Stamps Undergraduate SEE Book 2016

Differently

Your art and design education should be about more than building skills. It should be about transforming the way you see your world, your creative practice, your future.

At Stamps, you learn to be an original thinker, a problem solver, a global citizen, a leader.

That’s what universities do. That’s what we do.

S E E what an art and design education looks like at the University of Michigan.

Cornelia Stiles From an “altered head” assignment in the photography course Making Pictures.

Your Community / pg 4 Your Curriculum / pg 18 Your Career / pg 34 Creative Work / pg 42 Apply / pg 88

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Your Community

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“The people who you can meet here... the ideas... there’s just so much that you can be exposed to. And it’s really only going to add to the experience and how you develop. I came here because I knew I wasn’t going to be trapped in some art school bubble, with everyone around me in the same classes, doing the same type of work.” MAX COLLINS, BFA student 6 / STAMPS S E E B O O K

charcoal and gesso

Self in the Eyes of Others

Hillary Butterworth

“It was very important to me to get a solid academic education in addition to art. A lot of the art schools I looked at wanted me to declare what my focus would be when I entered. And I just wasn't ready to commit to one media. The Stamps School fixed that problem for me by allowing me to take literally every kind of class imaginable.” PARIS GLICKMAN, BFA student STAMPS Y O U R C O M M U N I T Y / 7

Small School

A close-knit community of 600+ students, faculty, and staff

“I plan on using the school’s plentiful resources to try different mediums and styles and hopefully mold them into new styles of my own. Being surrounded by clever artists and wise professors... I’ve been inspired to leave my comfort zone.” WAKE COULTER, BFA student

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100%

of Stamps students participate in community-based creative work

Stamps In Color promotes diversity, equity, and inclusion on campus and beyond.

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19 schools

265 degree

& colleges

programs

1,300+ student clubs

A global network of 575,000+ alumni

and organizations

Big University Connect to the diversity and resources of a world-class university One of the Top 5 public universities in the U.S.

#12 LGBTQ friendly university campus

18 residence halls where 97% of freshman live

every

Students from state & 118 nations

#1 public research university in the U.S.

More than 30

Student Entrepreneurship groups 200+ study abroad programs

#1 best and most collaborative U.S. college

“ I came to Stamps because the resources here are vast.

I love art but I’m also really interested in Computer Science, so I decided to pursue a dual degree in Art & Design and Computer Science (LSA).” BEIATRIX PEDRASA, BFA student

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1/3

of Stamps students are pursuing dual degrees

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“I’m learning so much. I’m meeting kind and talented artists and designers who have made wonderful careers. I’m working with professors who are engaging and challenging, and I’m collaborating with other students who are uniquely smart and wicked talented.” WILLIE FILKOWSKI, Interarts student

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Recent Faculty Accomplishments:

Pulitzer Prize Winner David Turnley Chosen as Best New Filmmaker

Phoebe Gloeckner’s Diary of a Teenage Girl Wins Best First Motion Picture Feature

John Marshall’s Work Featured in Wired, FastCo, and Dezeen

Anne Mondro Receives National Alzheimer’s Caregiving Award, “Expressive Arts” Category

Heidi Kumao Wins Best Experimental Film at Female Eye Festival

David Chung’s Work Placed in Whitney Permanent Collection

Endi Poskovic Awarded U.S. Senior Fulbright Scholar Grant

Holly Hughes Wins Award for Performance and Activism

Read more Stamps faculty news at: stamps.umich.edu/news

“ I initially thought I would get a very traditional art education at Michigan, and I was planning to transfer to a stand-alone art school. But after seeing the investment by my professors in their work and teaching, my view changed 180 degrees — they made the experience really special.” ROSE JAFFE, BFA student STAMPS Y O U R C O M M U N I T Y / 13

“Each week during the academic year, students have direct access to a wide array of creative innovators who are part of the Stamps Distinguished Speaker Series and the Witt Visitors Program. For all four years, you’re part of a classroom of over 700 people where you’ll learn from the world's most creative makers and thinkers.”

