Stamps School of Art & Design

Stamps School of Art & Design We prepare students to think critically and creatively.

Our interdisciplinary curriculum at a tier-one research university equips them with the technical and conceptual skills for success in the evolving fields of art and design.

What happens when you take decades of paint, community expression, and a little Wolverine spirit and turn it into art?St...
09/04/2026

What happens when you take decades of paint, community expression, and a little Wolverine spirit and turn it into art?

Stamps Lecturer Sally Clegg’s new work is inspired by Ann Arbor’s iconic painted landmark, The Rock. Clegg carefully collected small samples from the layers of paint beneath The Rock and transformed them into vibrant, Rorschach-like compositions. She calls the material “Wolverineite,” a colorful record of generations of U-M students and community members who have made The Rock their canvas.

The project is more than a study of color and material; it’s a reflection on community creativity, history, and the stories embedded in the places we share. Clegg is also donating 10% of the proceeds from print sales of Sentimental Rock to the Lead Exposure Elimination Project.

✨ Read more about Clegg’s process, inspiration, and Sentimentary Rock in The University Record.

https://record.umich.edu/articles/stamps-lecturer-turns-layers-of-the-rock-into-new-art/

Code. Light. Sound. Detroit.Step into Mutual Assembly, a new exhibition by Creative Coding Detroit (CCDET) at Vander Det...
09/04/2026

Code. Light. Sound. Detroit.

Step into Mutual Assembly, a new exhibition by Creative Coding Detroit (CCDET) at Vander Detroit, where ten LED panels transform hand-coded generative art into shifting worlds of light, movement, and sound.

Featuring work by experienced creative coders paired with emerging artists, the exhibition celebrates mentorship, experimentation, and Detroit’s culture of innovation.

Mutual Assembly
💻 Opening Event: Friday, SEPT 4
⏰ 5 – 9 PM
🎟️ RSVP: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/mutual-assembly-opening-party-tickets-1998786097022
📍 Vander, 626 Harper Ave Ste B, Detroit, MI 48202, USA

🖼️ Exhibition Dates: September 4 – 6, 2026

Stamps participants include Sam Griffith (MFA ​‘25) and Abhishek Narula (MFA ​‘20).

Detroit is designing the future, and the Stamps community is part of the conversation.This September, Stamps alumni, fac...
09/03/2026

Detroit is designing the future, and the Stamps community is part of the conversation.

This September, Stamps alumni, faculty, staff, and students are taking part in exhibitions, open studios, panels, performances, and more as part of the 16th annual Detroit Month of Design.

Explore what’s happening and find Stamps across the city all month long.

🎨 Mutual Assembly: A Generative Art Exhibition by Creative Coding Detroit
🎨 Stamps MDes Design Futures Panel: An Evening of Critical Dialogue and Connection
🎨 Industrial Heritage to Industrial Design: Learning from Manufacturing
🎨 Grand on River Open Studios
🎨 Donut Shop Open Studio: Parts of the Process
🎨 rootoftwo: Anyspace? Whatever. at MOCAD
🎨 Human Design Moves the Future
🎨 Dive Open Studios & Viewing Room Exhibition
🎨 MOTHERCRAFT: Microchimeric Bodies

https://stamps.umich.edu/news/stamps-community-at-2026-detroit-month-of-design

Every project starts with a question - and what happens next is up to the artist.For Stamps students completing Second Y...
09/02/2026

Every project starts with a question - and what happens next is up to the artist.

For Stamps students completing Second Year Studio, the goal isn't to find one right answer. It's about identifying a question, exploring it, experimenting, revising, and finding a path to follow.

New Stamps students: this is your chance to explore the Art & Architecture Building, see what your fellow Stamps students are creating, and get a glimpse of the creative possibilities ahead.

✨ Opening Reception: OCT 1
🕰️ 1-2:30 PM
📍 Art & Architecture Building
✨ Free and open to the Stamps community
🎨 Exhibition Dates: AUG 24 - OCT 18

Special thanks to all of our student exhibitors; 2026 SYS instructors Pedram Baldari, Patricia Beals, Adrian Deva, Roland Graf, Nooshin Hakim Javadi, Timothy Parsons, Ali Shapiro, Jesse Stiles, Bruce Tharp, Stephanie Tharp, and Andrew Thompson; and A&A Exhibitions Coordinator Grace Guevara, whose efforts made this exhibition possible.

STUDENTS EXHIBITING:
Nailah Aguilar
Akylah Archer
Samantha Blaine
Zachary Berenbaum
Lauren Boyce
Kas Brajkovic
Anna Browne
Lilah Chow
Isabella Cortes
Magdalena Dimovski
Leah Elliott
Aya Fadlelzebair
M. Faurote
Claire Fuller
Abigail Garcia
Ava Grace
Deja Green
Lacy Galligan
Noelle Gall
Elise Goldberg
Grace Hardy
Kore Hernández
Mikayla Holcomb
Reese Johnson
Ananya Jain
Kade Kuba
Avelina Kusiak
Oonagh Kossman
Oliver Levans
Alef Liu
Fiona Maier
Tyler Meerschaert
Tyler Meerschaert
Erica Meunier
Catherine Mitzel
Alexis Minor
Mia Noel
Ava Paananen
Isabel Pohrt
Olivia Perrin
Dominique Robinson
Victoria Selektor
Janet Shasha
Samridhi Sharma
Sadie Smith
Gabriella Spagnuolo
Ava Sproull
Jesse Strohauer
Sophie Scott
David Wang
David Wang
Zimu Wang
Lily Whitcomb
Lexi Wu
Melaniya Zazovskaya

📅 Mark your calendars!
09/02/2026

📅 Mark your calendars!

