPhase 3 (September 11 - December 11) artists: Abhishek Narula (MFA ’20) and Nathan Byrne (MFA ’21)\nPhase 3 \n\nCurated by Sometimes Space: Abhishek Narula (entry pillar)\nCurated by CYNK Studios: Nathan Byrne (courtyard pillar)\n\nArtist Statements/Bios\n\nAbhishek Narula\, Compressions \nCompressions is an installation comprised of 416 industrial-grade zip ties\, cinched around the entry pillar of the Stamps Gallery. The pillar measures roughly 110 inches in circumference\, requiring two ties per row to wrap around it\, resulting in 208 rows. The humble zip tie\, typically used to hang and bind other material\, is relegated to its functional properties rendering it unprepossessing and easily dismissed. The zip tie in this installation\, instead serves as an object of aesthetic possibility\, pulling it out of its usual background role to become the work itself. The resulting composition is a proposal to dwell\, to slow down\, and to simply see the pillar.\n\nAbhishek Narula is an artist\, designer\, and educator who works across sculpture\, installation\, sound\, and video. His practice takes the form of interventions\, working with what is already present. He reorients and disrupts objects and sites in order to open up formal possibilities and poetic experiences within the familiar. He is influenced by physical and digital infrastructural systems that sustain modern life and culture. His work treats this ambience itself as raw material for aesthetic inquiry\, exploring themes of labor\, precarity\, temporality and the sublime. Narula earned his MFA in Studio Art from the University of Michigan Stamps School of Art & Design and his MS/BS in Electrical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology. His work has been exhibited at national and international venues such as the Ammerman Center for Arts and Technology\, Science Gallery Detroit\, Speculum Artium Media Festival in Slovenia\, New Media Caucus (NMC)\, WaveFarm\, The Boulder Public Library\, The Hyde Park Art Center\, Sector 2337 Art Gallery & Printing Press\, Tangible Embedded Interaction (TEI)\, International Symposium of Electronic Arts (ISEA)\, among others. He is a Robotics Systems Designer and Lecturer in the Robotics Department at the University of Michigan. Website / Instagram\n\nNathan Byrne\, Equally To Be Loved\nEqually To Be Loved is an image / object scaled to and installed upon the courtyard pillar of Stamps Gallery. The image is of a spontaneous sculpture made in 2017 during the first day of an artist residency at the Recology San Francisco A.I.R. Program. The sculpture was constructed in a storage container studio using 14 discrete objects that were in his studio upon entry. For Byrne\, this work embodies the energy and spirit of a studio at the start of a particularly fecund period of making. This work speaks to the artist’s interest in embodied experience of space\, archival and site responsiveness\, as well as his ongoing engagement with found materials. Byrne considers this project to be a far-flung sequel to his MFA thesis exhibition Equally Empty\, which was shown at Stamps Gallery in 2021. Equally To Be Loved is the second line of the Buddhist mantra from which both titles are derived.\n\nNathan Byrne is an artist / educator / curator currently based in Detroit\, MI. Through spatial and archive responsive projects\, he reimagines\, and explores within frameworks such as language\, the passage of time\, and contemplation. Intrigued by the potential of conveying phenomenal\, transformative\, and emotive states through materiality\, process\, and placement\, he negotiates the pliability of the viewer’s encounters with objects and environments. Byrne holds an MFA in Art from the University of Michigan Stamps School of Art & Design and a BA in Studio Art and Art History from San Francisco State University. He has been a Lecturer at Stamps School of Art & Design since the Fall of 2022. His work is exhibited widely nationally and he is a recipient of the VSC Fellowship at Vermont Studio Center. He has been awarded numerous artist residencies including Anderson Ranch Arts Center\, I-Park\, KHN Center for the Arts\, Prairie Ronde\, Recology San Francisco A.I.R. Program\, and Rockland Woods. Website / Instagram
UID:138033-21881355@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138033
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260930T181533
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261030T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261030T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Reverie: The Student-led Exhibition Committee Fall 2026 Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:\n\n\nA reverie is a state between waking and dreaming\, a moment when the mind drifts beyond the immediate. It is a space where memory\, imagination\, desire\, and reality can overlap\, distort\, and take on new forms. In these moments\, the familiar can become strange\, and the ordinary can become something unexpected.\n\nReverie brings together student works that explore the space between what is known and what is felt. Across painting\, oil pastel\, ceramic\, digital art\, animation\, and mixed media\, the artists move through imagined landscapes\, intimate encounters\, memories\, figures\, and fragments of the everyday. These works blur the boundaries between observation and imagination\, allowing emotion and perception to reshape what we recognize.\n\nRather than depicting dreams literally\, Reverie considers dreaming as a way of seeing. The works reflect moments of escape\, introspection\, fantasy\, and transformation\, where the subconscious can surface and reality becomes open to interpretation. \n\nReverie was conceived and curated by members of the Student-led Exhibition Committee (SEC)\, and features work by eight SEC members at the Stamps School of Art & Design. The exhibition includes ten works across oil on canvas\, oil pastel\, ceramic\, digital art\, digital animation\, and mixed media.
UID:150344-21909061@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150344
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260924T121524
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261030T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261030T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Cosmo Whyte: Under the Quiet\, Beyond the Eye
DESCRIPTION:\n\nCurated by Srimoyee Mitra\n\nStamps Gallery kicks off the fall 2026 semester with an ambitious mid-career survey of interdisciplinary artist Cosmo Whyte. Born and raised in Jamaica\, Whyte completed a BFA from Bennington College and earned an MFA from the University of Michigan. He is currently a faculty member at the School of the Arts and Architecture\, UCLA.\n\nThis exhibition brings together two central concerns that animate Whyte’s artistic practice: the archive\, both personal and public\, as a site of disturbance\; and migration as a lived experience of refuge\, refusal\, and reinvention. In Whyte’s work\, the archive is never static or neutral. Rather\, it is a contested space where official histories encounter memory\, inheritance\, and the fragments of stories carried across generations. His practice moves within this charged interstitial terrain\, between what has been recorded and what has been remembered\, between institutional knowledge and embodied experience. Whyte invites the viewer to consider the fluidity of geographic borders and layered cultural identities that have persisted despite societal unrest caused by racial and socio-economic hierarchies across generations. In an era of intensified border politics and renewed debates over national identity\, Whyte’s work offers a timely meditation on memory\, movement\, and belonging.\n\nPresented with support from the U-M Institute for Humanities\, the U-M LSA Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies\, and the U-M Library.
UID:149541-21906629@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149541
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20261012T121522
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261031T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261031T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Fore-Site (Phase 3): The Stamps Gallery Pillar Project
DESCRIPTION:\n\nFrom September 2025 through December 2026\, Stamps Gallery is partnering in a curatorial collaboration with two Southeast Michigan-based\, artist-run project spaces led by Stamps alumni: C.Y.N.K. Studios\, directed by Sally Clegg (Lecturer III and Student Exhibition Coordinator\, MFA ’20) and Abhishek Narula (MFA ’20)\; and Sometimes Space\, directed by Nathan Byrne (Lecturer I\, MFA ’21). Each space hosts dozens of artists annually for exhibitions\, performances\, and events\, fostering experimental work and building community. For this project\, Byrne\, Clegg\, and Narula have been commissioned to reimagine the pillars on Division Street that flank the gallery. In response\, they’ve curated six artists to create new work for the pillars over three cycles:\n\nPhase 1 (September 12 - December 12) artists: Amelia Burns (Cranbrook MFA ’23) and Erin McKenna (MFA ’20)\nPhase 2 (January 12 - August 12) artists: Sally Clegg (MFA ’20) and Kim Karlsrud (MFA ’20)\nPhase 3 (September 11 - December 11) artists: Abhishek Narula (MFA ’20) and Nathan Byrne (MFA ’21)\nPhase 3 \n\nCurated by Sometimes Space: Abhishek Narula (entry pillar)\nCurated by CYNK Studios: Nathan Byrne (courtyard pillar)\n\nArtist Statements/Bios\n\nAbhishek Narula\, Compressions \nCompressions is an installation comprised of 416 industrial-grade zip ties\, cinched around the entry pillar of the Stamps Gallery. The pillar measures roughly 110 inches in circumference\, requiring two ties per row to wrap around it\, resulting in 208 rows. The humble zip tie\, typically used to hang and bind other material\, is relegated to its functional properties rendering it unprepossessing and easily dismissed. The zip tie in this installation\, instead serves as an object of aesthetic possibility\, pulling it out of its usual background role to become the work itself. The resulting composition is a proposal to dwell\, to slow down\, and to simply see the pillar.\n\nAbhishek Narula is an artist\, designer\, and educator who works across sculpture\, installation\, sound\, and video. His practice takes the form of interventions\, working with what is already present. He reorients and disrupts objects and sites in order to open up formal possibilities and poetic experiences within the familiar. He is influenced by physical and digital infrastructural systems that sustain modern life and culture. His work treats this ambience itself as raw material for aesthetic inquiry\, exploring themes of labor\, precarity\, temporality and the sublime. Narula earned his MFA in Studio Art from the University of Michigan Stamps School of Art & Design and his MS/BS in Electrical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology. His work has been exhibited at national and international venues such as the Ammerman Center for Arts and Technology\, Science Gallery Detroit\, Speculum Artium Media Festival in Slovenia\, New Media Caucus (NMC)\, WaveFarm\, The Boulder Public Library\, The Hyde Park Art Center\, Sector 2337 Art Gallery & Printing Press\, Tangible Embedded Interaction (TEI)\, International Symposium of Electronic Arts (ISEA)\, among others. He is a Robotics Systems Designer and Lecturer in the Robotics Department at the University of Michigan. Website / Instagram\n\nNathan Byrne\, Equally To Be Loved\nEqually To Be Loved is an image / object scaled to and installed upon the courtyard pillar of Stamps Gallery. The image is of a spontaneous sculpture made in 2017 during the first day of an artist residency at the Recology San Francisco A.I.R. Program. The sculpture was constructed in a storage container studio using 14 discrete objects that were in his studio upon entry. For Byrne\, this work embodies the energy and spirit of a studio at the start of a particularly fecund period of making. This work speaks to the artist’s interest in embodied experience of space\, archival and site responsiveness\, as well as his ongoing engagement with found materials. Byrne considers this project to be a far-flung sequel to his MFA thesis exhibition Equally Empty\, which was shown at Stamps Gallery in 2021. Equally To Be Loved is the second line of the Buddhist mantra from which both titles are derived.\n\nNathan Byrne is an artist / educator / curator currently based in Detroit\, MI. Through spatial and archive responsive projects\, he reimagines\, and explores within frameworks such as language\, the passage of time\, and contemplation. Intrigued by the potential of conveying phenomenal\, transformative\, and emotive states through materiality\, process\, and placement\, he negotiates the pliability of the viewer’s encounters with objects and environments. Byrne holds an MFA in Art from the University of Michigan Stamps School of Art & Design and a BA in Studio Art and Art History from San Francisco State University. He has been a Lecturer at Stamps School of Art & Design since the Fall of 2022. His work is exhibited widely nationally and he is a recipient of the VSC Fellowship at Vermont Studio Center. He has been awarded numerous artist residencies including Anderson Ranch Arts Center\, I-Park\, KHN Center for the Arts\, Prairie Ronde\, Recology San Francisco A.I.R. Program\, and Rockland Woods. Website / Instagram
UID:138033-21881356@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138033
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260930T181533
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261031T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261031T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Reverie: The Student-led Exhibition Committee Fall 2026 Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:\n\n\nA reverie is a state between waking and dreaming\, a moment when the mind drifts beyond the immediate. It is a space where memory\, imagination\, desire\, and reality can overlap\, distort\, and take on new forms. In these moments\, the familiar can become strange\, and the ordinary can become something unexpected.\n\nReverie brings together student works that explore the space between what is known and what is felt. Across painting\, oil pastel\, ceramic\, digital art\, animation\, and mixed media\, the artists move through imagined landscapes\, intimate encounters\, memories\, figures\, and fragments of the everyday. These works blur the boundaries between observation and imagination\, allowing emotion and perception to reshape what we recognize.\n\nRather than depicting dreams literally\, Reverie considers dreaming as a way of seeing. The works reflect moments of escape\, introspection\, fantasy\, and transformation\, where the subconscious can surface and reality becomes open to interpretation. \n\nReverie was conceived and curated by members of the Student-led Exhibition Committee (SEC)\, and features work by eight SEC members at the Stamps School of Art & Design. The exhibition includes ten works across oil on canvas\, oil pastel\, ceramic\, digital art\, digital animation\, and mixed media.
UID:150344-21909062@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150344
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260924T121524
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261031T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261031T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Cosmo Whyte: Under the Quiet\, Beyond the Eye
DESCRIPTION:\n\nCurated by Srimoyee Mitra\n\nStamps Gallery kicks off the fall 2026 semester with an ambitious mid-career survey of interdisciplinary artist Cosmo Whyte. Born and raised in Jamaica\, Whyte completed a BFA from Bennington College and earned an MFA from the University of Michigan. He is currently a faculty member at the School of the Arts and Architecture\, UCLA.\n\nThis exhibition brings together two central concerns that animate Whyte’s artistic practice: the archive\, both personal and public\, as a site of disturbance\; and migration as a lived experience of refuge\, refusal\, and reinvention. In Whyte’s work\, the archive is never static or neutral. Rather\, it is a contested space where official histories encounter memory\, inheritance\, and the fragments of stories carried across generations. His practice moves within this charged interstitial terrain\, between what has been recorded and what has been remembered\, between institutional knowledge and embodied experience. Whyte invites the viewer to consider the fluidity of geographic borders and layered cultural identities that have persisted despite societal unrest caused by racial and socio-economic hierarchies across generations. In an era of intensified border politics and renewed debates over national identity\, Whyte’s work offers a timely meditation on memory\, movement\, and belonging.\n\nPresented with support from the U-M Institute for Humanities\, the U-M LSA Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies\, and the U-M Library.
UID:149541-21906630@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149541
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20261021T094427
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261102T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261102T163000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Small Works: Prints & Book Objects from Detroit\, 2020–2026
DESCRIPTION:Small Works\nPrints & Book Objects from Detroit 2020–2026\n\nOctober 27 - November 19 \nPublic Reception: Friday\, November 13 from 4:30-6pm.\n\nSmall Works was a print shop ran by Li Chen & Gerald Schulze\, in Detroit\, MI\, from 2020–2026. Mariana Matos joined as the studio assistant\, and later studio manager\, in 2024. Over those six years\, the business grew from an extension of their design practice to a community space that hosts more than 70 classes a year\, open studio for the public\, and year long funded fellowships that investigate practice in art and design related to the Book Arts. In 2026\, they decided to expand community programming\, and to accommodate this expansion closed Small Works\, and formed Center for the Book Arts Detroit (BAD) which operates in the same space.\n\nThis exhibition is a eulogy for the former Small Works shop\, and a celebration of all the people who made work here. It also serves to show what is possible as a community\, when they share space and create work together. \n\nThe work featured is a collection of things printed by Small Works\, by their studiomates Diskette Press\, the publisher Maamoul Press\, and by the community that uses the space.
UID:152872-21914641@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152872
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Ann Arbor,Art,art and design,artists,artists and curators,arts,Arts And Ideas In The Humanities,arts at michigan,Arts Initiative,Book,book discussion,book event,Detroit,Exhibition,Michigan Arts,Michigan Arts Festival
LOCATION:East Quadrangle - RC Art Gallery
CONTACT:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20261021T094427
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261103T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261103T163000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Small Works: Prints & Book Objects from Detroit\, 2020–2026
DESCRIPTION:Small Works\nPrints & Book Objects from Detroit 2020–2026\n\nOctober 27 - November 19 \nPublic Reception: Friday\, November 13 from 4:30-6pm.\n\nSmall Works was a print shop ran by Li Chen & Gerald Schulze\, in Detroit\, MI\, from 2020–2026. Mariana Matos joined as the studio assistant\, and later studio manager\, in 2024. Over those six years\, the business grew from an extension of their design practice to a community space that hosts more than 70 classes a year\, open studio for the public\, and year long funded fellowships that investigate practice in art and design related to the Book Arts. In 2026\, they decided to expand community programming\, and to accommodate this expansion closed Small Works\, and formed Center for the Book Arts Detroit (BAD) which operates in the same space.\n\nThis exhibition is a eulogy for the former Small Works shop\, and a celebration of all the people who made work here. It also serves to show what is possible as a community\, when they share space and create work together. \n\nThe work featured is a collection of things printed by Small Works\, by their studiomates Diskette Press\, the publisher Maamoul Press\, and by the community that uses the space.
UID:152872-21914642@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152872
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Ann Arbor,Art,art and design,artists,artists and curators,arts,Arts And Ideas In The Humanities,arts at michigan,Arts Initiative,Book,book discussion,book event,Detroit,Exhibition,Michigan Arts,Michigan Arts Festival
LOCATION:East Quadrangle - RC Art Gallery
CONTACT:
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260924T121524
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261103T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261103T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Cosmo Whyte: Under the Quiet\, Beyond the Eye
DESCRIPTION:\n\nCurated by Srimoyee Mitra\n\nStamps Gallery kicks off the fall 2026 semester with an ambitious mid-career survey of interdisciplinary artist Cosmo Whyte. Born and raised in Jamaica\, Whyte completed a BFA from Bennington College and earned an MFA from the University of Michigan. He is currently a faculty member at the School of the Arts and Architecture\, UCLA.\n\nThis exhibition brings together two central concerns that animate Whyte’s artistic practice: the archive\, both personal and public\, as a site of disturbance\; and migration as a lived experience of refuge\, refusal\, and reinvention. In Whyte’s work\, the archive is never static or neutral. Rather\, it is a contested space where official histories encounter memory\, inheritance\, and the fragments of stories carried across generations. His practice moves within this charged interstitial terrain\, between what has been recorded and what has been remembered\, between institutional knowledge and embodied experience. Whyte invites the viewer to consider the fluidity of geographic borders and layered cultural identities that have persisted despite societal unrest caused by racial and socio-economic hierarchies across generations. In an era of intensified border politics and renewed debates over national identity\, Whyte’s work offers a timely meditation on memory\, movement\, and belonging.\n\nPresented with support from the U-M Institute for Humanities\, the U-M LSA Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies\, and the U-M Library.
UID:149541-21906631@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149541
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20261021T094427
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261104T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261104T163000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Small Works: Prints & Book Objects from Detroit\, 2020–2026
DESCRIPTION:Small Works\nPrints & Book Objects from Detroit 2020–2026\n\nOctober 27 - November 19 \nPublic Reception: Friday\, November 13 from 4:30-6pm.\n\nSmall Works was a print shop ran by Li Chen & Gerald Schulze\, in Detroit\, MI\, from 2020–2026. Mariana Matos joined as the studio assistant\, and later studio manager\, in 2024. Over those six years\, the business grew from an extension of their design practice to a community space that hosts more than 70 classes a year\, open studio for the public\, and year long funded fellowships that investigate practice in art and design related to the Book Arts. In 2026\, they decided to expand community programming\, and to accommodate this expansion closed Small Works\, and formed Center for the Book Arts Detroit (BAD) which operates in the same space.\n\nThis exhibition is a eulogy for the former Small Works shop\, and a celebration of all the people who made work here. It also serves to show what is possible as a community\, when they share space and create work together. \n\nThe work featured is a collection of things printed by Small Works\, by their studiomates Diskette Press\, the publisher Maamoul Press\, and by the community that uses the space.
UID:152872-21914643@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152872
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Ann Arbor,Art,art and design,artists,artists and curators,arts,Arts And Ideas In The Humanities,arts at michigan,Arts Initiative,Book,book discussion,book event,Detroit,Exhibition,Michigan Arts,Michigan Arts Festival
LOCATION:East Quadrangle - RC Art Gallery
CONTACT:
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20261012T121522
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261104T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261104T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Fore-Site (Phase 3): The Stamps Gallery Pillar Project
DESCRIPTION:\n\nFrom September 2025 through December 2026\, Stamps Gallery is partnering in a curatorial collaboration with two Southeast Michigan-based\, artist-run project spaces led by Stamps alumni: C.Y.N.K. Studios\, directed by Sally Clegg (Lecturer III and Student Exhibition Coordinator\, MFA ’20) and Abhishek Narula (MFA ’20)\; and Sometimes Space\, directed by Nathan Byrne (Lecturer I\, MFA ’21). Each space hosts dozens of artists annually for exhibitions\, performances\, and events\, fostering experimental work and building community. For this project\, Byrne\, Clegg\, and Narula have been commissioned to reimagine the pillars on Division Street that flank the gallery. In response\, they’ve curated six artists to create new work for the pillars over three cycles:\n\nPhase 1 (September 12 - December 12) artists: Amelia Burns (Cranbrook MFA ’23) and Erin McKenna (MFA ’20)\nPhase 2 (January 12 - August 12) artists: Sally Clegg (MFA ’20) and Kim Karlsrud (MFA ’20)\nPhase 3 (September 11 - December 11) artists: Abhishek Narula (MFA ’20) and Nathan Byrne (MFA ’21)\nPhase 3 \n\nCurated by Sometimes Space: Abhishek Narula (entry pillar)\nCurated by CYNK Studios: Nathan Byrne (courtyard pillar)\n\nArtist Statements/Bios\n\nAbhishek Narula\, Compressions \nCompressions is an installation comprised of 416 industrial-grade zip ties\, cinched around the entry pillar of the Stamps Gallery. The pillar measures roughly 110 inches in circumference\, requiring two ties per row to wrap around it\, resulting in 208 rows. The humble zip tie\, typically used to hang and bind other material\, is relegated to its functional properties rendering it unprepossessing and easily dismissed. The zip tie in this installation\, instead serves as an object of aesthetic possibility\, pulling it out of its usual background role to become the work itself. The resulting composition is a proposal to dwell\, to slow down\, and to simply see the pillar.\n\nAbhishek Narula is an artist\, designer\, and educator who works across sculpture\, installation\, sound\, and video. His practice takes the form of interventions\, working with what is already present. He reorients and disrupts objects and sites in order to open up formal possibilities and poetic experiences within the familiar. He is influenced by physical and digital infrastructural systems that sustain modern life and culture. His work treats this ambience itself as raw material for aesthetic inquiry\, exploring themes of labor\, precarity\, temporality and the sublime. Narula earned his MFA in Studio Art from the University of Michigan Stamps School of Art & Design and his MS/BS in Electrical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology. His work has been exhibited at national and international venues such as the Ammerman Center for Arts and Technology\, Science Gallery Detroit\, Speculum Artium Media Festival in Slovenia\, New Media Caucus (NMC)\, WaveFarm\, The Boulder Public Library\, The Hyde Park Art Center\, Sector 2337 Art Gallery & Printing Press\, Tangible Embedded Interaction (TEI)\, International Symposium of Electronic Arts (ISEA)\, among others. He is a Robotics Systems Designer and Lecturer in the Robotics Department at the University of Michigan. Website / Instagram\n\nNathan Byrne\, Equally To Be Loved\nEqually To Be Loved is an image / object scaled to and installed upon the courtyard pillar of Stamps Gallery. The image is of a spontaneous sculpture made in 2017 during the first day of an artist residency at the Recology San Francisco A.I.R. Program. The sculpture was constructed in a storage container studio using 14 discrete objects that were in his studio upon entry. For Byrne\, this work embodies the energy and spirit of a studio at the start of a particularly fecund period of making. This work speaks to the artist’s interest in embodied experience of space\, archival and site responsiveness\, as well as his ongoing engagement with found materials. Byrne considers this project to be a far-flung sequel to his MFA thesis exhibition Equally Empty\, which was shown at Stamps Gallery in 2021. Equally To Be Loved is the second line of the Buddhist mantra from which both titles are derived.\n\nNathan Byrne is an artist / educator / curator currently based in Detroit\, MI. Through spatial and archive responsive projects\, he reimagines\, and explores within frameworks such as language\, the passage of time\, and contemplation. Intrigued by the potential of conveying phenomenal\, transformative\, and emotive states through materiality\, process\, and placement\, he negotiates the pliability of the viewer’s encounters with objects and environments. Byrne holds an MFA in Art from the University of Michigan Stamps School of Art & Design and a BA in Studio Art and Art History from San Francisco State University. He has been a Lecturer at Stamps School of Art & Design since the Fall of 2022. His work is exhibited widely nationally and he is a recipient of the VSC Fellowship at Vermont Studio Center. He has been awarded numerous artist residencies including Anderson Ranch Arts Center\, I-Park\, KHN Center for the Arts\, Prairie Ronde\, Recology San Francisco A.I.R. Program\, and Rockland Woods. Website / Instagram
UID:138033-21881357@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138033
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260924T121524
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261104T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261104T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Cosmo Whyte: Under the Quiet\, Beyond the Eye
DESCRIPTION:\n\nCurated by Srimoyee Mitra\n\nStamps Gallery kicks off the fall 2026 semester with an ambitious mid-career survey of interdisciplinary artist Cosmo Whyte. Born and raised in Jamaica\, Whyte completed a BFA from Bennington College and earned an MFA from the University of Michigan. He is currently a faculty member at the School of the Arts and Architecture\, UCLA.\n\nThis exhibition brings together two central concerns that animate Whyte’s artistic practice: the archive\, both personal and public\, as a site of disturbance\; and migration as a lived experience of refuge\, refusal\, and reinvention. In Whyte’s work\, the archive is never static or neutral. Rather\, it is a contested space where official histories encounter memory\, inheritance\, and the fragments of stories carried across generations. His practice moves within this charged interstitial terrain\, between what has been recorded and what has been remembered\, between institutional knowledge and embodied experience. Whyte invites the viewer to consider the fluidity of geographic borders and layered cultural identities that have persisted despite societal unrest caused by racial and socio-economic hierarchies across generations. In an era of intensified border politics and renewed debates over national identity\, Whyte’s work offers a timely meditation on memory\, movement\, and belonging.\n\nPresented with support from the U-M Institute for Humanities\, the U-M LSA Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies\, and the U-M Library.
UID:149541-21906632@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149541
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20261016T181521
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261104T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261104T193000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:From Studio to Museum Wall: Artist\, Collector\, and the Life of an Artwork
DESCRIPTION:\n\nWhat is the relationship between an artist and a collector? How does a work of art travel from the studio to an exhibition\, and eventually onto loan at a museum? Behind every object on a gallery wall is a chain of relationships\, decisions\, and logistics that rarely gets discussed in art school\, yet shapes the careers of artists and the afterlife of their work.\n\nIn this conversation\, artist Cosmo Whyte\, collector JoAnn Gonzalez Hickey\, and collection manager Elizabeth Tenenbaum pull back the curtain on that journey. Each brings a distinct vantage point: the artist who makes the work and sets its terms\, the collector who lives with it\, supports it\, and makes it available to the public\, and the manager who handles the practical details of cataloguing\, care\, documentation\, shipping\, and loan agreements that keep a collection in good order.\n\nWhether you’re a practicing artist navigating the collecting world\, a student artist looking at career paths ahead\, or an emerging collector\, join us for an insightful conversation with professionals to strengthen your roadmap. An audience Q&A will follow the conversation.\n\nFree and open to the public. Registration requested.\n\nAbout the Speakers\n\nCosmo Whyte\nCosmo Whyte (b. 1982\, St. Andrew\, Jamaica) received a BFA from Bennington College\, a post-baccalaureate at Maryland Institute College of Art\, and a MFA from University of Michigan. In 2020 he had solo exhibitions at MOCA Georgia and ICA San Diego. Whyte has exhibited in biennial exhibitions including Prospect.5 New Orleans (2022) 13th Havana Biennial\, the Jamaica Biennial (2017)\, and the Atlanta Biennial (2016). His work has been included in exhibitions at Museum of Contemporary Art\, Chicago\, IL\; The High Museum of Art\, Atlanta\, GA\; The Drawing Center\, New York\, NY\; The Somerset House\, London\, UK\; Museum of Latin American Art\, Los Angeles\, CA\; Atlanta Contemporary\, Atlanta\, GA\; Centre Georges Pompidou\, Paris\, France\; and the National Gallery of Jamaica\, Kingston\, Jamaica. His work is in public museum collections including the High Museum\, Atlanta\; Museum of Contemporary Art\, Chicago\, IL\; International African American Museum\, Charlotte\, NC\; Museum of Contemporary Art Georgia\; National Gallery of Jamaica\; and the Pérez Art Museum Miami. In 2022 he joined the UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture as an assistant professor. Whyte lives and works in Los Angeles\, CA.\n\nJoAnn Gonzalez Hickey\nJoAnn Gonzalez Hickey has spent much of her adult life engaged in the visual arts as practitioner\, patron\, friend and advocate.\n\nUpon abandoning the art studio and any potential advancement as a young practicing artist\, her mentor and teacher wisely advised her to continue on by “enjoying an art experience every day.” Reading\, museums\, galleries\, studio visits\, board work and philanthropic engagements became the artistic playground where her eye and individual sensibilities continued to develop.\n\nA move to New York City in 2002 prompted JoAnn to think more formally about collecting. Certainly\, living in New York City\, a major international center for contemporary art\, offered opportunities for a direct and targeted exploration. She spent the next couple of years visiting private collections\, seeking perspective on the various approaches employed by collectors. During this period of time she realized her eye was most often drawn to works on paper. In 2005\, having gained clarity and vision\, she set out to formally build a collection focused entirely on unique contemporary abstract works on paper. In 2012 JoAnn created the Syzygy platform. Syzygy offers her collection for study by college and graduate academic institutions to engage in a multitude of interdisciplinary projects. \n\nJoAn was a speaker at the Vail Symposium\, “Art\, a Matter of Mind\,” in 2018 and has lectured at the University of Minnesota\, Colorado State University\, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)\, and numerous other colleges and universities across the US. Internationally\, she participated in a panel on collecting at Vienna Art Week in Austria and featured in a video interview with Joana P.R. Neves\, a London-based independent curator and Artistic Director of the Drawing Now Art Fair.\n\nThe collection has expanded considerably over a 20 year history. It offers the fullest expression of what a drawing can be while articulating the range of language employed by individual artists. JoAnn Gonzalez Hickey believes there is value in connecting with the artist in order to gain an understanding of the underlying forces central to the artist’s work. \n\nJoAnn currently resides in the mountains of Colorado. When she isn’t looking at art\, her time is spent enjoying other cultural arts activities\, fly fishing and two young grandchildren. \n\nAbout the Collection \nThe JoAnn Gonzalez Hickey Collection is a significant collection of unique contemporary works on paper by over 450 early to mid-career contemporary artists from around the world. While the collection can largely be characterized as abstract\, there are exceptions yielding to figuration and the narrative. Paper is the essential element of the collection. Ms. Gonzalez Hickey established SYZYGY\, a curatorial and study platform to promote a deeper understanding of the nature of works on paper. \n\nElizabeth Tenenbaum\nElizabeth Tenenbaum is an art advisor\, private curator\, collection manager and a qualified accredited USPAP appraiser who lives in Brooklyn\, New York. Elizabeth is also the Director of Syzygy\, a curatorial study platform focused on unique contemporary works on paper. Elizabeth attended Syracuse University\, graduating with a BFA in 1998. She received her Certificate from NYU in Appraisal Studies in Fine and Decorative Arts. Her career began at Art in General\, a nonprofit organization that assisted artists with the production and presentation of new work. She has been active in the New York City art world for over 25 years working with galleries\, assisting other artists in residency programs\, working as the art director for a nationwide publication and as the assistant director at an art foundation.\n\nIn 2013 she founded her art collection advisory and appraisal firm\, Art Wise\, Inc. She was a visiting critic in 2014 for ABUBUYA KM0 2014 an International Workshop involving visual artists\, cultural managers\, curators\, interacting with the moxeño community El Rosario in Beni – Bolivia\, accessible by the River Mamoré only\; in 2015 visiting critic at the Wassaic Project Residency in Amenia\, NY\; and in 2021 studio visits with NARS foundation residents. Her writing was published in the 2015 book Abubuya. She has presented and lectured about contemporary art collections to students in various Masters of Fine Arts Programs including: Sotheby’s Institute\, New York\; School of Visual Arts\; New York\, University of San Francisco\, CA\; Colorado State University\, Ft. Collins\, CO\; Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art\, Philadelphia\; and University of Minnesota\, Minneapolis\, MN. She lectures annually at Artist in the Marketplace\, at the Bronx Museum of Art.
UID:153793-21916346@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/153793
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20261021T094427
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261105T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261105T163000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Small Works: Prints & Book Objects from Detroit\, 2020–2026
DESCRIPTION:Small Works\nPrints & Book Objects from Detroit 2020–2026\n\nOctober 27 - November 19 \nPublic Reception: Friday\, November 13 from 4:30-6pm.\n\nSmall Works was a print shop ran by Li Chen & Gerald Schulze\, in Detroit\, MI\, from 2020–2026. Mariana Matos joined as the studio assistant\, and later studio manager\, in 2024. Over those six years\, the business grew from an extension of their design practice to a community space that hosts more than 70 classes a year\, open studio for the public\, and year long funded fellowships that investigate practice in art and design related to the Book Arts. In 2026\, they decided to expand community programming\, and to accommodate this expansion closed Small Works\, and formed Center for the Book Arts Detroit (BAD) which operates in the same space.\n\nThis exhibition is a eulogy for the former Small Works shop\, and a celebration of all the people who made work here. It also serves to show what is possible as a community\, when they share space and create work together. \n\nThe work featured is a collection of things printed by Small Works\, by their studiomates Diskette Press\, the publisher Maamoul Press\, and by the community that uses the space.
UID:152872-21914644@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152872
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Ann Arbor,Art,art and design,artists,artists and curators,arts,Arts And Ideas In The Humanities,arts at michigan,Arts Initiative,Book,book discussion,book event,Detroit,Exhibition,Michigan Arts,Michigan Arts Festival
LOCATION:East Quadrangle - RC Art Gallery
CONTACT:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20261012T121522
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261105T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261105T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Fore-Site (Phase 3): The Stamps Gallery Pillar Project
DESCRIPTION:\n\nFrom September 2025 through December 2026\, Stamps Gallery is partnering in a curatorial collaboration with two Southeast Michigan-based\, artist-run project spaces led by Stamps alumni: C.Y.N.K. Studios\, directed by Sally Clegg (Lecturer III and Student Exhibition Coordinator\, MFA ’20) and Abhishek Narula (MFA ’20)\; and Sometimes Space\, directed by Nathan Byrne (Lecturer I\, MFA ’21). Each space hosts dozens of artists annually for exhibitions\, performances\, and events\, fostering experimental work and building community. For this project\, Byrne\, Clegg\, and Narula have been commissioned to reimagine the pillars on Division Street that flank the gallery. In response\, they’ve curated six artists to create new work for the pillars over three cycles:\n\nPhase 1 (September 12 - December 12) artists: Amelia Burns (Cranbrook MFA ’23) and Erin McKenna (MFA ’20)\nPhase 2 (January 12 - August 12) artists: Sally Clegg (MFA ’20) and Kim Karlsrud (MFA ’20)\nPhase 3 (September 11 - December 11) artists: Abhishek Narula (MFA ’20) and Nathan Byrne (MFA ’21)\nPhase 3 \n\nCurated by Sometimes Space: Abhishek Narula (entry pillar)\nCurated by CYNK Studios: Nathan Byrne (courtyard pillar)\n\nArtist Statements/Bios\n\nAbhishek Narula\, Compressions \nCompressions is an installation comprised of 416 industrial-grade zip ties\, cinched around the entry pillar of the Stamps Gallery. The pillar measures roughly 110 inches in circumference\, requiring two ties per row to wrap around it\, resulting in 208 rows. The humble zip tie\, typically used to hang and bind other material\, is relegated to its functional properties rendering it unprepossessing and easily dismissed. The zip tie in this installation\, instead serves as an object of aesthetic possibility\, pulling it out of its usual background role to become the work itself. The resulting composition is a proposal to dwell\, to slow down\, and to simply see the pillar.\n\nAbhishek Narula is an artist\, designer\, and educator who works across sculpture\, installation\, sound\, and video. His practice takes the form of interventions\, working with what is already present. He reorients and disrupts objects and sites in order to open up formal possibilities and poetic experiences within the familiar. He is influenced by physical and digital infrastructural systems that sustain modern life and culture. His work treats this ambience itself as raw material for aesthetic inquiry\, exploring themes of labor\, precarity\, temporality and the sublime. Narula earned his MFA in Studio Art from the University of Michigan Stamps School of Art & Design and his MS/BS in Electrical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology. His work has been exhibited at national and international venues such as the Ammerman Center for Arts and Technology\, Science Gallery Detroit\, Speculum Artium Media Festival in Slovenia\, New Media Caucus (NMC)\, WaveFarm\, The Boulder Public Library\, The Hyde Park Art Center\, Sector 2337 Art Gallery & Printing Press\, Tangible Embedded Interaction (TEI)\, International Symposium of Electronic Arts (ISEA)\, among others. He is a Robotics Systems Designer and Lecturer in the Robotics Department at the University of Michigan. Website / Instagram\n\nNathan Byrne\, Equally To Be Loved\nEqually To Be Loved is an image / object scaled to and installed upon the courtyard pillar of Stamps Gallery. The image is of a spontaneous sculpture made in 2017 during the first day of an artist residency at the Recology San Francisco A.I.R. Program. The sculpture was constructed in a storage container studio using 14 discrete objects that were in his studio upon entry. For Byrne\, this work embodies the energy and spirit of a studio at the start of a particularly fecund period of making. This work speaks to the artist’s interest in embodied experience of space\, archival and site responsiveness\, as well as his ongoing engagement with found materials. Byrne considers this project to be a far-flung sequel to his MFA thesis exhibition Equally Empty\, which was shown at Stamps Gallery in 2021. Equally To Be Loved is the second line of the Buddhist mantra from which both titles are derived.\n\nNathan Byrne is an artist / educator / curator currently based in Detroit\, MI. Through spatial and archive responsive projects\, he reimagines\, and explores within frameworks such as language\, the passage of time\, and contemplation. Intrigued by the potential of conveying phenomenal\, transformative\, and emotive states through materiality\, process\, and placement\, he negotiates the pliability of the viewer’s encounters with objects and environments. Byrne holds an MFA in Art from the University of Michigan Stamps School of Art & Design and a BA in Studio Art and Art History from San Francisco State University. He has been a Lecturer at Stamps School of Art & Design since the Fall of 2022. His work is exhibited widely nationally and he is a recipient of the VSC Fellowship at Vermont Studio Center. He has been awarded numerous artist residencies including Anderson Ranch Arts Center\, I-Park\, KHN Center for the Arts\, Prairie Ronde\, Recology San Francisco A.I.R. Program\, and Rockland Woods. Website / Instagram
UID:138033-21881358@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138033
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260924T121524
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261105T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261105T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Cosmo Whyte: Under the Quiet\, Beyond the Eye
DESCRIPTION:\n\nCurated by Srimoyee Mitra\n\nStamps Gallery kicks off the fall 2026 semester with an ambitious mid-career survey of interdisciplinary artist Cosmo Whyte. Born and raised in Jamaica\, Whyte completed a BFA from Bennington College and earned an MFA from the University of Michigan. He is currently a faculty member at the School of the Arts and Architecture\, UCLA.\n\nThis exhibition brings together two central concerns that animate Whyte’s artistic practice: the archive\, both personal and public\, as a site of disturbance\; and migration as a lived experience of refuge\, refusal\, and reinvention. In Whyte’s work\, the archive is never static or neutral. Rather\, it is a contested space where official histories encounter memory\, inheritance\, and the fragments of stories carried across generations. His practice moves within this charged interstitial terrain\, between what has been recorded and what has been remembered\, between institutional knowledge and embodied experience. Whyte invites the viewer to consider the fluidity of geographic borders and layered cultural identities that have persisted despite societal unrest caused by racial and socio-economic hierarchies across generations. In an era of intensified border politics and renewed debates over national identity\, Whyte’s work offers a timely meditation on memory\, movement\, and belonging.\n\nPresented with support from the U-M Institute for Humanities\, the U-M LSA Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies\, and the U-M Library.
UID:149541-21906633@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149541
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260821T154423
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261105T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261105T190000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Penny Stamps Speaker Series - Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley
DESCRIPTION:\n\nDanielle Brathwaite-Shirley is a London- and Berlin-based artist and game designer whose practice prioritizes active engagement. Working predominantly in animation\, sound\, performance\, and video game development\, the artist’s practice focuses on intertwining lived experience with fiction to imaginatively retell and archive the stories of Black Trans people\, creating participatory spaces to envision more inclusive futures.\n\nTheir projects often take the form of immersive video games\, where players navigate choices that confront their assumptions and biases\, fostering deeper conversations about identity\, privilege\, and systemic oppression. Through their innovative use of digital media\, the artist not only preserves histories but also envisions inclusive futures where the voices of those that are often ignored or erased become central. Their work is both “archive and insurgency\,” a catalyst for dialogue\, inviting audiences to reflect on their roles within broader societal structures\n\nDanielle Brathwaite-Shirley has presented solo exhibitions at Serpentine North\, London (2025)\; LAS Foundation\, Halle am Berghain\, Berlin (2024)\; Fundació Joan Miró\, Barcelona (2024)\; Studio Voltaire\, London (2024)\; Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève (2024)\; SCAD Museum of Art\, Savannah (2023)\; Villa Arson\, Nice (2023)\; HAU Hebbel am Ufer\, Berlin (2023)\; FACT\, Liverpool (2022)\; Project Arts Centre\, Dublin (2022)\; Skänes konstförening\, Malmö (2022)\; Arebyte Gallery\, London (2021)\; QUAD\, Derby (2021)\; and Focal Point Gallery\, Southend-on-Sea (2020). Their work has been included in group exhibitions at institutions such as Art Museum at the University of Toronto (2024)\; National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Seoul (2023)\; Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art\, New York (2023)\; Das Centre Pompidou\, Metz (2023)\; Julia Stoschek Foundation\, Berlin (2022)\; Albright-Knox Art Gallery\, Buffalo (2021)\; Les Urbaines\, Lausanne (2019)\; and Barbican\, London (2018). Their work has been the subject of screenings and performances at institutions including Tate Modern\, London (2024\, 2020)\; MoMA\, New York (2023)\; DePaul Art Museum\, Chicago (2023)\; Serpentine\, London (2022)\; Spike Island\, Bristol (2022)\; and South London Gallery (2022). Permanent collections include the Arts Council Collection (UK) and Victoria and Albert Museum (London).\n\nWith support from Design Core Detroit and Detroit Unesco City of Design.\n\nSeries presenting partners: Detroit PBS\, ALL ARTS\, and PBS Books. Media partner: Michigan Public.\n
UID:150484-21909507@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150484
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art,Design,Detroit Art,Installation
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20261021T094427
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261106T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261106T163000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Small Works: Prints & Book Objects from Detroit\, 2020–2026
DESCRIPTION:Small Works\nPrints & Book Objects from Detroit 2020–2026\n\nOctober 27 - November 19 \nPublic Reception: Friday\, November 13 from 4:30-6pm.\n\nSmall Works was a print shop ran by Li Chen & Gerald Schulze\, in Detroit\, MI\, from 2020–2026. Mariana Matos joined as the studio assistant\, and later studio manager\, in 2024. Over those six years\, the business grew from an extension of their design practice to a community space that hosts more than 70 classes a year\, open studio for the public\, and year long funded fellowships that investigate practice in art and design related to the Book Arts. In 2026\, they decided to expand community programming\, and to accommodate this expansion closed Small Works\, and formed Center for the Book Arts Detroit (BAD) which operates in the same space.\n\nThis exhibition is a eulogy for the former Small Works shop\, and a celebration of all the people who made work here. It also serves to show what is possible as a community\, when they share space and create work together. \n\nThe work featured is a collection of things printed by Small Works\, by their studiomates Diskette Press\, the publisher Maamoul Press\, and by the community that uses the space.