CHRISSTINA HAMILTON, Director of Visitors Programs

You'll meet

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Recent speakers: Author Lemony Snicket - Daniel Handler Nike Shoe Designer - Wilson Smith Artist/Activist Collective - Pussy Riot Dancer and Choreographer - Bill T. Jones Filmmaker - Oliver Stone Graphic Designer - Stefan Sagmeister Performance Artist - Marina Abramovic Photographer - Vik Muniz Graphic Designer - Louise Fili Architect - Bjarke Ingels Filmmaker - Ken Burns Cartoonist - Lynda Barry Interaction Designer - Massimo Banzi Fashion Designer - Zandra Rhodes Filmmaker and Painter - Julian Schnabel Perfumier - Sissel Tolaas Installation Artist - Mary Sibande Photographer - Mary Ellen Mark Painter and Collagist - Wangechi Mutu Creator of Fantastic Machines - Francois Delaroziere Typographic Designers - Matthew Carter and Roger Black Industrial Designer - Tim Brown Composer - Philip Glass Director and Playwright - Robert Wilson Photographer - Sally Mann Animator - PES Kashink, Street Artist

Cartoonist - Alison Bechdel MOMA Senior Curator, - Paola Antonelli

Temple Grandin, Author and Designer STAMPS Y O U R C O M M U N I T Y / 15

“The city has the flavor of Europe, the intellectual horsepower of an Ivy League community, and an honest Midwestern spirit that is reflected in hyperactive volunteering and a boundless local food movement as intense as California’s.”

MICHELLE KRELL KYDD, Alliance for the Arts in Research Universities

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THE

Best College Town Stamps students exhibit in the heart of Ann Arbor at the Stamps Gallery, a space dedicated to their work.

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Your Curriculum

Wearable by BFA students Audrey Smith and Kalli Kouf, based on a drawing made by Witt Visiting Artist Pierre Gour.

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“ The program was perfect for me. I loved not just focusing on making alone but including conceptual thinking as an important part of the curriculum.” ELIZABETH REDMOND, BFA student

Our Open Art & Design Curriculum... → allows you to customize your education → encourages social responsibility and global citizenship → gives you experience in cross-disciplinary collaboration → emphasizes critical thinking and creative problem-solving 20 / STAMPS S E E B O O K

4 Paths

Choose

to

from

BFA, BA, Dual Degree, or Interarts Performance BFA

in Art & Design

For students interested in an intensive studio-focused program.

Stamps Studios

Academic

56%

44%

Dual Degrees with

→ College of Engineering

BA

in Art & Design

For students interested in a broader exploration of academic resources.

Stamps Studios

33%

Academic

67%

BFA in Interarts Performance* For students with interests in both performance and art and design.

→ School of Music, Theatre & Dance → School of Information → School of Kinesiology → College of Literature, Science & the Arts → School of Nursing → Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning

Stamps Studios

25% Music, Theatre & Dance Studios

Academic

50%

25%

→ Ross School of Business

*A joint program with the School of Music, Theatre & Dance.

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The First Year

Experience

The Stamps School’s approach to academic advising is a one-of-a-kind experience.

Our personal approach ensures that students can create a curricular path that is tailored

Kyle Oberleiter Shell

to their individual creative

Wood, audio

interests and long-term goals.

While Stamps freshmen are busy grounding themselves in foundational coursework, assigned advisors meet with

THE FIRST YEAR As a freshman, all of your courses (except one) are required foundation courses, both studio and academic.

FA L L

WINTER

Drawing I

Drawing II

Studio: 2D

Studio: 4D

Studio: 3D

Methods of Inquiry

Art & Design in Context

Art & Design History

University Academic Elective

Intersections

Penny Stamps Speaker Series

Penny Stamps Speaker Series

students no fewer than three times during the first year. In these meetings, advisors make sure that students understand the expectations and rigors of a U-M education, help to build influential faculty mentorships, and pave the way for strong career preparation and a productive creative practice.

