“The Stamps MFA program’s uniquely supportive faculty nurtures a uniquely supportive student cohort, where each artist’s ideas are seen, celebrated, cultivated, and challenged. Opportunities for exploration through travel and conversation with professionals in the field are, importantly, baked right in. The result is an environment that feels generous, grounded in connection, and full of possibility.”
Our process begins with curiosity. A reflection that leads to questioning: how come, what if, why not? We investigate. We reconfigure, reframe, and reconsider. We seek alternate approaches and points of view. We challenge limited notions of research and embrace the role of creative practice in the creation of new knowledge. Fueled by the energy and expertise in our research university community, our concepts take shape and make an impact on the world .
Studio and post-studio work
Rigorous research and inquiry
Creation of culturally relevant work
Support for taking creative and conceptual risks
Collaborators across fields of study
Commitment to international engagement
Ample facility space
Deep and meaningful connections with visiting artists
Grants and funding opportunities for ambitious new work
Opportunity to be part of thriving artistic communities in Detroit and beyond
Close working relationship with internationally renowned faculty mentors
Studio visits with curators, writers, and cultural producers
“During their time at Stamps, MFA students expand their artistic practices to directly engage the contemporary (and future) world. While some develop work specifically for gallery and museum contexts, others work in activist, artist-run, or community-based arts ecologies. Throughout the program, they develop reciprocal relationships in a community that intentionally prepares them to s hape and transform the world.”
– Dylan AT Miner, Senior Associate Dean
for Research, Creative Practice, and Graduate Education
Stamps MFA students join a supportive, interdisciplinary, critically engaged, and curiosity-filled culture of makers and scholars. Research and materiality work together at Stamps, as the curriculum supports students in the creation of culturally relevant work operating within a clearly articulated context. Graduates leave the Stamps MFA program with a newfound clarity on how their work engages with, reflects upon, and intersects with the world at large.
“The Stamps MFA Program supports research-based, interdisciplinary, and materially sophisticated artistic work - often in dialogue with critical theory and urgent social movements. Faculty, staff, and regional community members support students in finding contexts for their work that align with their aspirations and intentions, while working collaboratively to reimagine what artistic research could look like in the complex, fraught contemporary moment we are in.”
– Angela Washko, MFA Program Director & Catherine B Heller Professor of Art
Two-year program concluding with a substantial thesis exhibition
Mentorship from an internationally established and interdisciplinary community of 44 highly engaged Stamps faculty members
Opportunities to work with faculty from across the entire University of Michigan
33,000 square-foot, state-of-the-art, graduate student studio facility
Exhibitions in the 8,000 square-foot Stamps Gallery in downtown Ann Arbor
Funded, self-directed international project
Career preparation, networking, and custom-tailored mentorship on the post-graduation career planning process
Supporting student research through extensive course electives throughout the broader university
Financial support through grants, employment opportunities, and awards
Curricular support for creative work driven by research and inquiry
Regional visiting critics at every graduate student critique
Studio visits with curators, writers, and visiting artists
Partnerships with acclaimed artist residency programs
Students conduct their creative work in spacious, fully equipped studios within a 33,000-square-foot building that also houses faculty studios, project spaces, wood and metals shops, computing resources, and large shared work and meeting areas.
At the Stamps School of Art & Design’s Art and Architecture Building, graduate students also have 24/7 access to large state-of-the-art metals, fibers, ceramics, sculpture, wood, printmaking, digital media, and digital fabrication studios, as well as a range of resources only available at a top research university, such as audio engineering booths, robotic labs, virtual reality studios, specialized libraries, institutes, collections, botanical gardens, and much more.