UID:152872-21914645@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152872
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Ann Arbor,Art,art and design,artists,artists and curators,arts,Arts And Ideas In The Humanities,arts at michigan,Arts Initiative,Book,book discussion,book event,Detroit,Exhibition,Michigan Arts,Michigan Arts Festival
LOCATION:East Quadrangle - RC Art Gallery
CONTACT:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20261012T121522
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261106T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261106T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Fore-Site (Phase 3): The Stamps Gallery Pillar Project
DESCRIPTION:\n\nFrom September 2025 through December 2026\, Stamps Gallery is partnering in a curatorial collaboration with two Southeast Michigan-based\, artist-run project spaces led by Stamps alumni: C.Y.N.K. Studios\, directed by Sally Clegg (Lecturer III and Student Exhibition Coordinator\, MFA ’20) and Abhishek Narula (MFA ’20)\; and Sometimes Space\, directed by Nathan Byrne (Lecturer I\, MFA ’21). Each space hosts dozens of artists annually for exhibitions\, performances\, and events\, fostering experimental work and building community. For this project\, Byrne\, Clegg\, and Narula have been commissioned to reimagine the pillars on Division Street that flank the gallery. In response\, they’ve curated six artists to create new work for the pillars over three cycles:\n\nPhase 1 (September 12 - December 12) artists: Amelia Burns (Cranbrook MFA ’23) and Erin McKenna (MFA ’20)\nPhase 2 (January 12 - August 12) artists: Sally Clegg (MFA ’20) and Kim Karlsrud (MFA ’20)\nPhase 3 (September 11 - December 11) artists: Abhishek Narula (MFA ’20) and Nathan Byrne (MFA ’21)\nPhase 3 \n\nCurated by Sometimes Space: Abhishek Narula (entry pillar)\nCurated by CYNK Studios: Nathan Byrne (courtyard pillar)\n\nArtist Statements/Bios\n\nAbhishek Narula\, Compressions \nCompressions is an installation comprised of 416 industrial-grade zip ties\, cinched around the entry pillar of the Stamps Gallery. The pillar measures roughly 110 inches in circumference\, requiring two ties per row to wrap around it\, resulting in 208 rows. The humble zip tie\, typically used to hang and bind other material\, is relegated to its functional properties rendering it unprepossessing and easily dismissed. The zip tie in this installation\, instead serves as an object of aesthetic possibility\, pulling it out of its usual background role to become the work itself. The resulting composition is a proposal to dwell\, to slow down\, and to simply see the pillar.\n\nAbhishek Narula is an artist\, designer\, and educator who works across sculpture\, installation\, sound\, and video. His practice takes the form of interventions\, working with what is already present. He reorients and disrupts objects and sites in order to open up formal possibilities and poetic experiences within the familiar. He is influenced by physical and digital infrastructural systems that sustain modern life and culture. His work treats this ambience itself as raw material for aesthetic inquiry\, exploring themes of labor\, precarity\, temporality and the sublime. Narula earned his MFA in Studio Art from the University of Michigan Stamps School of Art & Design and his MS/BS in Electrical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology. His work has been exhibited at national and international venues such as the Ammerman Center for Arts and Technology\, Science Gallery Detroit\, Speculum Artium Media Festival in Slovenia\, New Media Caucus (NMC)\, WaveFarm\, The Boulder Public Library\, The Hyde Park Art Center\, Sector 2337 Art Gallery & Printing Press\, Tangible Embedded Interaction (TEI)\, International Symposium of Electronic Arts (ISEA)\, among others. He is a Robotics Systems Designer and Lecturer in the Robotics Department at the University of Michigan. Website / Instagram\n\nNathan Byrne\, Equally To Be Loved\nEqually To Be Loved is an image / object scaled to and installed upon the courtyard pillar of Stamps Gallery. The image is of a spontaneous sculpture made in 2017 during the first day of an artist residency at the Recology San Francisco A.I.R. Program. The sculpture was constructed in a storage container studio using 14 discrete objects that were in his studio upon entry. For Byrne\, this work embodies the energy and spirit of a studio at the start of a particularly fecund period of making. This work speaks to the artist’s interest in embodied experience of space\, archival and site responsiveness\, as well as his ongoing engagement with found materials. Byrne considers this project to be a far-flung sequel to his MFA thesis exhibition Equally Empty\, which was shown at Stamps Gallery in 2021. Equally To Be Loved is the second line of the Buddhist mantra from which both titles are derived.\n\nNathan Byrne is an artist / educator / curator currently based in Detroit\, MI. Through spatial and archive responsive projects\, he reimagines\, and explores within frameworks such as language\, the passage of time\, and contemplation. Intrigued by the potential of conveying phenomenal\, transformative\, and emotive states through materiality\, process\, and placement\, he negotiates the pliability of the viewer’s encounters with objects and environments. Byrne holds an MFA in Art from the University of Michigan Stamps School of Art & Design and a BA in Studio Art and Art History from San Francisco State University. He has been a Lecturer at Stamps School of Art & Design since the Fall of 2022. His work is exhibited widely nationally and he is a recipient of the VSC Fellowship at Vermont Studio Center. He has been awarded numerous artist residencies including Anderson Ranch Arts Center\, I-Park\, KHN Center for the Arts\, Prairie Ronde\, Recology San Francisco A.I.R. Program\, and Rockland Woods. Website / Instagram
UID:138033-21881359@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138033
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260924T121524
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261106T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261106T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Cosmo Whyte: Under the Quiet\, Beyond the Eye
DESCRIPTION:\n\nCurated by Srimoyee Mitra\n\nStamps Gallery kicks off the fall 2026 semester with an ambitious mid-career survey of interdisciplinary artist Cosmo Whyte. Born and raised in Jamaica\, Whyte completed a BFA from Bennington College and earned an MFA from the University of Michigan. He is currently a faculty member at the School of the Arts and Architecture\, UCLA.\n\nThis exhibition brings together two central concerns that animate Whyte’s artistic practice: the archive\, both personal and public\, as a site of disturbance\; and migration as a lived experience of refuge\, refusal\, and reinvention. In Whyte’s work\, the archive is never static or neutral. Rather\, it is a contested space where official histories encounter memory\, inheritance\, and the fragments of stories carried across generations. His practice moves within this charged interstitial terrain\, between what has been recorded and what has been remembered\, between institutional knowledge and embodied experience. Whyte invites the viewer to consider the fluidity of geographic borders and layered cultural identities that have persisted despite societal unrest caused by racial and socio-economic hierarchies across generations. In an era of intensified border politics and renewed debates over national identity\, Whyte’s work offers a timely meditation on memory\, movement\, and belonging.\n\nPresented with support from the U-M Institute for Humanities\, the U-M LSA Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies\, and the U-M Library.
UID:149541-21906634@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149541
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260817T121518
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261106T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261106T200000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Queer Art Showcase
DESCRIPTION:\n\nCalling all U-M student artists: submit your artwork in celebration of queer and trans experiences! Selected work will be featured in the Queer Art Showcase on Friday\, November 6\, from 6-8 p.m. at Stamps Gallery.\n\n\nStudents of all genders and sexualities are welcome to submit. Submissions close on Wednesday\, September 23\, 2026 at 11:59 p.m. Click here for more information and to submit your artwork.\n\nQueer Art Showcase and Panel Discussion\n\nFriday\, November 6\, 6-8 p.m. at Stamps Gallery\n\nJoin Spectrum Center Programming Board and Stamps Gallery for an incredible showcase of queer and trans art from U-M students of all genders and sexualities. Enjoy a variety of mediums showcasing queer joy while engaging in a panel discussion with the artists. Light refreshments will be provided.\n\nThis event is open to all members of the U-M community. Presented in partnership with the U-M Spectrum Center.\n
UID:150346-21909064@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150346
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260820T181528
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261107T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261107T140000
SUMMARY:Other:National Portfolio Day - Online
DESCRIPTION:\n\nExplore the nation’s best col­leges of art and design and meet with Stamps Admissions rep­re­sen­ta­tives\, who can pro­vide informal port­fo­lio reviews\, dis­cuss our unique cur­ricu­lum\, and answer ques­tions about pro­fes­sional careers in art. Show­ing your work early can help you acquire impor­tant infor­ma­tion about orga­niz­ing and pre­sent­ing your port­fo­lio for future admis­sion con­sid­er­a­tion. High school stu­dents\, par­ents\, teach­ers\, guid­ance coun­selors\, and col­lege trans­fer stu­dents are encour­aged to attend. All National Portfolio Day events are free and open to the public.\n\nAll in-person event times are listed according to the event’s local time and all virtual events are listed in Eastern Time. Please be sure to check the equivalent time in your local time zone\, and register through the official National Portfolio Day website.
UID:150664-21909867@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150664
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20261012T121522
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261107T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261107T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Fore-Site (Phase 3): The Stamps Gallery Pillar Project
DESCRIPTION:\n\nFrom September 2025 through December 2026\, Stamps Gallery is partnering in a curatorial collaboration with two Southeast Michigan-based\, artist-run project spaces led by Stamps alumni: C.Y.N.K. Studios\, directed by Sally Clegg (Lecturer III and Student Exhibition Coordinator\, MFA ’20) and Abhishek Narula (MFA ’20)\; and Sometimes Space\, directed by Nathan Byrne (Lecturer I\, MFA ’21). Each space hosts dozens of artists annually for exhibitions\, performances\, and events\, fostering experimental work and building community. For this project\, Byrne\, Clegg\, and Narula have been commissioned to reimagine the pillars on Division Street that flank the gallery. In response\, they’ve curated six artists to create new work for the pillars over three cycles:\n\nPhase 1 (September 12 - December 12) artists: Amelia Burns (Cranbrook MFA ’23) and Erin McKenna (MFA ’20)\nPhase 2 (January 12 - August 12) artists: Sally Clegg (MFA ’20) and Kim Karlsrud (MFA ’20)\nPhase 3 (September 11 - December 11) artists: Abhishek Narula (MFA ’20) and Nathan Byrne (MFA ’21)\nPhase 3 \n\nCurated by Sometimes Space: Abhishek Narula (entry pillar)\nCurated by CYNK Studios: Nathan Byrne (courtyard pillar)\n\nArtist Statements/Bios\n\nAbhishek Narula\, Compressions \nCompressions is an installation comprised of 416 industrial-grade zip ties\, cinched around the entry pillar of the Stamps Gallery. The pillar measures roughly 110 inches in circumference\, requiring two ties per row to wrap around it\, resulting in 208 rows. The humble zip tie\, typically used to hang and bind other material\, is relegated to its functional properties rendering it unprepossessing and easily dismissed. The zip tie in this installation\, instead serves as an object of aesthetic possibility\, pulling it out of its usual background role to become the work itself. The resulting composition is a proposal to dwell\, to slow down\, and to simply see the pillar.\n\nAbhishek Narula is an artist\, designer\, and educator who works across sculpture\, installation\, sound\, and video. His practice takes the form of interventions\, working with what is already present. He reorients and disrupts objects and sites in order to open up formal possibilities and poetic experiences within the familiar. He is influenced by physical and digital infrastructural systems that sustain modern life and culture. His work treats this ambience itself as raw material for aesthetic inquiry\, exploring themes of labor\, precarity\, temporality and the sublime. Narula earned his MFA in Studio Art from the University of Michigan Stamps School of Art & Design and his MS/BS in Electrical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology. His work has been exhibited at national and international venues such as the Ammerman Center for Arts and Technology\, Science Gallery Detroit\, Speculum Artium Media Festival in Slovenia\, New Media Caucus (NMC)\, WaveFarm\, The Boulder Public Library\, The Hyde Park Art Center\, Sector 2337 Art Gallery & Printing Press\, Tangible Embedded Interaction (TEI)\, International Symposium of Electronic Arts (ISEA)\, among others. He is a Robotics Systems Designer and Lecturer in the Robotics Department at the University of Michigan. Website / Instagram\n\nNathan Byrne\, Equally To Be Loved\nEqually To Be Loved is an image / object scaled to and installed upon the courtyard pillar of Stamps Gallery. The image is of a spontaneous sculpture made in 2017 during the first day of an artist residency at the Recology San Francisco A.I.R. Program. The sculpture was constructed in a storage container studio using 14 discrete objects that were in his studio upon entry. For Byrne\, this work embodies the energy and spirit of a studio at the start of a particularly fecund period of making. This work speaks to the artist’s interest in embodied experience of space\, archival and site responsiveness\, as well as his ongoing engagement with found materials. Byrne considers this project to be a far-flung sequel to his MFA thesis exhibition Equally Empty\, which was shown at Stamps Gallery in 2021. Equally To Be Loved is the second line of the Buddhist mantra from which both titles are derived.\n\nNathan Byrne is an artist / educator / curator currently based in Detroit\, MI. Through spatial and archive responsive projects\, he reimagines\, and explores within frameworks such as language\, the passage of time\, and contemplation. Intrigued by the potential of conveying phenomenal\, transformative\, and emotive states through materiality\, process\, and placement\, he negotiates the pliability of the viewer’s encounters with objects and environments. Byrne holds an MFA in Art from the University of Michigan Stamps School of Art & Design and a BA in Studio Art and Art History from San Francisco State University. He has been a Lecturer at Stamps School of Art & Design since the Fall of 2022. His work is exhibited widely nationally and he is a recipient of the VSC Fellowship at Vermont Studio Center. He has been awarded numerous artist residencies including Anderson Ranch Arts Center\, I-Park\, KHN Center for the Arts\, Prairie Ronde\, Recology San Francisco A.I.R. Program\, and Rockland Woods. Website / Instagram
UID:138033-21881360@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138033
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260924T121524
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261107T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261107T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Cosmo Whyte: Under the Quiet\, Beyond the Eye
DESCRIPTION:\n\nCurated by Srimoyee Mitra\n\nStamps Gallery kicks off the fall 2026 semester with an ambitious mid-career survey of interdisciplinary artist Cosmo Whyte. Born and raised in Jamaica\, Whyte completed a BFA from Bennington College and earned an MFA from the University of Michigan. He is currently a faculty member at the School of the Arts and Architecture\, UCLA.\n\nThis exhibition brings together two central concerns that animate Whyte’s artistic practice: the archive\, both personal and public\, as a site of disturbance\; and migration as a lived experience of refuge\, refusal\, and reinvention. In Whyte’s work\, the archive is never static or neutral. Rather\, it is a contested space where official histories encounter memory\, inheritance\, and the fragments of stories carried across generations. His practice moves within this charged interstitial terrain\, between what has been recorded and what has been remembered\, between institutional knowledge and embodied experience. Whyte invites the viewer to consider the fluidity of geographic borders and layered cultural identities that have persisted despite societal unrest caused by racial and socio-economic hierarchies across generations. In an era of intensified border politics and renewed debates over national identity\, Whyte’s work offers a timely meditation on memory\, movement\, and belonging.\n\nPresented with support from the U-M Institute for Humanities\, the U-M LSA Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies\, and the U-M Library.
UID:149541-21906635@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149541
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20261009T121524
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261107T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261107T160000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Carried Images: Photobooks\, Archives\, and Memory
DESCRIPTION:\n\nLed by Stamps MFA candidate William Hohe and inspired by Cosmo Whyte’s exhibition Under the Quiet\, Beyond the Eye\, this workshop asks how the photographs we keep\, inherit\, and carry with us become stories about where we come from. Participants will move through a rotating book circle\, sharing photobooks and personal images in small conversations about memory\, place\, and belonging. Everyone will then build their own eight page mini photobook\, layering photographs with translucent sheets to create a personal archive to take home. No photography experience is needed\; just bring your curiosity and\, if you like\, a few printed photos that matter to you.\n\nMore about the artist:\n\nWilliam Hohe is a photographer and installation artist from Glen Ellyn\, Illinois\, now based in Michigan. They are an MFA candidate in Visual Arts at the Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design at the University of Michigan\, where they also serve as Instructor of Record for Digital Photography for Non Majors. Hohe holds a BFA in Photography and a BS in Advertising from the University of Illinois (UIUC).\n\nHohe combines photography\, performance\, assemblage\, and found and inherited archives to examine identity\, family\, and queer space. Working within a framework they call Existential Maximalism\, that ask: as queer people\, what does it mean to exist within spaces that are continually contested\, politicized\, and transformed between the expected and the imagined? Their work has been exhibited in Momentum\, the Society for Photographic Education Midwest exhibition\, and in DIFFA Chicago’s Three for Life 2026. They are the coauthor\, with designer Charlotte Watson\, of the independently published photobook INTERSTATES (2025). Their photobook In An Erotic City\, made in Berlin\, is forthcoming in winter 2026\, and their thesis project Father Figure[d] opens at the University of Michigan in March 2027. Hohe works professionally as WILLIAMSLENSES. Learn more about William Hohe’s work.
UID:150347-21909065@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150347
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20261021T092213
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261107T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261107T153000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Be Curious: Making Art with Stamps MFAs - Carried Images: Photobooks\, Archives\, and Memory
DESCRIPTION:Inspired by Cosmo Whyte's exhibition Under the Quiet\, Beyond the Eye\, this workshop asks how the photographs we keep\, inherit\, and carry with us become stories about where we come from. Participants will move through a rotating book circle\, sharing photobooks and personal images in small conversations about memory\, place\, and belonging. Everyone will then build their own eight-page mini photobook\, layering photographs with translucent sheets to create a personal archive to take home. No photography experience is needed\; just bring your curiosity and\, if you like\, a few printed photos that matter to you.\n\n\nArtist Bio\n\nWilliam Hohe is a photographer and installation artist from Glen Ellyn\, Illinois\, now based in Michigan. They are an MFA candidate in Visual Arts at the Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design at the University of Michigan\, where they also serve as Instructor of Record for Digital Photography for Non Majors. Hohe holds a BFA in Photography and a BS in Advertising from the University of Illinois (UIUC).\n\nHohe combines photography\, performance\, assemblage\, and found and inherited archives to examine identity\, family\, and queer space. Working within a framework they call Existential Maximalism\, that ask: as queer people\, what does it mean to exist within spaces that are continually contested\, politicized\, and transformed between the expected and the imagined? Their work has been exhibited in Momentum\, the Society for Photographic Education Midwest exhibition\, and in DIFFA Chicago's Three for Life 2026. They are the coauthor\, with designer Charlotte Watson\, of the independently published photobook INTERSTATES (2025). Their photobook In An Erotic City\, made in Berlin\, is forthcoming in winter 2026\, and their thesis project Father Figure[d] opens at the University of Michigan in March 2027. Hohe works professionally as WILLIAMSLENSES.
UID:153905-21916615@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/153905
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Ann Arbor,Archives,Art,art and design,Art Workshop,arts,Arts For All,Arts Initiative,Artsrx,Photography,Stamps School Of Art And Design
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260819T181522
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261108T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261108T160000
SUMMARY:Other:Graduate Portfolio Day - New York\, NY
DESCRIPTION:\n\nProspective graduate students: Join us for an in-person Graduate National Portfolio Day event on Sunday\, November 8! You’ll meet one-on-one with a Stamps representative and receive valuable feedback and guidance on your portfolio prior to submitting your application.\n\nNational Portfolio Day events are free for students to attend from anywhere around the world. Meet with counselors\, admission team members\, and faculty from accredited art and design schools across the nation for free portfolio reviews.\n\nNovember 8\, 2026\, 12-4 pm EDT\nParsons School of Design\, The New School\n63 5th Ave\, New York\, NY\, 10003\n
UID:150571-21909643@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150571
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20261021T094427
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261109T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261109T163000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Small Works: Prints & Book Objects from Detroit\, 2020–2026
DESCRIPTION:Small Works\nPrints & Book Objects from Detroit 2020–2026\n\nOctober 27 - November 19 \nPublic Reception: Friday\, November 13 from 4:30-6pm.\n\nSmall Works was a print shop ran by Li Chen & Gerald Schulze\, in Detroit\, MI\, from 2020–2026. Mariana Matos joined as the studio assistant\, and later studio manager\, in 2024. Over those six years\, the business grew from an extension of their design practice to a community space that hosts more than 70 classes a year\, open studio for the public\, and year long funded fellowships that investigate practice in art and design related to the Book Arts. In 2026\, they decided to expand community programming\, and to accommodate this expansion closed Small Works\, and formed Center for the Book Arts Detroit (BAD) which operates in the same space.\n\nThis exhibition is a eulogy for the former Small Works shop\, and a celebration of all the people who made work here. It also serves to show what is possible as a community\, when they share space and create work together. \n\nThe work featured is a collection of things printed by Small Works\, by their studiomates Diskette Press\, the publisher Maamoul Press\, and by the community that uses the space.
UID:152872-21914648@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152872
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Ann Arbor,Art,art and design,artists,artists and curators,arts,Arts And Ideas In The Humanities,arts at michigan,Arts Initiative,Book,book discussion,book event,Detroit,Exhibition,Michigan Arts,Michigan Arts Festival
LOCATION:East Quadrangle - RC Art Gallery
CONTACT:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20261021T094427
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261110T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261110T163000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Small Works: Prints & Book Objects from Detroit\, 2020–2026
DESCRIPTION:Small Works\nPrints & Book Objects from Detroit 2020–2026\n\nOctober 27 - November 19 \nPublic Reception: Friday\, November 13 from 4:30-6pm.\n\nSmall Works was a print shop ran by Li Chen & Gerald Schulze\, in Detroit\, MI\, from 2020–2026. Mariana Matos joined as the studio assistant\, and later studio manager\, in 2024. Over those six years\, the business grew from an extension of their design practice to a community space that hosts more than 70 classes a year\, open studio for the public\, and year long funded fellowships that investigate practice in art and design related to the Book Arts. In 2026\, they decided to expand community programming\, and to accommodate this expansion closed Small Works\, and formed Center for the Book Arts Detroit (BAD) which operates in the same space.\n\nThis exhibition is a eulogy for the former Small Works shop\, and a celebration of all the people who made work here. It also serves to show what is possible as a community\, when they share space and create work together. \n\nThe work featured is a collection of things printed by Small Works\, by their studiomates Diskette Press\, the publisher Maamoul Press\, and by the community that uses the space.
UID:152872-21914649@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152872
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Ann Arbor,Art,art and design,artists,artists and curators,arts,Arts And Ideas In The Humanities,arts at michigan,Arts Initiative,Book,book discussion,book event,Detroit,Exhibition,Michigan Arts,Michigan Arts Festival
LOCATION:East Quadrangle - RC Art Gallery
CONTACT:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260924T121524
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261110T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261110T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Cosmo Whyte: Under the Quiet\, Beyond the Eye
DESCRIPTION:\n\nCurated by Srimoyee Mitra\n\nStamps Gallery kicks off the fall 2026 semester with an ambitious mid-career survey of interdisciplinary artist Cosmo Whyte. Born and raised in Jamaica\, Whyte completed a BFA from Bennington College and earned an MFA from the University of Michigan. He is currently a faculty member at the School of the Arts and Architecture\, UCLA.\n\nThis exhibition brings together two central concerns that animate Whyte’s artistic practice: the archive\, both personal and public\, as a site of disturbance\; and migration as a lived experience of refuge\, refusal\, and reinvention. In Whyte’s work\, the archive is never static or neutral. Rather\, it is a contested space where official histories encounter memory\, inheritance\, and the fragments of stories carried across generations. His practice moves within this charged interstitial terrain\, between what has been recorded and what has been remembered\, between institutional knowledge and embodied experience. Whyte invites the viewer to consider the fluidity of geographic borders and layered cultural identities that have persisted despite societal unrest caused by racial and socio-economic hierarchies across generations. In an era of intensified border politics and renewed debates over national identity\, Whyte’s work offers a timely meditation on memory\, movement\, and belonging.\n\nPresented with support from the U-M Institute for Humanities\, the U-M LSA Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies\, and the U-M Library.
UID:149541-21906636@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149541
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20261021T094427
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261111T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261111T163000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Small Works: Prints & Book Objects from Detroit\, 2020–2026
DESCRIPTION:Small Works\nPrints & Book Objects from Detroit 2020–2026\n\nOctober 27 - November 19 \nPublic Reception: Friday\, November 13 from 4:30-6pm.\n\nSmall Works was a print shop ran by Li Chen & Gerald Schulze\, in Detroit\, MI\, from 2020–2026. Mariana Matos joined as the studio assistant\, and later studio manager\, in 2024. Over those six years\, the business grew from an extension of their design practice to a community space that hosts more than 70 classes a year\, open studio for the public\, and year long funded fellowships that investigate practice in art and design related to the Book Arts. In 2026\, they decided to expand community programming\, and to accommodate this expansion closed Small Works\, and formed Center for the Book Arts Detroit (BAD) which operates in the same space.\n\nThis exhibition is a eulogy for the former Small Works shop\, and a celebration of all the people who made work here. It also serves to show what is possible as a community\, when they share space and create work together. \n\nThe work featured is a collection of things printed by Small Works\, by their studiomates Diskette Press\, the publisher Maamoul Press\, and by the community that uses the space.
UID:152872-21914650@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152872
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Ann Arbor,Art,art and design,artists,artists and curators,arts,Arts And Ideas In The Humanities,arts at michigan,Arts Initiative,Book,book discussion,book event,Detroit,Exhibition,Michigan Arts,Michigan Arts Festival
LOCATION:East Quadrangle - RC Art Gallery
CONTACT:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20261012T121522
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261111T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261111T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Fore-Site (Phase 3): The Stamps Gallery Pillar Project
DESCRIPTION:\n\nFrom September 2025 through December 2026\, Stamps Gallery is partnering in a curatorial collaboration with two Southeast Michigan-based\, artist-run project spaces led by Stamps alumni: C.Y.N.K. Studios\, directed by Sally Clegg (Lecturer III and Student Exhibition Coordinator\, MFA ’20) and Abhishek Narula (MFA ’20)\; and Sometimes Space\, directed by Nathan Byrne (Lecturer I\, MFA ’21). Each space hosts dozens of artists annually for exhibitions\, performances\, and events\, fostering experimental work and building community. For this project\, Byrne\, Clegg\, and Narula have been commissioned to reimagine the pillars on Division Street that flank the gallery. In response\, they’ve curated six artists to create new work for the pillars over three cycles:\n\nPhase 1 (September 12 - December 12) artists: Amelia Burns (Cranbrook MFA ’23) and Erin McKenna (MFA ’20)\nPhase 2 (January 12 - August 12) artists: Sally Clegg (MFA ’20) and Kim Karlsrud (MFA ’20)\nPhase 3 (September 11 - December 11) artists: Abhishek Narula (MFA ’20) and Nathan Byrne (MFA ’21)\nPhase 3 \n\nCurated by Sometimes Space: Abhishek Narula (entry pillar)\nCurated by CYNK Studios: Nathan Byrne (courtyard pillar)\n\nArtist Statements/Bios\n\nAbhishek Narula\, Compressions \nCompressions is an installation comprised of 416 industrial-grade zip ties\, cinched around the entry pillar of the Stamps Gallery. The pillar measures roughly 110 inches in circumference\, requiring two ties per row to wrap around it\, resulting in 208 rows. The humble zip tie\, typically used to hang and bind other material\, is relegated to its functional properties rendering it unprepossessing and easily dismissed. The zip tie in this installation\, instead serves as an object of aesthetic possibility\, pulling it out of its usual background role to become the work itself. The resulting composition is a proposal to dwell\, to slow down\, and to simply see the pillar.\n\nAbhishek Narula is an artist\, designer\, and educator who works across sculpture\, installation\, sound\, and video. His practice takes the form of interventions\, working with what is already present. He reorients and disrupts objects and sites in order to open up formal possibilities and poetic experiences within the familiar. He is influenced by physical and digital infrastructural systems that sustain modern life and culture. His work treats this ambience itself as raw material for aesthetic inquiry\, exploring themes of labor\, precarity\, temporality and the sublime. Narula earned his MFA in Studio Art from the University of Michigan Stamps School of Art & Design and his MS/BS in Electrical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology. His work has been exhibited at national and international venues such as the Ammerman Center for Arts and Technology\, Science Gallery Detroit\, Speculum Artium Media Festival in Slovenia\, New Media Caucus (NMC)\, WaveFarm\, The Boulder Public Library\, The Hyde Park Art Center\, Sector 2337 Art Gallery & Printing Press\, Tangible Embedded Interaction (TEI)\, International Symposium of Electronic Arts (ISEA)\, among others. He is a Robotics Systems Designer and Lecturer in the Robotics Department at the University of Michigan. Website / Instagram\n\nNathan Byrne\, Equally To Be Loved\nEqually To Be Loved is an image / object scaled to and installed upon the courtyard pillar of Stamps Gallery. The image is of a spontaneous sculpture made in 2017 during the first day of an artist residency at the Recology San Francisco A.I.R. Program. The sculpture was constructed in a storage container studio using 14 discrete objects that were in his studio upon entry. For Byrne\, this work embodies the energy and spirit of a studio at the start of a particularly fecund period of making. This work speaks to the artist’s interest in embodied experience of space\, archival and site responsiveness\, as well as his ongoing engagement with found materials. Byrne considers this project to be a far-flung sequel to his MFA thesis exhibition Equally Empty\, which was shown at Stamps Gallery in 2021. Equally To Be Loved is the second line of the Buddhist mantra from which both titles are derived.\n\nNathan Byrne is an artist / educator / curator currently based in Detroit\, MI. Through spatial and archive responsive projects\, he reimagines\, and explores within frameworks such as language\, the passage of time\, and contemplation. Intrigued by the potential of conveying phenomenal\, transformative\, and emotive states through materiality\, process\, and placement\, he negotiates the pliability of the viewer’s encounters with objects and environments. Byrne holds an MFA in Art from the University of Michigan Stamps School of Art & Design and a BA in Studio Art and Art History from San Francisco State University. He has been a Lecturer at Stamps School of Art & Design since the Fall of 2022. His work is exhibited widely nationally and he is a recipient of the VSC Fellowship at Vermont Studio Center. He has been awarded numerous artist residencies including Anderson Ranch Arts Center\, I-Park\, KHN Center for the Arts\, Prairie Ronde\, Recology San Francisco A.I.R. Program\, and Rockland Woods. Website / Instagram
UID:138033-21881361@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138033
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260924T121524
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261111T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261111T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Cosmo Whyte: Under the Quiet\, Beyond the Eye
DESCRIPTION:\n\nCurated by Srimoyee Mitra\n\nStamps Gallery kicks off the fall 2026 semester with an ambitious mid-career survey of interdisciplinary artist Cosmo Whyte. Born and raised in Jamaica\, Whyte completed a BFA from Bennington College and earned an MFA from the University of Michigan. He is currently a faculty member at the School of the Arts and Architecture\, UCLA.\n\nThis exhibition brings together two central concerns that animate Whyte’s artistic practice: the archive\, both personal and public\, as a site of disturbance\; and migration as a lived experience of refuge\, refusal\, and reinvention. In Whyte’s work\, the archive is never static or neutral. Rather\, it is a contested space where official histories encounter memory\, inheritance\, and the fragments of stories carried across generations. His practice moves within this charged interstitial terrain\, between what has been recorded and what has been remembered\, between institutional knowledge and embodied experience. Whyte invites the viewer to consider the fluidity of geographic borders and layered cultural identities that have persisted despite societal unrest caused by racial and socio-economic hierarchies across generations. In an era of intensified border politics and renewed debates over national identity\, Whyte’s work offers a timely meditation on memory\, movement\, and belonging.\n\nPresented with support from the U-M Institute for Humanities\, the U-M LSA Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies\, and the U-M Library.
UID:149541-21906637@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149541
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20261021T094427
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261112T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261112T163000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Small Works: Prints & Book Objects from Detroit\, 2020–2026
DESCRIPTION:Small Works\nPrints & Book Objects from Detroit 2020–2026\n\nOctober 27 - November 19 \nPublic Reception: Friday\, November 13 from 4:30-6pm.\n\nSmall Works was a print shop ran by Li Chen & Gerald Schulze\, in Detroit\, MI\, from 2020–2026. Mariana Matos joined as the studio assistant\, and later studio manager\, in 2024. Over those six years\, the business grew from an extension of their design practice to a community space that hosts more than 70 classes a year\, open studio for the public\, and year long funded fellowships that investigate practice in art and design related to the Book Arts. In 2026\, they decided to expand community programming\, and to accommodate this expansion closed Small Works\, and formed Center for the Book Arts Detroit (BAD) which operates in the same space.\n\nThis exhibition is a eulogy for the former Small Works shop\, and a celebration of all the people who made work here. It also serves to show what is possible as a community\, when they share space and create work together. \n\nThe work featured is a collection of things printed by Small Works\, by their studiomates Diskette Press\, the publisher Maamoul Press\, and by the community that uses the space.
UID:152872-21914651@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152872
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Ann Arbor,Art,art and design,artists,artists and curators,arts,Arts And Ideas In The Humanities,arts at michigan,Arts Initiative,Book,book discussion,book event,Detroit,Exhibition,Michigan Arts,Michigan Arts Festival
LOCATION:East Quadrangle - RC Art Gallery
CONTACT:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20261012T121522
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261112T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261112T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Fore-Site (Phase 3): The Stamps Gallery Pillar Project
DESCRIPTION:\n\nFrom September 2025 through December 2026\, Stamps Gallery is partnering in a curatorial collaboration with two Southeast Michigan-based\, artist-run project spaces led by Stamps alumni: C.Y.N.K. Studios\, directed by Sally Clegg (Lecturer III and Student Exhibition Coordinator\, MFA ’20) and Abhishek Narula (MFA ’20)\; and Sometimes Space\, directed by Nathan Byrne (Lecturer I\, MFA ’21). Each space hosts dozens of artists annually for exhibitions\, performances\, and events\, fostering experimental work and building community. For this project\, Byrne\, Clegg\, and Narula have been commissioned to reimagine the pillars on Division Street that flank the gallery. In response\, they’ve curated six artists to create new work for the pillars over three cycles:\n\nPhase 1 (September 12 - December 12) artists: Amelia Burns (Cranbrook MFA ’23) and Erin McKenna (MFA ’20)\nPhase 2 (January 12 - August 12) artists: Sally Clegg (MFA ’20) and Kim Karlsrud (MFA ’20)\nPhase 3 (September 11 - December 11) artists: Abhishek Narula (MFA ’20) and Nathan Byrne (MFA ’21)\nPhase 3 \n\nCurated by Sometimes Space: Abhishek Narula (entry pillar)\nCurated by CYNK Studios: Nathan Byrne (courtyard pillar)\n\nArtist Statements/Bios\n\nAbhishek Narula\, Compressions \nCompressions is an installation comprised of 416 industrial-grade zip ties\, cinched around the entry pillar of the Stamps Gallery. The pillar measures roughly 110 inches in circumference\, requiring two ties per row to wrap around it\, resulting in 208 rows. The humble zip tie\, typically used to hang and bind other material\, is relegated to its functional properties rendering it unprepossessing and easily dismissed. The zip tie in this installation\, instead serves as an object of aesthetic possibility\, pulling it out of its usual background role to become the work itself. The resulting composition is a proposal to dwell\, to slow down\, and to simply see the pillar.\n\nAbhishek Narula is an artist\, designer\, and educator who works across sculpture\, installation\, sound\, and video. His practice takes the form of interventions\, working with what is already present. He reorients and disrupts objects and sites in order to open up formal possibilities and poetic experiences within the familiar. He is influenced by physical and digital infrastructural systems that sustain modern life and culture. His work treats this ambience itself as raw material for aesthetic inquiry\, exploring themes of labor\, precarity\, temporality and the sublime. Narula earned his MFA in Studio Art from the University of Michigan Stamps School of Art & Design and his MS/BS in Electrical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology. His work has been exhibited at national and international venues such as the Ammerman Center for Arts and Technology\, Science Gallery Detroit\, Speculum Artium Media Festival in Slovenia\, New Media Caucus (NMC)\, WaveFarm\, The Boulder Public Library\, The Hyde Park Art Center\, Sector 2337 Art Gallery & Printing Press\, Tangible Embedded Interaction (TEI)\, International Symposium of Electronic Arts (ISEA)\, among others. He is a Robotics Systems Designer and Lecturer in the Robotics Department at the University of Michigan. Website / Instagram\n\nNathan Byrne\, Equally To Be Loved\nEqually To Be Loved is an image / object scaled to and installed upon the courtyard pillar of Stamps Gallery. The image is of a spontaneous sculpture made in 2017 during the first day of an artist residency at the Recology San Francisco A.I.R. Program. The sculpture was constructed in a storage container studio using 14 discrete objects that were in his studio upon entry. For Byrne\, this work embodies the energy and spirit of a studio at the start of a particularly fecund period of making. This work speaks to the artist’s interest in embodied experience of space\, archival and site responsiveness\, as well as his ongoing engagement with found materials. Byrne considers this project to be a far-flung sequel to his MFA thesis exhibition Equally Empty\, which was shown at Stamps Gallery in 2021. Equally To Be Loved is the second line of the Buddhist mantra from which both titles are derived.\n\nNathan Byrne is an artist / educator / curator currently based in Detroit\, MI. Through spatial and archive responsive projects\, he reimagines\, and explores within frameworks such as language\, the passage of time\, and contemplation. Intrigued by the potential of conveying phenomenal\, transformative\, and emotive states through materiality\, process\, and placement\, he negotiates the pliability of the viewer’s encounters with objects and environments. Byrne holds an MFA in Art from the University of Michigan Stamps School of Art & Design and a BA in Studio Art and Art History from San Francisco State University. He has been a Lecturer at Stamps School of Art & Design since the Fall of 2022. His work is exhibited widely nationally and he is a recipient of the VSC Fellowship at Vermont Studio Center. He has been awarded numerous artist residencies including Anderson Ranch Arts Center\, I-Park\, KHN Center for the Arts\, Prairie Ronde\, Recology San Francisco A.I.R. Program\, and Rockland Woods. Website / Instagram
UID:138033-21881362@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138033
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260924T121524
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261112T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261112T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Cosmo Whyte: Under the Quiet\, Beyond the Eye
DESCRIPTION:\n\nCurated by Srimoyee Mitra\n\nStamps Gallery kicks off the fall 2026 semester with an ambitious mid-career survey of interdisciplinary artist Cosmo Whyte. Born and raised in Jamaica\, Whyte completed a BFA from Bennington College and earned an MFA from the University of Michigan. He is currently a faculty member at the School of the Arts and Architecture\, UCLA.\n\nThis exhibition brings together two central concerns that animate Whyte’s artistic practice: the archive\, both personal and public\, as a site of disturbance\; and migration as a lived experience of refuge\, refusal\, and reinvention. In Whyte’s work\, the archive is never static or neutral. Rather\, it is a contested space where official histories encounter memory\, inheritance\, and the fragments of stories carried across generations. His practice moves within this charged interstitial terrain\, between what has been recorded and what has been remembered\, between institutional knowledge and embodied experience. Whyte invites the viewer to consider the fluidity of geographic borders and layered cultural identities that have persisted despite societal unrest caused by racial and socio-economic hierarchies across generations. In an era of intensified border politics and renewed debates over national identity\, Whyte’s work offers a timely meditation on memory\, movement\, and belonging.\n\nPresented with support from the U-M Institute for Humanities\, the U-M LSA Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies\, and the U-M Library.
UID:149541-21906638@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149541
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260821T154602
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261112T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261112T190000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Penny Stamps Speaker Series - Voices of Dissent
DESCRIPTION:\n\nDirected by Anthony Arnove\, Voices of Dissent combines dramatic readings with live musical performances to bring the words of ordinary people throughout U.S. history to life. The performance features acclaimed actor David Strathairn\, an Academy Award nominee for his portrayal of Edward R. Murrow in Good Night\, and Good Luck. and an Emmy Award winner for Temple Grandin\; acclaimed singer-songwriter Allison Moorer\, an Oscar and Grammy-nominated artist known for her Americana songwriting and powerful storytelling\; and Thornetta Davis\, the award-winning Detroit vocalist known as the \"Queen of Detroit Blues.\" Drawing from letters\, diaries\, speeches\, and songs\, Voices of Dissent includes accounts from Ann Arbor\, the University of Michigan\, and across the state. Through a collaboration with the University of Michigan’s Inclusive History Project\, the production incorporates archival materials and local histories from the University’s archives at Bentley Historical Library and the Labadie Collection that illuminate the experiences of people who have fought for justice\, equality\, and freedom. \n\nInspired by the work of historian Howard Zinn (1922-2010)\, the production is based on A People’s History of the United States\, which has sold more than five million copies\, and Voices of a People’s History of the United States\, co-edited by Zinn and Arnove. By connecting these powerful historical voices to the present day\, Voices of Dissent reminds audiences that the struggle for justice is ongoing and that democracy depends on the participation of everyday people.\n\nAnthony Arnove is the editor of several books\, including Voices of a People’s History of the United States\, which he co-edited with Howard Zinn\, and Voices of a People’s History of the United States in the 21st Century\, which he co-edited with Haley Pessin. He also wrote the introduction to the 35th anniversary edition of Zinn’s classic book A People’s History of the United States. Arnove cofounded the nonprofit education and arts organization Voices of a People’s History of the United States\; co-wrote\, co-directed\, and co-produced the documentary The People Speak\; and has directed stage and television versions of The People Speak in Dublin with Stephen Rea\, in London with Colin Firth\, and across the United States with various arts groups\, including Lincoln Center\, the Brooklyn Academy of Music\, and the Sundance Film Festival. He also produced the Academy Award–nominated documentary Dirty Wars.\n\nIn partnership with the Inclusive History Project\, with and support from the U-M Ford School of Public Policy\, U.S. at 250 and the U-M Initiative for Democracy & Civic Empowerment. \n\nSeries presenting partners: Detroit PBS\, ALL ARTS\, and PBS Books. Media partner: Michigan Public.\n
UID:150485-21909508@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150485
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:American History,Art,Dissent,Music
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260924T121533
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261112T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261112T200000
SUMMARY:Reception / Open House:Stamps Student Social Hour
DESCRIPTION:\n\nFollowing the Thursday Penny Stamps Speaker Series presentation at the Michigan Theater\, head over to Stamps Gallery for a relaxing and fun social hour just for you! No expectations\, just food\, games and activities\, and time with your friends to view the fall exhibition Cosmo Whyte: Under the Quiet\, Beyond the Eye. We hope to see you there!\n\nThis event is open to Stamps and U-M students only.