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“I can’t think of another school that asks you to come up with your own responses to a problem, and then learn how to defend it in front of a group. It’s not about a right answer— there is no right answer. It’s a whole process of learning how to embrace problems, think for yourself, justify your thinking and verbally explain why you did what you did.”

MIKE WANG, Dual Degree - Engineering and Art & Design

Average class size at Stamps: 15

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Travel the Stamps students abroad in the course Photographing Paris.

World

“The Stamps International Experience provides students with the opportunity to learn new skills, teaches independence and resourcefulness, and it reminds us how much else is out there in this world.”

ELIZABETH PEARLMAN, BFA student

Stamps students in China at the Great Wall.

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“Stamps is one of the only schools I know of where International Experience is required. Becoming an artist/ designer is about altering your perspective. It's also about understanding the context of your creative work in relation to the world around you. There's no better way to learn this than immersing yourself in another culture.”

SANDRA WILEY, Director of International Engagement

Stamps students, faculty, and community members in Tanzania.

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“Part of the curriculum here at Stamps is engaging with communities, whether it be high school students in Detroit, Alzheimer's patients, or a village in Tanzania. Students go into these classes thinking they’re going to make a difference and they do. But another profound change is what happens inside, when their worlds expand.”

CHARLIE MICHAELS, Coordinator, Detroit Connections

Make a real

Difference

Creating a mural in the Brightmoor neighborhood of Detroit — part of an ongoing Stamps revitalization effort collaborating with Brightmoor schools and community organizations that began more than five years ago. The Brightmoor Maker Space at Detroit Community High opened in 2016. A Stamps community initiative, the maker space allows for even deeper connections and engagements.

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Designing cook stoves in Gabon

Stamps sudents in Gabon work with community members to build more efficient, environmentally friendly cookstoves — reducing pollution and enhancing the lives of residents.

Tackling Ebola in a three-day multi-disciplinary design workshop One team addressed the issues of improved personal protective equipment, designing a suit with panels that stretch to accommodate different sized wearers and that breathe for more comfort in the heat.

The Embrace is a large fabric panel that allows a hug between an infected and non-infected person. The panel is made of dual layers of protective material with four offset sleeves and a viewing window.

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Finding solutions for the homeless Students in the Stamps course Experimental Architecture designed and built a low-cost, 90-square-foot structure that addresses the challenges faced by a local homeless community: space constraints, access to electricity, and lack of shelter and heat.

“This wasn't simply a design class, it was a design and build class. The students really got the concept of design and reality of building it. We provided the purpose, but they provided the possibility.” TATE WILLIAMS, co-founder of the homeless community Camp Take Notice

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Exploration and social engagement is at the heart of the Stamps experience. Our students...

Man Kuan Lei Tanzania digital photography

Conduct ceramic workshops with kids who are visually impaired

Collaborate with the Maasai in Tanzania on environmentally-friendly cookstoves

Provide art workshops for Michigan prisoners

Work with students in Flint on short videos

Visit Michigan farms to learn how to design sustainable food solutions

Work on public sculptures for the Michigan metropark system

Travel to Madagascar to design and build water pumps

Work with Iraq veterans to tell stories through video

Create sustainable design solutions for an off-the-grid artist house in Detroit

Travel to Ghana to teach locals how to make charcoal from industrial waste

Build a screenprinting business with Detroit high school students

Transform an abandonded building into a community billboard

Collaborate with elders with dementia in U-M hospitals

And more…

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Senior Studios Bring together of your experiences

All

During senior year each student is given → individual studio → dedicated faculty members to help students realize their goals → one year to complete a self-directed thesis project

“Toward the end of my junior year, I started working on my Integrative Project (I.P.). I was given the opportunity to make whatever I wanted. I just put all of my effort into it. Now I realize what it takes to make the work you want. Until my senior year I felt like an art student. Now, as a senior in I.P., I feel like an artist.” ADAM MORATH, BFA student

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“During my senior year, I experienced a whole new level of confidence about myself and my work. I’ve switched from asking for permission to saying, ‘this is really what I want to do,’ and understanding that it will ultimately be my choice.”