💙 Whether you're brand new to Stamps or coming back for another year, Welcome Bash is your chance to kick off the semest...
09/01/2026

💙 Whether you're brand new to Stamps or coming back for another year, Welcome Bash is your chance to kick off the semester with the people who make Stamps feel like home.

Stop by tomorrow to meet classmates, reconnect with friends, discover student organizations, and find out what's happening at Stamps this year at the Welcome Bash.

📅 Wednesday, September 2
⏰ 3:30–5 PM
📍Taubman Commons

🖼️ Poster design by Stamps student Cameron Prudhomme

Stamps alum Ellen Rutt (BFA '12) is transforming the halls of U-M’s new College of Pharmacy with a 100-foot immersive mu...
09/01/2026

Stamps alum Ellen Rutt (BFA '12) is transforming the halls of U-M’s new College of Pharmacy with a 100-foot immersive mural that brings the history, discoveries, and human stories of pharmacy to life.

“There are a lot of things that can only be experienced through our senses,” Rutt said. “You can describe the texture of bark, but it’s not the same as seeing the ripples in the bark or the texture of a Gila monster. I think art can bring that dimension to things that, when there’s only words, you just don’t get.”

Titled InterActions, the vibrant mixed-media work blends archival imagery, medicinal plants, researchers, and milestones to explore the powerful intersection of art, science, research, and patient care.

Read more about this story here: https://news.umich.edu/capturing-the-past-present-and-future-in-new-college-of-pharmacy-mural/

Hands on Fire, a new solo exhibition of Stamps Professor Jim Cogswell’s drawings inspired by Greek myth, opens Monday, A...
08/31/2026

Hands on Fire, a new solo exhibition of Stamps Professor Jim Cogswell’s drawings inspired by Greek myth, opens Monday, August 31 at the Residential College Gallery.

This solo exhibition features 60 mixed-media drawings on paper, created between 2024 and 2026 in dialogue with the cinematic adaptations of Euripides’ tragedies by Greek Cypriot filmmaker Michael Cacoyannis. Through layered imagery and recurring motifs of hands rendered as flame, Cogswell examines themes of war, power, fate, and the enduring human consequences of violence and revenge. Arranged in a surrounding grid, the works create a narrative that loops and fractures, inviting viewers into a visual system where ancient stories remain urgently present, entangled, and unresolved.

Public reception: Friday, September 18
🕘 4:30–6:30 PM
📍 University of Michigan Residential College Gallery
📅 On view Aug 31 – Oct 9, 2026

Supported by the Stamps School of Art & Design and the U-M Office of Research.

Welcome back, students! We missed you and cannot wait to start this new semester with: New projects. New ideas. New oppo...
08/28/2026

Welcome back, students! We missed you and cannot wait to start this new semester with: New projects. New ideas. New opportunities to get involved.

Before the semester gets too busy, come reconnect with your Stamps community at Welcome Bash. Bring a friend. Meet someone new. Find a club. Grab some food. See what's happening around Stamps this year.

✨ Meet your community
📅 Wednesday, September 2
⏰ 3:30–5 PM
📍 Taubman Commons

🖼️ Poster design by Stamps student Cameron Prudhomme

Something big is coming to Stamps Gallery… 👀The Gallery team is hard at work putting the finishing touches on the upcomi...
08/27/2026

Something big is coming to Stamps Gallery… 👀

The Gallery team is hard at work putting the finishing touches on the upcoming Cosmo Whyte: Under the Quiet, Beyond the Eye exhibition, and we thought we’d take this opportunity to give followers a sneak peek at what it takes to bring an exhibition to life and introduce you to some of the amazing people who make it happen. From preparation and installation to all the details you may never see, there’s a lot happening behind the scenes at Stamps Gallery.

Meet some of the Gallery team:
Srimoyee Mitra, Curator and former Gallery Director
Joe Rohrer, Lead Preparator and Exhibitions Coordinator
Haley Perkins, Public Programs and Engagement Officer
River Berry (MFA ‘26), Installation Tech
Hana Ichikawa (BFA ‘26), Installation Tech

The DUO team
Jon Geiger, Duo owner/operator
Jen Alverson, Installation Tech
Melody Cutting, Installation Tech
Clint Snider, Installation Tech

Stay tuned for more to come!

Cosmo Whyte: Under the Quiet, Beyond the Eye
Public Reception: Thursday, September 24
6:30-8:30 PM
📅 September 11 – December 12, 2026
📍 Stamps Gallery
🎟️ Free and open to the public

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