UID:152827-21914576@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152827
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20261021T094427
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261113T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261113T163000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Small Works: Prints & Book Objects from Detroit\, 2020–2026
DESCRIPTION:Small Works\nPrints & Book Objects from Detroit 2020–2026\n\nOctober 27 - November 19 \nPublic Reception: Friday\, November 13 from 4:30-6pm.\n\nSmall Works was a print shop ran by Li Chen & Gerald Schulze\, in Detroit\, MI\, from 2020–2026. Mariana Matos joined as the studio assistant\, and later studio manager\, in 2024. Over those six years\, the business grew from an extension of their design practice to a community space that hosts more than 70 classes a year\, open studio for the public\, and year long funded fellowships that investigate practice in art and design related to the Book Arts. In 2026\, they decided to expand community programming\, and to accommodate this expansion closed Small Works\, and formed Center for the Book Arts Detroit (BAD) which operates in the same space.\n\nThis exhibition is a eulogy for the former Small Works shop\, and a celebration of all the people who made work here. It also serves to show what is possible as a community\, when they share space and create work together. \n\nThe work featured is a collection of things printed by Small Works\, by their studiomates Diskette Press\, the publisher Maamoul Press\, and by the community that uses the space.
UID:152872-21914652@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152872
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Ann Arbor,Art,art and design,artists,artists and curators,arts,Arts And Ideas In The Humanities,arts at michigan,Arts Initiative,Book,book discussion,book event,Detroit,Exhibition,Michigan Arts,Michigan Arts Festival
LOCATION:East Quadrangle - RC Art Gallery
CONTACT:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20261012T121522
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261113T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261113T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Fore-Site (Phase 3): The Stamps Gallery Pillar Project
DESCRIPTION:\n\nFrom September 2025 through December 2026\, Stamps Gallery is partnering in a curatorial collaboration with two Southeast Michigan-based\, artist-run project spaces led by Stamps alumni: C.Y.N.K. Studios\, directed by Sally Clegg (Lecturer III and Student Exhibition Coordinator\, MFA ’20) and Abhishek Narula (MFA ’20)\; and Sometimes Space\, directed by Nathan Byrne (Lecturer I\, MFA ’21). Each space hosts dozens of artists annually for exhibitions\, performances\, and events\, fostering experimental work and building community. For this project\, Byrne\, Clegg\, and Narula have been commissioned to reimagine the pillars on Division Street that flank the gallery. In response\, they’ve curated six artists to create new work for the pillars over three cycles:\n\nPhase 1 (September 12 - December 12) artists: Amelia Burns (Cranbrook MFA ’23) and Erin McKenna (MFA ’20)\nPhase 2 (January 12 - August 12) artists: Sally Clegg (MFA ’20) and Kim Karlsrud (MFA ’20)\nPhase 3 (September 11 - December 11) artists: Abhishek Narula (MFA ’20) and Nathan Byrne (MFA ’21)\nPhase 3 \n\nCurated by Sometimes Space: Abhishek Narula (entry pillar)\nCurated by CYNK Studios: Nathan Byrne (courtyard pillar)\n\nArtist Statements/Bios\n\nAbhishek Narula\, Compressions \nCompressions is an installation comprised of 416 industrial-grade zip ties\, cinched around the entry pillar of the Stamps Gallery. The pillar measures roughly 110 inches in circumference\, requiring two ties per row to wrap around it\, resulting in 208 rows. The humble zip tie\, typically used to hang and bind other material\, is relegated to its functional properties rendering it unprepossessing and easily dismissed. The zip tie in this installation\, instead serves as an object of aesthetic possibility\, pulling it out of its usual background role to become the work itself. The resulting composition is a proposal to dwell\, to slow down\, and to simply see the pillar.\n\nAbhishek Narula is an artist\, designer\, and educator who works across sculpture\, installation\, sound\, and video. His practice takes the form of interventions\, working with what is already present. He reorients and disrupts objects and sites in order to open up formal possibilities and poetic experiences within the familiar. He is influenced by physical and digital infrastructural systems that sustain modern life and culture. His work treats this ambience itself as raw material for aesthetic inquiry\, exploring themes of labor\, precarity\, temporality and the sublime. Narula earned his MFA in Studio Art from the University of Michigan Stamps School of Art & Design and his MS/BS in Electrical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology. His work has been exhibited at national and international venues such as the Ammerman Center for Arts and Technology\, Science Gallery Detroit\, Speculum Artium Media Festival in Slovenia\, New Media Caucus (NMC)\, WaveFarm\, The Boulder Public Library\, The Hyde Park Art Center\, Sector 2337 Art Gallery & Printing Press\, Tangible Embedded Interaction (TEI)\, International Symposium of Electronic Arts (ISEA)\, among others. He is a Robotics Systems Designer and Lecturer in the Robotics Department at the University of Michigan. Website / Instagram\n\nNathan Byrne\, Equally To Be Loved\nEqually To Be Loved is an image / object scaled to and installed upon the courtyard pillar of Stamps Gallery. The image is of a spontaneous sculpture made in 2017 during the first day of an artist residency at the Recology San Francisco A.I.R. Program. The sculpture was constructed in a storage container studio using 14 discrete objects that were in his studio upon entry. For Byrne\, this work embodies the energy and spirit of a studio at the start of a particularly fecund period of making. This work speaks to the artist’s interest in embodied experience of space\, archival and site responsiveness\, as well as his ongoing engagement with found materials. Byrne considers this project to be a far-flung sequel to his MFA thesis exhibition Equally Empty\, which was shown at Stamps Gallery in 2021. Equally To Be Loved is the second line of the Buddhist mantra from which both titles are derived.\n\nNathan Byrne is an artist / educator / curator currently based in Detroit\, MI. Through spatial and archive responsive projects\, he reimagines\, and explores within frameworks such as language\, the passage of time\, and contemplation. Intrigued by the potential of conveying phenomenal\, transformative\, and emotive states through materiality\, process\, and placement\, he negotiates the pliability of the viewer’s encounters with objects and environments. Byrne holds an MFA in Art from the University of Michigan Stamps School of Art & Design and a BA in Studio Art and Art History from San Francisco State University. He has been a Lecturer at Stamps School of Art & Design since the Fall of 2022. His work is exhibited widely nationally and he is a recipient of the VSC Fellowship at Vermont Studio Center. He has been awarded numerous artist residencies including Anderson Ranch Arts Center\, I-Park\, KHN Center for the Arts\, Prairie Ronde\, Recology San Francisco A.I.R. Program\, and Rockland Woods. Website / Instagram
UID:138033-21881363@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138033
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260924T121524
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261113T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261113T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Cosmo Whyte: Under the Quiet\, Beyond the Eye
DESCRIPTION:\n\nCurated by Srimoyee Mitra\n\nStamps Gallery kicks off the fall 2026 semester with an ambitious mid-career survey of interdisciplinary artist Cosmo Whyte. Born and raised in Jamaica\, Whyte completed a BFA from Bennington College and earned an MFA from the University of Michigan. He is currently a faculty member at the School of the Arts and Architecture\, UCLA.\n\nThis exhibition brings together two central concerns that animate Whyte’s artistic practice: the archive\, both personal and public\, as a site of disturbance\; and migration as a lived experience of refuge\, refusal\, and reinvention. In Whyte’s work\, the archive is never static or neutral. Rather\, it is a contested space where official histories encounter memory\, inheritance\, and the fragments of stories carried across generations. His practice moves within this charged interstitial terrain\, between what has been recorded and what has been remembered\, between institutional knowledge and embodied experience. Whyte invites the viewer to consider the fluidity of geographic borders and layered cultural identities that have persisted despite societal unrest caused by racial and socio-economic hierarchies across generations. In an era of intensified border politics and renewed debates over national identity\, Whyte’s work offers a timely meditation on memory\, movement\, and belonging.\n\nPresented with support from the U-M Institute for Humanities\, the U-M LSA Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies\, and the U-M Library.
UID:149541-21906639@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149541
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20261012T121522
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261114T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261114T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Fore-Site (Phase 3): The Stamps Gallery Pillar Project
DESCRIPTION:\n\nFrom September 2025 through December 2026\, Stamps Gallery is partnering in a curatorial collaboration with two Southeast Michigan-based\, artist-run project spaces led by Stamps alumni: C.Y.N.K. Studios\, directed by Sally Clegg (Lecturer III and Student Exhibition Coordinator\, MFA ’20) and Abhishek Narula (MFA ’20)\; and Sometimes Space\, directed by Nathan Byrne (Lecturer I\, MFA ’21). Each space hosts dozens of artists annually for exhibitions\, performances\, and events\, fostering experimental work and building community. For this project\, Byrne\, Clegg\, and Narula have been commissioned to reimagine the pillars on Division Street that flank the gallery. In response\, they’ve curated six artists to create new work for the pillars over three cycles:\n\nPhase 1 (September 12 - December 12) artists: Amelia Burns (Cranbrook MFA ’23) and Erin McKenna (MFA ’20)\nPhase 2 (January 12 - August 12) artists: Sally Clegg (MFA ’20) and Kim Karlsrud (MFA ’20)\nPhase 3 (September 11 - December 11) artists: Abhishek Narula (MFA ’20) and Nathan Byrne (MFA ’21)\nPhase 3 \n\nCurated by Sometimes Space: Abhishek Narula (entry pillar)\nCurated by CYNK Studios: Nathan Byrne (courtyard pillar)\n\nArtist Statements/Bios\n\nAbhishek Narula\, Compressions \nCompressions is an installation comprised of 416 industrial-grade zip ties\, cinched around the entry pillar of the Stamps Gallery. The pillar measures roughly 110 inches in circumference\, requiring two ties per row to wrap around it\, resulting in 208 rows. The humble zip tie\, typically used to hang and bind other material\, is relegated to its functional properties rendering it unprepossessing and easily dismissed. The zip tie in this installation\, instead serves as an object of aesthetic possibility\, pulling it out of its usual background role to become the work itself. The resulting composition is a proposal to dwell\, to slow down\, and to simply see the pillar.\n\nAbhishek Narula is an artist\, designer\, and educator who works across sculpture\, installation\, sound\, and video. His practice takes the form of interventions\, working with what is already present. He reorients and disrupts objects and sites in order to open up formal possibilities and poetic experiences within the familiar. He is influenced by physical and digital infrastructural systems that sustain modern life and culture. His work treats this ambience itself as raw material for aesthetic inquiry\, exploring themes of labor\, precarity\, temporality and the sublime. Narula earned his MFA in Studio Art from the University of Michigan Stamps School of Art & Design and his MS/BS in Electrical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology. His work has been exhibited at national and international venues such as the Ammerman Center for Arts and Technology\, Science Gallery Detroit\, Speculum Artium Media Festival in Slovenia\, New Media Caucus (NMC)\, WaveFarm\, The Boulder Public Library\, The Hyde Park Art Center\, Sector 2337 Art Gallery & Printing Press\, Tangible Embedded Interaction (TEI)\, International Symposium of Electronic Arts (ISEA)\, among others. He is a Robotics Systems Designer and Lecturer in the Robotics Department at the University of Michigan. Website / Instagram\n\nNathan Byrne\, Equally To Be Loved\nEqually To Be Loved is an image / object scaled to and installed upon the courtyard pillar of Stamps Gallery. The image is of a spontaneous sculpture made in 2017 during the first day of an artist residency at the Recology San Francisco A.I.R. Program. The sculpture was constructed in a storage container studio using 14 discrete objects that were in his studio upon entry. For Byrne\, this work embodies the energy and spirit of a studio at the start of a particularly fecund period of making. This work speaks to the artist’s interest in embodied experience of space\, archival and site responsiveness\, as well as his ongoing engagement with found materials. Byrne considers this project to be a far-flung sequel to his MFA thesis exhibition Equally Empty\, which was shown at Stamps Gallery in 2021. Equally To Be Loved is the second line of the Buddhist mantra from which both titles are derived.\n\nNathan Byrne is an artist / educator / curator currently based in Detroit\, MI. Through spatial and archive responsive projects\, he reimagines\, and explores within frameworks such as language\, the passage of time\, and contemplation. Intrigued by the potential of conveying phenomenal\, transformative\, and emotive states through materiality\, process\, and placement\, he negotiates the pliability of the viewer’s encounters with objects and environments. Byrne holds an MFA in Art from the University of Michigan Stamps School of Art & Design and a BA in Studio Art and Art History from San Francisco State University. He has been a Lecturer at Stamps School of Art & Design since the Fall of 2022. His work is exhibited widely nationally and he is a recipient of the VSC Fellowship at Vermont Studio Center. He has been awarded numerous artist residencies including Anderson Ranch Arts Center\, I-Park\, KHN Center for the Arts\, Prairie Ronde\, Recology San Francisco A.I.R. Program\, and Rockland Woods. Website / Instagram
UID:138033-21881364@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138033
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260924T121524
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261114T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261114T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Cosmo Whyte: Under the Quiet\, Beyond the Eye
DESCRIPTION:\n\nCurated by Srimoyee Mitra\n\nStamps Gallery kicks off the fall 2026 semester with an ambitious mid-career survey of interdisciplinary artist Cosmo Whyte. Born and raised in Jamaica\, Whyte completed a BFA from Bennington College and earned an MFA from the University of Michigan. He is currently a faculty member at the School of the Arts and Architecture\, UCLA.\n\nThis exhibition brings together two central concerns that animate Whyte’s artistic practice: the archive\, both personal and public\, as a site of disturbance\; and migration as a lived experience of refuge\, refusal\, and reinvention. In Whyte’s work\, the archive is never static or neutral. Rather\, it is a contested space where official histories encounter memory\, inheritance\, and the fragments of stories carried across generations. His practice moves within this charged interstitial terrain\, between what has been recorded and what has been remembered\, between institutional knowledge and embodied experience. Whyte invites the viewer to consider the fluidity of geographic borders and layered cultural identities that have persisted despite societal unrest caused by racial and socio-economic hierarchies across generations. In an era of intensified border politics and renewed debates over national identity\, Whyte’s work offers a timely meditation on memory\, movement\, and belonging.\n\nPresented with support from the U-M Institute for Humanities\, the U-M LSA Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies\, and the U-M Library.
UID:149541-21906640@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149541
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260811T061509
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261115T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261115T160000
SUMMARY:Other:Graduate Portfolio Day - Online
DESCRIPTION:\n\nPlease join us for a virtual Graduate Portfolio Day event on Sunday\, November 15\, 2026\, from 12-4 p.m. EST.\n\nVisit with counselors\, admissions team members\, and faculty from art and design schools for a portfolio review before applying to colleges or universities. National Portfolio Day events are free and open to the public.
UID:150107-21908017@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150107
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20261021T094427
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261116T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261116T163000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Small Works: Prints & Book Objects from Detroit\, 2020–2026
DESCRIPTION:Small Works\nPrints & Book Objects from Detroit 2020–2026\n\nOctober 27 - November 19 \nPublic Reception: Friday\, November 13 from 4:30-6pm.\n\nSmall Works was a print shop ran by Li Chen & Gerald Schulze\, in Detroit\, MI\, from 2020–2026. Mariana Matos joined as the studio assistant\, and later studio manager\, in 2024. Over those six years\, the business grew from an extension of their design practice to a community space that hosts more than 70 classes a year\, open studio for the public\, and year long funded fellowships that investigate practice in art and design related to the Book Arts. In 2026\, they decided to expand community programming\, and to accommodate this expansion closed Small Works\, and formed Center for the Book Arts Detroit (BAD) which operates in the same space.\n\nThis exhibition is a eulogy for the former Small Works shop\, and a celebration of all the people who made work here. It also serves to show what is possible as a community\, when they share space and create work together. \n\nThe work featured is a collection of things printed by Small Works\, by their studiomates Diskette Press\, the publisher Maamoul Press\, and by the community that uses the space.
UID:152872-21914655@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152872
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Ann Arbor,Art,art and design,artists,artists and curators,arts,Arts And Ideas In The Humanities,arts at michigan,Arts Initiative,Book,book discussion,book event,Detroit,Exhibition,Michigan Arts,Michigan Arts Festival
LOCATION:East Quadrangle - RC Art Gallery
CONTACT:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20261001T181534
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261116T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261116T190000
SUMMARY:Other:Stamps MDes Virtual Info Session
DESCRIPTION:\n\nTuesday\, November 16\, 2026 from 5-7 p.m. EST\n\nJoin Stamps MDes director Sara Dean for a webinar-style virtual open house about the Master of Design (MDes) program at the U-M Stamps School of Art & Design. You’ll see images of our facilities and current work happening at Stamps. The presentation will be followed by a Q&A. The presentation portion will be recorded and shared with all registrants.
UID:153186-21915393@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/153186
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20261021T094427
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261117T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261117T163000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Small Works: Prints & Book Objects from Detroit\, 2020–2026
DESCRIPTION:Small Works\nPrints & Book Objects from Detroit 2020–2026\n\nOctober 27 - November 19 \nPublic Reception: Friday\, November 13 from 4:30-6pm.\n\nSmall Works was a print shop ran by Li Chen & Gerald Schulze\, in Detroit\, MI\, from 2020–2026. Mariana Matos joined as the studio assistant\, and later studio manager\, in 2024. Over those six years\, the business grew from an extension of their design practice to a community space that hosts more than 70 classes a year\, open studio for the public\, and year long funded fellowships that investigate practice in art and design related to the Book Arts. In 2026\, they decided to expand community programming\, and to accommodate this expansion closed Small Works\, and formed Center for the Book Arts Detroit (BAD) which operates in the same space.\n\nThis exhibition is a eulogy for the former Small Works shop\, and a celebration of all the people who made work here. It also serves to show what is possible as a community\, when they share space and create work together. \n\nThe work featured is a collection of things printed by Small Works\, by their studiomates Diskette Press\, the publisher Maamoul Press\, and by the community that uses the space.
UID:152872-21914656@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152872
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Ann Arbor,Art,art and design,artists,artists and curators,arts,Arts And Ideas In The Humanities,arts at michigan,Arts Initiative,Book,book discussion,book event,Detroit,Exhibition,Michigan Arts,Michigan Arts Festival
LOCATION:East Quadrangle - RC Art Gallery
CONTACT:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260924T121524
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261117T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261117T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Cosmo Whyte: Under the Quiet\, Beyond the Eye
DESCRIPTION:\n\nCurated by Srimoyee Mitra\n\nStamps Gallery kicks off the fall 2026 semester with an ambitious mid-career survey of interdisciplinary artist Cosmo Whyte. Born and raised in Jamaica\, Whyte completed a BFA from Bennington College and earned an MFA from the University of Michigan. He is currently a faculty member at the School of the Arts and Architecture\, UCLA.\n\nThis exhibition brings together two central concerns that animate Whyte’s artistic practice: the archive\, both personal and public\, as a site of disturbance\; and migration as a lived experience of refuge\, refusal\, and reinvention. In Whyte’s work\, the archive is never static or neutral. Rather\, it is a contested space where official histories encounter memory\, inheritance\, and the fragments of stories carried across generations. His practice moves within this charged interstitial terrain\, between what has been recorded and what has been remembered\, between institutional knowledge and embodied experience. Whyte invites the viewer to consider the fluidity of geographic borders and layered cultural identities that have persisted despite societal unrest caused by racial and socio-economic hierarchies across generations. In an era of intensified border politics and renewed debates over national identity\, Whyte’s work offers a timely meditation on memory\, movement\, and belonging.\n\nPresented with support from the U-M Institute for Humanities\, the U-M LSA Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies\, and the U-M Library.
UID:149541-21906641@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149541
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20261021T094427
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261118T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261118T163000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Small Works: Prints & Book Objects from Detroit\, 2020–2026
DESCRIPTION:Small Works\nPrints & Book Objects from Detroit 2020–2026\n\nOctober 27 - November 19 \nPublic Reception: Friday\, November 13 from 4:30-6pm.\n\nSmall Works was a print shop ran by Li Chen & Gerald Schulze\, in Detroit\, MI\, from 2020–2026. Mariana Matos joined as the studio assistant\, and later studio manager\, in 2024. Over those six years\, the business grew from an extension of their design practice to a community space that hosts more than 70 classes a year\, open studio for the public\, and year long funded fellowships that investigate practice in art and design related to the Book Arts. In 2026\, they decided to expand community programming\, and to accommodate this expansion closed Small Works\, and formed Center for the Book Arts Detroit (BAD) which operates in the same space.\n\nThis exhibition is a eulogy for the former Small Works shop\, and a celebration of all the people who made work here. It also serves to show what is possible as a community\, when they share space and create work together. \n\nThe work featured is a collection of things printed by Small Works\, by their studiomates Diskette Press\, the publisher Maamoul Press\, and by the community that uses the space.
UID:152872-21914657@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152872
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Ann Arbor,Art,art and design,artists,artists and curators,arts,Arts And Ideas In The Humanities,arts at michigan,Arts Initiative,Book,book discussion,book event,Detroit,Exhibition,Michigan Arts,Michigan Arts Festival
LOCATION:East Quadrangle - RC Art Gallery
CONTACT:
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20261012T121522
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261118T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261118T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Fore-Site (Phase 3): The Stamps Gallery Pillar Project
DESCRIPTION:\n\nFrom September 2025 through December 2026\, Stamps Gallery is partnering in a curatorial collaboration with two Southeast Michigan-based\, artist-run project spaces led by Stamps alumni: C.Y.N.K. Studios\, directed by Sally Clegg (Lecturer III and Student Exhibition Coordinator\, MFA ’20) and Abhishek Narula (MFA ’20)\; and Sometimes Space\, directed by Nathan Byrne (Lecturer I\, MFA ’21). Each space hosts dozens of artists annually for exhibitions\, performances\, and events\, fostering experimental work and building community. For this project\, Byrne\, Clegg\, and Narula have been commissioned to reimagine the pillars on Division Street that flank the gallery. In response\, they’ve curated six artists to create new work for the pillars over three cycles:\n\nPhase 1 (September 12 - December 12) artists: Amelia Burns (Cranbrook MFA ’23) and Erin McKenna (MFA ’20)\nPhase 2 (January 12 - August 12) artists: Sally Clegg (MFA ’20) and Kim Karlsrud (MFA ’20)\nPhase 3 (September 11 - December 11) artists: Abhishek Narula (MFA ’20) and Nathan Byrne (MFA ’21)\nPhase 3 \n\nCurated by Sometimes Space: Abhishek Narula (entry pillar)\nCurated by CYNK Studios: Nathan Byrne (courtyard pillar)\n\nArtist Statements/Bios\n\nAbhishek Narula\, Compressions \nCompressions is an installation comprised of 416 industrial-grade zip ties\, cinched around the entry pillar of the Stamps Gallery. The pillar measures roughly 110 inches in circumference\, requiring two ties per row to wrap around it\, resulting in 208 rows. The humble zip tie\, typically used to hang and bind other material\, is relegated to its functional properties rendering it unprepossessing and easily dismissed. The zip tie in this installation\, instead serves as an object of aesthetic possibility\, pulling it out of its usual background role to become the work itself. The resulting composition is a proposal to dwell\, to slow down\, and to simply see the pillar.\n\nAbhishek Narula is an artist\, designer\, and educator who works across sculpture\, installation\, sound\, and video. His practice takes the form of interventions\, working with what is already present. He reorients and disrupts objects and sites in order to open up formal possibilities and poetic experiences within the familiar. He is influenced by physical and digital infrastructural systems that sustain modern life and culture. His work treats this ambience itself as raw material for aesthetic inquiry\, exploring themes of labor\, precarity\, temporality and the sublime. Narula earned his MFA in Studio Art from the University of Michigan Stamps School of Art & Design and his MS/BS in Electrical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology. His work has been exhibited at national and international venues such as the Ammerman Center for Arts and Technology\, Science Gallery Detroit\, Speculum Artium Media Festival in Slovenia\, New Media Caucus (NMC)\, WaveFarm\, The Boulder Public Library\, The Hyde Park Art Center\, Sector 2337 Art Gallery & Printing Press\, Tangible Embedded Interaction (TEI)\, International Symposium of Electronic Arts (ISEA)\, among others. He is a Robotics Systems Designer and Lecturer in the Robotics Department at the University of Michigan. Website / Instagram\n\nNathan Byrne\, Equally To Be Loved\nEqually To Be Loved is an image / object scaled to and installed upon the courtyard pillar of Stamps Gallery. The image is of a spontaneous sculpture made in 2017 during the first day of an artist residency at the Recology San Francisco A.I.R. Program. The sculpture was constructed in a storage container studio using 14 discrete objects that were in his studio upon entry. For Byrne\, this work embodies the energy and spirit of a studio at the start of a particularly fecund period of making. This work speaks to the artist’s interest in embodied experience of space\, archival and site responsiveness\, as well as his ongoing engagement with found materials. Byrne considers this project to be a far-flung sequel to his MFA thesis exhibition Equally Empty\, which was shown at Stamps Gallery in 2021. Equally To Be Loved is the second line of the Buddhist mantra from which both titles are derived.\n\nNathan Byrne is an artist / educator / curator currently based in Detroit\, MI. Through spatial and archive responsive projects\, he reimagines\, and explores within frameworks such as language\, the passage of time\, and contemplation. Intrigued by the potential of conveying phenomenal\, transformative\, and emotive states through materiality\, process\, and placement\, he negotiates the pliability of the viewer’s encounters with objects and environments. Byrne holds an MFA in Art from the University of Michigan Stamps School of Art & Design and a BA in Studio Art and Art History from San Francisco State University. He has been a Lecturer at Stamps School of Art & Design since the Fall of 2022. His work is exhibited widely nationally and he is a recipient of the VSC Fellowship at Vermont Studio Center. He has been awarded numerous artist residencies including Anderson Ranch Arts Center\, I-Park\, KHN Center for the Arts\, Prairie Ronde\, Recology San Francisco A.I.R. Program\, and Rockland Woods. Website / Instagram
UID:138033-21881365@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138033
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260924T121524
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261118T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261118T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Cosmo Whyte: Under the Quiet\, Beyond the Eye
DESCRIPTION:\n\nCurated by Srimoyee Mitra\n\nStamps Gallery kicks off the fall 2026 semester with an ambitious mid-career survey of interdisciplinary artist Cosmo Whyte. Born and raised in Jamaica\, Whyte completed a BFA from Bennington College and earned an MFA from the University of Michigan. He is currently a faculty member at the School of the Arts and Architecture\, UCLA.\n\nThis exhibition brings together two central concerns that animate Whyte’s artistic practice: the archive\, both personal and public\, as a site of disturbance\; and migration as a lived experience of refuge\, refusal\, and reinvention. In Whyte’s work\, the archive is never static or neutral. Rather\, it is a contested space where official histories encounter memory\, inheritance\, and the fragments of stories carried across generations. His practice moves within this charged interstitial terrain\, between what has been recorded and what has been remembered\, between institutional knowledge and embodied experience. Whyte invites the viewer to consider the fluidity of geographic borders and layered cultural identities that have persisted despite societal unrest caused by racial and socio-economic hierarchies across generations. In an era of intensified border politics and renewed debates over national identity\, Whyte’s work offers a timely meditation on memory\, movement\, and belonging.\n\nPresented with support from the U-M Institute for Humanities\, the U-M LSA Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies\, and the U-M Library.
UID:149541-21906642@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149541
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20261021T094427
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261119T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261119T163000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Small Works: Prints & Book Objects from Detroit\, 2020–2026
DESCRIPTION:Small Works\nPrints & Book Objects from Detroit 2020–2026\n\nOctober 27 - November 19 \nPublic Reception: Friday\, November 13 from 4:30-6pm.\n\nSmall Works was a print shop ran by Li Chen & Gerald Schulze\, in Detroit\, MI\, from 2020–2026. Mariana Matos joined as the studio assistant\, and later studio manager\, in 2024. Over those six years\, the business grew from an extension of their design practice to a community space that hosts more than 70 classes a year\, open studio for the public\, and year long funded fellowships that investigate practice in art and design related to the Book Arts. In 2026\, they decided to expand community programming\, and to accommodate this expansion closed Small Works\, and formed Center for the Book Arts Detroit (BAD) which operates in the same space.\n\nThis exhibition is a eulogy for the former Small Works shop\, and a celebration of all the people who made work here. It also serves to show what is possible as a community\, when they share space and create work together. \n\nThe work featured is a collection of things printed by Small Works\, by their studiomates Diskette Press\, the publisher Maamoul Press\, and by the community that uses the space.
UID:152872-21914658@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152872
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Ann Arbor,Art,art and design,artists,artists and curators,arts,Arts And Ideas In The Humanities,arts at michigan,Arts Initiative,Book,book discussion,book event,Detroit,Exhibition,Michigan Arts,Michigan Arts Festival
LOCATION:East Quadrangle - RC Art Gallery
CONTACT:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20261012T121522
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261119T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261119T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Fore-Site (Phase 3): The Stamps Gallery Pillar Project
DESCRIPTION:\n\nFrom September 2025 through December 2026\, Stamps Gallery is partnering in a curatorial collaboration with two Southeast Michigan-based\, artist-run project spaces led by Stamps alumni: C.Y.N.K. Studios\, directed by Sally Clegg (Lecturer III and Student Exhibition Coordinator\, MFA ’20) and Abhishek Narula (MFA ’20)\; and Sometimes Space\, directed by Nathan Byrne (Lecturer I\, MFA ’21). Each space hosts dozens of artists annually for exhibitions\, performances\, and events\, fostering experimental work and building community. For this project\, Byrne\, Clegg\, and Narula have been commissioned to reimagine the pillars on Division Street that flank the gallery. In response\, they’ve curated six artists to create new work for the pillars over three cycles:\n\nPhase 1 (September 12 - December 12) artists: Amelia Burns (Cranbrook MFA ’23) and Erin McKenna (MFA ’20)\nPhase 2 (January 12 - August 12) artists: Sally Clegg (MFA ’20) and Kim Karlsrud (MFA ’20)\nPhase 3 (September 11 - December 11) artists: Abhishek Narula (MFA ’20) and Nathan Byrne (MFA ’21)\nPhase 3 \n\nCurated by Sometimes Space: Abhishek Narula (entry pillar)\nCurated by CYNK Studios: Nathan Byrne (courtyard pillar)\n\nArtist Statements/Bios\n\nAbhishek Narula\, Compressions \nCompressions is an installation comprised of 416 industrial-grade zip ties\, cinched around the entry pillar of the Stamps Gallery. The pillar measures roughly 110 inches in circumference\, requiring two ties per row to wrap around it\, resulting in 208 rows. The humble zip tie\, typically used to hang and bind other material\, is relegated to its functional properties rendering it unprepossessing and easily dismissed. The zip tie in this installation\, instead serves as an object of aesthetic possibility\, pulling it out of its usual background role to become the work itself. The resulting composition is a proposal to dwell\, to slow down\, and to simply see the pillar.\n\nAbhishek Narula is an artist\, designer\, and educator who works across sculpture\, installation\, sound\, and video. His practice takes the form of interventions\, working with what is already present. He reorients and disrupts objects and sites in order to open up formal possibilities and poetic experiences within the familiar. He is influenced by physical and digital infrastructural systems that sustain modern life and culture. His work treats this ambience itself as raw material for aesthetic inquiry\, exploring themes of labor\, precarity\, temporality and the sublime. Narula earned his MFA in Studio Art from the University of Michigan Stamps School of Art & Design and his MS/BS in Electrical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology. His work has been exhibited at national and international venues such as the Ammerman Center for Arts and Technology\, Science Gallery Detroit\, Speculum Artium Media Festival in Slovenia\, New Media Caucus (NMC)\, WaveFarm\, The Boulder Public Library\, The Hyde Park Art Center\, Sector 2337 Art Gallery & Printing Press\, Tangible Embedded Interaction (TEI)\, International Symposium of Electronic Arts (ISEA)\, among others. He is a Robotics Systems Designer and Lecturer in the Robotics Department at the University of Michigan. Website / Instagram\n\nNathan Byrne\, Equally To Be Loved\nEqually To Be Loved is an image / object scaled to and installed upon the courtyard pillar of Stamps Gallery. The image is of a spontaneous sculpture made in 2017 during the first day of an artist residency at the Recology San Francisco A.I.R. Program. The sculpture was constructed in a storage container studio using 14 discrete objects that were in his studio upon entry. For Byrne\, this work embodies the energy and spirit of a studio at the start of a particularly fecund period of making. This work speaks to the artist’s interest in embodied experience of space\, archival and site responsiveness\, as well as his ongoing engagement with found materials. Byrne considers this project to be a far-flung sequel to his MFA thesis exhibition Equally Empty\, which was shown at Stamps Gallery in 2021. Equally To Be Loved is the second line of the Buddhist mantra from which both titles are derived.\n\nNathan Byrne is an artist / educator / curator currently based in Detroit\, MI. Through spatial and archive responsive projects\, he reimagines\, and explores within frameworks such as language\, the passage of time\, and contemplation. Intrigued by the potential of conveying phenomenal\, transformative\, and emotive states through materiality\, process\, and placement\, he negotiates the pliability of the viewer’s encounters with objects and environments. Byrne holds an MFA in Art from the University of Michigan Stamps School of Art & Design and a BA in Studio Art and Art History from San Francisco State University. He has been a Lecturer at Stamps School of Art & Design since the Fall of 2022. His work is exhibited widely nationally and he is a recipient of the VSC Fellowship at Vermont Studio Center. He has been awarded numerous artist residencies including Anderson Ranch Arts Center\, I-Park\, KHN Center for the Arts\, Prairie Ronde\, Recology San Francisco A.I.R. Program\, and Rockland Woods. Website / Instagram
UID:138033-21881366@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138033
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260924T121524
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261119T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261119T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Cosmo Whyte: Under the Quiet\, Beyond the Eye
DESCRIPTION:\n\nCurated by Srimoyee Mitra\n\nStamps Gallery kicks off the fall 2026 semester with an ambitious mid-career survey of interdisciplinary artist Cosmo Whyte. Born and raised in Jamaica\, Whyte completed a BFA from Bennington College and earned an MFA from the University of Michigan. He is currently a faculty member at the School of the Arts and Architecture\, UCLA.\n\nThis exhibition brings together two central concerns that animate Whyte’s artistic practice: the archive\, both personal and public\, as a site of disturbance\; and migration as a lived experience of refuge\, refusal\, and reinvention. In Whyte’s work\, the archive is never static or neutral. Rather\, it is a contested space where official histories encounter memory\, inheritance\, and the fragments of stories carried across generations. His practice moves within this charged interstitial terrain\, between what has been recorded and what has been remembered\, between institutional knowledge and embodied experience. Whyte invites the viewer to consider the fluidity of geographic borders and layered cultural identities that have persisted despite societal unrest caused by racial and socio-economic hierarchies across generations. In an era of intensified border politics and renewed debates over national identity\, Whyte’s work offers a timely meditation on memory\, movement\, and belonging.\n\nPresented with support from the U-M Institute for Humanities\, the U-M LSA Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies\, and the U-M Library.
UID:149541-21906643@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149541
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260818T181537
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261119T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261119T190000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Penny Stamps Speaker Series - Jorge Perez
DESCRIPTION:\n\nJorge M. Pérez is a collector\, philanthropist\, and the founder of El Espacio 23\, a contemporary art space in Miami that presents exhibitions\, residencies\, and special projects drawn from the Pérez Collection. Housed in a repurposed 28\,000-square-foot warehouse in the city’s Allapattah neighborhood\, El Espacio 23 reflects Pérez’s commitment to supporting artists\, fostering curatorial practice\, and expanding public access to contemporary art.\n\nAs the Founding Executive Chairman of Related Group\, Pérez has helped shape South Florida’s urban landscape for more than four decades. A lifelong advocate for the arts\, he has championed the integration of museum-quality contemporary art into the built environment while building one of the country’s leading private collections. His philanthropic support includes a landmark gift that led to the naming of Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM)\, where he has continued to contribute both funding and works from his collection.\n\nPérez and Related Group have partnered with world-class architects and designers like Arquitectónica\, Robert Stern\, Rem Koolhaas\, Philippe Starck\, David Rockwell Yabu Pushelberg to produce neighborhood-defining projects\, establishing Related’s developments as integral components of Miami’s evolving cityscape. Pérez infuses each development with carefully curated collections\, featuring pieces from master artists such as Frank Stella\, Joan Mitchell\, Willem de Kooning\, Jim Dine and many others. \n\nThrough the Related Philanthropic Foundation and The Jorge M. Pérez Family Foundation\, Pérez has contributed more than $300 million to initiatives supporting education\, economic development\, health and well-being\, the environment\, and arts and culture. A signatory of The Giving Pledge\, he remains committed to using philanthropy to build more equitable\, vibrant communities.\n\nTo lead the conversation\, Pérez will be joined by José Carlos Diaz\, a specialist in modern and contemporary art with extensive experience in exhibition making\, programming\, and public art projects. He is the Senior Director of Curatorial Affairs & Chief Curator at the Pérez Art Museum Miami. \n\nWith support from the U-M Museum of Art.\n\nSeries presenting partners: Detroit PBS\, ALL ARTS\, and PBS Books. Media partner: Michigan Public.
UID:150486-21909509@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150486
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20261012T121522
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261120T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261120T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Fore-Site (Phase 3): The Stamps Gallery Pillar Project
DESCRIPTION:\n\nFrom September 2025 through December 2026\, Stamps Gallery is partnering in a curatorial collaboration with two Southeast Michigan-based\, artist-run project spaces led by Stamps alumni: C.Y.N.K. Studios\, directed by Sally Clegg (Lecturer III and Student Exhibition Coordinator\, MFA ’20) and Abhishek Narula (MFA ’20)\; and Sometimes Space\, directed by Nathan Byrne (Lecturer I\, MFA ’21). Each space hosts dozens of artists annually for exhibitions\, performances\, and events\, fostering experimental work and building community. For this project\, Byrne\, Clegg\, and Narula have been commissioned to reimagine the pillars on Division Street that flank the gallery. In response\, they’ve curated six artists to create new work for the pillars over three cycles:\n\nPhase 1 (September 12 - December 12) artists: Amelia Burns (Cranbrook MFA ’23) and Erin McKenna (MFA ’20)\nPhase 2 (January 12 - August 12) artists: Sally Clegg (MFA ’20) and Kim Karlsrud (MFA ’20)\nPhase 3 (September 11 - December 11) artists: Abhishek Narula (MFA ’20) and Nathan Byrne (MFA ’21)\nPhase 3 \n\nCurated by Sometimes Space: Abhishek Narula (entry pillar)\nCurated by CYNK Studios: Nathan Byrne (courtyard pillar)\n\nArtist Statements/Bios\n\nAbhishek Narula\, Compressions \nCompressions is an installation comprised of 416 industrial-grade zip ties\, cinched around the entry pillar of the Stamps Gallery. The pillar measures roughly 110 inches in circumference\, requiring two ties per row to wrap around it\, resulting in 208 rows. The humble zip tie\, typically used to hang and bind other material\, is relegated to its functional properties rendering it unprepossessing and easily dismissed. The zip tie in this installation\, instead serves as an object of aesthetic possibility\, pulling it out of its usual background role to become the work itself. The resulting composition is a proposal to dwell\, to slow down\, and to simply see the pillar.\n\nAbhishek Narula is an artist\, designer\, and educator who works across sculpture\, installation\, sound\, and video. His practice takes the form of interventions\, working with what is already present. He reorients and disrupts objects and sites in order to open up formal possibilities and poetic experiences within the familiar. He is influenced by physical and digital infrastructural systems that sustain modern life and culture. His work treats this ambience itself as raw material for aesthetic inquiry\, exploring themes of labor\, precarity\, temporality and the sublime. Narula earned his MFA in Studio Art from the University of Michigan Stamps School of Art & Design and his MS/BS in Electrical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology. His work has been exhibited at national and international venues such as the Ammerman Center for Arts and Technology\, Science Gallery Detroit\, Speculum Artium Media Festival in Slovenia\, New Media Caucus (NMC)\, WaveFarm\, The Boulder Public Library\, The Hyde Park Art Center\, Sector 2337 Art Gallery & Printing Press\, Tangible Embedded Interaction (TEI)\, International Symposium of Electronic Arts (ISEA)\, among others. He is a Robotics Systems Designer and Lecturer in the Robotics Department at the University of Michigan. Website / Instagram\n\nNathan Byrne\, Equally To Be Loved\nEqually To Be Loved is an image / object scaled to and installed upon the courtyard pillar of Stamps Gallery. The image is of a spontaneous sculpture made in 2017 during the first day of an artist residency at the Recology San Francisco A.I.R. Program. The sculpture was constructed in a storage container studio using 14 discrete objects that were in his studio upon entry. For Byrne\, this work embodies the energy and spirit of a studio at the start of a particularly fecund period of making. This work speaks to the artist’s interest in embodied experience of space\, archival and site responsiveness\, as well as his ongoing engagement with found materials. Byrne considers this project to be a far-flung sequel to his MFA thesis exhibition Equally Empty\, which was shown at Stamps Gallery in 2021. Equally To Be Loved is the second line of the Buddhist mantra from which both titles are derived.\n\nNathan Byrne is an artist / educator / curator currently based in Detroit\, MI. Through spatial and archive responsive projects\, he reimagines\, and explores within frameworks such as language\, the passage of time\, and contemplation. Intrigued by the potential of conveying phenomenal\, transformative\, and emotive states through materiality\, process\, and placement\, he negotiates the pliability of the viewer’s encounters with objects and environments. Byrne holds an MFA in Art from the University of Michigan Stamps School of Art & Design and a BA in Studio Art and Art History from San Francisco State University. He has been a Lecturer at Stamps School of Art & Design since the Fall of 2022. His work is exhibited widely nationally and he is a recipient of the VSC Fellowship at Vermont Studio Center. He has been awarded numerous artist residencies including Anderson Ranch Arts Center\, I-Park\, KHN Center for the Arts\, Prairie Ronde\, Recology San Francisco A.I.R. Program\, and Rockland Woods. Website / Instagram
UID:138033-21881367@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138033
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260924T121524
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261120T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261120T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Cosmo Whyte: Under the Quiet\, Beyond the Eye
DESCRIPTION:\n\nCurated by Srimoyee Mitra\n\nStamps Gallery kicks off the fall 2026 semester with an ambitious mid-career survey of interdisciplinary artist Cosmo Whyte. Born and raised in Jamaica\, Whyte completed a BFA from Bennington College and earned an MFA from the University of Michigan. He is currently a faculty member at the School of the Arts and Architecture\, UCLA.\n\nThis exhibition brings together two central concerns that animate Whyte’s artistic practice: the archive\, both personal and public\, as a site of disturbance\; and migration as a lived experience of refuge\, refusal\, and reinvention. In Whyte’s work\, the archive is never static or neutral. Rather\, it is a contested space where official histories encounter memory\, inheritance\, and the fragments of stories carried across generations. His practice moves within this charged interstitial terrain\, between what has been recorded and what has been remembered\, between institutional knowledge and embodied experience. Whyte invites the viewer to consider the fluidity of geographic borders and layered cultural identities that have persisted despite societal unrest caused by racial and socio-economic hierarchies across generations. In an era of intensified border politics and renewed debates over national identity\, Whyte’s work offers a timely meditation on memory\, movement\, and belonging.\n\nPresented with support from the U-M Institute for Humanities\, the U-M LSA Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies\, and the U-M Library.
