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Juliet Hinely (MFA ‘14)
Per Mr. Handy
Per Mr. Handy is a site-specific audio-walk and
performance installation in the Jam Handy Building,
now abandoned but once a prolific movie studio
in Detroit’s heyday. Juliet’s research included
work with Dance, Urban Planning, and Museum
Studies, as well as an audio documentary course
at the Duke Center for Documentary Studies.
T H E S TA M P S M FA
Transdisciplinary,
Faculty Mentored,
Scholarly & Studio-focused
Installation by Collin McRae (MFA ‘12) Photo by Brad Smith
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Current art practice is alive with synergies. The arena of creative work is expanding —responding to, integrating with, and inquiring into increasingly diverse fields, from Egyptology to theories of dark matter.
T H E T W O -Y E A R M FA C U R R I C U L U M AT T H E S T A M P S S C H O O L
is designed to support this momentum, and is ideal for artists
with an active engagement with one or more fields of knowledge
in addition to art. Graduate students are provided with direct
access to the unparalleled range of researchers, collaborators,
and fields of study available only at a top-tier university.
The Stamps MFA integrates creative work with academic
research, international study with regional community engagement,
and theoretical grounding with skills development, creating a
dynamic blend of both scholarly and studio-focused work.
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The powerS T A M P S F U L L - T I M E F A C U L T Y
of mentorshipO F A R T I S T S A N D S C H O L A R S
and strategicH E L P S H A P E T H E P R O G R A M
career planning
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B E C AU S E C L O S E WO R K I N G R E L AT I O N S H I P S
with faculty are a key component of graduate
study at Stamps, applicants are asked to
identify three Stamps faculty members who
they feel would potentially be suitable mentors
and advisors during their course of study.
In addition to their creative studies, each
graduate student participates in a strategic
planning process for post graduation,
developing an individualized career
trajectory with financial support available
for transitional professional opportunities.
Throughout the two-year program,our full-time faculty of artists and scholars work closely with students to shape an intellectually-rigorous program of study, individually suited to each candidate’s areas of interests and talents.
Photo by James Rotz (MFA ‘14) 6
Students conduct their creative work in spacious, fully equipped studios in a 33,000 square-foot space that also houses faculty studios, a multi-purpose shop, digital media equipment, and large shared working and meeting spaces.
AT S T A M P S , G R A D U AT E S T U D E N T S A L S O H AV E
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 and
collections, botanical gardens, and much more.
Photo by James Rotz (MFA ‘14)
SpaciousI N F A C U L T Y / G R A D U A T E
IndividualS T U D I O B U I L D I N G
Studios1 9 1 9 G R E E N R D , A N N A R B O R
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S T A M P S R E C O G N I Z E S T H AT C R E AT I V E P R A C T I C E
is now global in its scope and impact. With funding
support from the School, each student conducts a
self-directed international project. Past graduates’
international research has ranged from researching
the residual effects of colonialism in South Africa; to
conducting sound recordings in Egypt’s museums,
tombs and temples; to travel to Prague to participate in
a two-month residency at the MeetFactory International
Center of Contemporary Art.
InternationalE A C H S T U D E N T
Travel &C O N D U C T S A S E L F - D I R E C T E D
StudyI N T E R N A T I O N A L P R O J E C T
Photo by Peter Leix (MFA ‘14)
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T H E S T A M P S S C H O O L O F F E R S G E N E R O U S
merit-based financial support to all graduate
students, from stipends and discretionary
funds that offset studio expenses and
International travel to teaching/research
assistantships and full tuition waivers. Financial
awards are held throughout both years of
study and enable focused creative work as
well as opportunities to gain experience in
teaching and arts management.
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GenerousS T I P E N D S
FinancialA S S I S T A N T S H I P S
SupportT U I T I O N W A I V E R S
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During the academic year, students have direct access to the wide array of creative innovators who are part of the Stamps Distinguished Speaker Series and the Witt Visitors Program. Visiting artists and lecturers meet with graduate students for individual studio visits.
StampsS T A M P S D I S T I N G U I S H E D
VisitingS P E A K E R S E R I E S
Artists
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PA S T V I S I T O R S H AV E I N C L U D E D :
Director and Playwright Robert Wilson
Brazilian Installation Artist Ernesto Neto
Photographer Mary Ellen Mark
Composer Philip Glass
Interaction Designer Massimo Banzi
Multimedia Artist Janine Antoni
Fashion Designer Zandra Rhodes
Perfumier Sissel Tolaas
Graphic Designer Stefan Sagmeister
Sculptor Antony Gormley
Dancer and Choreographer Bill T. Jones
Video and Photographic Artist Mariko Mori
Painter and Collagist Wangechi Mutu
Installation Artist Mary Sibande
Painter Alexis Rockman
Sculptor Nick CavePaola Antonelli, Senior Curator, MOMA
Temple Grandin, Author and Designer
Ernesto Neto, Installation ArtistAnthropodino, photo by James Ewing
Ph
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Ja
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FA
‘14)
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S T A M P S FA C U LT Y R E S E A R C H I N T E R E S T S I N C L U D E :
• performative technologies
• art and commerce
• audio narrative
• mixed race identity politics
• art and early childhood development
• african american history, culture and representation
• hybridized narratives and memory
• displacement, migration and alienation
• women’s criminalization and censorship
• performing arts and contemporary media
• the body as screen
• reproductive technology
• sustainable communities
• rapid prototyping technologies
and more...