Anthony Marcellini
Critic and Artist
Ben Davis
Writer and Critic
CAMP
Artist Collective
Chido Johnson
Artist
Gregory Volk
Critic and Writer
Hamza Walker
Curator
Hannah Whitaker
Artist
Laura Mott
Curator (Cranbrook Museum)
Katrin Sigurdardottir
Artist
Lily Cox-Richard
Artist
Lumi Tan
Curator
Lynn Crawford
Critic and Writer
Mark Dion
Artist
Mary Mattingly
Artist
Nayland Blake
Artist
Rashaad Newsome
Artist
Rosie Sharp
Critic, Writer, and Artist
Trinh T. Minh-ha
Filmmaker and Writer
Zaneli Muholi
Artist
Tracey Snelling
Artist
Zafos Xagoraris
Artist
Vince Carducci
Critic, Writer, and Professor
Wafaa Bilal
Artist
Yesomi Umolu
Curator (Serpentine Galleries, UK)
Students have direct access to the wide array of creative innovators who are part of the Penny Stamps Speaker Series and the Witt Visitors Program. Visiting artists and lecturers meet with graduate students for individual studio visits.
Alison Bechdel Graphic Novelist
Cannupa Hanska Luger
Installation Artist
Carrie Mae Weems
Interdisciplinary Artist
Coco Fusco Artist, Writer, and Scholar
Chitra Ganesh
Interdisciplinary Artist
Ernesto Neto
Installation Artist
Fred Wilson Sculptor
Hank Willis Thomas Photo Conceptual Artist
Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle Video and Installation Artist
Janine Antoni Multimedia Artist
Jeremy Deller Video and Installation Artist
LaToya Ruby Frazier Photographer and Performance Artist
Mariko Mori Video and Photographic Artist
Mary Sibande Installation Artist
Nick Cave Sculptor
Pipilotti Rist Video Artist
Pussy Riot Activist Collective
Raqs Media Collective Art Collective
Sanford Biggers Interdisciplinary Artist
Shahzia Sikander Painter and Video Artist
Suzanne Lacy Social Practice Artist
Tania Bruguera Artistic Activism
Theaster Gates
Installation and Performance Artist
Titus Kaphar Painter
Wangechi Mutu Painter and Collagist
William Pope.L Performance Artist
During the summer between their two years, each student conducts research that may have a substantial impact on their thesis work.
Stamps recognizes that creative practice is global in its scope and impact. With funding support from the school, each student conducts a self-directed research and creative practice trip to a location that is relevant to their work. Past trips have included researching the residual effects of colonialism in South Africa; recording sound in Egypt’s museums, tombs, and temples; developing film in Iceland’s volcanic baths; uncovering alternate narratives of early exploration history with the Igloolik community in the Canadian Arctic Circle; and working with porcelain sculpture artisans in Jingdezhen, China. Many students have participated in international residencies in conjunction with their International Project, including SOMA in Mexico City, the MeetFactory International Center of Contemporary Art in Prague, Casa RARO in Barcelona, the Digital Stone Project Residency in Italy, and the Sachaqa Centro De Arte Artist Residency in Peru, among others.
Ann Arbor is consistently ranked one of America’s best college towns, offering a rich cultural and intellectual life and a vibrant sense of community. Ann Arbor is home to cultural institutions like the Ann Arbor Film Festival, University of Michigan Museum of Art, Michigan Theater, and the Stamps Gallery. We’re also just a short drive away from Detroit, a hub of arts and culture including substantial art museums, music venues, theaters, galleries, festivals and more. The Detroit Institute of the Arts, the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, the Modern Ancient Brown Foundation, The Shepherd, and Library Street Collective are just a few of the many art institutions to explore in Detroit.
Explore the region online: artdetroitnow.com detroitartreview.com culturesource.org pulp.aadl.org visitannarbor.org
Stamps MFA students have gone on to a wide range of careers, including exhibiting artists, filmmakers, professorships, entrepreneurs, cultural critics, designers, community arts organizers, commercial and non-profit arts administrators. We have partnerships with Ox-Bow Artist Residency Program and Anderson Ranch, guaranteeing fully funded admission to a Stamps student every other year.
A visiting curator, gallery director, writer, artist, or critic participates in every MFA critique. Additionally, all MFA students are guaranteed multiple studio visits from nationally and internationally recognized visiting critics, providing them with new perspectives and networking opportunities.
Having experienced dozens of MFA thesis shows over the years, I was incredibly impressed by the supportive and ambitious environment of the Stamps School of Art & Design. It was rare to visit a thesis program in which the execution of the work, the conceptual aspects of the work, and the presentation of the work were all equally considered.”