UID:149541-21906644@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149541
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260921T181527
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261120T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261120T200000
SUMMARY:Reception / Open House:Stamps Graduate and Faculty Open Studios
DESCRIPTION:\n\nYou’re Invited: Stamps Graduate and Faculty Open Studios\n\nJoin us from 5-8 PM on Friday\, November 20\, 2026 at the Stamps Graduate and Faculty Studios for a celebratory evening of art\, conversation\, and community. Graduate students and faculty with studios at Green Road will open their doors and welcome visitors in for casual conversations about their creative process\, artistic practice\, and research. In addition to opening individual artist studios to the public\, graduate students and faculty will present screenings\, performances\, music\, art editions and more\, with refreshments available.\n\n Celebrate the exciting art-making happening at the studios! RSVP is optional\, but will help us to plan for the event.\n\nMDes Students\nDaniela Ruiz Barajas\, Nicole Hu\, Rae Nawrocki\, Faezeh Salamat\, and Jake Stucker\n\nMFA Students\nJames Asava\, Davariz Broaden\, Bert Cook\, Isa Estrada\, William Hohe\, Juniper Jones\, Navjeet Kaur\, Amanda D. King\, Jack Liu\, Alyssa Lizzini\, Julianna Sanromán Rojas\, Charlie Dov Schön\, Celia Shaheen\, and Lucy Weaver\n\nFaculty Studios at Green Road\nPedram Baldari\, Sophia Brueckner\, Deepa Butoliya\, Jim Cogswell\, David Chung\, Sara Dean\, Roland Graf\, Quinn Alexandria Hunter\, Nooshin Hakim Javadi\, Carlos Francisco Jackson\, Osman Khan\, Heidi Kumao\, Rebecca Strzelec\, Dylan AT Miner\, Nicole Marroquin\, Rebekah Modrak\, Kelly Murdoch-Kitt\, Tim Parsons\, Endi Poskovic\, Jesse Stiles\, Nick Tobier\, Aaron Turner\, Angela Washko\, Ricky Weaver\, and Emilia Yang\n
UID:152531-21913885@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152531
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20261012T121522
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261121T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261121T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Fore-Site (Phase 3): The Stamps Gallery Pillar Project
DESCRIPTION:\n\nFrom September 2025 through December 2026\, Stamps Gallery is partnering in a curatorial collaboration with two Southeast Michigan-based\, artist-run project spaces led by Stamps alumni: C.Y.N.K. Studios\, directed by Sally Clegg (Lecturer III and Student Exhibition Coordinator\, MFA ’20) and Abhishek Narula (MFA ’20)\; and Sometimes Space\, directed by Nathan Byrne (Lecturer I\, MFA ’21). Each space hosts dozens of artists annually for exhibitions\, performances\, and events\, fostering experimental work and building community. For this project\, Byrne\, Clegg\, and Narula have been commissioned to reimagine the pillars on Division Street that flank the gallery. In response\, they’ve curated six artists to create new work for the pillars over three cycles:\n\nPhase 1 (September 12 - December 12) artists: Amelia Burns (Cranbrook MFA ’23) and Erin McKenna (MFA ’20)\nPhase 2 (January 12 - August 12) artists: Sally Clegg (MFA ’20) and Kim Karlsrud (MFA ’20)\nPhase 3 (September 11 - December 11) artists: Abhishek Narula (MFA ’20) and Nathan Byrne (MFA ’21)\nPhase 3 \n\nCurated by Sometimes Space: Abhishek Narula (entry pillar)\nCurated by CYNK Studios: Nathan Byrne (courtyard pillar)\n\nArtist Statements/Bios\n\nAbhishek Narula\, Compressions \nCompressions is an installation comprised of 416 industrial-grade zip ties\, cinched around the entry pillar of the Stamps Gallery. The pillar measures roughly 110 inches in circumference\, requiring two ties per row to wrap around it\, resulting in 208 rows. The humble zip tie\, typically used to hang and bind other material\, is relegated to its functional properties rendering it unprepossessing and easily dismissed. The zip tie in this installation\, instead serves as an object of aesthetic possibility\, pulling it out of its usual background role to become the work itself. The resulting composition is a proposal to dwell\, to slow down\, and to simply see the pillar.\n\nAbhishek Narula is an artist\, designer\, and educator who works across sculpture\, installation\, sound\, and video. His practice takes the form of interventions\, working with what is already present. He reorients and disrupts objects and sites in order to open up formal possibilities and poetic experiences within the familiar. He is influenced by physical and digital infrastructural systems that sustain modern life and culture. His work treats this ambience itself as raw material for aesthetic inquiry\, exploring themes of labor\, precarity\, temporality and the sublime. Narula earned his MFA in Studio Art from the University of Michigan Stamps School of Art & Design and his MS/BS in Electrical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology. His work has been exhibited at national and international venues such as the Ammerman Center for Arts and Technology\, Science Gallery Detroit\, Speculum Artium Media Festival in Slovenia\, New Media Caucus (NMC)\, WaveFarm\, The Boulder Public Library\, The Hyde Park Art Center\, Sector 2337 Art Gallery & Printing Press\, Tangible Embedded Interaction (TEI)\, International Symposium of Electronic Arts (ISEA)\, among others. He is a Robotics Systems Designer and Lecturer in the Robotics Department at the University of Michigan. Website / Instagram\n\nNathan Byrne\, Equally To Be Loved\nEqually To Be Loved is an image / object scaled to and installed upon the courtyard pillar of Stamps Gallery. The image is of a spontaneous sculpture made in 2017 during the first day of an artist residency at the Recology San Francisco A.I.R. Program. The sculpture was constructed in a storage container studio using 14 discrete objects that were in his studio upon entry. For Byrne\, this work embodies the energy and spirit of a studio at the start of a particularly fecund period of making. This work speaks to the artist’s interest in embodied experience of space\, archival and site responsiveness\, as well as his ongoing engagement with found materials. Byrne considers this project to be a far-flung sequel to his MFA thesis exhibition Equally Empty\, which was shown at Stamps Gallery in 2021. Equally To Be Loved is the second line of the Buddhist mantra from which both titles are derived.\n\nNathan Byrne is an artist / educator / curator currently based in Detroit\, MI. Through spatial and archive responsive projects\, he reimagines\, and explores within frameworks such as language\, the passage of time\, and contemplation. Intrigued by the potential of conveying phenomenal\, transformative\, and emotive states through materiality\, process\, and placement\, he negotiates the pliability of the viewer’s encounters with objects and environments. Byrne holds an MFA in Art from the University of Michigan Stamps School of Art & Design and a BA in Studio Art and Art History from San Francisco State University. He has been a Lecturer at Stamps School of Art & Design since the Fall of 2022. His work is exhibited widely nationally and he is a recipient of the VSC Fellowship at Vermont Studio Center. He has been awarded numerous artist residencies including Anderson Ranch Arts Center\, I-Park\, KHN Center for the Arts\, Prairie Ronde\, Recology San Francisco A.I.R. Program\, and Rockland Woods. Website / Instagram
UID:138033-21881368@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138033
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260924T121524
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261121T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261121T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Cosmo Whyte: Under the Quiet\, Beyond the Eye
DESCRIPTION:\n\nCurated by Srimoyee Mitra\n\nStamps Gallery kicks off the fall 2026 semester with an ambitious mid-career survey of interdisciplinary artist Cosmo Whyte. Born and raised in Jamaica\, Whyte completed a BFA from Bennington College and earned an MFA from the University of Michigan. He is currently a faculty member at the School of the Arts and Architecture\, UCLA.\n\nThis exhibition brings together two central concerns that animate Whyte’s artistic practice: the archive\, both personal and public\, as a site of disturbance\; and migration as a lived experience of refuge\, refusal\, and reinvention. In Whyte’s work\, the archive is never static or neutral. Rather\, it is a contested space where official histories encounter memory\, inheritance\, and the fragments of stories carried across generations. His practice moves within this charged interstitial terrain\, between what has been recorded and what has been remembered\, between institutional knowledge and embodied experience. Whyte invites the viewer to consider the fluidity of geographic borders and layered cultural identities that have persisted despite societal unrest caused by racial and socio-economic hierarchies across generations. In an era of intensified border politics and renewed debates over national identity\, Whyte’s work offers a timely meditation on memory\, movement\, and belonging.\n\nPresented with support from the U-M Institute for Humanities\, the U-M LSA Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies\, and the U-M Library.
UID:149541-21906645@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149541
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260924T121524
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261124T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261124T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Cosmo Whyte: Under the Quiet\, Beyond the Eye
DESCRIPTION:\n\nCurated by Srimoyee Mitra\n\nStamps Gallery kicks off the fall 2026 semester with an ambitious mid-career survey of interdisciplinary artist Cosmo Whyte. Born and raised in Jamaica\, Whyte completed a BFA from Bennington College and earned an MFA from the University of Michigan. He is currently a faculty member at the School of the Arts and Architecture\, UCLA.\n\nThis exhibition brings together two central concerns that animate Whyte’s artistic practice: the archive\, both personal and public\, as a site of disturbance\; and migration as a lived experience of refuge\, refusal\, and reinvention. In Whyte’s work\, the archive is never static or neutral. Rather\, it is a contested space where official histories encounter memory\, inheritance\, and the fragments of stories carried across generations. His practice moves within this charged interstitial terrain\, between what has been recorded and what has been remembered\, between institutional knowledge and embodied experience. Whyte invites the viewer to consider the fluidity of geographic borders and layered cultural identities that have persisted despite societal unrest caused by racial and socio-economic hierarchies across generations. In an era of intensified border politics and renewed debates over national identity\, Whyte’s work offers a timely meditation on memory\, movement\, and belonging.\n\nPresented with support from the U-M Institute for Humanities\, the U-M LSA Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies\, and the U-M Library.
UID:149541-21906646@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149541
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20261012T121522
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261125T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261125T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Fore-Site (Phase 3): The Stamps Gallery Pillar Project
DESCRIPTION:\n\nFrom September 2025 through December 2026\, Stamps Gallery is partnering in a curatorial collaboration with two Southeast Michigan-based\, artist-run project spaces led by Stamps alumni: C.Y.N.K. Studios\, directed by Sally Clegg (Lecturer III and Student Exhibition Coordinator\, MFA ’20) and Abhishek Narula (MFA ’20)\; and Sometimes Space\, directed by Nathan Byrne (Lecturer I\, MFA ’21). Each space hosts dozens of artists annually for exhibitions\, performances\, and events\, fostering experimental work and building community. For this project\, Byrne\, Clegg\, and Narula have been commissioned to reimagine the pillars on Division Street that flank the gallery. In response\, they’ve curated six artists to create new work for the pillars over three cycles:\n\nPhase 1 (September 12 - December 12) artists: Amelia Burns (Cranbrook MFA ’23) and Erin McKenna (MFA ’20)\nPhase 2 (January 12 - August 12) artists: Sally Clegg (MFA ’20) and Kim Karlsrud (MFA ’20)\nPhase 3 (September 11 - December 11) artists: Abhishek Narula (MFA ’20) and Nathan Byrne (MFA ’21)\nPhase 3 \n\nCurated by Sometimes Space: Abhishek Narula (entry pillar)\nCurated by CYNK Studios: Nathan Byrne (courtyard pillar)\n\nArtist Statements/Bios\n\nAbhishek Narula\, Compressions \nCompressions is an installation comprised of 416 industrial-grade zip ties\, cinched around the entry pillar of the Stamps Gallery. The pillar measures roughly 110 inches in circumference\, requiring two ties per row to wrap around it\, resulting in 208 rows. The humble zip tie\, typically used to hang and bind other material\, is relegated to its functional properties rendering it unprepossessing and easily dismissed. The zip tie in this installation\, instead serves as an object of aesthetic possibility\, pulling it out of its usual background role to become the work itself. The resulting composition is a proposal to dwell\, to slow down\, and to simply see the pillar.\n\nAbhishek Narula is an artist\, designer\, and educator who works across sculpture\, installation\, sound\, and video. His practice takes the form of interventions\, working with what is already present. He reorients and disrupts objects and sites in order to open up formal possibilities and poetic experiences within the familiar. He is influenced by physical and digital infrastructural systems that sustain modern life and culture. His work treats this ambience itself as raw material for aesthetic inquiry\, exploring themes of labor\, precarity\, temporality and the sublime. Narula earned his MFA in Studio Art from the University of Michigan Stamps School of Art & Design and his MS/BS in Electrical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology. His work has been exhibited at national and international venues such as the Ammerman Center for Arts and Technology\, Science Gallery Detroit\, Speculum Artium Media Festival in Slovenia\, New Media Caucus (NMC)\, WaveFarm\, The Boulder Public Library\, The Hyde Park Art Center\, Sector 2337 Art Gallery & Printing Press\, Tangible Embedded Interaction (TEI)\, International Symposium of Electronic Arts (ISEA)\, among others. He is a Robotics Systems Designer and Lecturer in the Robotics Department at the University of Michigan. Website / Instagram\n\nNathan Byrne\, Equally To Be Loved\nEqually To Be Loved is an image / object scaled to and installed upon the courtyard pillar of Stamps Gallery. The image is of a spontaneous sculpture made in 2017 during the first day of an artist residency at the Recology San Francisco A.I.R. Program. The sculpture was constructed in a storage container studio using 14 discrete objects that were in his studio upon entry. For Byrne\, this work embodies the energy and spirit of a studio at the start of a particularly fecund period of making. This work speaks to the artist’s interest in embodied experience of space\, archival and site responsiveness\, as well as his ongoing engagement with found materials. Byrne considers this project to be a far-flung sequel to his MFA thesis exhibition Equally Empty\, which was shown at Stamps Gallery in 2021. Equally To Be Loved is the second line of the Buddhist mantra from which both titles are derived.\n\nNathan Byrne is an artist / educator / curator currently based in Detroit\, MI. Through spatial and archive responsive projects\, he reimagines\, and explores within frameworks such as language\, the passage of time\, and contemplation. Intrigued by the potential of conveying phenomenal\, transformative\, and emotive states through materiality\, process\, and placement\, he negotiates the pliability of the viewer’s encounters with objects and environments. Byrne holds an MFA in Art from the University of Michigan Stamps School of Art & Design and a BA in Studio Art and Art History from San Francisco State University. He has been a Lecturer at Stamps School of Art & Design since the Fall of 2022. His work is exhibited widely nationally and he is a recipient of the VSC Fellowship at Vermont Studio Center. He has been awarded numerous artist residencies including Anderson Ranch Arts Center\, I-Park\, KHN Center for the Arts\, Prairie Ronde\, Recology San Francisco A.I.R. Program\, and Rockland Woods. Website / Instagram
UID:138033-21881369@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138033
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260924T121524
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261125T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261125T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Cosmo Whyte: Under the Quiet\, Beyond the Eye
DESCRIPTION:\n\nCurated by Srimoyee Mitra\n\nStamps Gallery kicks off the fall 2026 semester with an ambitious mid-career survey of interdisciplinary artist Cosmo Whyte. Born and raised in Jamaica\, Whyte completed a BFA from Bennington College and earned an MFA from the University of Michigan. He is currently a faculty member at the School of the Arts and Architecture\, UCLA.\n\nThis exhibition brings together two central concerns that animate Whyte’s artistic practice: the archive\, both personal and public\, as a site of disturbance\; and migration as a lived experience of refuge\, refusal\, and reinvention. In Whyte’s work\, the archive is never static or neutral. Rather\, it is a contested space where official histories encounter memory\, inheritance\, and the fragments of stories carried across generations. His practice moves within this charged interstitial terrain\, between what has been recorded and what has been remembered\, between institutional knowledge and embodied experience. Whyte invites the viewer to consider the fluidity of geographic borders and layered cultural identities that have persisted despite societal unrest caused by racial and socio-economic hierarchies across generations. In an era of intensified border politics and renewed debates over national identity\, Whyte’s work offers a timely meditation on memory\, movement\, and belonging.\n\nPresented with support from the U-M Institute for Humanities\, the U-M LSA Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies\, and the U-M Library.
UID:149541-21906647@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149541
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20261012T121522
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261126T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261126T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Fore-Site (Phase 3): The Stamps Gallery Pillar Project
DESCRIPTION:\n\nFrom September 2025 through December 2026\, Stamps Gallery is partnering in a curatorial collaboration with two Southeast Michigan-based\, artist-run project spaces led by Stamps alumni: C.Y.N.K. Studios\, directed by Sally Clegg (Lecturer III and Student Exhibition Coordinator\, MFA ’20) and Abhishek Narula (MFA ’20)\; and Sometimes Space\, directed by Nathan Byrne (Lecturer I\, MFA ’21). Each space hosts dozens of artists annually for exhibitions\, performances\, and events\, fostering experimental work and building community. For this project\, Byrne\, Clegg\, and Narula have been commissioned to reimagine the pillars on Division Street that flank the gallery. In response\, they’ve curated six artists to create new work for the pillars over three cycles:\n\nPhase 1 (September 12 - December 12) artists: Amelia Burns (Cranbrook MFA ’23) and Erin McKenna (MFA ’20)\nPhase 2 (January 12 - August 12) artists: Sally Clegg (MFA ’20) and Kim Karlsrud (MFA ’20)\nPhase 3 (September 11 - December 11) artists: Abhishek Narula (MFA ’20) and Nathan Byrne (MFA ’21)\nPhase 3 \n\nCurated by Sometimes Space: Abhishek Narula (entry pillar)\nCurated by CYNK Studios: Nathan Byrne (courtyard pillar)\n\nArtist Statements/Bios\n\nAbhishek Narula\, Compressions \nCompressions is an installation comprised of 416 industrial-grade zip ties\, cinched around the entry pillar of the Stamps Gallery. The pillar measures roughly 110 inches in circumference\, requiring two ties per row to wrap around it\, resulting in 208 rows. The humble zip tie\, typically used to hang and bind other material\, is relegated to its functional properties rendering it unprepossessing and easily dismissed. The zip tie in this installation\, instead serves as an object of aesthetic possibility\, pulling it out of its usual background role to become the work itself. The resulting composition is a proposal to dwell\, to slow down\, and to simply see the pillar.\n\nAbhishek Narula is an artist\, designer\, and educator who works across sculpture\, installation\, sound\, and video. His practice takes the form of interventions\, working with what is already present. He reorients and disrupts objects and sites in order to open up formal possibilities and poetic experiences within the familiar. He is influenced by physical and digital infrastructural systems that sustain modern life and culture. His work treats this ambience itself as raw material for aesthetic inquiry\, exploring themes of labor\, precarity\, temporality and the sublime. Narula earned his MFA in Studio Art from the University of Michigan Stamps School of Art & Design and his MS/BS in Electrical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology. His work has been exhibited at national and international venues such as the Ammerman Center for Arts and Technology\, Science Gallery Detroit\, Speculum Artium Media Festival in Slovenia\, New Media Caucus (NMC)\, WaveFarm\, The Boulder Public Library\, The Hyde Park Art Center\, Sector 2337 Art Gallery & Printing Press\, Tangible Embedded Interaction (TEI)\, International Symposium of Electronic Arts (ISEA)\, among others. He is a Robotics Systems Designer and Lecturer in the Robotics Department at the University of Michigan. Website / Instagram\n\nNathan Byrne\, Equally To Be Loved\nEqually To Be Loved is an image / object scaled to and installed upon the courtyard pillar of Stamps Gallery. The image is of a spontaneous sculpture made in 2017 during the first day of an artist residency at the Recology San Francisco A.I.R. Program. The sculpture was constructed in a storage container studio using 14 discrete objects that were in his studio upon entry. For Byrne\, this work embodies the energy and spirit of a studio at the start of a particularly fecund period of making. This work speaks to the artist’s interest in embodied experience of space\, archival and site responsiveness\, as well as his ongoing engagement with found materials. Byrne considers this project to be a far-flung sequel to his MFA thesis exhibition Equally Empty\, which was shown at Stamps Gallery in 2021. Equally To Be Loved is the second line of the Buddhist mantra from which both titles are derived.\n\nNathan Byrne is an artist / educator / curator currently based in Detroit\, MI. Through spatial and archive responsive projects\, he reimagines\, and explores within frameworks such as language\, the passage of time\, and contemplation. Intrigued by the potential of conveying phenomenal\, transformative\, and emotive states through materiality\, process\, and placement\, he negotiates the pliability of the viewer’s encounters with objects and environments. Byrne holds an MFA in Art from the University of Michigan Stamps School of Art & Design and a BA in Studio Art and Art History from San Francisco State University. He has been a Lecturer at Stamps School of Art & Design since the Fall of 2022. His work is exhibited widely nationally and he is a recipient of the VSC Fellowship at Vermont Studio Center. He has been awarded numerous artist residencies including Anderson Ranch Arts Center\, I-Park\, KHN Center for the Arts\, Prairie Ronde\, Recology San Francisco A.I.R. Program\, and Rockland Woods. Website / Instagram
UID:138033-21881370@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138033
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260924T121524
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261126T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261126T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Cosmo Whyte: Under the Quiet\, Beyond the Eye
DESCRIPTION:\n\nCurated by Srimoyee Mitra\n\nStamps Gallery kicks off the fall 2026 semester with an ambitious mid-career survey of interdisciplinary artist Cosmo Whyte. Born and raised in Jamaica\, Whyte completed a BFA from Bennington College and earned an MFA from the University of Michigan. He is currently a faculty member at the School of the Arts and Architecture\, UCLA.\n\nThis exhibition brings together two central concerns that animate Whyte’s artistic practice: the archive\, both personal and public\, as a site of disturbance\; and migration as a lived experience of refuge\, refusal\, and reinvention. In Whyte’s work\, the archive is never static or neutral. Rather\, it is a contested space where official histories encounter memory\, inheritance\, and the fragments of stories carried across generations. His practice moves within this charged interstitial terrain\, between what has been recorded and what has been remembered\, between institutional knowledge and embodied experience. Whyte invites the viewer to consider the fluidity of geographic borders and layered cultural identities that have persisted despite societal unrest caused by racial and socio-economic hierarchies across generations. In an era of intensified border politics and renewed debates over national identity\, Whyte’s work offers a timely meditation on memory\, movement\, and belonging.\n\nPresented with support from the U-M Institute for Humanities\, the U-M LSA Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies\, and the U-M Library.
UID:149541-21906648@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149541
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20261012T121522
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261127T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261127T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Fore-Site (Phase 3): The Stamps Gallery Pillar Project
DESCRIPTION:\n\nFrom September 2025 through December 2026\, Stamps Gallery is partnering in a curatorial collaboration with two Southeast Michigan-based\, artist-run project spaces led by Stamps alumni: C.Y.N.K. Studios\, directed by Sally Clegg (Lecturer III and Student Exhibition Coordinator\, MFA ’20) and Abhishek Narula (MFA ’20)\; and Sometimes Space\, directed by Nathan Byrne (Lecturer I\, MFA ’21). Each space hosts dozens of artists annually for exhibitions\, performances\, and events\, fostering experimental work and building community. For this project\, Byrne\, Clegg\, and Narula have been commissioned to reimagine the pillars on Division Street that flank the gallery. In response\, they’ve curated six artists to create new work for the pillars over three cycles:\n\nPhase 1 (September 12 - December 12) artists: Amelia Burns (Cranbrook MFA ’23) and Erin McKenna (MFA ’20)\nPhase 2 (January 12 - August 12) artists: Sally Clegg (MFA ’20) and Kim Karlsrud (MFA ’20)\nPhase 3 (September 11 - December 11) artists: Abhishek Narula (MFA ’20) and Nathan Byrne (MFA ’21)\nPhase 3 \n\nCurated by Sometimes Space: Abhishek Narula (entry pillar)\nCurated by CYNK Studios: Nathan Byrne (courtyard pillar)\n\nArtist Statements/Bios\n\nAbhishek Narula\, Compressions \nCompressions is an installation comprised of 416 industrial-grade zip ties\, cinched around the entry pillar of the Stamps Gallery. The pillar measures roughly 110 inches in circumference\, requiring two ties per row to wrap around it\, resulting in 208 rows. The humble zip tie\, typically used to hang and bind other material\, is relegated to its functional properties rendering it unprepossessing and easily dismissed. The zip tie in this installation\, instead serves as an object of aesthetic possibility\, pulling it out of its usual background role to become the work itself. The resulting composition is a proposal to dwell\, to slow down\, and to simply see the pillar.\n\nAbhishek Narula is an artist\, designer\, and educator who works across sculpture\, installation\, sound\, and video. His practice takes the form of interventions\, working with what is already present. He reorients and disrupts objects and sites in order to open up formal possibilities and poetic experiences within the familiar. He is influenced by physical and digital infrastructural systems that sustain modern life and culture. His work treats this ambience itself as raw material for aesthetic inquiry\, exploring themes of labor\, precarity\, temporality and the sublime. Narula earned his MFA in Studio Art from the University of Michigan Stamps School of Art & Design and his MS/BS in Electrical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology. His work has been exhibited at national and international venues such as the Ammerman Center for Arts and Technology\, Science Gallery Detroit\, Speculum Artium Media Festival in Slovenia\, New Media Caucus (NMC)\, WaveFarm\, The Boulder Public Library\, The Hyde Park Art Center\, Sector 2337 Art Gallery & Printing Press\, Tangible Embedded Interaction (TEI)\, International Symposium of Electronic Arts (ISEA)\, among others. He is a Robotics Systems Designer and Lecturer in the Robotics Department at the University of Michigan. Website / Instagram\n\nNathan Byrne\, Equally To Be Loved\nEqually To Be Loved is an image / object scaled to and installed upon the courtyard pillar of Stamps Gallery. The image is of a spontaneous sculpture made in 2017 during the first day of an artist residency at the Recology San Francisco A.I.R. Program. The sculpture was constructed in a storage container studio using 14 discrete objects that were in his studio upon entry. For Byrne\, this work embodies the energy and spirit of a studio at the start of a particularly fecund period of making. This work speaks to the artist’s interest in embodied experience of space\, archival and site responsiveness\, as well as his ongoing engagement with found materials. Byrne considers this project to be a far-flung sequel to his MFA thesis exhibition Equally Empty\, which was shown at Stamps Gallery in 2021. Equally To Be Loved is the second line of the Buddhist mantra from which both titles are derived.\n\nNathan Byrne is an artist / educator / curator currently based in Detroit\, MI. Through spatial and archive responsive projects\, he reimagines\, and explores within frameworks such as language\, the passage of time\, and contemplation. Intrigued by the potential of conveying phenomenal\, transformative\, and emotive states through materiality\, process\, and placement\, he negotiates the pliability of the viewer’s encounters with objects and environments. Byrne holds an MFA in Art from the University of Michigan Stamps School of Art & Design and a BA in Studio Art and Art History from San Francisco State University. He has been a Lecturer at Stamps School of Art & Design since the Fall of 2022. His work is exhibited widely nationally and he is a recipient of the VSC Fellowship at Vermont Studio Center. He has been awarded numerous artist residencies including Anderson Ranch Arts Center\, I-Park\, KHN Center for the Arts\, Prairie Ronde\, Recology San Francisco A.I.R. Program\, and Rockland Woods. Website / Instagram
UID:138033-21881371@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138033
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260924T121524
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261127T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261127T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Cosmo Whyte: Under the Quiet\, Beyond the Eye
DESCRIPTION:\n\nCurated by Srimoyee Mitra\n\nStamps Gallery kicks off the fall 2026 semester with an ambitious mid-career survey of interdisciplinary artist Cosmo Whyte. Born and raised in Jamaica\, Whyte completed a BFA from Bennington College and earned an MFA from the University of Michigan. He is currently a faculty member at the School of the Arts and Architecture\, UCLA.\n\nThis exhibition brings together two central concerns that animate Whyte’s artistic practice: the archive\, both personal and public\, as a site of disturbance\; and migration as a lived experience of refuge\, refusal\, and reinvention. In Whyte’s work\, the archive is never static or neutral. Rather\, it is a contested space where official histories encounter memory\, inheritance\, and the fragments of stories carried across generations. His practice moves within this charged interstitial terrain\, between what has been recorded and what has been remembered\, between institutional knowledge and embodied experience. Whyte invites the viewer to consider the fluidity of geographic borders and layered cultural identities that have persisted despite societal unrest caused by racial and socio-economic hierarchies across generations. In an era of intensified border politics and renewed debates over national identity\, Whyte’s work offers a timely meditation on memory\, movement\, and belonging.\n\nPresented with support from the U-M Institute for Humanities\, the U-M LSA Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies\, and the U-M Library.
UID:149541-21906649@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149541
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20261012T121522
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261128T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261128T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Fore-Site (Phase 3): The Stamps Gallery Pillar Project
DESCRIPTION:\n\nFrom September 2025 through December 2026\, Stamps Gallery is partnering in a curatorial collaboration with two Southeast Michigan-based\, artist-run project spaces led by Stamps alumni: C.Y.N.K. Studios\, directed by Sally Clegg (Lecturer III and Student Exhibition Coordinator\, MFA ’20) and Abhishek Narula (MFA ’20)\; and Sometimes Space\, directed by Nathan Byrne (Lecturer I\, MFA ’21). Each space hosts dozens of artists annually for exhibitions\, performances\, and events\, fostering experimental work and building community. For this project\, Byrne\, Clegg\, and Narula have been commissioned to reimagine the pillars on Division Street that flank the gallery. In response\, they’ve curated six artists to create new work for the pillars over three cycles:\n\nPhase 1 (September 12 - December 12) artists: Amelia Burns (Cranbrook MFA ’23) and Erin McKenna (MFA ’20)\nPhase 2 (January 12 - August 12) artists: Sally Clegg (MFA ’20) and Kim Karlsrud (MFA ’20)\nPhase 3 (September 11 - December 11) artists: Abhishek Narula (MFA ’20) and Nathan Byrne (MFA ’21)\nPhase 3 \n\nCurated by Sometimes Space: Abhishek Narula (entry pillar)\nCurated by CYNK Studios: Nathan Byrne (courtyard pillar)\n\nArtist Statements/Bios\n\nAbhishek Narula\, Compressions \nCompressions is an installation comprised of 416 industrial-grade zip ties\, cinched around the entry pillar of the Stamps Gallery. The pillar measures roughly 110 inches in circumference\, requiring two ties per row to wrap around it\, resulting in 208 rows. The humble zip tie\, typically used to hang and bind other material\, is relegated to its functional properties rendering it unprepossessing and easily dismissed. The zip tie in this installation\, instead serves as an object of aesthetic possibility\, pulling it out of its usual background role to become the work itself. The resulting composition is a proposal to dwell\, to slow down\, and to simply see the pillar.\n\nAbhishek Narula is an artist\, designer\, and educator who works across sculpture\, installation\, sound\, and video. His practice takes the form of interventions\, working with what is already present. He reorients and disrupts objects and sites in order to open up formal possibilities and poetic experiences within the familiar. He is influenced by physical and digital infrastructural systems that sustain modern life and culture. His work treats this ambience itself as raw material for aesthetic inquiry\, exploring themes of labor\, precarity\, temporality and the sublime. Narula earned his MFA in Studio Art from the University of Michigan Stamps School of Art & Design and his MS/BS in Electrical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology. His work has been exhibited at national and international venues such as the Ammerman Center for Arts and Technology\, Science Gallery Detroit\, Speculum Artium Media Festival in Slovenia\, New Media Caucus (NMC)\, WaveFarm\, The Boulder Public Library\, The Hyde Park Art Center\, Sector 2337 Art Gallery & Printing Press\, Tangible Embedded Interaction (TEI)\, International Symposium of Electronic Arts (ISEA)\, among others. He is a Robotics Systems Designer and Lecturer in the Robotics Department at the University of Michigan. Website / Instagram\n\nNathan Byrne\, Equally To Be Loved\nEqually To Be Loved is an image / object scaled to and installed upon the courtyard pillar of Stamps Gallery. The image is of a spontaneous sculpture made in 2017 during the first day of an artist residency at the Recology San Francisco A.I.R. Program. The sculpture was constructed in a storage container studio using 14 discrete objects that were in his studio upon entry. For Byrne\, this work embodies the energy and spirit of a studio at the start of a particularly fecund period of making. This work speaks to the artist’s interest in embodied experience of space\, archival and site responsiveness\, as well as his ongoing engagement with found materials. Byrne considers this project to be a far-flung sequel to his MFA thesis exhibition Equally Empty\, which was shown at Stamps Gallery in 2021. Equally To Be Loved is the second line of the Buddhist mantra from which both titles are derived.\n\nNathan Byrne is an artist / educator / curator currently based in Detroit\, MI. Through spatial and archive responsive projects\, he reimagines\, and explores within frameworks such as language\, the passage of time\, and contemplation. Intrigued by the potential of conveying phenomenal\, transformative\, and emotive states through materiality\, process\, and placement\, he negotiates the pliability of the viewer’s encounters with objects and environments. Byrne holds an MFA in Art from the University of Michigan Stamps School of Art & Design and a BA in Studio Art and Art History from San Francisco State University. He has been a Lecturer at Stamps School of Art & Design since the Fall of 2022. His work is exhibited widely nationally and he is a recipient of the VSC Fellowship at Vermont Studio Center. He has been awarded numerous artist residencies including Anderson Ranch Arts Center\, I-Park\, KHN Center for the Arts\, Prairie Ronde\, Recology San Francisco A.I.R. Program\, and Rockland Woods. Website / Instagram
UID:138033-21881372@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138033
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260924T121524
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261128T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261128T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Cosmo Whyte: Under the Quiet\, Beyond the Eye
DESCRIPTION:\n\nCurated by Srimoyee Mitra\n\nStamps Gallery kicks off the fall 2026 semester with an ambitious mid-career survey of interdisciplinary artist Cosmo Whyte. Born and raised in Jamaica\, Whyte completed a BFA from Bennington College and earned an MFA from the University of Michigan. He is currently a faculty member at the School of the Arts and Architecture\, UCLA.\n\nThis exhibition brings together two central concerns that animate Whyte’s artistic practice: the archive\, both personal and public\, as a site of disturbance\; and migration as a lived experience of refuge\, refusal\, and reinvention. In Whyte’s work\, the archive is never static or neutral. Rather\, it is a contested space where official histories encounter memory\, inheritance\, and the fragments of stories carried across generations. His practice moves within this charged interstitial terrain\, between what has been recorded and what has been remembered\, between institutional knowledge and embodied experience. Whyte invites the viewer to consider the fluidity of geographic borders and layered cultural identities that have persisted despite societal unrest caused by racial and socio-economic hierarchies across generations. In an era of intensified border politics and renewed debates over national identity\, Whyte’s work offers a timely meditation on memory\, movement\, and belonging.\n\nPresented with support from the U-M Institute for Humanities\, the U-M LSA Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies\, and the U-M Library.
UID:149541-21906650@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149541
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260924T121524
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261201T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261201T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Cosmo Whyte: Under the Quiet\, Beyond the Eye
DESCRIPTION:\n\nCurated by Srimoyee Mitra\n\nStamps Gallery kicks off the fall 2026 semester with an ambitious mid-career survey of interdisciplinary artist Cosmo Whyte. Born and raised in Jamaica\, Whyte completed a BFA from Bennington College and earned an MFA from the University of Michigan. He is currently a faculty member at the School of the Arts and Architecture\, UCLA.\n\nThis exhibition brings together two central concerns that animate Whyte’s artistic practice: the archive\, both personal and public\, as a site of disturbance\; and migration as a lived experience of refuge\, refusal\, and reinvention. In Whyte’s work\, the archive is never static or neutral. Rather\, it is a contested space where official histories encounter memory\, inheritance\, and the fragments of stories carried across generations. His practice moves within this charged interstitial terrain\, between what has been recorded and what has been remembered\, between institutional knowledge and embodied experience. Whyte invites the viewer to consider the fluidity of geographic borders and layered cultural identities that have persisted despite societal unrest caused by racial and socio-economic hierarchies across generations. In an era of intensified border politics and renewed debates over national identity\, Whyte’s work offers a timely meditation on memory\, movement\, and belonging.\n\nPresented with support from the U-M Institute for Humanities\, the U-M LSA Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies\, and the U-M Library.
UID:149541-21906651@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149541
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20261012T121522
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261202T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261202T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Fore-Site (Phase 3): The Stamps Gallery Pillar Project
DESCRIPTION:\n\nFrom September 2025 through December 2026\, Stamps Gallery is partnering in a curatorial collaboration with two Southeast Michigan-based\, artist-run project spaces led by Stamps alumni: C.Y.N.K. Studios\, directed by Sally Clegg (Lecturer III and Student Exhibition Coordinator\, MFA ’20) and Abhishek Narula (MFA ’20)\; and Sometimes Space\, directed by Nathan Byrne (Lecturer I\, MFA ’21). Each space hosts dozens of artists annually for exhibitions\, performances\, and events\, fostering experimental work and building community. For this project\, Byrne\, Clegg\, and Narula have been commissioned to reimagine the pillars on Division Street that flank the gallery. In response\, they’ve curated six artists to create new work for the pillars over three cycles:\n\nPhase 1 (September 12 - December 12) artists: Amelia Burns (Cranbrook MFA ’23) and Erin McKenna (MFA ’20)\nPhase 2 (January 12 - August 12) artists: Sally Clegg (MFA ’20) and Kim Karlsrud (MFA ’20)\nPhase 3 (September 11 - December 11) artists: Abhishek Narula (MFA ’20) and Nathan Byrne (MFA ’21)\nPhase 3 \n\nCurated by Sometimes Space: Abhishek Narula (entry pillar)\nCurated by CYNK Studios: Nathan Byrne (courtyard pillar)\n\nArtist Statements/Bios\n\nAbhishek Narula\, Compressions \nCompressions is an installation comprised of 416 industrial-grade zip ties\, cinched around the entry pillar of the Stamps Gallery. The pillar measures roughly 110 inches in circumference\, requiring two ties per row to wrap around it\, resulting in 208 rows. The humble zip tie\, typically used to hang and bind other material\, is relegated to its functional properties rendering it unprepossessing and easily dismissed. The zip tie in this installation\, instead serves as an object of aesthetic possibility\, pulling it out of its usual background role to become the work itself. The resulting composition is a proposal to dwell\, to slow down\, and to simply see the pillar.\n\nAbhishek Narula is an artist\, designer\, and educator who works across sculpture\, installation\, sound\, and video. His practice takes the form of interventions\, working with what is already present. He reorients and disrupts objects and sites in order to open up formal possibilities and poetic experiences within the familiar. He is influenced by physical and digital infrastructural systems that sustain modern life and culture. His work treats this ambience itself as raw material for aesthetic inquiry\, exploring themes of labor\, precarity\, temporality and the sublime. Narula earned his MFA in Studio Art from the University of Michigan Stamps School of Art & Design and his MS/BS in Electrical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology. His work has been exhibited at national and international venues such as the Ammerman Center for Arts and Technology\, Science Gallery Detroit\, Speculum Artium Media Festival in Slovenia\, New Media Caucus (NMC)\, WaveFarm\, The Boulder Public Library\, The Hyde Park Art Center\, Sector 2337 Art Gallery & Printing Press\, Tangible Embedded Interaction (TEI)\, International Symposium of Electronic Arts (ISEA)\, among others. He is a Robotics Systems Designer and Lecturer in the Robotics Department at the University of Michigan. Website / Instagram\n\nNathan Byrne\, Equally To Be Loved\nEqually To Be Loved is an image / object scaled to and installed upon the courtyard pillar of Stamps Gallery. The image is of a spontaneous sculpture made in 2017 during the first day of an artist residency at the Recology San Francisco A.I.R. Program. The sculpture was constructed in a storage container studio using 14 discrete objects that were in his studio upon entry. For Byrne\, this work embodies the energy and spirit of a studio at the start of a particularly fecund period of making. This work speaks to the artist’s interest in embodied experience of space\, archival and site responsiveness\, as well as his ongoing engagement with found materials. Byrne considers this project to be a far-flung sequel to his MFA thesis exhibition Equally Empty\, which was shown at Stamps Gallery in 2021. Equally To Be Loved is the second line of the Buddhist mantra from which both titles are derived.\n\nNathan Byrne is an artist / educator / curator currently based in Detroit\, MI. Through spatial and archive responsive projects\, he reimagines\, and explores within frameworks such as language\, the passage of time\, and contemplation. Intrigued by the potential of conveying phenomenal\, transformative\, and emotive states through materiality\, process\, and placement\, he negotiates the pliability of the viewer’s encounters with objects and environments. Byrne holds an MFA in Art from the University of Michigan Stamps School of Art & Design and a BA in Studio Art and Art History from San Francisco State University. He has been a Lecturer at Stamps School of Art & Design since the Fall of 2022. His work is exhibited widely nationally and he is a recipient of the VSC Fellowship at Vermont Studio Center. He has been awarded numerous artist residencies including Anderson Ranch Arts Center\, I-Park\, KHN Center for the Arts\, Prairie Ronde\, Recology San Francisco A.I.R. Program\, and Rockland Woods. Website / Instagram
UID:138033-21881373@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138033
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260817T121520
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261202T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261202T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:2026 BA Senior Studio Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:\n\nCelebrate the students of the Bachelor of Arts (BA) Senior Studio in their final year of study. \n\nAt Stamps\, BA Senior Studio (ARTDES 401) is offered for BA students in their final year of study. The BA Senior Studio Exhibition offers these students the opportunity to build on the particular characteristics of the BA degree\, and focus on creating and exhibiting a culminating\, self-directed project. Students work independently or collaboratively to define a project plan with goals\, benchmarks\, and a timeline. \n\nIn the BA Senior Studio Exhibition\, students and instructors work collaboratively to produce a fully self-directed show from start to finish. This new Stamps tradition emphasizes studio work\, as well as the skills and practices associated with producing professional exhibitions.\n
UID:150348-21909066@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150348
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260924T121524
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261202T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261202T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Cosmo Whyte: Under the Quiet\, Beyond the Eye
DESCRIPTION:\n\nCurated by Srimoyee Mitra\n\nStamps Gallery kicks off the fall 2026 semester with an ambitious mid-career survey of interdisciplinary artist Cosmo Whyte. Born and raised in Jamaica\, Whyte completed a BFA from Bennington College and earned an MFA from the University of Michigan. He is currently a faculty member at the School of the Arts and Architecture\, UCLA.\n\nThis exhibition brings together two central concerns that animate Whyte’s artistic practice: the archive\, both personal and public\, as a site of disturbance\; and migration as a lived experience of refuge\, refusal\, and reinvention. In Whyte’s work\, the archive is never static or neutral. Rather\, it is a contested space where official histories encounter memory\, inheritance\, and the fragments of stories carried across generations. His practice moves within this charged interstitial terrain\, between what has been recorded and what has been remembered\, between institutional knowledge and embodied experience. Whyte invites the viewer to consider the fluidity of geographic borders and layered cultural identities that have persisted despite societal unrest caused by racial and socio-economic hierarchies across generations. In an era of intensified border politics and renewed debates over national identity\, Whyte’s work offers a timely meditation on memory\, movement\, and belonging.\n\nPresented with support from the U-M Institute for Humanities\, the U-M LSA Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies\, and the U-M Library.