EMILY COLEMAN, BFA student

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Your Career

Stamps School alumna Candy Chang reimagines public spaces to help us make sense of our lives. After losing someone she loved, she created the Before I Die public art project inviting people to share their personal aspirations in public space.

Since then, over 1000 Before I Die walls have been created by people in over 70 countries. Chang has also completed public projects in New Orleans, Hong Kong, Las Vegas, and New York City. Her work has been exhibited in the Venice Biennale, and the Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, and she is a TED Senior Fellow, a Tulane Urban Innovation Fellow, and a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader.

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“Networking and internships are a vital part of preparing for graduation. Career counseling starts in your first year. It’s my job to set you up and help you find your way.”

JOHN LUTHER, Career Development Coordinator

How

to

prepare

“My senior year I served as photo editor for the student-run magazine, SHEI. I worked as a designer for all three U-M student newspapers. I’ve also had internships with two firms as a designer and a photographer. I wouldn't have had these opportunities at a smaller university.” ADAM MORATH, BFA student

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“Internships were critical.

My two design internships provided me with the experience of collaboratively working on real projects for real clients. I got insights into how the industry actually functions.”

ALYSSA ACKERMAN, BFA student

Our students have interned with...

American Greetings

Nickelodeon

IDL Merchandising Solutions

Pixel/Starcom MediaVest

Ann Arbor Film Festival

Doner Advertising

Inner Concept Media Studio

Proteus Design

Anna Sui Corp.

Donghia Furniture & Textile

Interlochen Arts Camp

Publicis Hong Kong

Anthropologie

Duncan Fuller Interiors

J Walter Thompson

Saatchi and Saatchi (Taiwan)

Apple

Elle Magazine

Liz Claiborne, Inc.

San Diego Union Tribune

Arnold Worldwide

Endgame Entertainment

Mad Magazine

Superfly Presents

ArtsAlliance

Food Network Magazine

Mars Advertising

Surface Magazine

Band of Angels

Foreign Policy Magazine

Massachusetts Audubon Society

NBA

Betsey Johnson

GE Medical Systems

Moosejaw Mountaineering

The Rockport Company

Biolumina

General Motors Design Center

MTS Seating

Toledo Museum of Art

Campbell-Ewald

Giorgio Armani

MTV Networks

U-M Matthaei Botanical Gardens

Coach

Glacier National Park

MOCAD

Vogue

Conde Nast

Glamour Magazine

NBC News

Warner Music Group

Cranbrook Art Museum

Graphis

New Line Cinema

Whitney Museum of American Art

Domestic Violence Project, Inc.

Hearst Design Group

The New Museum

And more...

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80% = Stamps

students whose first jobs were related to art & design.

Hania Bigo Apollo Illustration “A series of interpretive illustrations on the Overview Effect as experienced by the astronauts of the Apollo Space Missions.”

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100% = CEOs who

cite creativity as a top hiring priority.* * a recent poll of Fortune 500 CEOs

“Studying at Stamps shaped what I wanted to do and how I wanted to do it. I learned that ultimately, you are responsible for your own ideas. And whatever your constraints, you learn to make something happen. I know I can solve a problem, match a vision, and have creative confidence.”

TORI TERZAKIS, BFA alum Floral Designer

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After

Graduation...

I’m a Senior Designer for Global Brand Design at Nike

I opened a painting studio in Detroit and sell my work at national galleries

I’m Global Director of Design at Team Detroit

I am the arts coordinator at an afterschool youth program

I started my own business in color correction for feature films I spent a year in the Peace Corps doing graphic design in Zambia I’m Director of Marketing & Operations at CCS Architecture I’m at National Geographic as an art director

My first job was with Dish Network, and recently I became a Project Manager at IPC Systems in New York.

I’m now a lead designer at Synata in San Francisco I have a position as an Interaction Designer at Huge, which means I have a great job… and I get to live in San Francisco.

I recently became VP of Operations at LUNAR I’m now the Founder & Chief Designer of Plae, a company that designs customizable children’s shoes.