– Lumi Tan, Curator
world-class studios
8,000 sq. ft. Stamps Gallery
radiology lab
state-of-the-art digital media labs
multi-camera HD video studios
robotics institute virtual reality cave
3D printers, routers, and scanners
physical computing studio
materials library
computer and video game archive
biointerfaces institute
industrial knitting machines map libraries
7-axis robotic fabrication system large-format printers
electronic music studios
24-ft astro-tec dome planetarium
7 U-M museums
artificial intelligence lab
motion capture facility
MRI scanners museum of zoology collections anatomy labs
professional audio recording studios
botanical gardens
entrepreneurship clinic
121 music practice rooms
dance studios
gamelan ensemble
1.7 million plants in the herbarium
marine hydrodynamics lab
engineers
filmmakers dancers climatologists architects astrophysicists playwrights
urban planners
musicians art historians public policy makers journalists microbiologists nanotechnology researchers
anthropologists curators sound engineers
social workers chemists
ecologists
neuroscientists
botanists
information architects
data analysts
cancer researchers
egyptologists poets forensic scientists
screenwriters entrepreneurs
public health experts
3D modeling experts
and more… and more…
While Stamps MFA students select their own personal faculty advisor, Stamps is a tight-knit creative community with 44 highly engaged faculty members who act as mentors and collaborators to Stamps MFA students.
Throughout the two-year program, our faculty of internationally established artists and scholars work closely with students to shape an intellectuallyrigorous program of study, individually suited to each candidate’s unique areas of interest and expertise.
With faculty members who have received NEA Grants, Fulbright Scholarships, United States Artists Fellowships, Guggenheim Fellowships, and Creative Capital Awards, MFA students are able to make powerful, life-long connections to prominent culture makers of our time.
Read more Stamps faculty news online: stamps.umich.edu/news
• Art and c ommerce
• A frican American history, culture, and representation
• D isplacement, migration, and alienation
• N arrative and memory
• Censorship
• Q ueer theory
• M aterial science
• Reproductive technology
• Artis tic activism
• S ustainable communities
• Performance studies
• Feminist theory and contemporary aesthetics
• D igital culture
• Speculative design
• Labor his tories
• Art and he alth
• D ecolonial praxis
• Cr oss-border identities
• Politics of land
• D isability culture and more…
• Photography
• Illustration
• Sculpture
• Painting
• Drawing
• Ceramics
• Printmaking
• Fibers and textiles
• Game design
• Installation
• Graphic design
• Socially engaged art
• Performance
• Video
• Sound art
• E xperimental theater
• C omputational and interactive art
• D esigned objects
• D ocumentary filmmaking
• Animation
• M edia interventions
• Participatory art
• B ook arts and more…
There’s such a range of expertise among the faculty, students, and staff here. I appreciate all the people I met in the program who helped me navigate silenced herstories and multimedia installations.”
– Okyoung Noh (MFA ‘25)
Graduates of the Stamps MFA program have successfully secured positions in higher education, non-profit organizations, and in the commercial sector. Many attain gallery representation, artist residencies, and/or tenure-track teaching positions.
As a student, Carolyn Clayton (MFA '16) received the Dedalus Foundation Master of Fine Arts Fellowship in Painting and Sculpture. Recent awards include the Martha Boschen Porter Fellowship in 2021, and the Forward Thinking Fellowship in 2020. Clayton is the co-founder of the Walkaway House, and operates the Tend and Center of Gravity artist residencies.
A faculty member at the UCLA School of Art & Architecture, Cosmo Whyte (MFA ‘15) was awarded an Art Matters Award and a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Biennial Grant, providing $20,000 in unrestricted funding to support creative work. In January 2025, his solo exhibition (The Mother’s Tongue) Pressed to the Grinding Stone opened at The Arts Club of Chicago. Previous solo exhibitions at museums include ICA San Diego and MOCA Georgia.