UID:149541-21906652@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149541
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20261026T121520
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261202T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261202T190000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Panel Discussion: Artist-Run Spaces
DESCRIPTION:\n\nNathan Byrne\, Sally Clegg\, and Abhishek Narula join fellow founding directors of local DIY galleries for a panel discussion and Q&A on the importance of community-led project spaces. Attendees will come away with knowledge of contemporary art and design venues across southeast Michigan\, and practical guidance for launching their own initiatives to create opportunities for themselves and others.\n\nLearn more about the project spaces run by Byrne\, Clegg\, and Narula in this article: Creative Ecosystems\, Reimagined.\n
UID:150349-21909077@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150349
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20261012T121522
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261203T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261203T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Fore-Site (Phase 3): The Stamps Gallery Pillar Project
DESCRIPTION:\n\nFrom September 2025 through December 2026\, Stamps Gallery is partnering in a curatorial collaboration with two Southeast Michigan-based\, artist-run project spaces led by Stamps alumni: C.Y.N.K. Studios\, directed by Sally Clegg (Lecturer III and Student Exhibition Coordinator\, MFA ’20) and Abhishek Narula (MFA ’20)\; and Sometimes Space\, directed by Nathan Byrne (Lecturer I\, MFA ’21). Each space hosts dozens of artists annually for exhibitions\, performances\, and events\, fostering experimental work and building community. For this project\, Byrne\, Clegg\, and Narula have been commissioned to reimagine the pillars on Division Street that flank the gallery. In response\, they’ve curated six artists to create new work for the pillars over three cycles:\n\nPhase 1 (September 12 - December 12) artists: Amelia Burns (Cranbrook MFA ’23) and Erin McKenna (MFA ’20)\nPhase 2 (January 12 - August 12) artists: Sally Clegg (MFA ’20) and Kim Karlsrud (MFA ’20)\nPhase 3 (September 11 - December 11) artists: Abhishek Narula (MFA ’20) and Nathan Byrne (MFA ’21)\nPhase 3 \n\nCurated by Sometimes Space: Abhishek Narula (entry pillar)\nCurated by CYNK Studios: Nathan Byrne (courtyard pillar)\n\nArtist Statements/Bios\n\nAbhishek Narula\, Compressions \nCompressions is an installation comprised of 416 industrial-grade zip ties\, cinched around the entry pillar of the Stamps Gallery. The pillar measures roughly 110 inches in circumference\, requiring two ties per row to wrap around it\, resulting in 208 rows. The humble zip tie\, typically used to hang and bind other material\, is relegated to its functional properties rendering it unprepossessing and easily dismissed. The zip tie in this installation\, instead serves as an object of aesthetic possibility\, pulling it out of its usual background role to become the work itself. The resulting composition is a proposal to dwell\, to slow down\, and to simply see the pillar.\n\nAbhishek Narula is an artist\, designer\, and educator who works across sculpture\, installation\, sound\, and video. His practice takes the form of interventions\, working with what is already present. He reorients and disrupts objects and sites in order to open up formal possibilities and poetic experiences within the familiar. He is influenced by physical and digital infrastructural systems that sustain modern life and culture. His work treats this ambience itself as raw material for aesthetic inquiry\, exploring themes of labor\, precarity\, temporality and the sublime. Narula earned his MFA in Studio Art from the University of Michigan Stamps School of Art & Design and his MS/BS in Electrical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology. His work has been exhibited at national and international venues such as the Ammerman Center for Arts and Technology\, Science Gallery Detroit\, Speculum Artium Media Festival in Slovenia\, New Media Caucus (NMC)\, WaveFarm\, The Boulder Public Library\, The Hyde Park Art Center\, Sector 2337 Art Gallery & Printing Press\, Tangible Embedded Interaction (TEI)\, International Symposium of Electronic Arts (ISEA)\, among others. He is a Robotics Systems Designer and Lecturer in the Robotics Department at the University of Michigan. Website / Instagram\n\nNathan Byrne\, Equally To Be Loved\nEqually To Be Loved is an image / object scaled to and installed upon the courtyard pillar of Stamps Gallery. The image is of a spontaneous sculpture made in 2017 during the first day of an artist residency at the Recology San Francisco A.I.R. Program. The sculpture was constructed in a storage container studio using 14 discrete objects that were in his studio upon entry. For Byrne\, this work embodies the energy and spirit of a studio at the start of a particularly fecund period of making. This work speaks to the artist’s interest in embodied experience of space\, archival and site responsiveness\, as well as his ongoing engagement with found materials. Byrne considers this project to be a far-flung sequel to his MFA thesis exhibition Equally Empty\, which was shown at Stamps Gallery in 2021. Equally To Be Loved is the second line of the Buddhist mantra from which both titles are derived.\n\nNathan Byrne is an artist / educator / curator currently based in Detroit\, MI. Through spatial and archive responsive projects\, he reimagines\, and explores within frameworks such as language\, the passage of time\, and contemplation. Intrigued by the potential of conveying phenomenal\, transformative\, and emotive states through materiality\, process\, and placement\, he negotiates the pliability of the viewer’s encounters with objects and environments. Byrne holds an MFA in Art from the University of Michigan Stamps School of Art & Design and a BA in Studio Art and Art History from San Francisco State University. He has been a Lecturer at Stamps School of Art & Design since the Fall of 2022. His work is exhibited widely nationally and he is a recipient of the VSC Fellowship at Vermont Studio Center. He has been awarded numerous artist residencies including Anderson Ranch Arts Center\, I-Park\, KHN Center for the Arts\, Prairie Ronde\, Recology San Francisco A.I.R. Program\, and Rockland Woods. Website / Instagram
UID:138033-21881374@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138033
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260817T121520
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261203T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261203T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:2026 BA Senior Studio Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:\n\nCelebrate the students of the Bachelor of Arts (BA) Senior Studio in their final year of study. \n\nAt Stamps\, BA Senior Studio (ARTDES 401) is offered for BA students in their final year of study. The BA Senior Studio Exhibition offers these students the opportunity to build on the particular characteristics of the BA degree\, and focus on creating and exhibiting a culminating\, self-directed project. Students work independently or collaboratively to define a project plan with goals\, benchmarks\, and a timeline. \n\nIn the BA Senior Studio Exhibition\, students and instructors work collaboratively to produce a fully self-directed show from start to finish. This new Stamps tradition emphasizes studio work\, as well as the skills and practices associated with producing professional exhibitions.\n
UID:150348-21909067@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150348
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260924T121524
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261203T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261203T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Cosmo Whyte: Under the Quiet\, Beyond the Eye
DESCRIPTION:\n\nCurated by Srimoyee Mitra\n\nStamps Gallery kicks off the fall 2026 semester with an ambitious mid-career survey of interdisciplinary artist Cosmo Whyte. Born and raised in Jamaica\, Whyte completed a BFA from Bennington College and earned an MFA from the University of Michigan. He is currently a faculty member at the School of the Arts and Architecture\, UCLA.\n\nThis exhibition brings together two central concerns that animate Whyte’s artistic practice: the archive\, both personal and public\, as a site of disturbance\; and migration as a lived experience of refuge\, refusal\, and reinvention. In Whyte’s work\, the archive is never static or neutral. Rather\, it is a contested space where official histories encounter memory\, inheritance\, and the fragments of stories carried across generations. His practice moves within this charged interstitial terrain\, between what has been recorded and what has been remembered\, between institutional knowledge and embodied experience. Whyte invites the viewer to consider the fluidity of geographic borders and layered cultural identities that have persisted despite societal unrest caused by racial and socio-economic hierarchies across generations. In an era of intensified border politics and renewed debates over national identity\, Whyte’s work offers a timely meditation on memory\, movement\, and belonging.\n\nPresented with support from the U-M Institute for Humanities\, the U-M LSA Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies\, and the U-M Library.
UID:149541-21906653@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149541
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20261012T121522
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261204T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261204T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Fore-Site (Phase 3): The Stamps Gallery Pillar Project
DESCRIPTION:\n\nFrom September 2025 through December 2026\, Stamps Gallery is partnering in a curatorial collaboration with two Southeast Michigan-based\, artist-run project spaces led by Stamps alumni: C.Y.N.K. Studios\, directed by Sally Clegg (Lecturer III and Student Exhibition Coordinator\, MFA ’20) and Abhishek Narula (MFA ’20)\; and Sometimes Space\, directed by Nathan Byrne (Lecturer I\, MFA ’21). Each space hosts dozens of artists annually for exhibitions\, performances\, and events\, fostering experimental work and building community. For this project\, Byrne\, Clegg\, and Narula have been commissioned to reimagine the pillars on Division Street that flank the gallery. In response\, they’ve curated six artists to create new work for the pillars over three cycles:\n\nPhase 1 (September 12 - December 12) artists: Amelia Burns (Cranbrook MFA ’23) and Erin McKenna (MFA ’20)\nPhase 2 (January 12 - August 12) artists: Sally Clegg (MFA ’20) and Kim Karlsrud (MFA ’20)\nPhase 3 (September 11 - December 11) artists: Abhishek Narula (MFA ’20) and Nathan Byrne (MFA ’21)\nPhase 3 \n\nCurated by Sometimes Space: Abhishek Narula (entry pillar)\nCurated by CYNK Studios: Nathan Byrne (courtyard pillar)\n\nArtist Statements/Bios\n\nAbhishek Narula\, Compressions \nCompressions is an installation comprised of 416 industrial-grade zip ties\, cinched around the entry pillar of the Stamps Gallery. The pillar measures roughly 110 inches in circumference\, requiring two ties per row to wrap around it\, resulting in 208 rows. The humble zip tie\, typically used to hang and bind other material\, is relegated to its functional properties rendering it unprepossessing and easily dismissed. The zip tie in this installation\, instead serves as an object of aesthetic possibility\, pulling it out of its usual background role to become the work itself. The resulting composition is a proposal to dwell\, to slow down\, and to simply see the pillar.\n\nAbhishek Narula is an artist\, designer\, and educator who works across sculpture\, installation\, sound\, and video. His practice takes the form of interventions\, working with what is already present. He reorients and disrupts objects and sites in order to open up formal possibilities and poetic experiences within the familiar. He is influenced by physical and digital infrastructural systems that sustain modern life and culture. His work treats this ambience itself as raw material for aesthetic inquiry\, exploring themes of labor\, precarity\, temporality and the sublime. Narula earned his MFA in Studio Art from the University of Michigan Stamps School of Art & Design and his MS/BS in Electrical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology. His work has been exhibited at national and international venues such as the Ammerman Center for Arts and Technology\, Science Gallery Detroit\, Speculum Artium Media Festival in Slovenia\, New Media Caucus (NMC)\, WaveFarm\, The Boulder Public Library\, The Hyde Park Art Center\, Sector 2337 Art Gallery & Printing Press\, Tangible Embedded Interaction (TEI)\, International Symposium of Electronic Arts (ISEA)\, among others. He is a Robotics Systems Designer and Lecturer in the Robotics Department at the University of Michigan. Website / Instagram\n\nNathan Byrne\, Equally To Be Loved\nEqually To Be Loved is an image / object scaled to and installed upon the courtyard pillar of Stamps Gallery. The image is of a spontaneous sculpture made in 2017 during the first day of an artist residency at the Recology San Francisco A.I.R. Program. The sculpture was constructed in a storage container studio using 14 discrete objects that were in his studio upon entry. For Byrne\, this work embodies the energy and spirit of a studio at the start of a particularly fecund period of making. This work speaks to the artist’s interest in embodied experience of space\, archival and site responsiveness\, as well as his ongoing engagement with found materials. Byrne considers this project to be a far-flung sequel to his MFA thesis exhibition Equally Empty\, which was shown at Stamps Gallery in 2021. Equally To Be Loved is the second line of the Buddhist mantra from which both titles are derived.\n\nNathan Byrne is an artist / educator / curator currently based in Detroit\, MI. Through spatial and archive responsive projects\, he reimagines\, and explores within frameworks such as language\, the passage of time\, and contemplation. Intrigued by the potential of conveying phenomenal\, transformative\, and emotive states through materiality\, process\, and placement\, he negotiates the pliability of the viewer’s encounters with objects and environments. Byrne holds an MFA in Art from the University of Michigan Stamps School of Art & Design and a BA in Studio Art and Art History from San Francisco State University. He has been a Lecturer at Stamps School of Art & Design since the Fall of 2022. His work is exhibited widely nationally and he is a recipient of the VSC Fellowship at Vermont Studio Center. He has been awarded numerous artist residencies including Anderson Ranch Arts Center\, I-Park\, KHN Center for the Arts\, Prairie Ronde\, Recology San Francisco A.I.R. Program\, and Rockland Woods. Website / Instagram
UID:138033-21881375@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138033
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260817T121520
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261204T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261204T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:2026 BA Senior Studio Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:\n\nCelebrate the students of the Bachelor of Arts (BA) Senior Studio in their final year of study. \n\nAt Stamps\, BA Senior Studio (ARTDES 401) is offered for BA students in their final year of study. The BA Senior Studio Exhibition offers these students the opportunity to build on the particular characteristics of the BA degree\, and focus on creating and exhibiting a culminating\, self-directed project. Students work independently or collaboratively to define a project plan with goals\, benchmarks\, and a timeline. \n\nIn the BA Senior Studio Exhibition\, students and instructors work collaboratively to produce a fully self-directed show from start to finish. This new Stamps tradition emphasizes studio work\, as well as the skills and practices associated with producing professional exhibitions.\n
UID:150348-21909068@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150348
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260924T121524
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261204T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261204T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Cosmo Whyte: Under the Quiet\, Beyond the Eye
DESCRIPTION:\n\nCurated by Srimoyee Mitra\n\nStamps Gallery kicks off the fall 2026 semester with an ambitious mid-career survey of interdisciplinary artist Cosmo Whyte. Born and raised in Jamaica\, Whyte completed a BFA from Bennington College and earned an MFA from the University of Michigan. He is currently a faculty member at the School of the Arts and Architecture\, UCLA.\n\nThis exhibition brings together two central concerns that animate Whyte’s artistic practice: the archive\, both personal and public\, as a site of disturbance\; and migration as a lived experience of refuge\, refusal\, and reinvention. In Whyte’s work\, the archive is never static or neutral. Rather\, it is a contested space where official histories encounter memory\, inheritance\, and the fragments of stories carried across generations. His practice moves within this charged interstitial terrain\, between what has been recorded and what has been remembered\, between institutional knowledge and embodied experience. Whyte invites the viewer to consider the fluidity of geographic borders and layered cultural identities that have persisted despite societal unrest caused by racial and socio-economic hierarchies across generations. In an era of intensified border politics and renewed debates over national identity\, Whyte’s work offers a timely meditation on memory\, movement\, and belonging.\n\nPresented with support from the U-M Institute for Humanities\, the U-M LSA Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies\, and the U-M Library.
UID:149541-21906654@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149541
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260817T121520
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261204T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261204T200000
SUMMARY:Reception / Open House:Opening Reception: 2026 BA Senior Studio Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:\n\nOn Friday\, December 4\, join us in celebration of a new exhibition featuring work by students of the Bachelor of Arts (BA) Senior Studio in their final year of study. \n\nAt Stamps\, BA Senior Studio (ARTDES 401) is offered for BA students in their final year of study. The BA Senior Studio Exhibition offers these students the opportunity to build on the particular characteristics of the BA degree\, and focus on creating and exhibiting a culminating\, self-directed project. Students work independently or collaboratively to define a project plan with goals\, benchmarks\, and a timeline.\n\nIn the BA Senior Studio Exhibition\, students and instructors work collaboratively to produce a fully self-directed show from start to finish. This new Stamps tradition emphasizes studio work\, as well as the skills and practices associated with producing professional exhibitions.\n\n
UID:150350-21909078@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150350
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20261012T121522
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261205T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261205T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Fore-Site (Phase 3): The Stamps Gallery Pillar Project
DESCRIPTION:\n\nFrom September 2025 through December 2026\, Stamps Gallery is partnering in a curatorial collaboration with two Southeast Michigan-based\, artist-run project spaces led by Stamps alumni: C.Y.N.K. Studios\, directed by Sally Clegg (Lecturer III and Student Exhibition Coordinator\, MFA ’20) and Abhishek Narula (MFA ’20)\; and Sometimes Space\, directed by Nathan Byrne (Lecturer I\, MFA ’21). Each space hosts dozens of artists annually for exhibitions\, performances\, and events\, fostering experimental work and building community. For this project\, Byrne\, Clegg\, and Narula have been commissioned to reimagine the pillars on Division Street that flank the gallery. In response\, they’ve curated six artists to create new work for the pillars over three cycles:\n\nPhase 1 (September 12 - December 12) artists: Amelia Burns (Cranbrook MFA ’23) and Erin McKenna (MFA ’20)\nPhase 2 (January 12 - August 12) artists: Sally Clegg (MFA ’20) and Kim Karlsrud (MFA ’20)\nPhase 3 (September 11 - December 11) artists: Abhishek Narula (MFA ’20) and Nathan Byrne (MFA ’21)\nPhase 3 \n\nCurated by Sometimes Space: Abhishek Narula (entry pillar)\nCurated by CYNK Studios: Nathan Byrne (courtyard pillar)\n\nArtist Statements/Bios\n\nAbhishek Narula\, Compressions \nCompressions is an installation comprised of 416 industrial-grade zip ties\, cinched around the entry pillar of the Stamps Gallery. The pillar measures roughly 110 inches in circumference\, requiring two ties per row to wrap around it\, resulting in 208 rows. The humble zip tie\, typically used to hang and bind other material\, is relegated to its functional properties rendering it unprepossessing and easily dismissed. The zip tie in this installation\, instead serves as an object of aesthetic possibility\, pulling it out of its usual background role to become the work itself. The resulting composition is a proposal to dwell\, to slow down\, and to simply see the pillar.\n\nAbhishek Narula is an artist\, designer\, and educator who works across sculpture\, installation\, sound\, and video. His practice takes the form of interventions\, working with what is already present. He reorients and disrupts objects and sites in order to open up formal possibilities and poetic experiences within the familiar. He is influenced by physical and digital infrastructural systems that sustain modern life and culture. His work treats this ambience itself as raw material for aesthetic inquiry\, exploring themes of labor\, precarity\, temporality and the sublime. Narula earned his MFA in Studio Art from the University of Michigan Stamps School of Art & Design and his MS/BS in Electrical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology. His work has been exhibited at national and international venues such as the Ammerman Center for Arts and Technology\, Science Gallery Detroit\, Speculum Artium Media Festival in Slovenia\, New Media Caucus (NMC)\, WaveFarm\, The Boulder Public Library\, The Hyde Park Art Center\, Sector 2337 Art Gallery & Printing Press\, Tangible Embedded Interaction (TEI)\, International Symposium of Electronic Arts (ISEA)\, among others. He is a Robotics Systems Designer and Lecturer in the Robotics Department at the University of Michigan. Website / Instagram\n\nNathan Byrne\, Equally To Be Loved\nEqually To Be Loved is an image / object scaled to and installed upon the courtyard pillar of Stamps Gallery. The image is of a spontaneous sculpture made in 2017 during the first day of an artist residency at the Recology San Francisco A.I.R. Program. The sculpture was constructed in a storage container studio using 14 discrete objects that were in his studio upon entry. For Byrne\, this work embodies the energy and spirit of a studio at the start of a particularly fecund period of making. This work speaks to the artist’s interest in embodied experience of space\, archival and site responsiveness\, as well as his ongoing engagement with found materials. Byrne considers this project to be a far-flung sequel to his MFA thesis exhibition Equally Empty\, which was shown at Stamps Gallery in 2021. Equally To Be Loved is the second line of the Buddhist mantra from which both titles are derived.\n\nNathan Byrne is an artist / educator / curator currently based in Detroit\, MI. Through spatial and archive responsive projects\, he reimagines\, and explores within frameworks such as language\, the passage of time\, and contemplation. Intrigued by the potential of conveying phenomenal\, transformative\, and emotive states through materiality\, process\, and placement\, he negotiates the pliability of the viewer’s encounters with objects and environments. Byrne holds an MFA in Art from the University of Michigan Stamps School of Art & Design and a BA in Studio Art and Art History from San Francisco State University. He has been a Lecturer at Stamps School of Art & Design since the Fall of 2022. His work is exhibited widely nationally and he is a recipient of the VSC Fellowship at Vermont Studio Center. He has been awarded numerous artist residencies including Anderson Ranch Arts Center\, I-Park\, KHN Center for the Arts\, Prairie Ronde\, Recology San Francisco A.I.R. Program\, and Rockland Woods. Website / Instagram
UID:138033-21881376@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138033
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260817T121520
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261205T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261205T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:2026 BA Senior Studio Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:\n\nCelebrate the students of the Bachelor of Arts (BA) Senior Studio in their final year of study. \n\nAt Stamps\, BA Senior Studio (ARTDES 401) is offered for BA students in their final year of study. The BA Senior Studio Exhibition offers these students the opportunity to build on the particular characteristics of the BA degree\, and focus on creating and exhibiting a culminating\, self-directed project. Students work independently or collaboratively to define a project plan with goals\, benchmarks\, and a timeline. \n\nIn the BA Senior Studio Exhibition\, students and instructors work collaboratively to produce a fully self-directed show from start to finish. This new Stamps tradition emphasizes studio work\, as well as the skills and practices associated with producing professional exhibitions.\n
UID:150348-21909069@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150348
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260924T121524
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261205T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261205T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Cosmo Whyte: Under the Quiet\, Beyond the Eye
DESCRIPTION:\n\nCurated by Srimoyee Mitra\n\nStamps Gallery kicks off the fall 2026 semester with an ambitious mid-career survey of interdisciplinary artist Cosmo Whyte. Born and raised in Jamaica\, Whyte completed a BFA from Bennington College and earned an MFA from the University of Michigan. He is currently a faculty member at the School of the Arts and Architecture\, UCLA.\n\nThis exhibition brings together two central concerns that animate Whyte’s artistic practice: the archive\, both personal and public\, as a site of disturbance\; and migration as a lived experience of refuge\, refusal\, and reinvention. In Whyte’s work\, the archive is never static or neutral. Rather\, it is a contested space where official histories encounter memory\, inheritance\, and the fragments of stories carried across generations. His practice moves within this charged interstitial terrain\, between what has been recorded and what has been remembered\, between institutional knowledge and embodied experience. Whyte invites the viewer to consider the fluidity of geographic borders and layered cultural identities that have persisted despite societal unrest caused by racial and socio-economic hierarchies across generations. In an era of intensified border politics and renewed debates over national identity\, Whyte’s work offers a timely meditation on memory\, movement\, and belonging.\n\nPresented with support from the U-M Institute for Humanities\, the U-M LSA Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies\, and the U-M Library.
UID:149541-21906655@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149541
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260820T181531
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261205T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261205T160000
SUMMARY:Other:National Portfolio Day - Online
DESCRIPTION:\n\nExplore the nation’s best col­leges of art and design and meet with Stamps Admissions rep­re­sen­ta­tives\, who can pro­vide informal port­fo­lio reviews\, dis­cuss our unique cur­ricu­lum\, and answer ques­tions about pro­fes­sional careers in art. Show­ing your work early can help you acquire impor­tant infor­ma­tion about orga­niz­ing and pre­sent­ing your port­fo­lio for future admis­sion con­sid­er­a­tion. High school stu­dents\, par­ents\, teach­ers\, guid­ance coun­selors\, and col­lege trans­fer stu­dents are encour­aged to attend. All National Portfolio Day events are free and open to the public.\n\nAll in-person event times are listed according to theevent’s local time and all virtual events are listed in Eastern Time. Please be sure to check the equivalent time in your local time zone\, and register through the official National Portfolio Day website.
UID:150665-21909868@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150665
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260817T121520
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261206T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261206T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:2026 BA Senior Studio Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:\n\nCelebrate the students of the Bachelor of Arts (BA) Senior Studio in their final year of study. \n\nAt Stamps\, BA Senior Studio (ARTDES 401) is offered for BA students in their final year of study. The BA Senior Studio Exhibition offers these students the opportunity to build on the particular characteristics of the BA degree\, and focus on creating and exhibiting a culminating\, self-directed project. Students work independently or collaboratively to define a project plan with goals\, benchmarks\, and a timeline. \n\nIn the BA Senior Studio Exhibition\, students and instructors work collaboratively to produce a fully self-directed show from start to finish. This new Stamps tradition emphasizes studio work\, as well as the skills and practices associated with producing professional exhibitions.\n
UID:150348-21909070@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150348
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260817T121520
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261207T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261207T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:2026 BA Senior Studio Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:\n\nCelebrate the students of the Bachelor of Arts (BA) Senior Studio in their final year of study. \n\nAt Stamps\, BA Senior Studio (ARTDES 401) is offered for BA students in their final year of study. The BA Senior Studio Exhibition offers these students the opportunity to build on the particular characteristics of the BA degree\, and focus on creating and exhibiting a culminating\, self-directed project. Students work independently or collaboratively to define a project plan with goals\, benchmarks\, and a timeline. \n\nIn the BA Senior Studio Exhibition\, students and instructors work collaboratively to produce a fully self-directed show from start to finish. This new Stamps tradition emphasizes studio work\, as well as the skills and practices associated with producing professional exhibitions.\n
UID:150348-21909071@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150348
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260817T121520
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261208T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261208T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:2026 BA Senior Studio Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:\n\nCelebrate the students of the Bachelor of Arts (BA) Senior Studio in their final year of study. \n\nAt Stamps\, BA Senior Studio (ARTDES 401) is offered for BA students in their final year of study. The BA Senior Studio Exhibition offers these students the opportunity to build on the particular characteristics of the BA degree\, and focus on creating and exhibiting a culminating\, self-directed project. Students work independently or collaboratively to define a project plan with goals\, benchmarks\, and a timeline. \n\nIn the BA Senior Studio Exhibition\, students and instructors work collaboratively to produce a fully self-directed show from start to finish. This new Stamps tradition emphasizes studio work\, as well as the skills and practices associated with producing professional exhibitions.\n
UID:150348-21909072@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150348
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260924T121524
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261208T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261208T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Cosmo Whyte: Under the Quiet\, Beyond the Eye
DESCRIPTION:\n\nCurated by Srimoyee Mitra\n\nStamps Gallery kicks off the fall 2026 semester with an ambitious mid-career survey of interdisciplinary artist Cosmo Whyte. Born and raised in Jamaica\, Whyte completed a BFA from Bennington College and earned an MFA from the University of Michigan. He is currently a faculty member at the School of the Arts and Architecture\, UCLA.\n\nThis exhibition brings together two central concerns that animate Whyte’s artistic practice: the archive\, both personal and public\, as a site of disturbance\; and migration as a lived experience of refuge\, refusal\, and reinvention. In Whyte’s work\, the archive is never static or neutral. Rather\, it is a contested space where official histories encounter memory\, inheritance\, and the fragments of stories carried across generations. His practice moves within this charged interstitial terrain\, between what has been recorded and what has been remembered\, between institutional knowledge and embodied experience. Whyte invites the viewer to consider the fluidity of geographic borders and layered cultural identities that have persisted despite societal unrest caused by racial and socio-economic hierarchies across generations. In an era of intensified border politics and renewed debates over national identity\, Whyte’s work offers a timely meditation on memory\, movement\, and belonging.\n\nPresented with support from the U-M Institute for Humanities\, the U-M LSA Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies\, and the U-M Library.
UID:149541-21906656@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149541
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20261012T121522
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261209T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261209T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Fore-Site (Phase 3): The Stamps Gallery Pillar Project
DESCRIPTION:\n\nFrom September 2025 through December 2026\, Stamps Gallery is partnering in a curatorial collaboration with two Southeast Michigan-based\, artist-run project spaces led by Stamps alumni: C.Y.N.K. Studios\, directed by Sally Clegg (Lecturer III and Student Exhibition Coordinator\, MFA ’20) and Abhishek Narula (MFA ’20)\; and Sometimes Space\, directed by Nathan Byrne (Lecturer I\, MFA ’21). Each space hosts dozens of artists annually for exhibitions\, performances\, and events\, fostering experimental work and building community. For this project\, Byrne\, Clegg\, and Narula have been commissioned to reimagine the pillars on Division Street that flank the gallery. In response\, they’ve curated six artists to create new work for the pillars over three cycles:\n\nPhase 1 (September 12 - December 12) artists: Amelia Burns (Cranbrook MFA ’23) and Erin McKenna (MFA ’20)\nPhase 2 (January 12 - August 12) artists: Sally Clegg (MFA ’20) and Kim Karlsrud (MFA ’20)\nPhase 3 (September 11 - December 11) artists: Abhishek Narula (MFA ’20) and Nathan Byrne (MFA ’21)\nPhase 3 \n\nCurated by Sometimes Space: Abhishek Narula (entry pillar)\nCurated by CYNK Studios: Nathan Byrne (courtyard pillar)\n\nArtist Statements/Bios\n\nAbhishek Narula\, Compressions \nCompressions is an installation comprised of 416 industrial-grade zip ties\, cinched around the entry pillar of the Stamps Gallery. The pillar measures roughly 110 inches in circumference\, requiring two ties per row to wrap around it\, resulting in 208 rows. The humble zip tie\, typically used to hang and bind other material\, is relegated to its functional properties rendering it unprepossessing and easily dismissed. The zip tie in this installation\, instead serves as an object of aesthetic possibility\, pulling it out of its usual background role to become the work itself. The resulting composition is a proposal to dwell\, to slow down\, and to simply see the pillar.\n\nAbhishek Narula is an artist\, designer\, and educator who works across sculpture\, installation\, sound\, and video. His practice takes the form of interventions\, working with what is already present. He reorients and disrupts objects and sites in order to open up formal possibilities and poetic experiences within the familiar. He is influenced by physical and digital infrastructural systems that sustain modern life and culture. His work treats this ambience itself as raw material for aesthetic inquiry\, exploring themes of labor\, precarity\, temporality and the sublime. Narula earned his MFA in Studio Art from the University of Michigan Stamps School of Art & Design and his MS/BS in Electrical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology. His work has been exhibited at national and international venues such as the Ammerman Center for Arts and Technology\, Science Gallery Detroit\, Speculum Artium Media Festival in Slovenia\, New Media Caucus (NMC)\, WaveFarm\, The Boulder Public Library\, The Hyde Park Art Center\, Sector 2337 Art Gallery & Printing Press\, Tangible Embedded Interaction (TEI)\, International Symposium of Electronic Arts (ISEA)\, among others. He is a Robotics Systems Designer and Lecturer in the Robotics Department at the University of Michigan. Website / Instagram\n\nNathan Byrne\, Equally To Be Loved\nEqually To Be Loved is an image / object scaled to and installed upon the courtyard pillar of Stamps Gallery. The image is of a spontaneous sculpture made in 2017 during the first day of an artist residency at the Recology San Francisco A.I.R. Program. The sculpture was constructed in a storage container studio using 14 discrete objects that were in his studio upon entry. For Byrne\, this work embodies the energy and spirit of a studio at the start of a particularly fecund period of making. This work speaks to the artist’s interest in embodied experience of space\, archival and site responsiveness\, as well as his ongoing engagement with found materials. Byrne considers this project to be a far-flung sequel to his MFA thesis exhibition Equally Empty\, which was shown at Stamps Gallery in 2021. Equally To Be Loved is the second line of the Buddhist mantra from which both titles are derived.\n\nNathan Byrne is an artist / educator / curator currently based in Detroit\, MI. Through spatial and archive responsive projects\, he reimagines\, and explores within frameworks such as language\, the passage of time\, and contemplation. Intrigued by the potential of conveying phenomenal\, transformative\, and emotive states through materiality\, process\, and placement\, he negotiates the pliability of the viewer’s encounters with objects and environments. Byrne holds an MFA in Art from the University of Michigan Stamps School of Art & Design and a BA in Studio Art and Art History from San Francisco State University. He has been a Lecturer at Stamps School of Art & Design since the Fall of 2022. His work is exhibited widely nationally and he is a recipient of the VSC Fellowship at Vermont Studio Center. He has been awarded numerous artist residencies including Anderson Ranch Arts Center\, I-Park\, KHN Center for the Arts\, Prairie Ronde\, Recology San Francisco A.I.R. Program\, and Rockland Woods. Website / Instagram
UID:138033-21881377@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138033
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260817T121520
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261209T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261209T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:2026 BA Senior Studio Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:\n\nCelebrate the students of the Bachelor of Arts (BA) Senior Studio in their final year of study. \n\nAt Stamps\, BA Senior Studio (ARTDES 401) is offered for BA students in their final year of study. The BA Senior Studio Exhibition offers these students the opportunity to build on the particular characteristics of the BA degree\, and focus on creating and exhibiting a culminating\, self-directed project. Students work independently or collaboratively to define a project plan with goals\, benchmarks\, and a timeline. \n\nIn the BA Senior Studio Exhibition\, students and instructors work collaboratively to produce a fully self-directed show from start to finish. This new Stamps tradition emphasizes studio work\, as well as the skills and practices associated with producing professional exhibitions.\n
UID:150348-21909073@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150348
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260924T121524
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261209T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261209T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Cosmo Whyte: Under the Quiet\, Beyond the Eye
DESCRIPTION:\n\nCurated by Srimoyee Mitra\n\nStamps Gallery kicks off the fall 2026 semester with an ambitious mid-career survey of interdisciplinary artist Cosmo Whyte. Born and raised in Jamaica\, Whyte completed a BFA from Bennington College and earned an MFA from the University of Michigan. He is currently a faculty member at the School of the Arts and Architecture\, UCLA.\n\nThis exhibition brings together two central concerns that animate Whyte’s artistic practice: the archive\, both personal and public\, as a site of disturbance\; and migration as a lived experience of refuge\, refusal\, and reinvention. In Whyte’s work\, the archive is never static or neutral. Rather\, it is a contested space where official histories encounter memory\, inheritance\, and the fragments of stories carried across generations. His practice moves within this charged interstitial terrain\, between what has been recorded and what has been remembered\, between institutional knowledge and embodied experience. Whyte invites the viewer to consider the fluidity of geographic borders and layered cultural identities that have persisted despite societal unrest caused by racial and socio-economic hierarchies across generations. In an era of intensified border politics and renewed debates over national identity\, Whyte’s work offers a timely meditation on memory\, movement\, and belonging.\n\nPresented with support from the U-M Institute for Humanities\, the U-M LSA Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies\, and the U-M Library.
UID:149541-21906657@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149541
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20261012T121522
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261210T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261210T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Fore-Site (Phase 3): The Stamps Gallery Pillar Project
DESCRIPTION:\n\nFrom September 2025 through December 2026\, Stamps Gallery is partnering in a curatorial collaboration with two Southeast Michigan-based\, artist-run project spaces led by Stamps alumni: C.Y.N.K. Studios\, directed by Sally Clegg (Lecturer III and Student Exhibition Coordinator\, MFA ’20) and Abhishek Narula (MFA ’20)\; and Sometimes Space\, directed by Nathan Byrne (Lecturer I\, MFA ’21). Each space hosts dozens of artists annually for exhibitions\, performances\, and events\, fostering experimental work and building community. For this project\, Byrne\, Clegg\, and Narula have been commissioned to reimagine the pillars on Division Street that flank the gallery. In response\, they’ve curated six artists to create new work for the pillars over three cycles:\n\nPhase 1 (September 12 - December 12) artists: Amelia Burns (Cranbrook MFA ’23) and Erin McKenna (MFA ’20)\nPhase 2 (January 12 - August 12) artists: Sally Clegg (MFA ’20) and Kim Karlsrud (MFA ’20)\nPhase 3 (September 11 - December 11) artists: Abhishek Narula (MFA ’20) and Nathan Byrne (MFA ’21)\nPhase 3 \n\nCurated by Sometimes Space: Abhishek Narula (entry pillar)\nCurated by CYNK Studios: Nathan Byrne (courtyard pillar)\n\nArtist Statements/Bios\n\nAbhishek Narula\, Compressions \nCompressions is an installation comprised of 416 industrial-grade zip ties\, cinched around the entry pillar of the Stamps Gallery. The pillar measures roughly 110 inches in circumference\, requiring two ties per row to wrap around it\, resulting in 208 rows. The humble zip tie\, typically used to hang and bind other material\, is relegated to its functional properties rendering it unprepossessing and easily dismissed. The zip tie in this installation\, instead serves as an object of aesthetic possibility\, pulling it out of its usual background role to become the work itself. The resulting composition is a proposal to dwell\, to slow down\, and to simply see the pillar.\n\nAbhishek Narula is an artist\, designer\, and educator who works across sculpture\, installation\, sound\, and video. His practice takes the form of interventions\, working with what is already present. He reorients and disrupts objects and sites in order to open up formal possibilities and poetic experiences within the familiar. He is influenced by physical and digital infrastructural systems that sustain modern life and culture. His work treats this ambience itself as raw material for aesthetic inquiry\, exploring themes of labor\, precarity\, temporality and the sublime. Narula earned his MFA in Studio Art from the University of Michigan Stamps School of Art & Design and his MS/BS in Electrical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology. His work has been exhibited at national and international venues such as the Ammerman Center for Arts and Technology\, Science Gallery Detroit\, Speculum Artium Media Festival in Slovenia\, New Media Caucus (NMC)\, WaveFarm\, The Boulder Public Library\, The Hyde Park Art Center\, Sector 2337 Art Gallery & Printing Press\, Tangible Embedded Interaction (TEI)\, International Symposium of Electronic Arts (ISEA)\, among others. He is a Robotics Systems Designer and Lecturer in the Robotics Department at the University of Michigan. Website / Instagram\n\nNathan Byrne\, Equally To Be Loved\nEqually To Be Loved is an image / object scaled to and installed upon the courtyard pillar of Stamps Gallery. The image is of a spontaneous sculpture made in 2017 during the first day of an artist residency at the Recology San Francisco A.I.R. Program. The sculpture was constructed in a storage container studio using 14 discrete objects that were in his studio upon entry. For Byrne\, this work embodies the energy and spirit of a studio at the start of a particularly fecund period of making. This work speaks to the artist’s interest in embodied experience of space\, archival and site responsiveness\, as well as his ongoing engagement with found materials. Byrne considers this project to be a far-flung sequel to his MFA thesis exhibition Equally Empty\, which was shown at Stamps Gallery in 2021. Equally To Be Loved is the second line of the Buddhist mantra from which both titles are derived.\n\nNathan Byrne is an artist / educator / curator currently based in Detroit\, MI. Through spatial and archive responsive projects\, he reimagines\, and explores within frameworks such as language\, the passage of time\, and contemplation. Intrigued by the potential of conveying phenomenal\, transformative\, and emotive states through materiality\, process\, and placement\, he negotiates the pliability of the viewer’s encounters with objects and environments. Byrne holds an MFA in Art from the University of Michigan Stamps School of Art & Design and a BA in Studio Art and Art History from San Francisco State University. He has been a Lecturer at Stamps School of Art & Design since the Fall of 2022. His work is exhibited widely nationally and he is a recipient of the VSC Fellowship at Vermont Studio Center. He has been awarded numerous artist residencies including Anderson Ranch Arts Center\, I-Park\, KHN Center for the Arts\, Prairie Ronde\, Recology San Francisco A.I.R. Program\, and Rockland Woods. Website / Instagram
UID:138033-21881378@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138033
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260817T121520
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261210T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261210T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:2026 BA Senior Studio Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:\n\nCelebrate the students of the Bachelor of Arts (BA) Senior Studio in their final year of study. \n\nAt Stamps\, BA Senior Studio (ARTDES 401) is offered for BA students in their final year of study. The BA Senior Studio Exhibition offers these students the opportunity to build on the particular characteristics of the BA degree\, and focus on creating and exhibiting a culminating\, self-directed project. Students work independently or collaboratively to define a project plan with goals\, benchmarks\, and a timeline. \n\nIn the BA Senior Studio Exhibition\, students and instructors work collaboratively to produce a fully self-directed show from start to finish. This new Stamps tradition emphasizes studio work\, as well as the skills and practices associated with producing professional exhibitions.\n
UID:150348-21909074@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150348
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260924T121524
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261210T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261210T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Cosmo Whyte: Under the Quiet\, Beyond the Eye
DESCRIPTION:\n\nCurated by Srimoyee Mitra\n\nStamps Gallery kicks off the fall 2026 semester with an ambitious mid-career survey of interdisciplinary artist Cosmo Whyte. Born and raised in Jamaica\, Whyte completed a BFA from Bennington College and earned an MFA from the University of Michigan. He is currently a faculty member at the School of the Arts and Architecture\, UCLA.\n\nThis exhibition brings together two central concerns that animate Whyte’s artistic practice: the archive\, both personal and public\, as a site of disturbance\; and migration as a lived experience of refuge\, refusal\, and reinvention. In Whyte’s work\, the archive is never static or neutral. Rather\, it is a contested space where official histories encounter memory\, inheritance\, and the fragments of stories carried across generations. His practice moves within this charged interstitial terrain\, between what has been recorded and what has been remembered\, between institutional knowledge and embodied experience. Whyte invites the viewer to consider the fluidity of geographic borders and layered cultural identities that have persisted despite societal unrest caused by racial and socio-economic hierarchies across generations. In an era of intensified border politics and renewed debates over national identity\, Whyte’s work offers a timely meditation on memory\, movement\, and belonging.\n\nPresented with support from the U-M Institute for Humanities\, the U-M LSA Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies\, and the U-M Library.