I am currently a fashion photographer in New York, NY. My photos have been in Elle, Cosmo, Seventeen, Surface, and Glitterati magazines.

I created my own “art cake” business in Ann Arbor

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I’m now an Account Director at WIRED Media Network I fell in love with motorcycles, so now I’m the lead creative for Electric Moto Industries I’m interested in photography, film, and graphic design, and I’m now an art consultant with the Carrie Fell Gallery in Vail, Colorado, where I also get to ski and snowboard.

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Bianca Ng A Better Conversation With Myself Black and white ink, paper “A collection of black and white visual narratives exploring shame and vulnerability through personal memories. These typographic illustrations explore the question, ‘Why have I let these words go unsaid?’”

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Creative Work

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Sean Horner Sagas Audiovisual performance “Through coinciding sound and projected visuals, Sagas addresses ideas such as linguistic phenomena and the ultimate failure of communication.”

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Margot Robert Tier Tower

Ian McGreevy Ghostly Host

Video Games In this Stamps course students design, build, and publish their first video game for iOS, creatively interpreting the theme of a labyrinth. Each student has two weeks to design, build, test, and publish to the Apple app store. Each student is individually responsible for the art, code, and soundtrack of his/her game.

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Gina Garavalia The Wishing Stone Concept art “The Wishing Stone is an animated television series concept about family, friendship, and perseverance in the face of adversity. The project is presented as a 100+ page book containing concept art, character and environment designs, storyboards, color keys, and process sketches accompanied by description of the characters, setting, and story.”

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Lindsey Abdale The Universe in a Tree Woodblock print

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Bianca Ng A Better Conversation With Myself Black ink, paper

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Emma Covode

“Floppy Phallics investigates the

Floppy Phallics

connections between western norms of

Silicone

masculinity and the design of firearms.”

Jacob Saphier Twelve Knives Hand-made knives

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Nikki Horowitz Personal Projections Multimedia installation “In Personal Projections, students from the School of Music, Theatre & Dance interact with LCD projections in short video vignettes of personal memories.”

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Allison Carron Impact Performance “An exploration of the body, focused on themes of sin, guilt, punishment, and atonement. For this performance I was blindfolded, wearing all white in an all white space. I offered a bag of black chalk to members of the audience who threw the bag at me leaving black residue on my clothes, the floor, and the wall, mimicking bruises. After the bag hit and fell I would then search for it (still blindfolded). Once the bag was found I would return it to an audience member and the exchange would be repeated over and over again.”

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Danielle Battaglia Quintessence: Visualizing a Torodial Universe 3D model “An attempt to discover the great order of all things. Studying the theories of Plato, Stephen Hawking, Einstein, and others on subjects such as black holes, white holes, wormholes, sacred geometry, Klein surfaces, physics, higher dimensions, and space-time, I have come up with a form that could be the basic design of our universe: a torus. To visualize this concept I installed this 3D model in the MIDEN, a 3D virtual space where one can experience the model on a new level, by moving through the space in three dimensions.”

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Gabrielle DeCaro Forget Your Kitten Performance “Forget Your Kitten is a variety show offering a sanguine blend of stories, dance sequences, and hi-def female friendships. Written, directed and performed by Gabrielle DeCaro, featuring an all-female cast of queens.”

Zoe Andersen The Little Luminary Short film

Kevin Dunnell Plywood, laminate CAD skills were used to design and cut parts for this laminated plywood table.

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Joshua Kochis Tree Story Wood, plaster, steel, acrylic and oil paint on canvas

Carisa Bledsoe Can I Get In Your Head?

Performance “Part of a site-specific mini series looking at intersections of identities and perspectives.”

Raj Brueggemann The World is Ours Short animated film “The World is Ours examines the dynamic of individuals living through their own separate realities, and how this condition affects some of the closest-knit relationships in our lives. By chronicling the journey of a mother both balancing her children's worlds and dealing with her own reality, I intend to use the lens of fantasy to explore empathy, commitment, and isolation in new ways.”