In 2023, Rey Jeong (MFA ‘21) accepted a position as assistant professor of studio art at California State University, Sacramento, where she specializes in socially engaged art and social practice.
In 2023, Razi Jafri (MFA ‘22) co-produced Three Chaplains, a documentary film focused on three Muslim clergy members who combat Islamophobia while promoting interfaith understanding within the US military. The film aired nationally on PBS and has been the recipient of many awards and grants.
Michelle Inez Hinojosa (MFA ‘23) is an assistant professor of art at the Pennsylvania State University, and has participated in recent group and solo exhibitions, as well as residencies at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Mildred’s Lane, and the University of Michigan.
In 2019, Masimba Hwati (MFA '19) participated in the residency program at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine. Since graduating, he has additionally exhibited at the Montreal Museum of Fine Art and the National Gallery of Zimbabwe.
Simranpreet Anand (MFA '24) was awarded the 2022 Philip B. Lind Emerging Artist Prize, and is an assistant professor at Lane Community College. Her work will be presented in solo exhibitions at The Polygon Gallery (Vancouver, 2026) and the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria (Victoria, 2025-26).
Beili Liu (MFA '03) is a professor of studio art at The University of Texas at Austin's Department of Art and Art History who exhibits nationally and internationally. In 2024, Beili Liu: Mend, a monograph dedicated to Liu’s practice, was published by Art League Houston in celebration of her recognition as the Texas Artist of the Year.
Razi Jafri | Sanctuary, Purgatory | MFA ‘22
Razi Jafri is a visual artist, documentary filmmaker, and producer. His work focuses on ethnicity, religion, immigration, democracy, and the changing cultural landscape in America. As a Muslim immigrant, his own community is of particular interest to him as it vies for a voice in the American cultural, economic, and political arenas amidst a climate of Islamophobia and anti-immigrant sentiment.
Jafri is a 2024 Kresge Arts Fellow, and received the prestigious Kresge Gilda Award in 2022. He is currently a senior editor of visual features at NPR.
Kristina Sheufelt | A Wind From Noplace | MFA ‘22
A Wind From Noplace is an interdisciplinary body of visual artworks, creative research, and writings surrounding Kristina Sheufelt's attempts to understand human ecology through a personal lens. In the making of these works, Sheufelt uncovers and transcribes the psychophysiological roots of her intimacy with land, flora, and fauna.
In 2022, Sheufelt was recognized with the Outstanding Student Achievement Award from the International Sculpture Center (ISC). Sheufelt was awarded The Michigan Central x Newlab Art + Technology Residency in 2024. kristinasheufelt.com
Charlie Reynolds | Dress Blues | MFA '25
Dress Blues is a soft sculpture made from dress patterns in the form of a DDG 111, the guided missile destroyer that Charlie Reynolds served on.
"I used to think that because I transitioned after the military that the two events had nothing to do with each other. Now I see them as intrinsically linked, and I can hardly think of one without the other."
Addressing the military through the lens of queer and trans theory, Reynolds is able to reject expectations for the heteronormativity surrounding the military and critique the power of the institution. charliereynoldsstudio.com
Sally Clegg | Auto-Affection | MFA ‘20
Through a series of sculptural objects, paintings, and video, Sally Clegg's ongoing project AutoAffection teases out the theoretical and material relationships embedded in pursuits of selfexperience and pleasure. It is a meditation on the meaning of our most intimate rituals, and an exploration of associated tools and traces. Clegg uses autotheory as a research-creation methodology and this project is heavily influenced by the writing of Jacques Derrida.
In 2021, Clegg received the Outstanding Student Achievement Award from the International Sculpture Center and was featured in Sculpture magazine. Clegg is currently a lecturer and student exhibitions coordinator at the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design, and recently received a 2025 Summer Faculty Fellowship at the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities. sallyclegg.com
Artist Ruth Burke’s creative practice exists in both the studio and the pasture. Working side-by-side with a small herd of dairy cows, combining experiential and philosophical research, her practice centers on interspecies relationships. Ruminant brings the viewer through the barn, into the pasture, the territory of the cow. The work uses sound, video, installation, sculpture, and performance to explore interspecies kinship, ultimately posing the question “what does it mean to have kinship with a cow?”