UID:149541-21906658@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149541
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260924T121536
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261210T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261210T200000
SUMMARY:Reception / Open House:Stamps Student Social Hour
DESCRIPTION:\n\nFollowing the Thursday Penny Stamps Speaker Series presentation at the Michigan Theater\, head over to Stamps Gallery for a relaxing and fun social hour just for you! No expectations\, just food\, games and activities\, and time with your friends to view the fall exhibition Cosmo Whyte: Under the Quiet\, Beyond the Eye. We hope to see you there!\n\nThis event is open to Stamps and U-M students only.
UID:152828-21914577@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152828
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20261012T121522
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261211T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261211T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Fore-Site (Phase 3): The Stamps Gallery Pillar Project
DESCRIPTION:\n\nFrom September 2025 through December 2026\, Stamps Gallery is partnering in a curatorial collaboration with two Southeast Michigan-based\, artist-run project spaces led by Stamps alumni: C.Y.N.K. Studios\, directed by Sally Clegg (Lecturer III and Student Exhibition Coordinator\, MFA ’20) and Abhishek Narula (MFA ’20)\; and Sometimes Space\, directed by Nathan Byrne (Lecturer I\, MFA ’21). Each space hosts dozens of artists annually for exhibitions\, performances\, and events\, fostering experimental work and building community. For this project\, Byrne\, Clegg\, and Narula have been commissioned to reimagine the pillars on Division Street that flank the gallery. In response\, they’ve curated six artists to create new work for the pillars over three cycles:\n\nPhase 1 (September 12 - December 12) artists: Amelia Burns (Cranbrook MFA ’23) and Erin McKenna (MFA ’20)\nPhase 2 (January 12 - August 12) artists: Sally Clegg (MFA ’20) and Kim Karlsrud (MFA ’20)\nPhase 3 (September 11 - December 11) artists: Abhishek Narula (MFA ’20) and Nathan Byrne (MFA ’21)\nPhase 3 \n\nCurated by Sometimes Space: Abhishek Narula (entry pillar)\nCurated by CYNK Studios: Nathan Byrne (courtyard pillar)\n\nArtist Statements/Bios\n\nAbhishek Narula\, Compressions \nCompressions is an installation comprised of 416 industrial-grade zip ties\, cinched around the entry pillar of the Stamps Gallery. The pillar measures roughly 110 inches in circumference\, requiring two ties per row to wrap around it\, resulting in 208 rows. The humble zip tie\, typically used to hang and bind other material\, is relegated to its functional properties rendering it unprepossessing and easily dismissed. The zip tie in this installation\, instead serves as an object of aesthetic possibility\, pulling it out of its usual background role to become the work itself. The resulting composition is a proposal to dwell\, to slow down\, and to simply see the pillar.\n\nAbhishek Narula is an artist\, designer\, and educator who works across sculpture\, installation\, sound\, and video. His practice takes the form of interventions\, working with what is already present. He reorients and disrupts objects and sites in order to open up formal possibilities and poetic experiences within the familiar. He is influenced by physical and digital infrastructural systems that sustain modern life and culture. His work treats this ambience itself as raw material for aesthetic inquiry\, exploring themes of labor\, precarity\, temporality and the sublime. Narula earned his MFA in Studio Art from the University of Michigan Stamps School of Art & Design and his MS/BS in Electrical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology. His work has been exhibited at national and international venues such as the Ammerman Center for Arts and Technology\, Science Gallery Detroit\, Speculum Artium Media Festival in Slovenia\, New Media Caucus (NMC)\, WaveFarm\, The Boulder Public Library\, The Hyde Park Art Center\, Sector 2337 Art Gallery & Printing Press\, Tangible Embedded Interaction (TEI)\, International Symposium of Electronic Arts (ISEA)\, among others. He is a Robotics Systems Designer and Lecturer in the Robotics Department at the University of Michigan. Website / Instagram\n\nNathan Byrne\, Equally To Be Loved\nEqually To Be Loved is an image / object scaled to and installed upon the courtyard pillar of Stamps Gallery. The image is of a spontaneous sculpture made in 2017 during the first day of an artist residency at the Recology San Francisco A.I.R. Program. The sculpture was constructed in a storage container studio using 14 discrete objects that were in his studio upon entry. For Byrne\, this work embodies the energy and spirit of a studio at the start of a particularly fecund period of making. This work speaks to the artist’s interest in embodied experience of space\, archival and site responsiveness\, as well as his ongoing engagement with found materials. Byrne considers this project to be a far-flung sequel to his MFA thesis exhibition Equally Empty\, which was shown at Stamps Gallery in 2021. Equally To Be Loved is the second line of the Buddhist mantra from which both titles are derived.\n\nNathan Byrne is an artist / educator / curator currently based in Detroit\, MI. Through spatial and archive responsive projects\, he reimagines\, and explores within frameworks such as language\, the passage of time\, and contemplation. Intrigued by the potential of conveying phenomenal\, transformative\, and emotive states through materiality\, process\, and placement\, he negotiates the pliability of the viewer’s encounters with objects and environments. Byrne holds an MFA in Art from the University of Michigan Stamps School of Art & Design and a BA in Studio Art and Art History from San Francisco State University. He has been a Lecturer at Stamps School of Art & Design since the Fall of 2022. His work is exhibited widely nationally and he is a recipient of the VSC Fellowship at Vermont Studio Center. He has been awarded numerous artist residencies including Anderson Ranch Arts Center\, I-Park\, KHN Center for the Arts\, Prairie Ronde\, Recology San Francisco A.I.R. Program\, and Rockland Woods. Website / Instagram
UID:138033-21881379@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138033
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260817T121520
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261211T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261211T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:2026 BA Senior Studio Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:\n\nCelebrate the students of the Bachelor of Arts (BA) Senior Studio in their final year of study. \n\nAt Stamps\, BA Senior Studio (ARTDES 401) is offered for BA students in their final year of study. The BA Senior Studio Exhibition offers these students the opportunity to build on the particular characteristics of the BA degree\, and focus on creating and exhibiting a culminating\, self-directed project. Students work independently or collaboratively to define a project plan with goals\, benchmarks\, and a timeline. \n\nIn the BA Senior Studio Exhibition\, students and instructors work collaboratively to produce a fully self-directed show from start to finish. This new Stamps tradition emphasizes studio work\, as well as the skills and practices associated with producing professional exhibitions.\n
UID:150348-21909075@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150348
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260924T121524
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261211T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261211T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Cosmo Whyte: Under the Quiet\, Beyond the Eye
DESCRIPTION:\n\nCurated by Srimoyee Mitra\n\nStamps Gallery kicks off the fall 2026 semester with an ambitious mid-career survey of interdisciplinary artist Cosmo Whyte. Born and raised in Jamaica\, Whyte completed a BFA from Bennington College and earned an MFA from the University of Michigan. He is currently a faculty member at the School of the Arts and Architecture\, UCLA.\n\nThis exhibition brings together two central concerns that animate Whyte’s artistic practice: the archive\, both personal and public\, as a site of disturbance\; and migration as a lived experience of refuge\, refusal\, and reinvention. In Whyte’s work\, the archive is never static or neutral. Rather\, it is a contested space where official histories encounter memory\, inheritance\, and the fragments of stories carried across generations. His practice moves within this charged interstitial terrain\, between what has been recorded and what has been remembered\, between institutional knowledge and embodied experience. Whyte invites the viewer to consider the fluidity of geographic borders and layered cultural identities that have persisted despite societal unrest caused by racial and socio-economic hierarchies across generations. In an era of intensified border politics and renewed debates over national identity\, Whyte’s work offers a timely meditation on memory\, movement\, and belonging.\n\nPresented with support from the U-M Institute for Humanities\, the U-M LSA Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies\, and the U-M Library.
UID:149541-21906659@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149541
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260817T121520
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261212T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261212T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:2026 BA Senior Studio Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:\n\nCelebrate the students of the Bachelor of Arts (BA) Senior Studio in their final year of study. \n\nAt Stamps\, BA Senior Studio (ARTDES 401) is offered for BA students in their final year of study. The BA Senior Studio Exhibition offers these students the opportunity to build on the particular characteristics of the BA degree\, and focus on creating and exhibiting a culminating\, self-directed project. Students work independently or collaboratively to define a project plan with goals\, benchmarks\, and a timeline. \n\nIn the BA Senior Studio Exhibition\, students and instructors work collaboratively to produce a fully self-directed show from start to finish. This new Stamps tradition emphasizes studio work\, as well as the skills and practices associated with producing professional exhibitions.\n
UID:150348-21909076@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150348
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260924T121524
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261212T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261212T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Cosmo Whyte: Under the Quiet\, Beyond the Eye
DESCRIPTION:\n\nCurated by Srimoyee Mitra\n\nStamps Gallery kicks off the fall 2026 semester with an ambitious mid-career survey of interdisciplinary artist Cosmo Whyte. Born and raised in Jamaica\, Whyte completed a BFA from Bennington College and earned an MFA from the University of Michigan. He is currently a faculty member at the School of the Arts and Architecture\, UCLA.\n\nThis exhibition brings together two central concerns that animate Whyte’s artistic practice: the archive\, both personal and public\, as a site of disturbance\; and migration as a lived experience of refuge\, refusal\, and reinvention. In Whyte’s work\, the archive is never static or neutral. Rather\, it is a contested space where official histories encounter memory\, inheritance\, and the fragments of stories carried across generations. His practice moves within this charged interstitial terrain\, between what has been recorded and what has been remembered\, between institutional knowledge and embodied experience. Whyte invites the viewer to consider the fluidity of geographic borders and layered cultural identities that have persisted despite societal unrest caused by racial and socio-economic hierarchies across generations. In an era of intensified border politics and renewed debates over national identity\, Whyte’s work offers a timely meditation on memory\, movement\, and belonging.\n\nPresented with support from the U-M Institute for Humanities\, the U-M LSA Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies\, and the U-M Library.
UID:149541-21906660@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149541
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260820T181531
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20270110T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20270110T160000
SUMMARY:Other:National Portfolio Day - Online
DESCRIPTION:\n\nExplore the nation’s best col­leges of art and design and meet with Stamps Admissions rep­re­sen­ta­tives\, who can pro­vide informal port­fo­lio reviews\, dis­cuss our unique cur­ricu­lum\, and answer ques­tions about pro­fes­sional careers in art. Show­ing your work early can help you acquire impor­tant infor­ma­tion about orga­niz­ing and pre­sent­ing your port­fo­lio for future admis­sion con­sid­er­a­tion. High school stu­dents\, par­ents\, teach­ers\, guid­ance coun­selors\, and col­lege trans­fer stu­dents are encour­aged to attend. All National Portfolio Day events are free and open to the public.\n\nAll in-person event times are listed according to theevent’s local time and all virtual events are listed in Eastern Time. Please be sure to check the equivalent time in your local time zone\, and register through the official National Portfolio Day website.
UID:150666-21909869@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150666
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260915T181532
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20270123T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20270123T140000
SUMMARY:Other:National Portfolio Day - Miami\, FL
DESCRIPTION:\n\nMiami National Portfolio Day (In-Person)\nSunday\, January 23\, 2027 from 10am-2pm EST\n245 Northeast 4th Street\, Miami\, Florida\, 33132\n\nExplore the nation’s best col­leges of art and design and meet with Stamps Undergraduate Admissions rep­re­sen­ta­tives\, who can pro­vide informal port­fo­lio reviews\, dis­cuss our unique cur­ricu­lum\, and answer ques­tions about pro­fes­sional careers in art. Show­ing your work early can help you acquire impor­tant infor­ma­tion about orga­niz­ing and pre­sent­ing your port­fo­lio for future admis­sion con­sid­er­a­tion. High school stu­dents\, par­ents\, teach­ers\, guid­ance coun­selors\, and col­lege trans­fer stu­dents are encour­aged to attend. All National Portfolio Day events are free and open to the public.\n\nAll in-person event times are listed according to the event’s local time and all virtual events are listed in Eastern Time. Please be sure to check the equivalent time in your local time zone\, and register through the official National Portfolio Day website.
UID:152233-21913409@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152233
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260926T121531
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20270205T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20270205T190000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:2027 Undergraduate Juried Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:\n\nThe Stamps School’s annual Undergraduate Juried Exhibition is a showcase of outstanding work produced by Stamps undergraduate students\, taking place at Stamps Gallery from February 5-27\, 2027. The opening reception will take place on January 30 from 6-8 p.m.\n\nA highly anticipated Stamps School tradition\, the objectives of the Undergraduate Juried Exhibition are: \n\nEncourage the creation of high-quality\, innovative art and design work.\nTeach students how to navigate juried exhibitions.\nPromote participation in Stamps’ vibrant cultural community.\nTimeline\n\nDeadline for Submissions: November 23\, 2026\, 11:59 p.m.\nJuror Decisions Announced: Week of December 11\, 2026\nExhibition Opening Reception at Stamps Gallery: February 5\, 2027\, 6-8 p.m.\nWalkthrough with the Artists & Designers: February 6\, 2027\, 2-4 p.m.\nExhibition Dates: February 5-27\, 2027\n\nFor more information\, contact sclegg@umich.edu.
UID:152919-21914782@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152919
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260926T121531
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20270205T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20270205T200000
SUMMARY:Reception / Open House:2027 Undergraduate Juried Exhibition Opening Reception
DESCRIPTION:\n\nJoin us on Friday\, February 5\, 2027\, from 6 – 8 p.m. for the opening reception of the 2027 Undergraduate Juried Exhibition at Stamps Gallery.\n\nLight refreshments will be served.\n\nThe Stamps School’s annual Undergraduate Juried Exhibition is a showcase of outstanding work produced by Stamps undergraduate students\, taking place at Stamps Gallery from February 5-27\, 2027. 
UID:152920-21914796@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152920
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260926T121531
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20270206T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20270206T190000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:2027 Undergraduate Juried Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:\n\nThe Stamps School’s annual Undergraduate Juried Exhibition is a showcase of outstanding work produced by Stamps undergraduate students\, taking place at Stamps Gallery from February 5-27\, 2027. The opening reception will take place on January 30 from 6-8 p.m.\n\nA highly anticipated Stamps School tradition\, the objectives of the Undergraduate Juried Exhibition are: \n\nEncourage the creation of high-quality\, innovative art and design work.\nTeach students how to navigate juried exhibitions.\nPromote participation in Stamps’ vibrant cultural community.\nTimeline\n\nDeadline for Submissions: November 23\, 2026\, 11:59 p.m.\nJuror Decisions Announced: Week of December 11\, 2026\nExhibition Opening Reception at Stamps Gallery: February 5\, 2027\, 6-8 p.m.\nWalkthrough with the Artists & Designers: February 6\, 2027\, 2-4 p.m.\nExhibition Dates: February 5-27\, 2027\n\nFor more information\, contact sclegg@umich.edu.
UID:152919-21914783@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152919
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260926T121532
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20270206T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20270206T160000
SUMMARY:Reception / Open House:2027 Undergraduate Juried Exhibition Student-led Exhibition Tour
DESCRIPTION:\n\nJoin award-win­ning stu­dent artists and designers from the 2027 Under­grad­u­ate Juried Exhi­bi­tion as they lead visitors through a discussion of their work in the exhibition.\n\nThe Stamps School’s annual Undergraduate Juried Exhibition is a showcase of outstanding work produced by Stamps undergraduate students\, taking place at Stamps Gallery from February 5-27\, 2027. 
UID:152921-21914797@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152921
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260926T121531
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20270210T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20270210T190000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:2027 Undergraduate Juried Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:\n\nThe Stamps School’s annual Undergraduate Juried Exhibition is a showcase of outstanding work produced by Stamps undergraduate students\, taking place at Stamps Gallery from February 5-27\, 2027. The opening reception will take place on January 30 from 6-8 p.m.\n\nA highly anticipated Stamps School tradition\, the objectives of the Undergraduate Juried Exhibition are: \n\nEncourage the creation of high-quality\, innovative art and design work.\nTeach students how to navigate juried exhibitions.\nPromote participation in Stamps’ vibrant cultural community.\nTimeline\n\nDeadline for Submissions: November 23\, 2026\, 11:59 p.m.\nJuror Decisions Announced: Week of December 11\, 2026\nExhibition Opening Reception at Stamps Gallery: February 5\, 2027\, 6-8 p.m.\nWalkthrough with the Artists & Designers: February 6\, 2027\, 2-4 p.m.\nExhibition Dates: February 5-27\, 2027\n\nFor more information\, contact sclegg@umich.edu.
UID:152919-21914784@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152919
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260926T121531
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20270211T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20270211T190000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:2027 Undergraduate Juried Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:\n\nThe Stamps School’s annual Undergraduate Juried Exhibition is a showcase of outstanding work produced by Stamps undergraduate students\, taking place at Stamps Gallery from February 5-27\, 2027. The opening reception will take place on January 30 from 6-8 p.m.\n\nA highly anticipated Stamps School tradition\, the objectives of the Undergraduate Juried Exhibition are: \n\nEncourage the creation of high-quality\, innovative art and design work.\nTeach students how to navigate juried exhibitions.\nPromote participation in Stamps’ vibrant cultural community.\nTimeline\n\nDeadline for Submissions: November 23\, 2026\, 11:59 p.m.\nJuror Decisions Announced: Week of December 11\, 2026\nExhibition Opening Reception at Stamps Gallery: February 5\, 2027\, 6-8 p.m.\nWalkthrough with the Artists & Designers: February 6\, 2027\, 2-4 p.m.\nExhibition Dates: February 5-27\, 2027\n\nFor more information\, contact sclegg@umich.edu.
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152919
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260926T121531
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20270212T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20270212T190000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:2027 Undergraduate Juried Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:\n\nThe Stamps School’s annual Undergraduate Juried Exhibition is a showcase of outstanding work produced by Stamps undergraduate students\, taking place at Stamps Gallery from February 5-27\, 2027. The opening reception will take place on January 30 from 6-8 p.m.\n\nA highly anticipated Stamps School tradition\, the objectives of the Undergraduate Juried Exhibition are: \n\nEncourage the creation of high-quality\, innovative art and design work.\nTeach students how to navigate juried exhibitions.\nPromote participation in Stamps’ vibrant cultural community.\nTimeline\n\nDeadline for Submissions: November 23\, 2026\, 11:59 p.m.\nJuror Decisions Announced: Week of December 11\, 2026\nExhibition Opening Reception at Stamps Gallery: February 5\, 2027\, 6-8 p.m.\nWalkthrough with the Artists & Designers: February 6\, 2027\, 2-4 p.m.\nExhibition Dates: February 5-27\, 2027\n\nFor more information\, contact sclegg@umich.edu.
UID:152919-21914786@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152919
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260926T121531
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20270213T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20270213T190000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:2027 Undergraduate Juried Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:\n\nThe Stamps School’s annual Undergraduate Juried Exhibition is a showcase of outstanding work produced by Stamps undergraduate students\, taking place at Stamps Gallery from February 5-27\, 2027. The opening reception will take place on January 30 from 6-8 p.m.\n\nA highly anticipated Stamps School tradition\, the objectives of the Undergraduate Juried Exhibition are: \n\nEncourage the creation of high-quality\, innovative art and design work.\nTeach students how to navigate juried exhibitions.\nPromote participation in Stamps’ vibrant cultural community.\nTimeline\n\nDeadline for Submissions: November 23\, 2026\, 11:59 p.m.\nJuror Decisions Announced: Week of December 11\, 2026\nExhibition Opening Reception at Stamps Gallery: February 5\, 2027\, 6-8 p.m.\nWalkthrough with the Artists & Designers: February 6\, 2027\, 2-4 p.m.\nExhibition Dates: February 5-27\, 2027\n\nFor more information\, contact sclegg@umich.edu.
UID:152919-21914787@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152919
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260926T121531
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20270217T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20270217T190000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:2027 Undergraduate Juried Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:\n\nThe Stamps School’s annual Undergraduate Juried Exhibition is a showcase of outstanding work produced by Stamps undergraduate students\, taking place at Stamps Gallery from February 5-27\, 2027. The opening reception will take place on January 30 from 6-8 p.m.\n\nA highly anticipated Stamps School tradition\, the objectives of the Undergraduate Juried Exhibition are: \n\nEncourage the creation of high-quality\, innovative art and design work.\nTeach students how to navigate juried exhibitions.\nPromote participation in Stamps’ vibrant cultural community.\nTimeline\n\nDeadline for Submissions: November 23\, 2026\, 11:59 p.m.\nJuror Decisions Announced: Week of December 11\, 2026\nExhibition Opening Reception at Stamps Gallery: February 5\, 2027\, 6-8 p.m.\nWalkthrough with the Artists & Designers: February 6\, 2027\, 2-4 p.m.\nExhibition Dates: February 5-27\, 2027\n\nFor more information\, contact sclegg@umich.edu.
UID:152919-21914788@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152919
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260926T121531
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20270218T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20270218T190000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:2027 Undergraduate Juried Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:\n\nThe Stamps School’s annual Undergraduate Juried Exhibition is a showcase of outstanding work produced by Stamps undergraduate students\, taking place at Stamps Gallery from February 5-27\, 2027. The opening reception will take place on January 30 from 6-8 p.m.\n\nA highly anticipated Stamps School tradition\, the objectives of the Undergraduate Juried Exhibition are: \n\nEncourage the creation of high-quality\, innovative art and design work.\nTeach students how to navigate juried exhibitions.\nPromote participation in Stamps’ vibrant cultural community.\nTimeline\n\nDeadline for Submissions: November 23\, 2026\, 11:59 p.m.\nJuror Decisions Announced: Week of December 11\, 2026\nExhibition Opening Reception at Stamps Gallery: February 5\, 2027\, 6-8 p.m.\nWalkthrough with the Artists & Designers: February 6\, 2027\, 2-4 p.m.\nExhibition Dates: February 5-27\, 2027\n\nFor more information\, contact sclegg@umich.edu.
UID:152919-21914789@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152919
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260926T121531
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20270219T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20270219T190000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:2027 Undergraduate Juried Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:\n\nThe Stamps School’s annual Undergraduate Juried Exhibition is a showcase of outstanding work produced by Stamps undergraduate students\, taking place at Stamps Gallery from February 5-27\, 2027. The opening reception will take place on January 30 from 6-8 p.m.\n\nA highly anticipated Stamps School tradition\, the objectives of the Undergraduate Juried Exhibition are: \n\nEncourage the creation of high-quality\, innovative art and design work.\nTeach students how to navigate juried exhibitions.\nPromote participation in Stamps’ vibrant cultural community.\nTimeline\n\nDeadline for Submissions: November 23\, 2026\, 11:59 p.m.\nJuror Decisions Announced: Week of December 11\, 2026\nExhibition Opening Reception at Stamps Gallery: February 5\, 2027\, 6-8 p.m.\nWalkthrough with the Artists & Designers: February 6\, 2027\, 2-4 p.m.\nExhibition Dates: February 5-27\, 2027\n\nFor more information\, contact sclegg@umich.edu.
UID:152919-21914790@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152919
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260926T121531
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20270220T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20270220T190000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:2027 Undergraduate Juried Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:\n\nThe Stamps School’s annual Undergraduate Juried Exhibition is a showcase of outstanding work produced by Stamps undergraduate students\, taking place at Stamps Gallery from February 5-27\, 2027. The opening reception will take place on January 30 from 6-8 p.m.\n\nA highly anticipated Stamps School tradition\, the objectives of the Undergraduate Juried Exhibition are: \n\nEncourage the creation of high-quality\, innovative art and design work.\nTeach students how to navigate juried exhibitions.\nPromote participation in Stamps’ vibrant cultural community.\nTimeline\n\nDeadline for Submissions: November 23\, 2026\, 11:59 p.m.\nJuror Decisions Announced: Week of December 11\, 2026\nExhibition Opening Reception at Stamps Gallery: February 5\, 2027\, 6-8 p.m.\nWalkthrough with the Artists & Designers: February 6\, 2027\, 2-4 p.m.\nExhibition Dates: February 5-27\, 2027\n\nFor more information\, contact sclegg@umich.edu.
UID:152919-21914791@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152919
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260926T121531
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20270224T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20270224T190000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:2027 Undergraduate Juried Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:\n\nThe Stamps School’s annual Undergraduate Juried Exhibition is a showcase of outstanding work produced by Stamps undergraduate students\, taking place at Stamps Gallery from February 5-27\, 2027. The opening reception will take place on January 30 from 6-8 p.m.\n\nA highly anticipated Stamps School tradition\, the objectives of the Undergraduate Juried Exhibition are: \n\nEncourage the creation of high-quality\, innovative art and design work.\nTeach students how to navigate juried exhibitions.\nPromote participation in Stamps’ vibrant cultural community.\nTimeline\n\nDeadline for Submissions: November 23\, 2026\, 11:59 p.m.\nJuror Decisions Announced: Week of December 11\, 2026\nExhibition Opening Reception at Stamps Gallery: February 5\, 2027\, 6-8 p.m.\nWalkthrough with the Artists & Designers: February 6\, 2027\, 2-4 p.m.\nExhibition Dates: February 5-27\, 2027\n\nFor more information\, contact sclegg@umich.edu.
UID:152919-21914792@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152919
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260926T121531
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20270225T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20270225T190000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:2027 Undergraduate Juried Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:\n\nThe Stamps School’s annual Undergraduate Juried Exhibition is a showcase of outstanding work produced by Stamps undergraduate students\, taking place at Stamps Gallery from February 5-27\, 2027. The opening reception will take place on January 30 from 6-8 p.m.\n\nA highly anticipated Stamps School tradition\, the objectives of the Undergraduate Juried Exhibition are: \n\nEncourage the creation of high-quality\, innovative art and design work.\nTeach students how to navigate juried exhibitions.\nPromote participation in Stamps’ vibrant cultural community.\nTimeline\n\nDeadline for Submissions: November 23\, 2026\, 11:59 p.m.\nJuror Decisions Announced: Week of December 11\, 2026\nExhibition Opening Reception at Stamps Gallery: February 5\, 2027\, 6-8 p.m.\nWalkthrough with the Artists & Designers: February 6\, 2027\, 2-4 p.m.\nExhibition Dates: February 5-27\, 2027\n\nFor more information\, contact sclegg@umich.edu.
UID:152919-21914793@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152919
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260926T121531
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20270226T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20270226T190000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:2027 Undergraduate Juried Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:\n\nThe Stamps School’s annual Undergraduate Juried Exhibition is a showcase of outstanding work produced by Stamps undergraduate students\, taking place at Stamps Gallery from February 5-27\, 2027. The opening reception will take place on January 30 from 6-8 p.m.\n\nA highly anticipated Stamps School tradition\, the objectives of the Undergraduate Juried Exhibition are: \n\nEncourage the creation of high-quality\, innovative art and design work.\nTeach students how to navigate juried exhibitions.\nPromote participation in Stamps’ vibrant cultural community.\nTimeline\n\nDeadline for Submissions: November 23\, 2026\, 11:59 p.m.\nJuror Decisions Announced: Week of December 11\, 2026\nExhibition Opening Reception at Stamps Gallery: February 5\, 2027\, 6-8 p.m.\nWalkthrough with the Artists & Designers: February 6\, 2027\, 2-4 p.m.\nExhibition Dates: February 5-27\, 2027\n\nFor more information\, contact sclegg@umich.edu.
UID:152919-21914794@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152919
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260926T121531
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20270227T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20270227T190000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:2027 Undergraduate Juried Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:\n\nThe Stamps School’s annual Undergraduate Juried Exhibition is a showcase of outstanding work produced by Stamps undergraduate students\, taking place at Stamps Gallery from February 5-27\, 2027. The opening reception will take place on January 30 from 6-8 p.m.\n\nA highly anticipated Stamps School tradition\, the objectives of the Undergraduate Juried Exhibition are: \n\nEncourage the creation of high-quality\, innovative art and design work.\nTeach students how to navigate juried exhibitions.\nPromote participation in Stamps’ vibrant cultural community.\nTimeline\n\nDeadline for Submissions: November 23\, 2026\, 11:59 p.m.\nJuror Decisions Announced: Week of December 11\, 2026\nExhibition Opening Reception at Stamps Gallery: February 5\, 2027\, 6-8 p.m.\nWalkthrough with the Artists & Designers: February 6\, 2027\, 2-4 p.m.\nExhibition Dates: February 5-27\, 2027\n\nFor more information\, contact sclegg@umich.edu.
UID:152919-21914795@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152919
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260817T121521
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20270320T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20270320T160000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Be Curious: Making Art with Stamps MFAs
DESCRIPTION:\n\nJoin Master of Fine Arts (MFA) candidates from the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan as they lead creative workshops exploring voice\, process\, and practice. In partnership with the U-M Arts Initiative\, this series is an opportunity for second-year Stamps MFA students to engage the community in their creative and iterative processes through hands-on art making activities. \n\n\nPrior experience not required\, all supplies provided. Individual themes to be announced. Each program is presented individually\; participation in all of the programs is not required. Limited space available\, reservations are required.\n
UID:150351-21909079@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150351
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260817T121521
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20270403T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20270403T160000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Be Curious: Making Art with Stamps MFAs
DESCRIPTION:\n\nJoin Master of Fine Arts (MFA) candidates from the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan as they lead creative workshops exploring voice\, process\, and practice. In partnership with the U-M Arts Initiative\, this series is an opportunity for second-year Stamps MFA students to engage the community in their creative and iterative processes through hands-on art making activities. \n\n\nPrior experience not required\, all supplies provided. Individual themes to be announced. Each program is presented individually\; participation in all of the programs is not required. Limited space available\, reservations are required.\n
UID:150352-21909080@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150352
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20261008T121548
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20270610T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20270610T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Envision: The Michigan Artist Initiative 2027
DESCRIPTION:\n\nIn the summer 2026\, Stamps Gallery announced an open call for artwork\, inviting emerging and mid-career contemporary artists from Michigan working in all types of media to apply.\n\nA shortlist of three artists were selected by a prominent national panel of jurors: Rehema Barber\, Chief Curator\, Kalamazoo Institute of Art\; Laura Mott\, Chief Curator\, Cranbrook Art Museum\; and artist Sara Nickleson\, winner of the 2025 Envision: Michigan Artist Initiative Award.\n\nMeet the shortlisted finalist artists for Envision: The Michigan Artist Initiative 2027:\n\nMandy Cano Villalobos is a visual artist whose work spans installation\, textiles\, sculpture\, and performance\, influenced by her migrant upbringing which engages notions of home\, death\, belonging\, and cultural identity. Self-dubbed a “cultural scrapper”\, she mainly works with castoff objects – broken jewelry\, orphaned toys\, stained clothing\, etc. – to craft opulent works that harness material memories steeped in human touch. Cano Villalobos has exhibited internationally\, including with drj (Berlin\, Germany)\, Proyecto H (Mexico City)\, Marisa Newman Projects (New York\, NY)\, Bridge Projects (Los Angeles\, CA)\, Modern Art Gallery (Veszprém\, Hungary)\, Casa Pauly (Puerto Montt\, Chile)\, among others. She received her MFA from The George Washington University in Washington\, DC. and currently lives and works in Grand Rapids\, MI.\n\nAbhishek Narula is an artist working across sculpture\, installation\, sound\, and video with a creative practice that takes the form of interventions\, working with what is already present by reorienting and disrupting familiar objects and sites to open formal and poetic possibilities within them. Narula’s work has been exhibited at venues including the Science Gallery Detroit\, Ammerman Center for Arts and Technology (New London\, CT)\, the Hyde Park Art Center (Chicago\, IL)\, and the International Symposium on Electronic Art (Vancouver\, B.C.\, Canada). A Lecturer and Robotics Designer in the University of Michigan’s Robotics Department in Ann Arbor\, Narula received his MFA in Studio Art from the Stamps School of Art and Design at the University of Michigan\, and his MS and BS in Electrical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology.\nJoey Quiñones is a fiber artist\, ceramicist\, and mixed media sculptor with work focused on African American and Caribbean history\, particularly the development of queer Afro-Latine identity. Their work has been shown nationally and internationally at venues such as the Palais de Tokyo (Paris\, France)\, the Akron Art Museum\, the Shepherd (Detroit\, MI)\, and The Sculpture Center (Cleveland\, OH). Joey has an MFA in Studio Art from Indiana University\, Bloomington and a Ph.D. in English from the University of Iowa. They are currently the Artist-in-Residence/Head of the Fiber Department at Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills\, MI.\n\n\n\nThe artists will exhibit their work at Stamps Gallery from June 10 to July 31\, 2027\, receiving logistical and curatorial support from the professional staff at Stamps Gallery\, as well as an artist fee and stipend to produce new work. \n\nThe jury will select a winner\, who will be announced at the exhibition’s opening reception and awarded a $5\,000 cash prize.\n
UID:151991-21912554@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/151991
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20261008T121548
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20270611T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20270611T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Envision: The Michigan Artist Initiative 2027
DESCRIPTION:\n\nIn the summer 2026\, Stamps Gallery announced an open call for artwork\, inviting emerging and mid-career contemporary artists from Michigan working in all types of media to apply.\n\nA shortlist of three artists were selected by a prominent national panel of jurors: Rehema Barber\, Chief Curator\, Kalamazoo Institute of Art\; Laura Mott\, Chief Curator\, Cranbrook Art Museum\; and artist Sara Nickleson\, winner of the 2025 Envision: Michigan Artist Initiative Award.\n\nMeet the shortlisted finalist artists for Envision: The Michigan Artist Initiative 2027:\n\nMandy Cano Villalobos is a visual artist whose work spans installation\, textiles\, sculpture\, and performance\, influenced by her migrant upbringing which engages notions of home\, death\, belonging\, and cultural identity. Self-dubbed a “cultural scrapper”\, she mainly works with castoff objects – broken jewelry\, orphaned toys\, stained clothing\, etc. – to craft opulent works that harness material memories steeped in human touch. Cano Villalobos has exhibited internationally\, including with drj (Berlin\, Germany)\, Proyecto H (Mexico City)\, Marisa Newman Projects (New York\, NY)\, Bridge Projects (Los Angeles\, CA)\, Modern Art Gallery (Veszprém\, Hungary)\, Casa Pauly (Puerto Montt\, Chile)\, among others. She received her MFA from The George Washington University in Washington\, DC. and currently lives and works in Grand Rapids\, MI.\n\nAbhishek Narula is an artist working across sculpture\, installation\, sound\, and video with a creative practice that takes the form of interventions\, working with what is already present by reorienting and disrupting familiar objects and sites to open formal and poetic possibilities within them. Narula’s work has been exhibited at venues including the Science Gallery Detroit\, Ammerman Center for Arts and Technology (New London\, CT)\, the Hyde Park Art Center (Chicago\, IL)\, and the International Symposium on Electronic Art (Vancouver\, B.C.\, Canada). A Lecturer and Robotics Designer in the University of Michigan’s Robotics Department in Ann Arbor\, Narula received his MFA in Studio Art from the Stamps School of Art and Design at the University of Michigan\, and his MS and BS in Electrical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology.\nJoey Quiñones is a fiber artist\, ceramicist\, and mixed media sculptor with work focused on African American and Caribbean history\, particularly the development of queer Afro-Latine identity. Their work has been shown nationally and internationally at venues such as the Palais de Tokyo (Paris\, France)\, the Akron Art Museum\, the Shepherd (Detroit\, MI)\, and The Sculpture Center (Cleveland\, OH). Joey has an MFA in Studio Art from Indiana University\, Bloomington and a Ph.D. in English from the University of Iowa. They are currently the Artist-in-Residence/Head of the Fiber Department at Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills\, MI.\n\n\n\nThe artists will exhibit their work at Stamps Gallery from June 10 to July 31\, 2027\, receiving logistical and curatorial support from the professional staff at Stamps Gallery\, as well as an artist fee and stipend to produce new work. \n\nThe jury will select a winner\, who will be announced at the exhibition’s opening reception and awarded a $5\,000 cash prize.\n
UID:151991-21912555@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/151991
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20261008T121548
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20270612T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20270612T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Envision: The Michigan Artist Initiative 2027
DESCRIPTION:\n\nIn the summer 2026\, Stamps Gallery announced an open call for artwork\, inviting emerging and mid-career contemporary artists from Michigan working in all types of media to apply.\n\nA shortlist of three artists were selected by a prominent national panel of jurors: Rehema Barber\, Chief Curator\, Kalamazoo Institute of Art\; Laura Mott\, Chief Curator\, Cranbrook Art Museum\; and artist Sara Nickleson\, winner of the 2025 Envision: Michigan Artist Initiative Award.\n\nMeet the shortlisted finalist artists for Envision: The Michigan Artist Initiative 2027:\n\nMandy Cano Villalobos is a visual artist whose work spans installation\, textiles\, sculpture\, and performance\, influenced by her migrant upbringing which engages notions of home\, death\, belonging\, and cultural identity. Self-dubbed a “cultural scrapper”\, she mainly works with castoff objects – broken jewelry\, orphaned toys\, stained clothing\, etc. – to craft opulent works that harness material memories steeped in human touch. Cano Villalobos has exhibited internationally\, including with drj (Berlin\, Germany)\, Proyecto H (Mexico City)\, Marisa Newman Projects (New York\, NY)\, Bridge Projects (Los Angeles\, CA)\, Modern Art Gallery (Veszprém\, Hungary)\, Casa Pauly (Puerto Montt\, Chile)\, among others. She received her MFA from The George Washington University in Washington\, DC. and currently lives and works in Grand Rapids\, MI.\n\nAbhishek Narula is an artist working across sculpture\, installation\, sound\, and video with a creative practice that takes the form of interventions\, working with what is already present by reorienting and disrupting familiar objects and sites to open formal and poetic possibilities within them. Narula’s work has been exhibited at venues including the Science Gallery Detroit\, Ammerman Center for Arts and Technology (New London\, CT)\, the Hyde Park Art Center (Chicago\, IL)\, and the International Symposium on Electronic Art (Vancouver\, B.C.\, Canada). A Lecturer and Robotics Designer in the University of Michigan’s Robotics Department in Ann Arbor\, Narula received his MFA in Studio Art from the Stamps School of Art and Design at the University of Michigan\, and his MS and BS in Electrical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology.\nJoey Quiñones is a fiber artist\, ceramicist\, and mixed media sculptor with work focused on African American and Caribbean history\, particularly the development of queer Afro-Latine identity. Their work has been shown nationally and internationally at venues such as the Palais de Tokyo (Paris\, France)\, the Akron Art Museum\, the Shepherd (Detroit\, MI)\, and The Sculpture Center (Cleveland\, OH). Joey has an MFA in Studio Art from Indiana University\, Bloomington and a Ph.D. in English from the University of Iowa. They are currently the Artist-in-Residence/Head of the Fiber Department at Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills\, MI.\n\n\n\nThe artists will exhibit their work at Stamps Gallery from June 10 to July 31\, 2027\, receiving logistical and curatorial support from the professional staff at Stamps Gallery\, as well as an artist fee and stipend to produce new work. \n\nThe jury will select a winner\, who will be announced at the exhibition’s opening reception and awarded a $5\,000 cash prize.\n
UID:151991-21912556@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/151991
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20261008T121548
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20270616T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20270616T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Envision: The Michigan Artist Initiative 2027
DESCRIPTION:\n\nIn the summer 2026\, Stamps Gallery announced an open call for artwork\, inviting emerging and mid-career contemporary artists from Michigan working in all types of media to apply.\n\nA shortlist of three artists were selected by a prominent national panel of jurors: Rehema Barber\, Chief Curator\, Kalamazoo Institute of Art\; Laura Mott\, Chief Curator\, Cranbrook Art Museum\; and artist Sara Nickleson\, winner of the 2025 Envision: Michigan Artist Initiative Award.\n\nMeet the shortlisted finalist artists for Envision: The Michigan Artist Initiative 2027:\n\nMandy Cano Villalobos is a visual artist whose work spans installation\, textiles\, sculpture\, and performance\, influenced by her migrant upbringing which engages notions of home\, death\, belonging\, and cultural identity. Self-dubbed a “cultural scrapper”\, she mainly works with castoff objects – broken jewelry\, orphaned toys\, stained clothing\, etc. – to craft opulent works that harness material memories steeped in human touch. Cano Villalobos has exhibited internationally\, including with drj (Berlin\, Germany)\, Proyecto H (Mexico City)\, Marisa Newman Projects (New York\, NY)\, Bridge Projects (Los Angeles\, CA)\, Modern Art Gallery (Veszprém\, Hungary)\, Casa Pauly (Puerto Montt\, Chile)\, among others. She received her MFA from The George Washington University in Washington\, DC. and currently lives and works in Grand Rapids\, MI.\n\nAbhishek Narula is an artist working across sculpture\, installation\, sound\, and video with a creative practice that takes the form of interventions\, working with what is already present by reorienting and disrupting familiar objects and sites to open formal and poetic possibilities within them. Narula’s work has been exhibited at venues including the Science Gallery Detroit\, Ammerman Center for Arts and Technology (New London\, CT)\, the Hyde Park Art Center (Chicago\, IL)\, and the International Symposium on Electronic Art (Vancouver\, B.C.\, Canada). A Lecturer and Robotics Designer in the University of Michigan’s Robotics Department in Ann Arbor\, Narula received his MFA in Studio Art from the Stamps School of Art and Design at the University of Michigan\, and his MS and BS in Electrical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology.\nJoey Quiñones is a fiber artist\, ceramicist\, and mixed media sculptor with work focused on African American and Caribbean history\, particularly the development of queer Afro-Latine identity. Their work has been shown nationally and internationally at venues such as the Palais de Tokyo (Paris\, France)\, the Akron Art Museum\, the Shepherd (Detroit\, MI)\, and The Sculpture Center (Cleveland\, OH). Joey has an MFA in Studio Art from Indiana University\, Bloomington and a Ph.D. in English from the University of Iowa. They are currently the Artist-in-Residence/Head of the Fiber Department at Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills\, MI.\n\n\n\nThe artists will exhibit their work at Stamps Gallery from June 10 to July 31\, 2027\, receiving logistical and curatorial support from the professional staff at Stamps Gallery\, as well as an artist fee and stipend to produce new work. \n\nThe jury will select a winner\, who will be announced at the exhibition’s opening reception and awarded a $5\,000 cash prize.\n