Hannah Hillier Everything Will Be Okay Multimedia installation “When my father died two years ago, many people didn't seem to know what to say to me. I had the urge to show them what I wanted to hear.”

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Jaclyn Caris Let’s Cross Over App for iOS and Android “A book and an app that was inspired by my study abroad in Florence, Italy. The book is a travel guide and journal meant for other study abroad students to use while traveling in Florence. The app is for travelers anywhere in the world and allows users to document all their trips through journal entries and pictures.”

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Caili Dalian What do you Clutch Hand-made clutch purses “I have created a series of clutch purses inspired by conversations with women of different ages.

Each pattern and form is inspired by their responses to the question, ‘At this age, what do you clutch?’”

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Sonia Tagari Corporeal Multi-media installation “Corporeal is an investigation of self through medical records and diagnostic imaging.”

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Stephanie Casing Finding beauty in an ugly situation: A series of works assuaging my fear of illness in loved ones Paper, photography

“Brain scans and transmission electron micrograph images lend themselves to beautiful possibilities. These works are my attempt to come to terms with the possibility of illness in my family and friends.”

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Hye In Jung A&D/Abroad

A&D/Abroad is a redesign of the visual communication system

Visual identity system

for the Stamps School International Experience program.

Emily Thomas veg out Ink, digital, and plantable seed paper “A collection of illustrated plantable seed paper recipe postcards which aim to de-stigmatize vegan and gluten-free dietary lifestyles.”

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Samantha Levy Biophilia Screenprints “A series of screenprinted zines and prints to gratify human beings’ fascination with the strange, humorous, unbelievable, or grotesque.

The project emulates feelings surrounding the Age of Exploration — everyone rushing to expose the next great species, to reveal something to the public that they had never seen.”

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Nicole Cischke

The World Below is

The World Below

influenced by Filipino

2D video game

mythology and folklore.

Raj Brueggemann Punk Science Character design and illustration series

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Stephanie O'Neil Discover the Epigenome: An Illustrative Display of Molecular Epigenetics “A visualization of the tissue environment altering due to the growth of cancer cells using 3D printed sculptures and scientific illustration.”

Anica Presley Impetus Digital and photolithographic prints

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Cornelia Stiles Nature By Numbers Pen and ink “The Fibonacci sequence is a series of numbers found in nature. Each drawing uses the sequence to celebrate the beauty of these natural patterns.”

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Alison Blomstrom Studio photography

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Carlo Lorenzetti Chair Plywood

Sophia Greenbaum Spilt Milk!

3D printing Diane Thach

Package and product design for a milk

Dress

container with reusable udder cup.

Paper receipts, shoe laces, ribbon “I was working at a cafe where we were required to print out receipts for the customers, who then threw them away.

I hated how wasteful that was and decided to use them to make a dress, turning the waste into something both useful/functional, and beautiful.”

Alice Bouvier McCarthy The Definitive Guide to Typotopia 48-page hardcover illustrated book “This book serves as a travelogue to the fictional country of Typotopia, an island populated entirely by letters.”

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Constanza McKinstry The Inside Counts Sculptural objects “The Inside Counts is an installation that consists of sculptural objects and photographs that explore my symbiotic relationship with Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome.”

Margaret Hitch TEDx U of M 2014 poster design

Ian Klipa Project Ultima (community fabrication) Workshop, video, 3D work “An extracurricular welding workshop in Detroit, inspired by my experiences with the ‘making’ culture of Zanzibar, led to my I.P. project.”

Rachael Cross ArtBot Arduino, charcoal A motion and light-activated robot that creates charcoal drawings.

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Andrew Fuller Legal Private Killer Volume One Comic book/graphic narrative

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Mary Sterling Rountree False Facades and Adulteress Sterling silver, fine silver, enamel

Hanna Sakakibara Trust Me Stainless steel, carbon steel, wood

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Penn Greene Negotiating Balance Cedar, fiberglass “The design and construction of a small, versatile kayak intended for a user wanting to travel as light as possible for long periods of time. It is a negotiation of two highly dynamic elements – the human body and moving water.”

