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.

🎨 Meet the MFAs!Join us next week in welcoming our first and second-year MFA students at the University of Michigan Stam...
09/10/2026

🎨 Meet the MFAs!

Join us next week in welcoming our first and second-year MFA students at the University of Michigan Stamps School of Art & Design for an evening of short presentations and creative introductions.

Hear directly from our MFA students as they share a glimpse into their practices, research, and the work they’re developing at Stamps.

Tuesday, September 15
5 – 7 PM
Art & Architecture Building Auditorium (Room 2104)

✨Students, faculty, staff, and friends of Stamps are all welcome!

Featuring:
James Asava
Davariz Broaden
Bert Cook
Isa Estrada
William Hohe
Juniper Jones
Navjeet Kaur
Amanda D. King
Jack Liu
Alyssa Lizzini
Julianna Sanromán Rojas
Charlie Schön
Celia Shaheen
Lucy Weaver

Where art meets science.This summer, Stamps Professor Endi Poskovic took his research to the High Arctic through interna...
09/10/2026

Where art meets science.

This summer, Stamps Professor Endi Poskovic took his research to the High Arctic through international residencies in Greenland, the Arctic Seas, and the Svalbard archipelago.

Working alongside artists, scientists, and researchers, Poskovic is exploring how landscape shapes memory, identity, and our understanding of a rapidly changing environment. His newest project, Field, transforms his Arctic field observations into layered color woodcut prints that connect environmental research with contemporary printmaking.

The research also informed his solo exhibition, Field / Dream, presented at the Spitsbergen Artists Center in Longyearbyen, Norway.

“Landscape is never only a physical place,” Poskovic explains. “It is also a repository of memory, experience, and stories. Through printmaking, I am interested in how these layers accumulate and how they can reveal connections between human experience and the larger planetary environment.”

We're proud to see Stamps faculty contributing to global conversations at the intersection of art, environmental research, and interdisciplinary collaboration.

Stamps faculty and students are helping shape the conversation about the future of design at Detroit Month of Design.Joi...
09/09/2026

Stamps faculty and students are helping shape the conversation about the future of design at Detroit Month of Design.

Join the U-M Stamps School of Art & Design MDes program for Designing the Next Era: Foresight, Practice, and Detroit, an interactive panel discussion bringing together leading designers, researchers, and educators to explore what’s next for design and its role in shaping the future.

From technology-informed foresight to community-centered and social justice-based methodologies, the conversation will explore how design can help address systemic inequities, anticipate change, and co-create more just and sustainable futures.

Audience members are invited to participate, ask questions, and reflect alongside the panelists. Plus, get an inside look at the Stamps Master of Design (MDes) program and its distinctive approach to future-focused design education.

Come be part of the conversation.
📅 Thursday, September 10
⏰ 4–7 PM
📍 SpaceLab Detroit: 607 Shelby St Ste 700, Detroit, MI 48226

Alumni Spotlight: We're thrilled to share that Stamps alum Sebastián Llovera (MFA ’23) has been selected as one of 47 ar...
09/09/2026

Alumni Spotlight: We're thrilled to share that Stamps alum Sebastián Llovera (MFA ’23) has been selected as one of 47 artists participating in Counterpublic 2026: Coyote Time, one of the largest public art exhibitions in the United States.

Opening this fall in St. Louis, Missouri, Coyote Time brings together artists whose work addresses urgent questions surrounding civic life, migration, climate, technology, and identity. As part of the exhibition, Llovera will create a new site-specific commission at the city's last Carnegie Library, located along South Grand.

Curated by Jordan Carter, Raphael Fonseca, Stefanie Hessler, Nora N. Khan, and Wanda Nanibush, Counterpublic 2026: Coyote Time invites audiences to embrace uncertainty as a space for experimentation, risk, and possibility, a fitting framework for artists imagining new ways of understanding our shared future.
Known for work that bridges local histories with broader global conversations, Llovera joins an international cohort of artists and collectives whose practices explore displacement, ecology, and the evolving conditions of contemporary life.

✨ Congratulations, Sebastián! We can't wait to see your new commission come to life.

Counterpublic 2026: Coyote Time
🗓 September 12–December 12, 2026
📍 National Building Arts Center

09/08/2026

Mark your calendar!

This fall, Stamps Gallery welcomes Cosmo Whyte: Under the Quiet, Beyond the Eye, an exhibition that explores personal and collective histories through themes of migration, memory, and belonging.

The exhibition opens on Friday, September 11, and we invite you to celebrate Cosmo’s work at the public reception on September 24.

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

📅 September 11 – December 12, 2026

09/08/2026

What happens when you take your creative practice somewhere new?

Study Abroad gives Stamps students the opportunity to step outside the studio, experience new environments, explore different cultures, and see their creative practice from a new perspective.
Whether you're researching, experimenting, or learning more about your creative practice, the experience can become part of the work you bring home.

✈️ Learn more about the Study Abroad program here and start planning your creative future.

https://stamps.umich.edu/life-at-stamps/study-abroad

🎉 Let’s celebrate your first few weeks at Stamps.Stamps students, join us at Stamps Gallery following the Stamps Speaker...
09/08/2026

🎉 Let’s celebrate your first few weeks at Stamps.

Stamps students, join us at Stamps Gallery following the Stamps Speaker’s Series orientation!

Explore the gallery, connect with fellow students, and discover exhibition opportunities, creative resources, and ways to get involved throughout your time at Stamps.

We can’t wait to welcome you to the Stamps Gallery community!

🗓️ Thursday, September 10
⏰ 6–7 PM
📍 Stamps Gallery
🎉 Plus, refreshments will be provided!

Discover new directions for your creative career!Applications are now open for the 2026–27 Jain Industry Partnerships Pr...
09/05/2026

Discover new directions for your creative career!

Applications are now open for the 2026–27 Jain Industry Partnerships Program (JIP).

JIP connects Stamps students with creative professionals and industry leaders across corporate, cultural, communications, technology, sports, design, and other unexpected career paths.

As a JIP student, you’ll have the opportunity to:
💼 Connect with creative professionals and industry leaders
💼 Build relationships with mentors
💼 Participate in industry-led workshops
💼 Explore creative careers beyond traditional pathways
💼 Build skills and a professional network before graduation

This year’s industry partners include: Adidas, Carhartt, Detroit Pistons, Hims & Hers, Joele Frank, Modellus Novus, YouTube.

Applications are open now through Sunday, September 20.

Apply now through the stamps intranet under Career Development.

How do memories shape who we are? What stories are preserved and which are forgotten?Join us this fall at Stamps Gallery...
09/05/2026

How do memories shape who we are? What stories are preserved and which are forgotten?

Join us this fall at Stamps Gallery to see Cosmo Whyte: Under the Quiet, Beyond the Eye, an immersive exhibition that explores these questions through memory, migration, and identity.

Cosmo Whyte: Under the Quiet, Beyond the Eye
🖼️ Public Reception: Thursday, September 24
⏰ 6:30-8:30 PM
📍 Stamps Gallery

📅 September 11 – December 12, 2026

🎟️ Free and open to the public

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/

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