UID:151991-21912557@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/151991
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20261008T121548
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20270617T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20270617T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Envision: The Michigan Artist Initiative 2027
DESCRIPTION:\n\nIn the summer 2026\, Stamps Gallery announced an open call for artwork\, inviting emerging and mid-career contemporary artists from Michigan working in all types of media to apply.\n\nA shortlist of three artists were selected by a prominent national panel of jurors: Rehema Barber\, Chief Curator\, Kalamazoo Institute of Art\; Laura Mott\, Chief Curator\, Cranbrook Art Museum\; and artist Sara Nickleson\, winner of the 2025 Envision: Michigan Artist Initiative Award.\n\nMeet the shortlisted finalist artists for Envision: The Michigan Artist Initiative 2027:\n\nMandy Cano Villalobos is a visual artist whose work spans installation\, textiles\, sculpture\, and performance\, influenced by her migrant upbringing which engages notions of home\, death\, belonging\, and cultural identity. Self-dubbed a “cultural scrapper”\, she mainly works with castoff objects – broken jewelry\, orphaned toys\, stained clothing\, etc. – to craft opulent works that harness material memories steeped in human touch. Cano Villalobos has exhibited internationally\, including with drj (Berlin\, Germany)\, Proyecto H (Mexico City)\, Marisa Newman Projects (New York\, NY)\, Bridge Projects (Los Angeles\, CA)\, Modern Art Gallery (Veszprém\, Hungary)\, Casa Pauly (Puerto Montt\, Chile)\, among others. She received her MFA from The George Washington University in Washington\, DC. and currently lives and works in Grand Rapids\, MI.\n\nAbhishek Narula is an artist working across sculpture\, installation\, sound\, and video with a creative practice that takes the form of interventions\, working with what is already present by reorienting and disrupting familiar objects and sites to open formal and poetic possibilities within them. Narula’s work has been exhibited at venues including the Science Gallery Detroit\, Ammerman Center for Arts and Technology (New London\, CT)\, the Hyde Park Art Center (Chicago\, IL)\, and the International Symposium on Electronic Art (Vancouver\, B.C.\, Canada). A Lecturer and Robotics Designer in the University of Michigan’s Robotics Department in Ann Arbor\, Narula received his MFA in Studio Art from the Stamps School of Art and Design at the University of Michigan\, and his MS and BS in Electrical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology.\nJoey Quiñones is a fiber artist\, ceramicist\, and mixed media sculptor with work focused on African American and Caribbean history\, particularly the development of queer Afro-Latine identity. Their work has been shown nationally and internationally at venues such as the Palais de Tokyo (Paris\, France)\, the Akron Art Museum\, the Shepherd (Detroit\, MI)\, and The Sculpture Center (Cleveland\, OH). Joey has an MFA in Studio Art from Indiana University\, Bloomington and a Ph.D. in English from the University of Iowa. They are currently the Artist-in-Residence/Head of the Fiber Department at Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills\, MI.\n\n\n\nThe artists will exhibit their work at Stamps Gallery from June 10 to July 31\, 2027\, receiving logistical and curatorial support from the professional staff at Stamps Gallery\, as well as an artist fee and stipend to produce new work. \n\nThe jury will select a winner\, who will be announced at the exhibition’s opening reception and awarded a $5\,000 cash prize.\n
UID:151991-21912558@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/151991
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20261008T121548
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20270618T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20270618T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Envision: The Michigan Artist Initiative 2027
DESCRIPTION:\n\nIn the summer 2026\, Stamps Gallery announced an open call for artwork\, inviting emerging and mid-career contemporary artists from Michigan working in all types of media to apply.\n\nA shortlist of three artists were selected by a prominent national panel of jurors: Rehema Barber\, Chief Curator\, Kalamazoo Institute of Art\; Laura Mott\, Chief Curator\, Cranbrook Art Museum\; and artist Sara Nickleson\, winner of the 2025 Envision: Michigan Artist Initiative Award.\n\nMeet the shortlisted finalist artists for Envision: The Michigan Artist Initiative 2027:\n\nMandy Cano Villalobos is a visual artist whose work spans installation\, textiles\, sculpture\, and performance\, influenced by her migrant upbringing which engages notions of home\, death\, belonging\, and cultural identity. Self-dubbed a “cultural scrapper”\, she mainly works with castoff objects – broken jewelry\, orphaned toys\, stained clothing\, etc. – to craft opulent works that harness material memories steeped in human touch. Cano Villalobos has exhibited internationally\, including with drj (Berlin\, Germany)\, Proyecto H (Mexico City)\, Marisa Newman Projects (New York\, NY)\, Bridge Projects (Los Angeles\, CA)\, Modern Art Gallery (Veszprém\, Hungary)\, Casa Pauly (Puerto Montt\, Chile)\, among others. She received her MFA from The George Washington University in Washington\, DC. and currently lives and works in Grand Rapids\, MI.\n\nAbhishek Narula is an artist working across sculpture\, installation\, sound\, and video with a creative practice that takes the form of interventions\, working with what is already present by reorienting and disrupting familiar objects and sites to open formal and poetic possibilities within them. Narula’s work has been exhibited at venues including the Science Gallery Detroit\, Ammerman Center for Arts and Technology (New London\, CT)\, the Hyde Park Art Center (Chicago\, IL)\, and the International Symposium on Electronic Art (Vancouver\, B.C.\, Canada). A Lecturer and Robotics Designer in the University of Michigan’s Robotics Department in Ann Arbor\, Narula received his MFA in Studio Art from the Stamps School of Art and Design at the University of Michigan\, and his MS and BS in Electrical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology.\nJoey Quiñones is a fiber artist\, ceramicist\, and mixed media sculptor with work focused on African American and Caribbean history\, particularly the development of queer Afro-Latine identity. Their work has been shown nationally and internationally at venues such as the Palais de Tokyo (Paris\, France)\, the Akron Art Museum\, the Shepherd (Detroit\, MI)\, and The Sculpture Center (Cleveland\, OH). Joey has an MFA in Studio Art from Indiana University\, Bloomington and a Ph.D. in English from the University of Iowa. They are currently the Artist-in-Residence/Head of the Fiber Department at Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills\, MI.\n\n\n\nThe artists will exhibit their work at Stamps Gallery from June 10 to July 31\, 2027\, receiving logistical and curatorial support from the professional staff at Stamps Gallery\, as well as an artist fee and stipend to produce new work. \n\nThe jury will select a winner\, who will be announced at the exhibition’s opening reception and awarded a $5\,000 cash prize.\n
UID:151991-21912559@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/151991
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20261008T121548
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20270619T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20270619T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Envision: The Michigan Artist Initiative 2027
DESCRIPTION:\n\nIn the summer 2026\, Stamps Gallery announced an open call for artwork\, inviting emerging and mid-career contemporary artists from Michigan working in all types of media to apply.\n\nA shortlist of three artists were selected by a prominent national panel of jurors: Rehema Barber\, Chief Curator\, Kalamazoo Institute of Art\; Laura Mott\, Chief Curator\, Cranbrook Art Museum\; and artist Sara Nickleson\, winner of the 2025 Envision: Michigan Artist Initiative Award.\n\nMeet the shortlisted finalist artists for Envision: The Michigan Artist Initiative 2027:\n\nMandy Cano Villalobos is a visual artist whose work spans installation\, textiles\, sculpture\, and performance\, influenced by her migrant upbringing which engages notions of home\, death\, belonging\, and cultural identity. Self-dubbed a “cultural scrapper”\, she mainly works with castoff objects – broken jewelry\, orphaned toys\, stained clothing\, etc. – to craft opulent works that harness material memories steeped in human touch. Cano Villalobos has exhibited internationally\, including with drj (Berlin\, Germany)\, Proyecto H (Mexico City)\, Marisa Newman Projects (New York\, NY)\, Bridge Projects (Los Angeles\, CA)\, Modern Art Gallery (Veszprém\, Hungary)\, Casa Pauly (Puerto Montt\, Chile)\, among others. She received her MFA from The George Washington University in Washington\, DC. and currently lives and works in Grand Rapids\, MI.\n\nAbhishek Narula is an artist working across sculpture\, installation\, sound\, and video with a creative practice that takes the form of interventions\, working with what is already present by reorienting and disrupting familiar objects and sites to open formal and poetic possibilities within them. Narula’s work has been exhibited at venues including the Science Gallery Detroit\, Ammerman Center for Arts and Technology (New London\, CT)\, the Hyde Park Art Center (Chicago\, IL)\, and the International Symposium on Electronic Art (Vancouver\, B.C.\, Canada). A Lecturer and Robotics Designer in the University of Michigan’s Robotics Department in Ann Arbor\, Narula received his MFA in Studio Art from the Stamps School of Art and Design at the University of Michigan\, and his MS and BS in Electrical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology.\nJoey Quiñones is a fiber artist\, ceramicist\, and mixed media sculptor with work focused on African American and Caribbean history\, particularly the development of queer Afro-Latine identity. Their work has been shown nationally and internationally at venues such as the Palais de Tokyo (Paris\, France)\, the Akron Art Museum\, the Shepherd (Detroit\, MI)\, and The Sculpture Center (Cleveland\, OH). Joey has an MFA in Studio Art from Indiana University\, Bloomington and a Ph.D. in English from the University of Iowa. They are currently the Artist-in-Residence/Head of the Fiber Department at Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills\, MI.\n\n\n\nThe artists will exhibit their work at Stamps Gallery from June 10 to July 31\, 2027\, receiving logistical and curatorial support from the professional staff at Stamps Gallery\, as well as an artist fee and stipend to produce new work. \n\nThe jury will select a winner\, who will be announced at the exhibition’s opening reception and awarded a $5\,000 cash prize.\n
UID:151991-21912560@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/151991
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20261008T121548
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20270623T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20270623T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Envision: The Michigan Artist Initiative 2027
DESCRIPTION:\n\nIn the summer 2026\, Stamps Gallery announced an open call for artwork\, inviting emerging and mid-career contemporary artists from Michigan working in all types of media to apply.\n\nA shortlist of three artists were selected by a prominent national panel of jurors: Rehema Barber\, Chief Curator\, Kalamazoo Institute of Art\; Laura Mott\, Chief Curator\, Cranbrook Art Museum\; and artist Sara Nickleson\, winner of the 2025 Envision: Michigan Artist Initiative Award.\n\nMeet the shortlisted finalist artists for Envision: The Michigan Artist Initiative 2027:\n\nMandy Cano Villalobos is a visual artist whose work spans installation\, textiles\, sculpture\, and performance\, influenced by her migrant upbringing which engages notions of home\, death\, belonging\, and cultural identity. Self-dubbed a “cultural scrapper”\, she mainly works with castoff objects – broken jewelry\, orphaned toys\, stained clothing\, etc. – to craft opulent works that harness material memories steeped in human touch. Cano Villalobos has exhibited internationally\, including with drj (Berlin\, Germany)\, Proyecto H (Mexico City)\, Marisa Newman Projects (New York\, NY)\, Bridge Projects (Los Angeles\, CA)\, Modern Art Gallery (Veszprém\, Hungary)\, Casa Pauly (Puerto Montt\, Chile)\, among others. She received her MFA from The George Washington University in Washington\, DC. and currently lives and works in Grand Rapids\, MI.\n\nAbhishek Narula is an artist working across sculpture\, installation\, sound\, and video with a creative practice that takes the form of interventions\, working with what is already present by reorienting and disrupting familiar objects and sites to open formal and poetic possibilities within them. Narula’s work has been exhibited at venues including the Science Gallery Detroit\, Ammerman Center for Arts and Technology (New London\, CT)\, the Hyde Park Art Center (Chicago\, IL)\, and the International Symposium on Electronic Art (Vancouver\, B.C.\, Canada). A Lecturer and Robotics Designer in the University of Michigan’s Robotics Department in Ann Arbor\, Narula received his MFA in Studio Art from the Stamps School of Art and Design at the University of Michigan\, and his MS and BS in Electrical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology.\nJoey Quiñones is a fiber artist\, ceramicist\, and mixed media sculptor with work focused on African American and Caribbean history\, particularly the development of queer Afro-Latine identity. Their work has been shown nationally and internationally at venues such as the Palais de Tokyo (Paris\, France)\, the Akron Art Museum\, the Shepherd (Detroit\, MI)\, and The Sculpture Center (Cleveland\, OH). Joey has an MFA in Studio Art from Indiana University\, Bloomington and a Ph.D. in English from the University of Iowa. They are currently the Artist-in-Residence/Head of the Fiber Department at Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills\, MI.\n\n\n\nThe artists will exhibit their work at Stamps Gallery from June 10 to July 31\, 2027\, receiving logistical and curatorial support from the professional staff at Stamps Gallery\, as well as an artist fee and stipend to produce new work. \n\nThe jury will select a winner\, who will be announced at the exhibition’s opening reception and awarded a $5\,000 cash prize.\n
UID:151991-21912561@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/151991
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20261008T121548
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20270624T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20270624T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Envision: The Michigan Artist Initiative 2027
DESCRIPTION:\n\nIn the summer 2026\, Stamps Gallery announced an open call for artwork\, inviting emerging and mid-career contemporary artists from Michigan working in all types of media to apply.\n\nA shortlist of three artists were selected by a prominent national panel of jurors: Rehema Barber\, Chief Curator\, Kalamazoo Institute of Art\; Laura Mott\, Chief Curator\, Cranbrook Art Museum\; and artist Sara Nickleson\, winner of the 2025 Envision: Michigan Artist Initiative Award.\n\nMeet the shortlisted finalist artists for Envision: The Michigan Artist Initiative 2027:\n\nMandy Cano Villalobos is a visual artist whose work spans installation\, textiles\, sculpture\, and performance\, influenced by her migrant upbringing which engages notions of home\, death\, belonging\, and cultural identity. Self-dubbed a “cultural scrapper”\, she mainly works with castoff objects – broken jewelry\, orphaned toys\, stained clothing\, etc. – to craft opulent works that harness material memories steeped in human touch. Cano Villalobos has exhibited internationally\, including with drj (Berlin\, Germany)\, Proyecto H (Mexico City)\, Marisa Newman Projects (New York\, NY)\, Bridge Projects (Los Angeles\, CA)\, Modern Art Gallery (Veszprém\, Hungary)\, Casa Pauly (Puerto Montt\, Chile)\, among others. She received her MFA from The George Washington University in Washington\, DC. and currently lives and works in Grand Rapids\, MI.\n\nAbhishek Narula is an artist working across sculpture\, installation\, sound\, and video with a creative practice that takes the form of interventions\, working with what is already present by reorienting and disrupting familiar objects and sites to open formal and poetic possibilities within them. Narula’s work has been exhibited at venues including the Science Gallery Detroit\, Ammerman Center for Arts and Technology (New London\, CT)\, the Hyde Park Art Center (Chicago\, IL)\, and the International Symposium on Electronic Art (Vancouver\, B.C.\, Canada). A Lecturer and Robotics Designer in the University of Michigan’s Robotics Department in Ann Arbor\, Narula received his MFA in Studio Art from the Stamps School of Art and Design at the University of Michigan\, and his MS and BS in Electrical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology.\nJoey Quiñones is a fiber artist\, ceramicist\, and mixed media sculptor with work focused on African American and Caribbean history\, particularly the development of queer Afro-Latine identity. Their work has been shown nationally and internationally at venues such as the Palais de Tokyo (Paris\, France)\, the Akron Art Museum\, the Shepherd (Detroit\, MI)\, and The Sculpture Center (Cleveland\, OH). Joey has an MFA in Studio Art from Indiana University\, Bloomington and a Ph.D. in English from the University of Iowa. They are currently the Artist-in-Residence/Head of the Fiber Department at Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills\, MI.\n\n\n\nThe artists will exhibit their work at Stamps Gallery from June 10 to July 31\, 2027\, receiving logistical and curatorial support from the professional staff at Stamps Gallery\, as well as an artist fee and stipend to produce new work. \n\nThe jury will select a winner\, who will be announced at the exhibition’s opening reception and awarded a $5\,000 cash prize.\n
UID:151991-21912562@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/151991
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20261008T121548
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20270625T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20270625T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Envision: The Michigan Artist Initiative 2027
DESCRIPTION:\n\nIn the summer 2026\, Stamps Gallery announced an open call for artwork\, inviting emerging and mid-career contemporary artists from Michigan working in all types of media to apply.\n\nA shortlist of three artists were selected by a prominent national panel of jurors: Rehema Barber\, Chief Curator\, Kalamazoo Institute of Art\; Laura Mott\, Chief Curator\, Cranbrook Art Museum\; and artist Sara Nickleson\, winner of the 2025 Envision: Michigan Artist Initiative Award.\n\nMeet the shortlisted finalist artists for Envision: The Michigan Artist Initiative 2027:\n\nMandy Cano Villalobos is a visual artist whose work spans installation\, textiles\, sculpture\, and performance\, influenced by her migrant upbringing which engages notions of home\, death\, belonging\, and cultural identity. Self-dubbed a “cultural scrapper”\, she mainly works with castoff objects – broken jewelry\, orphaned toys\, stained clothing\, etc. – to craft opulent works that harness material memories steeped in human touch. Cano Villalobos has exhibited internationally\, including with drj (Berlin\, Germany)\, Proyecto H (Mexico City)\, Marisa Newman Projects (New York\, NY)\, Bridge Projects (Los Angeles\, CA)\, Modern Art Gallery (Veszprém\, Hungary)\, Casa Pauly (Puerto Montt\, Chile)\, among others. She received her MFA from The George Washington University in Washington\, DC. and currently lives and works in Grand Rapids\, MI.\n\nAbhishek Narula is an artist working across sculpture\, installation\, sound\, and video with a creative practice that takes the form of interventions\, working with what is already present by reorienting and disrupting familiar objects and sites to open formal and poetic possibilities within them. Narula’s work has been exhibited at venues including the Science Gallery Detroit\, Ammerman Center for Arts and Technology (New London\, CT)\, the Hyde Park Art Center (Chicago\, IL)\, and the International Symposium on Electronic Art (Vancouver\, B.C.\, Canada). A Lecturer and Robotics Designer in the University of Michigan’s Robotics Department in Ann Arbor\, Narula received his MFA in Studio Art from the Stamps School of Art and Design at the University of Michigan\, and his MS and BS in Electrical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology.\nJoey Quiñones is a fiber artist\, ceramicist\, and mixed media sculptor with work focused on African American and Caribbean history\, particularly the development of queer Afro-Latine identity. Their work has been shown nationally and internationally at venues such as the Palais de Tokyo (Paris\, France)\, the Akron Art Museum\, the Shepherd (Detroit\, MI)\, and The Sculpture Center (Cleveland\, OH). Joey has an MFA in Studio Art from Indiana University\, Bloomington and a Ph.D. in English from the University of Iowa. They are currently the Artist-in-Residence/Head of the Fiber Department at Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills\, MI.\n\n\n\nThe artists will exhibit their work at Stamps Gallery from June 10 to July 31\, 2027\, receiving logistical and curatorial support from the professional staff at Stamps Gallery\, as well as an artist fee and stipend to produce new work. \n\nThe jury will select a winner\, who will be announced at the exhibition’s opening reception and awarded a $5\,000 cash prize.\n
UID:151991-21912563@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/151991
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20261008T121548
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20270626T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20270626T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Envision: The Michigan Artist Initiative 2027
DESCRIPTION:\n\nIn the summer 2026\, Stamps Gallery announced an open call for artwork\, inviting emerging and mid-career contemporary artists from Michigan working in all types of media to apply.\n\nA shortlist of three artists were selected by a prominent national panel of jurors: Rehema Barber\, Chief Curator\, Kalamazoo Institute of Art\; Laura Mott\, Chief Curator\, Cranbrook Art Museum\; and artist Sara Nickleson\, winner of the 2025 Envision: Michigan Artist Initiative Award.\n\nMeet the shortlisted finalist artists for Envision: The Michigan Artist Initiative 2027:\n\nMandy Cano Villalobos is a visual artist whose work spans installation\, textiles\, sculpture\, and performance\, influenced by her migrant upbringing which engages notions of home\, death\, belonging\, and cultural identity. Self-dubbed a “cultural scrapper”\, she mainly works with castoff objects – broken jewelry\, orphaned toys\, stained clothing\, etc. – to craft opulent works that harness material memories steeped in human touch. Cano Villalobos has exhibited internationally\, including with drj (Berlin\, Germany)\, Proyecto H (Mexico City)\, Marisa Newman Projects (New York\, NY)\, Bridge Projects (Los Angeles\, CA)\, Modern Art Gallery (Veszprém\, Hungary)\, Casa Pauly (Puerto Montt\, Chile)\, among others. She received her MFA from The George Washington University in Washington\, DC. and currently lives and works in Grand Rapids\, MI.\n\nAbhishek Narula is an artist working across sculpture\, installation\, sound\, and video with a creative practice that takes the form of interventions\, working with what is already present by reorienting and disrupting familiar objects and sites to open formal and poetic possibilities within them. Narula’s work has been exhibited at venues including the Science Gallery Detroit\, Ammerman Center for Arts and Technology (New London\, CT)\, the Hyde Park Art Center (Chicago\, IL)\, and the International Symposium on Electronic Art (Vancouver\, B.C.\, Canada). A Lecturer and Robotics Designer in the University of Michigan’s Robotics Department in Ann Arbor\, Narula received his MFA in Studio Art from the Stamps School of Art and Design at the University of Michigan\, and his MS and BS in Electrical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology.\nJoey Quiñones is a fiber artist\, ceramicist\, and mixed media sculptor with work focused on African American and Caribbean history\, particularly the development of queer Afro-Latine identity. Their work has been shown nationally and internationally at venues such as the Palais de Tokyo (Paris\, France)\, the Akron Art Museum\, the Shepherd (Detroit\, MI)\, and The Sculpture Center (Cleveland\, OH). Joey has an MFA in Studio Art from Indiana University\, Bloomington and a Ph.D. in English from the University of Iowa. They are currently the Artist-in-Residence/Head of the Fiber Department at Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills\, MI.\n\n\n\nThe artists will exhibit their work at Stamps Gallery from June 10 to July 31\, 2027\, receiving logistical and curatorial support from the professional staff at Stamps Gallery\, as well as an artist fee and stipend to produce new work. \n\nThe jury will select a winner\, who will be announced at the exhibition’s opening reception and awarded a $5\,000 cash prize.\n
UID:151991-21912564@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/151991
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20261008T121548
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20270630T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20270630T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Envision: The Michigan Artist Initiative 2027
DESCRIPTION:\n\nIn the summer 2026\, Stamps Gallery announced an open call for artwork\, inviting emerging and mid-career contemporary artists from Michigan working in all types of media to apply.\n\nA shortlist of three artists were selected by a prominent national panel of jurors: Rehema Barber\, Chief Curator\, Kalamazoo Institute of Art\; Laura Mott\, Chief Curator\, Cranbrook Art Museum\; and artist Sara Nickleson\, winner of the 2025 Envision: Michigan Artist Initiative Award.\n\nMeet the shortlisted finalist artists for Envision: The Michigan Artist Initiative 2027:\n\nMandy Cano Villalobos is a visual artist whose work spans installation\, textiles\, sculpture\, and performance\, influenced by her migrant upbringing which engages notions of home\, death\, belonging\, and cultural identity. Self-dubbed a “cultural scrapper”\, she mainly works with castoff objects – broken jewelry\, orphaned toys\, stained clothing\, etc. – to craft opulent works that harness material memories steeped in human touch. Cano Villalobos has exhibited internationally\, including with drj (Berlin\, Germany)\, Proyecto H (Mexico City)\, Marisa Newman Projects (New York\, NY)\, Bridge Projects (Los Angeles\, CA)\, Modern Art Gallery (Veszprém\, Hungary)\, Casa Pauly (Puerto Montt\, Chile)\, among others. She received her MFA from The George Washington University in Washington\, DC. and currently lives and works in Grand Rapids\, MI.\n\nAbhishek Narula is an artist working across sculpture\, installation\, sound\, and video with a creative practice that takes the form of interventions\, working with what is already present by reorienting and disrupting familiar objects and sites to open formal and poetic possibilities within them. Narula’s work has been exhibited at venues including the Science Gallery Detroit\, Ammerman Center for Arts and Technology (New London\, CT)\, the Hyde Park Art Center (Chicago\, IL)\, and the International Symposium on Electronic Art (Vancouver\, B.C.\, Canada). A Lecturer and Robotics Designer in the University of Michigan’s Robotics Department in Ann Arbor\, Narula received his MFA in Studio Art from the Stamps School of Art and Design at the University of Michigan\, and his MS and BS in Electrical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology.\nJoey Quiñones is a fiber artist\, ceramicist\, and mixed media sculptor with work focused on African American and Caribbean history\, particularly the development of queer Afro-Latine identity. Their work has been shown nationally and internationally at venues such as the Palais de Tokyo (Paris\, France)\, the Akron Art Museum\, the Shepherd (Detroit\, MI)\, and The Sculpture Center (Cleveland\, OH). Joey has an MFA in Studio Art from Indiana University\, Bloomington and a Ph.D. in English from the University of Iowa. They are currently the Artist-in-Residence/Head of the Fiber Department at Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills\, MI.\n\n\n\nThe artists will exhibit their work at Stamps Gallery from June 10 to July 31\, 2027\, receiving logistical and curatorial support from the professional staff at Stamps Gallery\, as well as an artist fee and stipend to produce new work. \n\nThe jury will select a winner\, who will be announced at the exhibition’s opening reception and awarded a $5\,000 cash prize.\n
UID:151991-21912565@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/151991
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20261008T121548
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20270701T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20270701T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Envision: The Michigan Artist Initiative 2027
DESCRIPTION:\n\nIn the summer 2026\, Stamps Gallery announced an open call for artwork\, inviting emerging and mid-career contemporary artists from Michigan working in all types of media to apply.\n\nA shortlist of three artists were selected by a prominent national panel of jurors: Rehema Barber\, Chief Curator\, Kalamazoo Institute of Art\; Laura Mott\, Chief Curator\, Cranbrook Art Museum\; and artist Sara Nickleson\, winner of the 2025 Envision: Michigan Artist Initiative Award.\n\nMeet the shortlisted finalist artists for Envision: The Michigan Artist Initiative 2027:\n\nMandy Cano Villalobos is a visual artist whose work spans installation\, textiles\, sculpture\, and performance\, influenced by her migrant upbringing which engages notions of home\, death\, belonging\, and cultural identity. Self-dubbed a “cultural scrapper”\, she mainly works with castoff objects – broken jewelry\, orphaned toys\, stained clothing\, etc. – to craft opulent works that harness material memories steeped in human touch. Cano Villalobos has exhibited internationally\, including with drj (Berlin\, Germany)\, Proyecto H (Mexico City)\, Marisa Newman Projects (New York\, NY)\, Bridge Projects (Los Angeles\, CA)\, Modern Art Gallery (Veszprém\, Hungary)\, Casa Pauly (Puerto Montt\, Chile)\, among others. She received her MFA from The George Washington University in Washington\, DC. and currently lives and works in Grand Rapids\, MI.\n\nAbhishek Narula is an artist working across sculpture\, installation\, sound\, and video with a creative practice that takes the form of interventions\, working with what is already present by reorienting and disrupting familiar objects and sites to open formal and poetic possibilities within them. Narula’s work has been exhibited at venues including the Science Gallery Detroit\, Ammerman Center for Arts and Technology (New London\, CT)\, the Hyde Park Art Center (Chicago\, IL)\, and the International Symposium on Electronic Art (Vancouver\, B.C.\, Canada). A Lecturer and Robotics Designer in the University of Michigan’s Robotics Department in Ann Arbor\, Narula received his MFA in Studio Art from the Stamps School of Art and Design at the University of Michigan\, and his MS and BS in Electrical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology.\nJoey Quiñones is a fiber artist\, ceramicist\, and mixed media sculptor with work focused on African American and Caribbean history\, particularly the development of queer Afro-Latine identity. Their work has been shown nationally and internationally at venues such as the Palais de Tokyo (Paris\, France)\, the Akron Art Museum\, the Shepherd (Detroit\, MI)\, and The Sculpture Center (Cleveland\, OH). Joey has an MFA in Studio Art from Indiana University\, Bloomington and a Ph.D. in English from the University of Iowa. They are currently the Artist-in-Residence/Head of the Fiber Department at Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills\, MI.\n\n\n\nThe artists will exhibit their work at Stamps Gallery from June 10 to July 31\, 2027\, receiving logistical and curatorial support from the professional staff at Stamps Gallery\, as well as an artist fee and stipend to produce new work. \n\nThe jury will select a winner\, who will be announced at the exhibition’s opening reception and awarded a $5\,000 cash prize.\n
UID:151991-21912566@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/151991
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20261008T121548
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20270702T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20270702T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Envision: The Michigan Artist Initiative 2027
DESCRIPTION:\n\nIn the summer 2026\, Stamps Gallery announced an open call for artwork\, inviting emerging and mid-career contemporary artists from Michigan working in all types of media to apply.\n\nA shortlist of three artists were selected by a prominent national panel of jurors: Rehema Barber\, Chief Curator\, Kalamazoo Institute of Art\; Laura Mott\, Chief Curator\, Cranbrook Art Museum\; and artist Sara Nickleson\, winner of the 2025 Envision: Michigan Artist Initiative Award.\n\nMeet the shortlisted finalist artists for Envision: The Michigan Artist Initiative 2027:\n\nMandy Cano Villalobos is a visual artist whose work spans installation\, textiles\, sculpture\, and performance\, influenced by her migrant upbringing which engages notions of home\, death\, belonging\, and cultural identity. Self-dubbed a “cultural scrapper”\, she mainly works with castoff objects – broken jewelry\, orphaned toys\, stained clothing\, etc. – to craft opulent works that harness material memories steeped in human touch. Cano Villalobos has exhibited internationally\, including with drj (Berlin\, Germany)\, Proyecto H (Mexico City)\, Marisa Newman Projects (New York\, NY)\, Bridge Projects (Los Angeles\, CA)\, Modern Art Gallery (Veszprém\, Hungary)\, Casa Pauly (Puerto Montt\, Chile)\, among others. She received her MFA from The George Washington University in Washington\, DC. and currently lives and works in Grand Rapids\, MI.\n\nAbhishek Narula is an artist working across sculpture\, installation\, sound\, and video with a creative practice that takes the form of interventions\, working with what is already present by reorienting and disrupting familiar objects and sites to open formal and poetic possibilities within them. Narula’s work has been exhibited at venues including the Science Gallery Detroit\, Ammerman Center for Arts and Technology (New London\, CT)\, the Hyde Park Art Center (Chicago\, IL)\, and the International Symposium on Electronic Art (Vancouver\, B.C.\, Canada). A Lecturer and Robotics Designer in the University of Michigan’s Robotics Department in Ann Arbor\, Narula received his MFA in Studio Art from the Stamps School of Art and Design at the University of Michigan\, and his MS and BS in Electrical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology.\nJoey Quiñones is a fiber artist\, ceramicist\, and mixed media sculptor with work focused on African American and Caribbean history\, particularly the development of queer Afro-Latine identity. Their work has been shown nationally and internationally at venues such as the Palais de Tokyo (Paris\, France)\, the Akron Art Museum\, the Shepherd (Detroit\, MI)\, and The Sculpture Center (Cleveland\, OH). Joey has an MFA in Studio Art from Indiana University\, Bloomington and a Ph.D. in English from the University of Iowa. They are currently the Artist-in-Residence/Head of the Fiber Department at Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills\, MI.\n\n\n\nThe artists will exhibit their work at Stamps Gallery from June 10 to July 31\, 2027\, receiving logistical and curatorial support from the professional staff at Stamps Gallery\, as well as an artist fee and stipend to produce new work. \n\nThe jury will select a winner\, who will be announced at the exhibition’s opening reception and awarded a $5\,000 cash prize.\n
UID:151991-21912567@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/151991
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20261008T121548
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20270703T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20270703T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Envision: The Michigan Artist Initiative 2027
DESCRIPTION:\n\nIn the summer 2026\, Stamps Gallery announced an open call for artwork\, inviting emerging and mid-career contemporary artists from Michigan working in all types of media to apply.\n\nA shortlist of three artists were selected by a prominent national panel of jurors: Rehema Barber\, Chief Curator\, Kalamazoo Institute of Art\; Laura Mott\, Chief Curator\, Cranbrook Art Museum\; and artist Sara Nickleson\, winner of the 2025 Envision: Michigan Artist Initiative Award.\n\nMeet the shortlisted finalist artists for Envision: The Michigan Artist Initiative 2027:\n\nMandy Cano Villalobos is a visual artist whose work spans installation\, textiles\, sculpture\, and performance\, influenced by her migrant upbringing which engages notions of home\, death\, belonging\, and cultural identity. Self-dubbed a “cultural scrapper”\, she mainly works with castoff objects – broken jewelry\, orphaned toys\, stained clothing\, etc. – to craft opulent works that harness material memories steeped in human touch. Cano Villalobos has exhibited internationally\, including with drj (Berlin\, Germany)\, Proyecto H (Mexico City)\, Marisa Newman Projects (New York\, NY)\, Bridge Projects (Los Angeles\, CA)\, Modern Art Gallery (Veszprém\, Hungary)\, Casa Pauly (Puerto Montt\, Chile)\, among others. She received her MFA from The George Washington University in Washington\, DC. and currently lives and works in Grand Rapids\, MI.\n\nAbhishek Narula is an artist working across sculpture\, installation\, sound\, and video with a creative practice that takes the form of interventions\, working with what is already present by reorienting and disrupting familiar objects and sites to open formal and poetic possibilities within them. Narula’s work has been exhibited at venues including the Science Gallery Detroit\, Ammerman Center for Arts and Technology (New London\, CT)\, the Hyde Park Art Center (Chicago\, IL)\, and the International Symposium on Electronic Art (Vancouver\, B.C.\, Canada). A Lecturer and Robotics Designer in the University of Michigan’s Robotics Department in Ann Arbor\, Narula received his MFA in Studio Art from the Stamps School of Art and Design at the University of Michigan\, and his MS and BS in Electrical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology.\nJoey Quiñones is a fiber artist\, ceramicist\, and mixed media sculptor with work focused on African American and Caribbean history\, particularly the development of queer Afro-Latine identity. Their work has been shown nationally and internationally at venues such as the Palais de Tokyo (Paris\, France)\, the Akron Art Museum\, the Shepherd (Detroit\, MI)\, and The Sculpture Center (Cleveland\, OH). Joey has an MFA in Studio Art from Indiana University\, Bloomington and a Ph.D. in English from the University of Iowa. They are currently the Artist-in-Residence/Head of the Fiber Department at Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills\, MI.\n\n\n\nThe artists will exhibit their work at Stamps Gallery from June 10 to July 31\, 2027\, receiving logistical and curatorial support from the professional staff at Stamps Gallery\, as well as an artist fee and stipend to produce new work. \n\nThe jury will select a winner\, who will be announced at the exhibition’s opening reception and awarded a $5\,000 cash prize.\n
UID:151991-21912568@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/151991
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20261008T121548
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20270707T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20270707T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Envision: The Michigan Artist Initiative 2027
DESCRIPTION:\n\nIn the summer 2026\, Stamps Gallery announced an open call for artwork\, inviting emerging and mid-career contemporary artists from Michigan working in all types of media to apply.\n\nA shortlist of three artists were selected by a prominent national panel of jurors: Rehema Barber\, Chief Curator\, Kalamazoo Institute of Art\; Laura Mott\, Chief Curator\, Cranbrook Art Museum\; and artist Sara Nickleson\, winner of the 2025 Envision: Michigan Artist Initiative Award.\n\nMeet the shortlisted finalist artists for Envision: The Michigan Artist Initiative 2027:\n\nMandy Cano Villalobos is a visual artist whose work spans installation\, textiles\, sculpture\, and performance\, influenced by her migrant upbringing which engages notions of home\, death\, belonging\, and cultural identity. Self-dubbed a “cultural scrapper”\, she mainly works with castoff objects – broken jewelry\, orphaned toys\, stained clothing\, etc. – to craft opulent works that harness material memories steeped in human touch. Cano Villalobos has exhibited internationally\, including with drj (Berlin\, Germany)\, Proyecto H (Mexico City)\, Marisa Newman Projects (New York\, NY)\, Bridge Projects (Los Angeles\, CA)\, Modern Art Gallery (Veszprém\, Hungary)\, Casa Pauly (Puerto Montt\, Chile)\, among others. She received her MFA from The George Washington University in Washington\, DC. and currently lives and works in Grand Rapids\, MI.\n\nAbhishek Narula is an artist working across sculpture\, installation\, sound\, and video with a creative practice that takes the form of interventions\, working with what is already present by reorienting and disrupting familiar objects and sites to open formal and poetic possibilities within them. Narula’s work has been exhibited at venues including the Science Gallery Detroit\, Ammerman Center for Arts and Technology (New London\, CT)\, the Hyde Park Art Center (Chicago\, IL)\, and the International Symposium on Electronic Art (Vancouver\, B.C.\, Canada). A Lecturer and Robotics Designer in the University of Michigan’s Robotics Department in Ann Arbor\, Narula received his MFA in Studio Art from the Stamps School of Art and Design at the University of Michigan\, and his MS and BS in Electrical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology.\nJoey Quiñones is a fiber artist\, ceramicist\, and mixed media sculptor with work focused on African American and Caribbean history\, particularly the development of queer Afro-Latine identity. Their work has been shown nationally and internationally at venues such as the Palais de Tokyo (Paris\, France)\, the Akron Art Museum\, the Shepherd (Detroit\, MI)\, and The Sculpture Center (Cleveland\, OH). Joey has an MFA in Studio Art from Indiana University\, Bloomington and a Ph.D. in English from the University of Iowa. They are currently the Artist-in-Residence/Head of the Fiber Department at Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills\, MI.\n\n\n\nThe artists will exhibit their work at Stamps Gallery from June 10 to July 31\, 2027\, receiving logistical and curatorial support from the professional staff at Stamps Gallery\, as well as an artist fee and stipend to produce new work. \n\nThe jury will select a winner\, who will be announced at the exhibition’s opening reception and awarded a $5\,000 cash prize.\n
UID:151991-21912569@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/151991
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20261008T121548
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20270708T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20270708T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Envision: The Michigan Artist Initiative 2027
DESCRIPTION:\n\nIn the summer 2026\, Stamps Gallery announced an open call for artwork\, inviting emerging and mid-career contemporary artists from Michigan working in all types of media to apply.\n\nA shortlist of three artists were selected by a prominent national panel of jurors: Rehema Barber\, Chief Curator\, Kalamazoo Institute of Art\; Laura Mott\, Chief Curator\, Cranbrook Art Museum\; and artist Sara Nickleson\, winner of the 2025 Envision: Michigan Artist Initiative Award.\n\nMeet the shortlisted finalist artists for Envision: The Michigan Artist Initiative 2027:\n\nMandy Cano Villalobos is a visual artist whose work spans installation\, textiles\, sculpture\, and performance\, influenced by her migrant upbringing which engages notions of home\, death\, belonging\, and cultural identity. Self-dubbed a “cultural scrapper”\, she mainly works with castoff objects – broken jewelry\, orphaned toys\, stained clothing\, etc. – to craft opulent works that harness material memories steeped in human touch. Cano Villalobos has exhibited internationally\, including with drj (Berlin\, Germany)\, Proyecto H (Mexico City)\, Marisa Newman Projects (New York\, NY)\, Bridge Projects (Los Angeles\, CA)\, Modern Art Gallery (Veszprém\, Hungary)\, Casa Pauly (Puerto Montt\, Chile)\, among others. She received her MFA from The George Washington University in Washington\, DC. and currently lives and works in Grand Rapids\, MI.\n\nAbhishek Narula is an artist working across sculpture\, installation\, sound\, and video with a creative practice that takes the form of interventions\, working with what is already present by reorienting and disrupting familiar objects and sites to open formal and poetic possibilities within them. Narula’s work has been exhibited at venues including the Science Gallery Detroit\, Ammerman Center for Arts and Technology (New London\, CT)\, the Hyde Park Art Center (Chicago\, IL)\, and the International Symposium on Electronic Art (Vancouver\, B.C.\, Canada). A Lecturer and Robotics Designer in the University of Michigan’s Robotics Department in Ann Arbor\, Narula received his MFA in Studio Art from the Stamps School of Art and Design at the University of Michigan\, and his MS and BS in Electrical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology.\nJoey Quiñones is a fiber artist\, ceramicist\, and mixed media sculptor with work focused on African American and Caribbean history\, particularly the development of queer Afro-Latine identity. Their work has been shown nationally and internationally at venues such as the Palais de Tokyo (Paris\, France)\, the Akron Art Museum\, the Shepherd (Detroit\, MI)\, and The Sculpture Center (Cleveland\, OH). Joey has an MFA in Studio Art from Indiana University\, Bloomington and a Ph.D. in English from the University of Iowa. They are currently the Artist-in-Residence/Head of the Fiber Department at Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills\, MI.\n\n\n\nThe artists will exhibit their work at Stamps Gallery from June 10 to July 31\, 2027\, receiving logistical and curatorial support from the professional staff at Stamps Gallery\, as well as an artist fee and stipend to produce new work. \n\nThe jury will select a winner\, who will be announced at the exhibition’s opening reception and awarded a $5\,000 cash prize.\n
UID:151991-21912570@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/151991
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20261008T121548
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20270709T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20270709T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Envision: The Michigan Artist Initiative 2027