Paul DiStefano Whirling Dynamics Charcoal “The goal of these works is to show a different rhythm in each piece, while being aware of the harmony that the drawings create as a series. When people view my drawings I want them to see how rhythm can be created in the world other than through a song.”

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Jessica French Mythological Birds Digital prints on photo paper

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Shaili Das Cement cast components combine with wood to create gardens.

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Shadowland Multimedia video Students in a Stamps foundation course design a shadow theater in the video studio that uses three stages with interactive lens-based materials, color, and form.

Becca Garber Testaments To Practice Ceramics

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Dillon Irwin

“Pulling from the traditions of globally distinct tattoo cultures, this set of

Shadows of a Sighting

‘flash’ uses ink on paper to illuminate the limitations imposed on creative

Ink on paper

expression by the culturally constructed definitions of artwork.”

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Emerson Schreiner Just Before Oil on canvas

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Alicia Kolvacheck Anatomy Laser-cut wood “Anatomy is a puzzle and learning tool for all ages. For children, it offers the chance to develop hands-on understanding of how our bodies work. For adults, it makes a fun gift.”

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Emma Berger Drop the Needle Intaglio, woodblock, ink, and watercolor “These etchings expand on the existing culture of screen-printed gig posters. The prints are signed by the bands and auctioned off to support Brandi Carlile’s Looking Out Foundation and Charity: Water.”

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Morgan Nelson SPAM Digital collage and print “Celebrities are objects for our blind consumption.”

Elizabeth Fine Extremities Oil, tempera, house paint, salt

Melania Plasko Infinity Cloak Wearable

Hannah Dow Temp Tools Biodegradable camping tools, composite materials, regional flower seeds

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Grace Ludmer The Girls I Draw Mixed media

Ian Matchett From the Continuity of Revolution

Oil on canvas “My project focuses on continuity and connection between revolutionary movements by looking at how organizers and radicals of the past relate to those of the present. When the past is forgotten, or remembered only as a distorted caricature, our ability to unify and act in the present is crippled.”

Natalie Schwartz Girls Without Pearls Oil on canvas

Levester Williams Space of Whiteness Arduino, porcelain, wire, and wood “An installation deconstructing the notion of a post-racial and equal American society through the exploration of whiteness in its physical and psychological forms.”

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Erin Murray Face Necklace Ceramic and silver

Erin Murray Baby Teapot Porcelain

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Samantha Machover Apes Acrylic, brayer on paper A series of acrylic paintings illustrating the primates at Virunga National Park in Congo.

Zack Moscot 5G Individualized Eyewear Wood, vaneer, 3D printing “The project uses handcrafted and digital fabrication techniques to generate ergonomically designed frames using consumers’ individual facial and head measurements. With a balance of hand and digital craft, 5G Individualized Eyewear uses Individual Parametric Measurements (IPM) to create frames designed to fit each person.”

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Collin Fulton video studio performance

Dressing Up and Down Each student in this course received a Snuggie. The assignment: to come up with 10 ideas for how to alter the Snuggie into a wearable sculpture.

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Bianca Ng

Angel Shen

Letter Forming – a Stamps foundation course.

The assignment: to recreate a specific letter ten different ways using found materials and objects.

Katie King

Ji Yoon Lee

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Ronan Lynam Duck & Friends Digital prints “A series of personified animal portraits satirizing our narcissistic fascination with human portraiture.”

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Corinn Lewis Camp Take Notice Branding system “Camp Take Notice (CTN) is a democratically self-governing community of homeless people in Ann Arbor. It was important to me to create a visual language that Camp Take Notice could use to tell its story. I was inspired by Ghanaian Adinkra symbols and Hobo symbols from the early 1900s.”

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“ I looked at other art schools, but they often seemed narrow. There’s not much else you can take besides art classes. I liked being at U-M and being able to pursue my interests in literature and the sciences as well.” BEN SCHNEIDER, BFA student 88 / STAMPS A P P LY N O W !

Illustration by BFA student Hania Bigo - Apollo

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