Burke is an assistant professor of video art in the Wonsook Kim School of Art at Illinois State University. Recent projects include a grant-funded collaboration with farmers to use mixed power (draft animal plus tractor power) to establish two pollinator plots and two pollinator-friendly earthworks in McLean County. ruthkburke.com
Carolyn Gennari | Searching For What Isn’t There | MFA ‘17
Carolyn Gennari’s creative practice finds new ways to engage with the past and present. With a process rooted in archival research, Gennari’s works invite viewers to reconsider the role of narrative in history. Searching For What Isn’t There is a film and installation piece about arctic exploration. Combining 19th-century captain’s journals, Inuit oral histories, and first-person research, this work investigates archival instability, myth, and the affective endurance of stories surrounding the arctic.
Gennari is a practicing studio artist and an exhibition designer and researcher. She is currently a visiting assistant professor of art at the University of Rochester Department of Art and Art History. carolyngennari.com
Shane Darwent | The Wilds of Washtenaw | MFA ‘17
The Wilds of Washtenaw mines the suburban built vernacular to create a garden of contemporary contemplation. This sprawling sculptural installation is anchored by a fast-food inspired grotto — the destination of a journey through vinyl siding, landscape edging, and gas station talismans. The Wilds of Washtenaw serves as a roadmap for pedestrian discovery.
In 2017, Darwent received the International Sculpture Center’s Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture award. The Molting , his 2025 solo exhibition at Spencer Brownstone Gallery, was highlighted as a "Must See" by Artforum Magazine shanedarwent.com
Cosmo Whyte | Wake the Town and Tell the People | MFA ‘15 Wake the Town and Tell the People is an installation of drawings, photographs, and sound sculptures that explore postcolonial identity as a liquid identity, one in a constant state of flux, co-existing in multiple locations.
In 2015, Whyte received the International Sculpture Center’s Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture award. An Assistant Professor of Art at the UCLA School of Art & Architecture, Whyte is a recipient of the prestigious Art Matters and Louis Comfort Tiffany Awards. cosmowhyte.com
Andy Maticorena Kajie | i (want to) love you in fringes, quiero (amarte) en flecos | MFA '25 i (want to) love you in fringes, quiero (amarte) en flecos is a confessional exhibition that questions the boundaries between cognition, memory, still image, and text told through a lifelong story of migration and images threading between the boundaries of public and private relational intimacy. andykajie.com
Michaela Nichelle | Say Her Name and Sing | MFA '26
Michaela Nichelle is an interdisciplinary artist whose work explores Black expressionism and experience, investigating the complexities of identity, culture, and history.
Their installation, Say Her Name and Sing , is a powerful act of remembrance and resistance, asking: How do we honor those who died for a country they never agreed to fight for? How do we know and remember the legacy of Black women who were victims of police brutality and supremacist systems that did not allow for their light to shine and their softness to be seen?
"In this installation, we know and remember the 30 Black women murdered during the 45th presidential term: Morgan London Rankins, Elena 'Ebbie' Mondragon, Alteria Woods, Kim Doreen Chase, Robin White, Kiwi Herring, Sandy Guardiola, Cariann Hithon, Shukri Ali Said, Lashanda Anderson, Cynthia Fields, Dereshia Blackwell, LaJuana Phillips, Aleah Mariah Jenkins, Tameka LaShay Simpson, Janice Dotson-Stephens, April Webster, Angle Viola Decarlo, Eleanor Northington, Latasha Nicole Walton, Nina Adams, Pamela Shantay Turner, Crystal Danielle Ragland, Layleen Polanco, Atatiana Jefferson, Tina Davis, Breonna Taylor, Tiffany Alexis Eubanks, and Pricilla Slater." michaelanichelle.com
Sebastian Llovera | Cuando hay santos nuevos los viejos no hacen milagros | MFA ‘23
Sebastian Llovera's work presents a series of archives, specimens, and objects that explore the complex relationship of nature and technology, as well as the way they have historically shaped knowledge production. It explores the speculative interactions between fungi, slime mold, and artificial intelligence processes, while addressing particular problems such as illegal mining activities in Venezuela. Sculptures, cyanotypes, and videos create a space where nature and technology are not opposed but intertwined. sebastianllovera.com
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Okyoung Noh | In Flow | MFA '25
In Flow is an immersive installation and performance exploring American imperialist violence through water, scent, and sound. Featuring a bloodtinged river projection, a red-water fountain, and ceramics playing survivor voices, the exhibition engages audiences in the unseen yet persistent flow of historical trauma, memory, and trans-Pacific violence.