DESCRIPTION:\n\nIn the summer 2026\, Stamps Gallery announced an open call for artwork\, inviting emerging and mid-career contemporary artists from Michigan working in all types of media to apply.\n\nA shortlist of three artists were selected by a prominent national panel of jurors: Rehema Barber\, Chief Curator\, Kalamazoo Institute of Art\; Laura Mott\, Chief Curator\, Cranbrook Art Museum\; and artist Sara Nickleson\, winner of the 2025 Envision: Michigan Artist Initiative Award.\n\nMeet the shortlisted finalist artists for Envision: The Michigan Artist Initiative 2027:\n\nMandy Cano Villalobos is a visual artist whose work spans installation\, textiles\, sculpture\, and performance\, influenced by her migrant upbringing which engages notions of home\, death\, belonging\, and cultural identity. Self-dubbed a “cultural scrapper”\, she mainly works with castoff objects – broken jewelry\, orphaned toys\, stained clothing\, etc. – to craft opulent works that harness material memories steeped in human touch. Cano Villalobos has exhibited internationally\, including with drj (Berlin\, Germany)\, Proyecto H (Mexico City)\, Marisa Newman Projects (New York\, NY)\, Bridge Projects (Los Angeles\, CA)\, Modern Art Gallery (Veszprém\, Hungary)\, Casa Pauly (Puerto Montt\, Chile)\, among others. She received her MFA from The George Washington University in Washington\, DC. and currently lives and works in Grand Rapids\, MI.\n\nAbhishek Narula is an artist working across sculpture\, installation\, sound\, and video with a creative practice that takes the form of interventions\, working with what is already present by reorienting and disrupting familiar objects and sites to open formal and poetic possibilities within them. Narula’s work has been exhibited at venues including the Science Gallery Detroit\, Ammerman Center for Arts and Technology (New London\, CT)\, the Hyde Park Art Center (Chicago\, IL)\, and the International Symposium on Electronic Art (Vancouver\, B.C.\, Canada). A Lecturer and Robotics Designer in the University of Michigan’s Robotics Department in Ann Arbor\, Narula received his MFA in Studio Art from the Stamps School of Art and Design at the University of Michigan\, and his MS and BS in Electrical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology.\nJoey Quiñones is a fiber artist\, ceramicist\, and mixed media sculptor with work focused on African American and Caribbean history\, particularly the development of queer Afro-Latine identity. Their work has been shown nationally and internationally at venues such as the Palais de Tokyo (Paris\, France)\, the Akron Art Museum\, the Shepherd (Detroit\, MI)\, and The Sculpture Center (Cleveland\, OH). Joey has an MFA in Studio Art from Indiana University\, Bloomington and a Ph.D. in English from the University of Iowa. They are currently the Artist-in-Residence/Head of the Fiber Department at Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills\, MI.\n\n\n\nThe artists will exhibit their work at Stamps Gallery from June 10 to July 31\, 2027\, receiving logistical and curatorial support from the professional staff at Stamps Gallery\, as well as an artist fee and stipend to produce new work. \n\nThe jury will select a winner\, who will be announced at the exhibition’s opening reception and awarded a $5\,000 cash prize.\n
UID:151991-21912571@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/151991
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20261008T121548
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20270710T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20270710T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Envision: The Michigan Artist Initiative 2027
DESCRIPTION:\n\nIn the summer 2026\, Stamps Gallery announced an open call for artwork\, inviting emerging and mid-career contemporary artists from Michigan working in all types of media to apply.\n\nA shortlist of three artists were selected by a prominent national panel of jurors: Rehema Barber\, Chief Curator\, Kalamazoo Institute of Art\; Laura Mott\, Chief Curator\, Cranbrook Art Museum\; and artist Sara Nickleson\, winner of the 2025 Envision: Michigan Artist Initiative Award.\n\nMeet the shortlisted finalist artists for Envision: The Michigan Artist Initiative 2027:\n\nMandy Cano Villalobos is a visual artist whose work spans installation\, textiles\, sculpture\, and performance\, influenced by her migrant upbringing which engages notions of home\, death\, belonging\, and cultural identity. Self-dubbed a “cultural scrapper”\, she mainly works with castoff objects – broken jewelry\, orphaned toys\, stained clothing\, etc. – to craft opulent works that harness material memories steeped in human touch. Cano Villalobos has exhibited internationally\, including with drj (Berlin\, Germany)\, Proyecto H (Mexico City)\, Marisa Newman Projects (New York\, NY)\, Bridge Projects (Los Angeles\, CA)\, Modern Art Gallery (Veszprém\, Hungary)\, Casa Pauly (Puerto Montt\, Chile)\, among others. She received her MFA from The George Washington University in Washington\, DC. and currently lives and works in Grand Rapids\, MI.\n\nAbhishek Narula is an artist working across sculpture\, installation\, sound\, and video with a creative practice that takes the form of interventions\, working with what is already present by reorienting and disrupting familiar objects and sites to open formal and poetic possibilities within them. Narula’s work has been exhibited at venues including the Science Gallery Detroit\, Ammerman Center for Arts and Technology (New London\, CT)\, the Hyde Park Art Center (Chicago\, IL)\, and the International Symposium on Electronic Art (Vancouver\, B.C.\, Canada). A Lecturer and Robotics Designer in the University of Michigan’s Robotics Department in Ann Arbor\, Narula received his MFA in Studio Art from the Stamps School of Art and Design at the University of Michigan\, and his MS and BS in Electrical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology.\nJoey Quiñones is a fiber artist\, ceramicist\, and mixed media sculptor with work focused on African American and Caribbean history\, particularly the development of queer Afro-Latine identity. Their work has been shown nationally and internationally at venues such as the Palais de Tokyo (Paris\, France)\, the Akron Art Museum\, the Shepherd (Detroit\, MI)\, and The Sculpture Center (Cleveland\, OH). Joey has an MFA in Studio Art from Indiana University\, Bloomington and a Ph.D. in English from the University of Iowa. They are currently the Artist-in-Residence/Head of the Fiber Department at Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills\, MI.\n\n\n\nThe artists will exhibit their work at Stamps Gallery from June 10 to July 31\, 2027\, receiving logistical and curatorial support from the professional staff at Stamps Gallery\, as well as an artist fee and stipend to produce new work. \n\nThe jury will select a winner\, who will be announced at the exhibition’s opening reception and awarded a $5\,000 cash prize.\n
UID:151991-21912572@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/151991
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20261008T121548
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20270714T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20270714T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Envision: The Michigan Artist Initiative 2027
DESCRIPTION:\n\nIn the summer 2026\, Stamps Gallery announced an open call for artwork\, inviting emerging and mid-career contemporary artists from Michigan working in all types of media to apply.\n\nA shortlist of three artists were selected by a prominent national panel of jurors: Rehema Barber\, Chief Curator\, Kalamazoo Institute of Art\; Laura Mott\, Chief Curator\, Cranbrook Art Museum\; and artist Sara Nickleson\, winner of the 2025 Envision: Michigan Artist Initiative Award.\n\nMeet the shortlisted finalist artists for Envision: The Michigan Artist Initiative 2027:\n\nMandy Cano Villalobos is a visual artist whose work spans installation\, textiles\, sculpture\, and performance\, influenced by her migrant upbringing which engages notions of home\, death\, belonging\, and cultural identity. Self-dubbed a “cultural scrapper”\, she mainly works with castoff objects – broken jewelry\, orphaned toys\, stained clothing\, etc. – to craft opulent works that harness material memories steeped in human touch. Cano Villalobos has exhibited internationally\, including with drj (Berlin\, Germany)\, Proyecto H (Mexico City)\, Marisa Newman Projects (New York\, NY)\, Bridge Projects (Los Angeles\, CA)\, Modern Art Gallery (Veszprém\, Hungary)\, Casa Pauly (Puerto Montt\, Chile)\, among others. She received her MFA from The George Washington University in Washington\, DC. and currently lives and works in Grand Rapids\, MI.\n\nAbhishek Narula is an artist working across sculpture\, installation\, sound\, and video with a creative practice that takes the form of interventions\, working with what is already present by reorienting and disrupting familiar objects and sites to open formal and poetic possibilities within them. Narula’s work has been exhibited at venues including the Science Gallery Detroit\, Ammerman Center for Arts and Technology (New London\, CT)\, the Hyde Park Art Center (Chicago\, IL)\, and the International Symposium on Electronic Art (Vancouver\, B.C.\, Canada). A Lecturer and Robotics Designer in the University of Michigan’s Robotics Department in Ann Arbor\, Narula received his MFA in Studio Art from the Stamps School of Art and Design at the University of Michigan\, and his MS and BS in Electrical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology.\nJoey Quiñones is a fiber artist\, ceramicist\, and mixed media sculptor with work focused on African American and Caribbean history\, particularly the development of queer Afro-Latine identity. Their work has been shown nationally and internationally at venues such as the Palais de Tokyo (Paris\, France)\, the Akron Art Museum\, the Shepherd (Detroit\, MI)\, and The Sculpture Center (Cleveland\, OH). Joey has an MFA in Studio Art from Indiana University\, Bloomington and a Ph.D. in English from the University of Iowa. They are currently the Artist-in-Residence/Head of the Fiber Department at Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills\, MI.\n\n\n\nThe artists will exhibit their work at Stamps Gallery from June 10 to July 31\, 2027\, receiving logistical and curatorial support from the professional staff at Stamps Gallery\, as well as an artist fee and stipend to produce new work. \n\nThe jury will select a winner\, who will be announced at the exhibition’s opening reception and awarded a $5\,000 cash prize.\n
UID:151991-21912573@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/151991
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20261008T121548
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20270715T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20270715T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Envision: The Michigan Artist Initiative 2027
DESCRIPTION:\n\nIn the summer 2026\, Stamps Gallery announced an open call for artwork\, inviting emerging and mid-career contemporary artists from Michigan working in all types of media to apply.\n\nA shortlist of three artists were selected by a prominent national panel of jurors: Rehema Barber\, Chief Curator\, Kalamazoo Institute of Art\; Laura Mott\, Chief Curator\, Cranbrook Art Museum\; and artist Sara Nickleson\, winner of the 2025 Envision: Michigan Artist Initiative Award.\n\nMeet the shortlisted finalist artists for Envision: The Michigan Artist Initiative 2027:\n\nMandy Cano Villalobos is a visual artist whose work spans installation\, textiles\, sculpture\, and performance\, influenced by her migrant upbringing which engages notions of home\, death\, belonging\, and cultural identity. Self-dubbed a “cultural scrapper”\, she mainly works with castoff objects – broken jewelry\, orphaned toys\, stained clothing\, etc. – to craft opulent works that harness material memories steeped in human touch. Cano Villalobos has exhibited internationally\, including with drj (Berlin\, Germany)\, Proyecto H (Mexico City)\, Marisa Newman Projects (New York\, NY)\, Bridge Projects (Los Angeles\, CA)\, Modern Art Gallery (Veszprém\, Hungary)\, Casa Pauly (Puerto Montt\, Chile)\, among others. She received her MFA from The George Washington University in Washington\, DC. and currently lives and works in Grand Rapids\, MI.\n\nAbhishek Narula is an artist working across sculpture\, installation\, sound\, and video with a creative practice that takes the form of interventions\, working with what is already present by reorienting and disrupting familiar objects and sites to open formal and poetic possibilities within them. Narula’s work has been exhibited at venues including the Science Gallery Detroit\, Ammerman Center for Arts and Technology (New London\, CT)\, the Hyde Park Art Center (Chicago\, IL)\, and the International Symposium on Electronic Art (Vancouver\, B.C.\, Canada). A Lecturer and Robotics Designer in the University of Michigan’s Robotics Department in Ann Arbor\, Narula received his MFA in Studio Art from the Stamps School of Art and Design at the University of Michigan\, and his MS and BS in Electrical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology.\nJoey Quiñones is a fiber artist\, ceramicist\, and mixed media sculptor with work focused on African American and Caribbean history\, particularly the development of queer Afro-Latine identity. Their work has been shown nationally and internationally at venues such as the Palais de Tokyo (Paris\, France)\, the Akron Art Museum\, the Shepherd (Detroit\, MI)\, and The Sculpture Center (Cleveland\, OH). Joey has an MFA in Studio Art from Indiana University\, Bloomington and a Ph.D. in English from the University of Iowa. They are currently the Artist-in-Residence/Head of the Fiber Department at Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills\, MI.\n\n\n\nThe artists will exhibit their work at Stamps Gallery from June 10 to July 31\, 2027\, receiving logistical and curatorial support from the professional staff at Stamps Gallery\, as well as an artist fee and stipend to produce new work. \n\nThe jury will select a winner\, who will be announced at the exhibition’s opening reception and awarded a $5\,000 cash prize.\n
UID:151991-21912574@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/151991
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20261008T121548
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20270716T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20270716T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Envision: The Michigan Artist Initiative 2027
DESCRIPTION:\n\nIn the summer 2026\, Stamps Gallery announced an open call for artwork\, inviting emerging and mid-career contemporary artists from Michigan working in all types of media to apply.\n\nA shortlist of three artists were selected by a prominent national panel of jurors: Rehema Barber\, Chief Curator\, Kalamazoo Institute of Art\; Laura Mott\, Chief Curator\, Cranbrook Art Museum\; and artist Sara Nickleson\, winner of the 2025 Envision: Michigan Artist Initiative Award.\n\nMeet the shortlisted finalist artists for Envision: The Michigan Artist Initiative 2027:\n\nMandy Cano Villalobos is a visual artist whose work spans installation\, textiles\, sculpture\, and performance\, influenced by her migrant upbringing which engages notions of home\, death\, belonging\, and cultural identity. Self-dubbed a “cultural scrapper”\, she mainly works with castoff objects – broken jewelry\, orphaned toys\, stained clothing\, etc. – to craft opulent works that harness material memories steeped in human touch. Cano Villalobos has exhibited internationally\, including with drj (Berlin\, Germany)\, Proyecto H (Mexico City)\, Marisa Newman Projects (New York\, NY)\, Bridge Projects (Los Angeles\, CA)\, Modern Art Gallery (Veszprém\, Hungary)\, Casa Pauly (Puerto Montt\, Chile)\, among others. She received her MFA from The George Washington University in Washington\, DC. and currently lives and works in Grand Rapids\, MI.\n\nAbhishek Narula is an artist working across sculpture\, installation\, sound\, and video with a creative practice that takes the form of interventions\, working with what is already present by reorienting and disrupting familiar objects and sites to open formal and poetic possibilities within them. Narula’s work has been exhibited at venues including the Science Gallery Detroit\, Ammerman Center for Arts and Technology (New London\, CT)\, the Hyde Park Art Center (Chicago\, IL)\, and the International Symposium on Electronic Art (Vancouver\, B.C.\, Canada). A Lecturer and Robotics Designer in the University of Michigan’s Robotics Department in Ann Arbor\, Narula received his MFA in Studio Art from the Stamps School of Art and Design at the University of Michigan\, and his MS and BS in Electrical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology.\nJoey Quiñones is a fiber artist\, ceramicist\, and mixed media sculptor with work focused on African American and Caribbean history\, particularly the development of queer Afro-Latine identity. Their work has been shown nationally and internationally at venues such as the Palais de Tokyo (Paris\, France)\, the Akron Art Museum\, the Shepherd (Detroit\, MI)\, and The Sculpture Center (Cleveland\, OH). Joey has an MFA in Studio Art from Indiana University\, Bloomington and a Ph.D. in English from the University of Iowa. They are currently the Artist-in-Residence/Head of the Fiber Department at Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills\, MI.\n\n\n\nThe artists will exhibit their work at Stamps Gallery from June 10 to July 31\, 2027\, receiving logistical and curatorial support from the professional staff at Stamps Gallery\, as well as an artist fee and stipend to produce new work. \n\nThe jury will select a winner\, who will be announced at the exhibition’s opening reception and awarded a $5\,000 cash prize.\n
UID:151991-21912575@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/151991
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20261008T121548
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20270717T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20270717T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Envision: The Michigan Artist Initiative 2027
DESCRIPTION:\n\nIn the summer 2026\, Stamps Gallery announced an open call for artwork\, inviting emerging and mid-career contemporary artists from Michigan working in all types of media to apply.\n\nA shortlist of three artists were selected by a prominent national panel of jurors: Rehema Barber\, Chief Curator\, Kalamazoo Institute of Art\; Laura Mott\, Chief Curator\, Cranbrook Art Museum\; and artist Sara Nickleson\, winner of the 2025 Envision: Michigan Artist Initiative Award.\n\nMeet the shortlisted finalist artists for Envision: The Michigan Artist Initiative 2027:\n\nMandy Cano Villalobos is a visual artist whose work spans installation\, textiles\, sculpture\, and performance\, influenced by her migrant upbringing which engages notions of home\, death\, belonging\, and cultural identity. Self-dubbed a “cultural scrapper”\, she mainly works with castoff objects – broken jewelry\, orphaned toys\, stained clothing\, etc. – to craft opulent works that harness material memories steeped in human touch. Cano Villalobos has exhibited internationally\, including with drj (Berlin\, Germany)\, Proyecto H (Mexico City)\, Marisa Newman Projects (New York\, NY)\, Bridge Projects (Los Angeles\, CA)\, Modern Art Gallery (Veszprém\, Hungary)\, Casa Pauly (Puerto Montt\, Chile)\, among others. She received her MFA from The George Washington University in Washington\, DC. and currently lives and works in Grand Rapids\, MI.\n\nAbhishek Narula is an artist working across sculpture\, installation\, sound\, and video with a creative practice that takes the form of interventions\, working with what is already present by reorienting and disrupting familiar objects and sites to open formal and poetic possibilities within them. Narula’s work has been exhibited at venues including the Science Gallery Detroit\, Ammerman Center for Arts and Technology (New London\, CT)\, the Hyde Park Art Center (Chicago\, IL)\, and the International Symposium on Electronic Art (Vancouver\, B.C.\, Canada). A Lecturer and Robotics Designer in the University of Michigan’s Robotics Department in Ann Arbor\, Narula received his MFA in Studio Art from the Stamps School of Art and Design at the University of Michigan\, and his MS and BS in Electrical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology.\nJoey Quiñones is a fiber artist\, ceramicist\, and mixed media sculptor with work focused on African American and Caribbean history\, particularly the development of queer Afro-Latine identity. Their work has been shown nationally and internationally at venues such as the Palais de Tokyo (Paris\, France)\, the Akron Art Museum\, the Shepherd (Detroit\, MI)\, and The Sculpture Center (Cleveland\, OH). Joey has an MFA in Studio Art from Indiana University\, Bloomington and a Ph.D. in English from the University of Iowa. They are currently the Artist-in-Residence/Head of the Fiber Department at Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills\, MI.\n\n\n\nThe artists will exhibit their work at Stamps Gallery from June 10 to July 31\, 2027\, receiving logistical and curatorial support from the professional staff at Stamps Gallery\, as well as an artist fee and stipend to produce new work. \n\nThe jury will select a winner\, who will be announced at the exhibition’s opening reception and awarded a $5\,000 cash prize.\n
UID:151991-21912576@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/151991
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20261008T121548
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20270721T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20270721T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Envision: The Michigan Artist Initiative 2027
DESCRIPTION:\n\nIn the summer 2026\, Stamps Gallery announced an open call for artwork\, inviting emerging and mid-career contemporary artists from Michigan working in all types of media to apply.\n\nA shortlist of three artists were selected by a prominent national panel of jurors: Rehema Barber\, Chief Curator\, Kalamazoo Institute of Art\; Laura Mott\, Chief Curator\, Cranbrook Art Museum\; and artist Sara Nickleson\, winner of the 2025 Envision: Michigan Artist Initiative Award.\n\nMeet the shortlisted finalist artists for Envision: The Michigan Artist Initiative 2027:\n\nMandy Cano Villalobos is a visual artist whose work spans installation\, textiles\, sculpture\, and performance\, influenced by her migrant upbringing which engages notions of home\, death\, belonging\, and cultural identity. Self-dubbed a “cultural scrapper”\, she mainly works with castoff objects – broken jewelry\, orphaned toys\, stained clothing\, etc. – to craft opulent works that harness material memories steeped in human touch. Cano Villalobos has exhibited internationally\, including with drj (Berlin\, Germany)\, Proyecto H (Mexico City)\, Marisa Newman Projects (New York\, NY)\, Bridge Projects (Los Angeles\, CA)\, Modern Art Gallery (Veszprém\, Hungary)\, Casa Pauly (Puerto Montt\, Chile)\, among others. She received her MFA from The George Washington University in Washington\, DC. and currently lives and works in Grand Rapids\, MI.\n\nAbhishek Narula is an artist working across sculpture\, installation\, sound\, and video with a creative practice that takes the form of interventions\, working with what is already present by reorienting and disrupting familiar objects and sites to open formal and poetic possibilities within them. Narula’s work has been exhibited at venues including the Science Gallery Detroit\, Ammerman Center for Arts and Technology (New London\, CT)\, the Hyde Park Art Center (Chicago\, IL)\, and the International Symposium on Electronic Art (Vancouver\, B.C.\, Canada). A Lecturer and Robotics Designer in the University of Michigan’s Robotics Department in Ann Arbor\, Narula received his MFA in Studio Art from the Stamps School of Art and Design at the University of Michigan\, and his MS and BS in Electrical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology.\nJoey Quiñones is a fiber artist\, ceramicist\, and mixed media sculptor with work focused on African American and Caribbean history\, particularly the development of queer Afro-Latine identity. Their work has been shown nationally and internationally at venues such as the Palais de Tokyo (Paris\, France)\, the Akron Art Museum\, the Shepherd (Detroit\, MI)\, and The Sculpture Center (Cleveland\, OH). Joey has an MFA in Studio Art from Indiana University\, Bloomington and a Ph.D. in English from the University of Iowa. They are currently the Artist-in-Residence/Head of the Fiber Department at Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills\, MI.\n\n\n\nThe artists will exhibit their work at Stamps Gallery from June 10 to July 31\, 2027\, receiving logistical and curatorial support from the professional staff at Stamps Gallery\, as well as an artist fee and stipend to produce new work. \n\nThe jury will select a winner\, who will be announced at the exhibition’s opening reception and awarded a $5\,000 cash prize.\n
UID:151991-21912577@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/151991
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20261008T121548
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20270722T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20270722T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Envision: The Michigan Artist Initiative 2027
DESCRIPTION:\n\nIn the summer 2026\, Stamps Gallery announced an open call for artwork\, inviting emerging and mid-career contemporary artists from Michigan working in all types of media to apply.\n\nA shortlist of three artists were selected by a prominent national panel of jurors: Rehema Barber\, Chief Curator\, Kalamazoo Institute of Art\; Laura Mott\, Chief Curator\, Cranbrook Art Museum\; and artist Sara Nickleson\, winner of the 2025 Envision: Michigan Artist Initiative Award.\n\nMeet the shortlisted finalist artists for Envision: The Michigan Artist Initiative 2027:\n\nMandy Cano Villalobos is a visual artist whose work spans installation\, textiles\, sculpture\, and performance\, influenced by her migrant upbringing which engages notions of home\, death\, belonging\, and cultural identity. Self-dubbed a “cultural scrapper”\, she mainly works with castoff objects – broken jewelry\, orphaned toys\, stained clothing\, etc. – to craft opulent works that harness material memories steeped in human touch. Cano Villalobos has exhibited internationally\, including with drj (Berlin\, Germany)\, Proyecto H (Mexico City)\, Marisa Newman Projects (New York\, NY)\, Bridge Projects (Los Angeles\, CA)\, Modern Art Gallery (Veszprém\, Hungary)\, Casa Pauly (Puerto Montt\, Chile)\, among others. She received her MFA from The George Washington University in Washington\, DC. and currently lives and works in Grand Rapids\, MI.\n\nAbhishek Narula is an artist working across sculpture\, installation\, sound\, and video with a creative practice that takes the form of interventions\, working with what is already present by reorienting and disrupting familiar objects and sites to open formal and poetic possibilities within them. Narula’s work has been exhibited at venues including the Science Gallery Detroit\, Ammerman Center for Arts and Technology (New London\, CT)\, the Hyde Park Art Center (Chicago\, IL)\, and the International Symposium on Electronic Art (Vancouver\, B.C.\, Canada). A Lecturer and Robotics Designer in the University of Michigan’s Robotics Department in Ann Arbor\, Narula received his MFA in Studio Art from the Stamps School of Art and Design at the University of Michigan\, and his MS and BS in Electrical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology.\nJoey Quiñones is a fiber artist\, ceramicist\, and mixed media sculptor with work focused on African American and Caribbean history\, particularly the development of queer Afro-Latine identity. Their work has been shown nationally and internationally at venues such as the Palais de Tokyo (Paris\, France)\, the Akron Art Museum\, the Shepherd (Detroit\, MI)\, and The Sculpture Center (Cleveland\, OH). Joey has an MFA in Studio Art from Indiana University\, Bloomington and a Ph.D. in English from the University of Iowa. They are currently the Artist-in-Residence/Head of the Fiber Department at Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills\, MI.\n\n\n\nThe artists will exhibit their work at Stamps Gallery from June 10 to July 31\, 2027\, receiving logistical and curatorial support from the professional staff at Stamps Gallery\, as well as an artist fee and stipend to produce new work. \n\nThe jury will select a winner\, who will be announced at the exhibition’s opening reception and awarded a $5\,000 cash prize.\n
UID:151991-21912578@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/151991
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20261008T121548
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20270723T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20270723T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Envision: The Michigan Artist Initiative 2027
DESCRIPTION:\n\nIn the summer 2026\, Stamps Gallery announced an open call for artwork\, inviting emerging and mid-career contemporary artists from Michigan working in all types of media to apply.\n\nA shortlist of three artists were selected by a prominent national panel of jurors: Rehema Barber\, Chief Curator\, Kalamazoo Institute of Art\; Laura Mott\, Chief Curator\, Cranbrook Art Museum\; and artist Sara Nickleson\, winner of the 2025 Envision: Michigan Artist Initiative Award.\n\nMeet the shortlisted finalist artists for Envision: The Michigan Artist Initiative 2027:\n\nMandy Cano Villalobos is a visual artist whose work spans installation\, textiles\, sculpture\, and performance\, influenced by her migrant upbringing which engages notions of home\, death\, belonging\, and cultural identity. Self-dubbed a “cultural scrapper”\, she mainly works with castoff objects – broken jewelry\, orphaned toys\, stained clothing\, etc. – to craft opulent works that harness material memories steeped in human touch. Cano Villalobos has exhibited internationally\, including with drj (Berlin\, Germany)\, Proyecto H (Mexico City)\, Marisa Newman Projects (New York\, NY)\, Bridge Projects (Los Angeles\, CA)\, Modern Art Gallery (Veszprém\, Hungary)\, Casa Pauly (Puerto Montt\, Chile)\, among others. She received her MFA from The George Washington University in Washington\, DC. and currently lives and works in Grand Rapids\, MI.\n\nAbhishek Narula is an artist working across sculpture\, installation\, sound\, and video with a creative practice that takes the form of interventions\, working with what is already present by reorienting and disrupting familiar objects and sites to open formal and poetic possibilities within them. Narula’s work has been exhibited at venues including the Science Gallery Detroit\, Ammerman Center for Arts and Technology (New London\, CT)\, the Hyde Park Art Center (Chicago\, IL)\, and the International Symposium on Electronic Art (Vancouver\, B.C.\, Canada). A Lecturer and Robotics Designer in the University of Michigan’s Robotics Department in Ann Arbor\, Narula received his MFA in Studio Art from the Stamps School of Art and Design at the University of Michigan\, and his MS and BS in Electrical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology.\nJoey Quiñones is a fiber artist\, ceramicist\, and mixed media sculptor with work focused on African American and Caribbean history\, particularly the development of queer Afro-Latine identity. Their work has been shown nationally and internationally at venues such as the Palais de Tokyo (Paris\, France)\, the Akron Art Museum\, the Shepherd (Detroit\, MI)\, and The Sculpture Center (Cleveland\, OH). Joey has an MFA in Studio Art from Indiana University\, Bloomington and a Ph.D. in English from the University of Iowa. They are currently the Artist-in-Residence/Head of the Fiber Department at Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills\, MI.\n\n\n\nThe artists will exhibit their work at Stamps Gallery from June 10 to July 31\, 2027\, receiving logistical and curatorial support from the professional staff at Stamps Gallery\, as well as an artist fee and stipend to produce new work. \n\nThe jury will select a winner\, who will be announced at the exhibition’s opening reception and awarded a $5\,000 cash prize.\n
UID:151991-21912579@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/151991
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20261008T121548
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20270724T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20270724T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Envision: The Michigan Artist Initiative 2027
DESCRIPTION:\n\nIn the summer 2026\, Stamps Gallery announced an open call for artwork\, inviting emerging and mid-career contemporary artists from Michigan working in all types of media to apply.\n\nA shortlist of three artists were selected by a prominent national panel of jurors: Rehema Barber\, Chief Curator\, Kalamazoo Institute of Art\; Laura Mott\, Chief Curator\, Cranbrook Art Museum\; and artist Sara Nickleson\, winner of the 2025 Envision: Michigan Artist Initiative Award.\n\nMeet the shortlisted finalist artists for Envision: The Michigan Artist Initiative 2027:\n\nMandy Cano Villalobos is a visual artist whose work spans installation\, textiles\, sculpture\, and performance\, influenced by her migrant upbringing which engages notions of home\, death\, belonging\, and cultural identity. Self-dubbed a “cultural scrapper”\, she mainly works with castoff objects – broken jewelry\, orphaned toys\, stained clothing\, etc. – to craft opulent works that harness material memories steeped in human touch. Cano Villalobos has exhibited internationally\, including with drj (Berlin\, Germany)\, Proyecto H (Mexico City)\, Marisa Newman Projects (New York\, NY)\, Bridge Projects (Los Angeles\, CA)\, Modern Art Gallery (Veszprém\, Hungary)\, Casa Pauly (Puerto Montt\, Chile)\, among others. She received her MFA from The George Washington University in Washington\, DC. and currently lives and works in Grand Rapids\, MI.\n\nAbhishek Narula is an artist working across sculpture\, installation\, sound\, and video with a creative practice that takes the form of interventions\, working with what is already present by reorienting and disrupting familiar objects and sites to open formal and poetic possibilities within them. Narula’s work has been exhibited at venues including the Science Gallery Detroit\, Ammerman Center for Arts and Technology (New London\, CT)\, the Hyde Park Art Center (Chicago\, IL)\, and the International Symposium on Electronic Art (Vancouver\, B.C.\, Canada). A Lecturer and Robotics Designer in the University of Michigan’s Robotics Department in Ann Arbor\, Narula received his MFA in Studio Art from the Stamps School of Art and Design at the University of Michigan\, and his MS and BS in Electrical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology.\nJoey Quiñones is a fiber artist\, ceramicist\, and mixed media sculptor with work focused on African American and Caribbean history\, particularly the development of queer Afro-Latine identity. Their work has been shown nationally and internationally at venues such as the Palais de Tokyo (Paris\, France)\, the Akron Art Museum\, the Shepherd (Detroit\, MI)\, and The Sculpture Center (Cleveland\, OH). Joey has an MFA in Studio Art from Indiana University\, Bloomington and a Ph.D. in English from the University of Iowa. They are currently the Artist-in-Residence/Head of the Fiber Department at Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills\, MI.\n\n\n\nThe artists will exhibit their work at Stamps Gallery from June 10 to July 31\, 2027\, receiving logistical and curatorial support from the professional staff at Stamps Gallery\, as well as an artist fee and stipend to produce new work. \n\nThe jury will select a winner\, who will be announced at the exhibition’s opening reception and awarded a $5\,000 cash prize.\n
UID:151991-21912580@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/151991
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20261008T121548
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20270728T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20270728T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Envision: The Michigan Artist Initiative 2027
DESCRIPTION:\n\nIn the summer 2026\, Stamps Gallery announced an open call for artwork\, inviting emerging and mid-career contemporary artists from Michigan working in all types of media to apply.\n\nA shortlist of three artists were selected by a prominent national panel of jurors: Rehema Barber\, Chief Curator\, Kalamazoo Institute of Art\; Laura Mott\, Chief Curator\, Cranbrook Art Museum\; and artist Sara Nickleson\, winner of the 2025 Envision: Michigan Artist Initiative Award.\n\nMeet the shortlisted finalist artists for Envision: The Michigan Artist Initiative 2027:\n\nMandy Cano Villalobos is a visual artist whose work spans installation\, textiles\, sculpture\, and performance\, influenced by her migrant upbringing which engages notions of home\, death\, belonging\, and cultural identity. Self-dubbed a “cultural scrapper”\, she mainly works with castoff objects – broken jewelry\, orphaned toys\, stained clothing\, etc. – to craft opulent works that harness material memories steeped in human touch. Cano Villalobos has exhibited internationally\, including with drj (Berlin\, Germany)\, Proyecto H (Mexico City)\, Marisa Newman Projects (New York\, NY)\, Bridge Projects (Los Angeles\, CA)\, Modern Art Gallery (Veszprém\, Hungary)\, Casa Pauly (Puerto Montt\, Chile)\, among others. She received her MFA from The George Washington University in Washington\, DC. and currently lives and works in Grand Rapids\, MI.\n\nAbhishek Narula is an artist working across sculpture\, installation\, sound\, and video with a creative practice that takes the form of interventions\, working with what is already present by reorienting and disrupting familiar objects and sites to open formal and poetic possibilities within them. Narula’s work has been exhibited at venues including the Science Gallery Detroit\, Ammerman Center for Arts and Technology (New London\, CT)\, the Hyde Park Art Center (Chicago\, IL)\, and the International Symposium on Electronic Art (Vancouver\, B.C.\, Canada). A Lecturer and Robotics Designer in the University of Michigan’s Robotics Department in Ann Arbor\, Narula received his MFA in Studio Art from the Stamps School of Art and Design at the University of Michigan\, and his MS and BS in Electrical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology.\nJoey Quiñones is a fiber artist\, ceramicist\, and mixed media sculptor with work focused on African American and Caribbean history\, particularly the development of queer Afro-Latine identity. Their work has been shown nationally and internationally at venues such as the Palais de Tokyo (Paris\, France)\, the Akron Art Museum\, the Shepherd (Detroit\, MI)\, and The Sculpture Center (Cleveland\, OH). Joey has an MFA in Studio Art from Indiana University\, Bloomington and a Ph.D. in English from the University of Iowa. They are currently the Artist-in-Residence/Head of the Fiber Department at Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills\, MI.\n\n\n\nThe artists will exhibit their work at Stamps Gallery from June 10 to July 31\, 2027\, receiving logistical and curatorial support from the professional staff at Stamps Gallery\, as well as an artist fee and stipend to produce new work. \n\nThe jury will select a winner\, who will be announced at the exhibition’s opening reception and awarded a $5\,000 cash prize.\n
UID:151991-21912581@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/151991
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20261008T121548
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20270729T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20270729T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Envision: The Michigan Artist Initiative 2027
DESCRIPTION:\n\nIn the summer 2026\, Stamps Gallery announced an open call for artwork\, inviting emerging and mid-career contemporary artists from Michigan working in all types of media to apply.\n\nA shortlist of three artists were selected by a prominent national panel of jurors: Rehema Barber\, Chief Curator\, Kalamazoo Institute of Art\; Laura Mott\, Chief Curator\, Cranbrook Art Museum\; and artist Sara Nickleson\, winner of the 2025 Envision: Michigan Artist Initiative Award.\n\nMeet the shortlisted finalist artists for Envision: The Michigan Artist Initiative 2027:\n\nMandy Cano Villalobos is a visual artist whose work spans installation\, textiles\, sculpture\, and performance\, influenced by her migrant upbringing which engages notions of home\, death\, belonging\, and cultural identity. Self-dubbed a “cultural scrapper”\, she mainly works with castoff objects – broken jewelry\, orphaned toys\, stained clothing\, etc. – to craft opulent works that harness material memories steeped in human touch. Cano Villalobos has exhibited internationally\, including with drj (Berlin\, Germany)\, Proyecto H (Mexico City)\, Marisa Newman Projects (New York\, NY)\, Bridge Projects (Los Angeles\, CA)\, Modern Art Gallery (Veszprém\, Hungary)\, Casa Pauly (Puerto Montt\, Chile)\, among others. She received her MFA from The George Washington University in Washington\, DC. and currently lives and works in Grand Rapids\, MI.\n\nAbhishek Narula is an artist working across sculpture\, installation\, sound\, and video with a creative practice that takes the form of interventions\, working with what is already present by reorienting and disrupting familiar objects and sites to open formal and poetic possibilities within them. Narula’s work has been exhibited at venues including the Science Gallery Detroit\, Ammerman Center for Arts and Technology (New London\, CT)\, the Hyde Park Art Center (Chicago\, IL)\, and the International Symposium on Electronic Art (Vancouver\, B.C.\, Canada). A Lecturer and Robotics Designer in the University of Michigan’s Robotics Department in Ann Arbor\, Narula received his MFA in Studio Art from the Stamps School of Art and Design at the University of Michigan\, and his MS and BS in Electrical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology.\nJoey Quiñones is a fiber artist\, ceramicist\, and mixed media sculptor with work focused on African American and Caribbean history\, particularly the development of queer Afro-Latine identity. Their work has been shown nationally and internationally at venues such as the Palais de Tokyo (Paris\, France)\, the Akron Art Museum\, the Shepherd (Detroit\, MI)\, and The Sculpture Center (Cleveland\, OH). Joey has an MFA in Studio Art from Indiana University\, Bloomington and a Ph.D. in English from the University of Iowa. They are currently the Artist-in-Residence/Head of the Fiber Department at Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills\, MI.\n\n\n\nThe artists will exhibit their work at Stamps Gallery from June 10 to July 31\, 2027\, receiving logistical and curatorial support from the professional staff at Stamps Gallery\, as well as an artist fee and stipend to produce new work. \n\nThe jury will select a winner\, who will be announced at the exhibition’s opening reception and awarded a $5\,000 cash prize.\n
UID:151991-21912582@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/151991
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20261008T121548
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20270730T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20270730T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Envision: The Michigan Artist Initiative 2027
DESCRIPTION:\n\nIn the summer 2026\, Stamps Gallery announced an open call for artwork\, inviting emerging and mid-career contemporary artists from Michigan working in all types of media to apply.\n\nA shortlist of three artists were selected by a prominent national panel of jurors: Rehema Barber\, Chief Curator\, Kalamazoo Institute of Art\; Laura Mott\, Chief Curator\, Cranbrook Art Museum\; and artist Sara Nickleson\, winner of the 2025 Envision: Michigan Artist Initiative Award.\n\nMeet the shortlisted finalist artists for Envision: The Michigan Artist Initiative 2027:\n\nMandy Cano Villalobos is a visual artist whose work spans installation\, textiles\, sculpture\, and performance\, influenced by her migrant upbringing which engages notions of home\, death\, belonging\, and cultural identity. Self-dubbed a “cultural scrapper”\, she mainly works with castoff objects – broken jewelry\, orphaned toys\, stained clothing\, etc. – to craft opulent works that harness material memories steeped in human touch. Cano Villalobos has exhibited internationally\, including with drj (Berlin\, Germany)\, Proyecto H (Mexico City)\, Marisa Newman Projects (New York\, NY)\, Bridge Projects (Los Angeles\, CA)\, Modern Art Gallery (Veszprém\, Hungary)\, Casa Pauly (Puerto Montt\, Chile)\, among others. She received her MFA from The George Washington University in Washington\, DC. and currently lives and works in Grand Rapids\, MI.\n\nAbhishek Narula is an artist working across sculpture\, installation\, sound\, and video with a creative practice that takes the form of interventions\, working with what is already present by reorienting and disrupting familiar objects and sites to open formal and poetic possibilities within them. Narula’s work has been exhibited at venues including the Science Gallery Detroit\, Ammerman Center for Arts and Technology (New London\, CT)\, the Hyde Park Art Center (Chicago\, IL)\, and the International Symposium on Electronic Art (Vancouver\, B.C.\, Canada). A Lecturer and Robotics Designer in the University of Michigan’s Robotics Department in Ann Arbor\, Narula received his MFA in Studio Art from the Stamps School of Art and Design at the University of Michigan\, and his MS and BS in Electrical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology.\nJoey Quiñones is a fiber artist\, ceramicist\, and mixed media sculptor with work focused on African American and Caribbean history\, particularly the development of queer Afro-Latine identity. Their work has been shown nationally and internationally at venues such as the Palais de Tokyo (Paris\, France)\, the Akron Art Museum\, the Shepherd (Detroit\, MI)\, and The Sculpture Center (Cleveland\, OH). Joey has an MFA in Studio Art from Indiana University\, Bloomington and a Ph.D. in English from the University of Iowa. They are currently the Artist-in-Residence/Head of the Fiber Department at Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills\, MI.\n\n\n\nThe artists will exhibit their work at Stamps Gallery from June 10 to July 31\, 2027\, receiving logistical and curatorial support from the professional staff at Stamps Gallery\, as well as an artist fee and stipend to produce new work. \n\nThe jury will select a winner\, who will be announced at the exhibition’s opening reception and awarded a $5\,000 cash prize.\n
UID:151991-21912583@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/151991
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20261008T121548
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20270731T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20270731T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Envision: The Michigan Artist Initiative 2027
DESCRIPTION:\n\nIn the summer 2026\, Stamps Gallery announced an open call for artwork\, inviting emerging and mid-career contemporary artists from Michigan working in all types of media to apply.\n\nA shortlist of three artists were selected by a prominent national panel of jurors: Rehema Barber\, Chief Curator\, Kalamazoo Institute of Art\; Laura Mott\, Chief Curator\, Cranbrook Art Museum\; and artist Sara Nickleson\, winner of the 2025 Envision: Michigan Artist Initiative Award.\n\nMeet the shortlisted finalist artists for Envision: The Michigan Artist Initiative 2027:\n\nMandy Cano Villalobos is a visual artist whose work spans installation\, textiles\, sculpture\, and performance\, influenced by her migrant upbringing which engages notions of home\, death\, belonging\, and cultural identity. Self-dubbed a “cultural scrapper”\, she mainly works with castoff objects – broken jewelry\, orphaned toys\, stained clothing\, etc. – to craft opulent works that harness material memories steeped in human touch. Cano Villalobos has exhibited internationally\, including with drj (Berlin\, Germany)\, Proyecto H (Mexico City)\, Marisa Newman Projects (New York\, NY)\, Bridge Projects (Los Angeles\, CA)\, Modern Art Gallery (Veszprém\, Hungary)\, Casa Pauly (Puerto Montt\, Chile)\, among others. She received her MFA from The George Washington University in Washington\, DC. and currently lives and works in Grand Rapids\, MI.\n\nAbhishek Narula is an artist working across sculpture\, installation\, sound\, and video with a creative practice that takes the form of interventions\, working with what is already present by reorienting and disrupting familiar objects and sites to open formal and poetic possibilities within them. Narula’s work has been exhibited at venues including the Science Gallery Detroit\, Ammerman Center for Arts and Technology (New London\, CT)\, the Hyde Park Art Center (Chicago\, IL)\, and the International Symposium on Electronic Art (Vancouver\, B.C.\, Canada). A Lecturer and Robotics Designer in the University of Michigan’s Robotics Department in Ann Arbor\, Narula received his MFA in Studio Art from the Stamps School of Art and Design at the University of Michigan\, and his MS and BS in Electrical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology.\nJoey Quiñones is a fiber artist\, ceramicist\, and mixed media sculptor with work focused on African American and Caribbean history\, particularly the development of queer Afro-Latine identity. Their work has been shown nationally and internationally at venues such as the Palais de Tokyo (Paris\, France)\, the Akron Art Museum\, the Shepherd (Detroit\, MI)\, and The Sculpture Center (Cleveland\, OH). Joey has an MFA in Studio Art from Indiana University\, Bloomington and a Ph.D. in English from the University of Iowa. They are currently the Artist-in-Residence/Head of the Fiber Department at Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills\, MI.\n\n\n\nThe artists will exhibit their work at Stamps Gallery from June 10 to July 31\, 2027\, receiving logistical and curatorial support from the professional staff at Stamps Gallery\, as well as an artist fee and stipend to produce new work. \n\nThe jury will select a winner\, who will be announced at the exhibition’s opening reception and awarded a $5\,000 cash prize.\n
UID:151991-21912584@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/151991
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
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