Past Art Exhibitions

Artist Reception: Friday, January 24 from 5:00PM - 7:00PM

The works in the exhibition are from a large series of works made over the last several years. In them, Ross explores humor and personal meaning through absurd juxtapositions of pairs of wildly varied images. Each single image is stripped of its original context (be it, for example, a history book, an instruction manual or a magazine advertisement), placed on a white background like some kind of specimen, and presented afresh with a new “companion image.” These companion images confront, contrast and converse with each...

Public reception Friday September 27, 5-7 pm

Susan Moran’s work is inspired by the natural world and our place in it. She collects and arranges images, builds and subtracts, and uses processes that suit the concepts and gives the pieces a reason for existing as textiles. Simultaneously she strives to make the medium influence the outcome in such a way that cloth and image meld together. Moran uses silkscreen, shibori, and stitching to embed images from her daily walks into the fabric. It's important that the work builds slowly, involving meditative processes that connect her to...

Please join us for an artist reception in the Building 18 Lobby: Thursday, May 16 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM UM Staff Hour, 4:00 PM - 7:00 PM Public

Enna Diddio was born and raised in Detroit. She is a multimedia artist with a newfound attachment to printmaking. A recent Wayne State Fine Arts graduate, with a major in Drawing, Diddio’s work is versatile and inquisitive. She is a strong proponent of City of Detroit, with a strong sense of community, craftsmanship, and creativity. They have created as space between traditionally taught skills and the contemporary methods to apply them and I desire to...

Artist Reception - 25 January 2024 • 4:00 PM - 7:00 PM 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM UM Staff Hour

Please join us for a reception in the Building 18 Lobby to celebrate Peter B. Dunn - 720' 10'' & the Stamps School of Art and Design Staff Exhibitions.

ARTISTS Kelly Agius Catherine Coveyou Elizabeth Dizik Veronica Falandino Stephanie Gary Rita K. Lee Carly Lowe Kit Parks Matthew Pritchard Joel Rakowski Joe Rohrer Katie Shulman Veronica Tabor Geetha Thatikonda Mike Vitale Sandra Wiley

Penny Stamps School of Art and Design is “an internationally recognized leader in interdisciplinary...

Opening Reception

November 3rd, 2023 • 4:00 PM - 7:00 PM 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM UM Staff Hour North Campus Research Complex | 2800 Plymouth Rd | Ann Arbor, MI | 48109

Please join us for a reception to celebrate and mingle with the artists | Enjoy complimentary refreshments & hors d'oeuvres

Born and raised in New York City, Satchel Lee is a multi-media artist whose work can best be described as portraiture. Through collaborations with her immediate community, and also using herself as a subject, Lee draws inspiration from the quotidian, creating offbeat images that aim to...

Julianne Orlyk Walsh has a Master’s degree in architecture from The University of Michigan. She worked as an intern architect at Acock Associates Architects in Columbus, Ohio before returning home to Ann Arbor to join the Medical School as a Facilities Planner. She is currently a student of Daria Paik at the Ann Arbor Art Center, and also takes instruction at the Ann Arbor Potter’s Guild.

The history and evolution of pot making has always captivated Walsh. From the tools and techniques used centuries ago to the fundamental process and output of today, much has remained...

ARTIST STATEMENT

Each drawing requires patience.

The beauty lies within the tedious process of meticulously piercing the paper. Metaphoric and intricate shapes appear, articulating microscopic and macroscopic configurations within the delicate surface, using violent, yet precise tools.

The hand-tool manipulation of paper, applied through repetitive techniques, document fractal / abstract natural patterns observed during alpha state and shifting metaphysical realities.

The result is a gentle expression of poetic compositions achieved through the redundant,...

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Artist Reception

November 17, 6PM-8PM

Artist Talk

January 14, 12PM

Samah Kthar is an artist fueled by harnessing the present moment of experience, into something tangible to share. She believes the way to explain an experience, and connect with others is through art. Although having no formal experience in art education, Kthar has obtained three degrees: B.S. in Biological Sciences, B.S in Health Sciences, and Masters in Occupational Therapy. Blending the role as an Artist and an Occupational Therapist in turn, allows her to help others utilize art to...

Stephanie Sarris earned M.F.A. Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills--Drawing and Painting and B.F.A. & B.A.E. University of Michigan. Her artist training includes studies at Eastern Michigan University, Florence, Italy, University of Michigan, Dearborn and Wayne State University, Detroit.

Sarris has exhibited her work extensively throughout the Detroit Metropolitan area, and is included in the permanent collections of Neiman Marcus, Somerset Collection/Troy, Michigan; Tysons II/ McClean, Virginia; Dallas, Texas;Fort Worth, Texas; Las Vegas,...

Artist Reception: NCRC, Building 18 on Friday, February 7, 5PM - 7PM

Cathy VanVoorhis was one of two artists in residence hosted by University of Michigan Biological Station (UMBS) during the summer 2019. The UMBS provides students and faculty the opportunity to study environmental science in the field, alongside some of the world’s most respected experts. Including cultural experts, through a residency program, in the mix provided a perfect bridge between the arts and sciences.

The work created during this residency will be featured in her exhibition titled “Forest and...

Al Hebert has been a prominent figure in the Detroit art scene since he received his MFA at Wayne State University in 1967. In the Exhibition “Advice to Polonius” Hebert references Shakespeare’s Hamlet , Polonius, a man of experience, who gives some life advice to his son Laertes. Polonius states “neither a borrower nor a lender be”, and advise him to borrow objects extensively from many sources, and then lend them to sculptural assemblage.

This is exactly what Hebert does in the creation of the works in this exhibit, incorporating Objet trouvé ...

Gilda Snowden (1954 – 2014) was a Detroit artist who received a bachelor of fine arts, master of art and master of fine arts in painting from Wayne State University. She was Interim Chair and Professor of Fine Arts at the College for Creative Studies, Detroit and also Gallery Director of the Detroit Repertory Theatre. Snowden’s works have been exhibited throughout the United States, as well as in Mexico, Canada and West Africa. Her works are featured in a number of publications, as well as private and corporate collections, including Post/Newsweek, the Neiman-Marcus Corporation, Ameritech...