An Assistant Professor of Practice at the University of Arizona School of Art, Noh has recently been awarded residencies at MASS MoCA and the Seoul Museum of Art. oknoh.com
Ellie Schmidt | the tide pool room: a love story | MFA '22 the tide pool room: a love story uses durational film, a hammock installation, and creative essays about swimming to meditate on the emotional crosscurrents of love, loss, friendship, swimming, and tide pools. Schmidt’s thesis work examined fishing traditions in the ring of fire region - Alaska, Hawaii, and Indonesia.
Schmidt recently completed a Fulbright Scholarship in Fiji, and is currently a PhD student in Cinematic Arts at University of Southern California. ellieschmidt .com
Samantha Griffith | Attunement | MFA '25
Building upon the methods and principles of the Solarpunk movement, Attunement employs the technological practices of craft and computation towards the goals of sustainability, connectivity and interpersonal agency. A reflection on life in a warming world, it insists, by calling both forwards and backwards through time, that we have all the tools we need to create a just and verdant future. samseurynck.art
MFA students complete 12-18 credits of coursework per semester for a total of 60 credits at the completion of the two-year program. The curriculum is designed to accommodate a range of art practices, and combines studio-based inquiry with more scholarly, research-focused work.
Studio (year 1) – 12 credits
Each semester, students engage in intense exploration, research, production, and critique of their individual creative work.
Thesis Studio (year 2) – 12 credits
An independent project conducted by each MFA candidate during their second year, is guided by a thesis committee, and culminates in an exhibition at the Stamps Gallery, a public talk, and a written thesis describing the work and its significance.
MFA Critique – 12 credits
Provides students with weekly opportunities to articulate the ideas and context underpinning their work and receive feedback from faculty, visiting artists/critics, and their peers.
9 credits
Students choose elective courses to meet their individual MFA curriculum and research goals.
Stamps Graduate Seminars – 6 credits
Seminar topics include “Research Methods,” “Professional Practice,” and other topics related to contemporary art practice.
History/Theory/Criticism – 6 credits
These courses — offered by Stamps, History of Art, or other U-M units — support the student’s field of inquiry.
Project – 3 credits
During the summer between their two years, each student conducts research that will have an impact on their thesis work.
University of Michigan Regents
Jordan B. Acker, Huntington Woods
Michael J. Behm , Grand Blanc
Mark J. Bernstein , Ann Arbor
Paul W. Brown , Ann Arbor
Sarah Hubbard , Okemos
Denise Ilitch , Birmingham
Carl J. Meyers , Dearborn
Katherine E. White, Ann Arbor
Domenico Grasso (ex officio)
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Have a strong portfolio of creative work and a record of exhibitions
Demonstrate an interest in interdisciplinary creative inquiry
Have made significant efforts to pursue a long-term creative practice, and show evidence of pursuing a new direction during graduate study.
Identify faculty, facilities, and resources they hope to work with at Stamps and within the University of Michigan
Be prepared for intensive, focused creative inquiry and production in a supportive and critical environment
The Stamps School of Art & Design offers all admitted MFA students financial support in the form of teaching and research assistantships that come with tuition waivers and excellent health and dental insurance throughout the student's time in the program. Project grants, discretionary materials funds, and funding for research and travel are also available as guaranteed funding, with additional funding available through application. This financial support enables focused creative work as well as opportunities to gain experience.
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stamps.umich.edu/mfa The Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design is ranked among the top eight graduate schools in the nation for art and design according to the 2020 U.S. News and World Report .