Heidi Kumao
Heidi Kumao WinsBest Experimental Film at Female Eye Festival
FacultyM E N T O R S
ResearchR O L E M O D E L S
InterestsC O L L A B O R A T O R S
Are Vast
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Pulitzer Prize Winner David Turnley Chosen as BestNew Filmmaker
David Chung’s Drawing Placed in Whitney Permanent Collection
Matt Kenyon Selected as TED Fellow
Phoebe Gloeckner’s Diary of a Teenage Girl Becomes Major Motion Picture
Anne Mondro: Artist in Residence at the Icelandic Textile Center
Nick Tobier Awarded National Endowment for the Arts Grant
Endi Poskovic Awarded U.S.Senior Fulbright Scholar Grant
Holly Hughes Wins Award for Performanceand Activism
Read more Stamps faculty news at: stamps.umich.edu/news
There’s such a range of expertise among the faculty
here. I was able to find faculty who mentored me and
helped me define the perfect creative practice linked
by sound, history and performance art.
Juliet Hinely (MFA ‘14)
A S A M P L I N G O F FA C U LT Y W O R K R E C E N T
Faculty Accomplishments
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Small SchoolA C C E S S T O U N P A R A L L E L E D
Big UniversityR E S O U R C E S A N D F A C I L I T I E S
Artwork by Siyang Chen (MFA ‘13)
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and more… and more…
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
world-class studios
2 Stamps School galleries
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
nanotechnology 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
You
Access T O …
CollaborateW I T H …
Y O U ' L L H A V E Y O U ' L L
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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
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Stamps graduate students curate and exhibit in the heart
of Ann Arbor at Work Gallery.
Photo by James Rotz (MFA ‘14)
TheBest
College Town
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College Towns in America”Z O O M T E N S . C O M • 2 0 1 4
#2“Best Cities forYoung Adults”
K I P L I N G E R • 2 0 1 3
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G O V E R N I N G . C O M • 2 0 1 3
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in America”T H E D A I LY B E A S T • 2 0 1 2
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L I VA B I L I T Y • 2 0 1 4
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F O R B E S . C O M • 2 0 1 4
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Well-Being”U S A T O D AY A N D G A L L U P • 2 0 1 4
Ann Arbor and BeyondAnn Arbor is consistently ranked one of America’s best
college towns, offering a rich cultural and intellectual life and
a vibrant sense of community. Students also benefit from the
urban energy and collaborative opportunities of a creative
corridor extending from Toronto, through Detroit, to Chicago.
NumbersAnn Arbor
by the
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#1“Most desirable city to live
and work for millenials” AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH • 2015
#17“Times Higher Education
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New GradsK I P L I N G E R • 2 0 1 3
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to Find a Job”U S N E W S • 2 0 1 2
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in Communities with 100,000+ Residents”
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#4“Best College Townsfor Food and Drink”
T H R I L L I S T • 2 0 1 5
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Amanda Lilleston (MFA ‘13)
Animal
Amanda spent hours each day in the anatomy
lab to research this series of woodblock print
collages that investigate what keeps us alive.
These fantastical forms are human parts—
susceptible to gravity, discomfort, decay,
growth, and adaptation.
StudentY O U ’ L L S T U D Y A L O N G S I D E
WorkT A L E N T E D C R E A T I V E S
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When I applied, my practice
was largely influenced by
future technologies and
biological imagery. I knew
I needed to make work
that was more directly
informed by what was
going on in the scientific
community, and to do that I
had to immerse myself in a
research lab. The University
of Michigan is renowned for
its scientific research.
Jessica Joy London (MFA ‘13)
Jessica Joy London (MFA ‘13)
Phenomena
Each painting is an artifact of chance,
conscious decision-making, fixed laws
of natural phenomena (evaporation,
surface tension, capillary action), and
its surrounding environment.
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Meghan Reynard (MFA ‘12)
One Year Daylight: Ann ArborInvestigating the experiences of daylight, latitude and time, and how the
daylight phenomenon can be perceived outside of conventional constraints.
Mike Bianco (MFA ‘15)
Hive
Hive examines issues of sustainability and environmental and social justice,
with a focus on honeybees. Mike is pursuing his PhD at SymbioticA, the
art and biology research lab at the University of Western Australia, where
he has been awarded a prestigious Australian Postgraduate Award. 24
Cameron Van Dyke (MFA ‘15)
Future Cycles
At the intersection of engineering, urban planning, and art and design,
this project presents three vehicles that challenge American car culture to
consider the use of human power and alternative energy options.
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Ann Bartges (MFA ‘14)
Holding Still
Working with the School of Music, Theater
and Dance, Holding Still uses video
projection and live performance to explore
relationships among memory, photography,
time, representation, self, and image.
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In 2015, Cosmo received the International Sculpture Center’s
Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture
Award and a Vermont Studio Center Fellowship.
Taken in its entirety, the show seeks to ask the following question: can one
form a sense of self, while not owning or being owned by one place?
Cosmo Whyte (MFA ‘15)
Wake the Town and Tell the People
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Mary Ayling (MFA ‘15)
Breathing Room
Questions of how fragile forms show
their strength and how seemingly
solid structures buckle arise in this
exploration of negotiating our own
private and shared spaces.
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Emilia Javanica (MFA ‘13)
Red Blob Massacre
Maddy Blitz is a young woman with
horrendous-looking teeth. Maddy’s nightmares
about not fitting in clump together to form a
giant RED BLOB that confronts her tormenters.
A silent horror film and live performance.
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Charles Fairbanks (MFA ‘10)
Charles is a filmmaker and wrestler whose
work focuses on Lucha Libre in Mexico. He
fights as the One-Eyed Cat with a camera
built into his mask. Recently, Charles was
selected by Werner Herzog for the first
Rogue Film School. In 2012 he received a
Guggenheim Fellowship in the Creative
Arts Film and Video category based on his
work while a graduate student at Stamps.
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Parisa Ghaderi (MFA ‘14)
Only an Inch Away
Using research in American Culture,
Social Work and Public Health, Parisa
uses video and audio installation, prints,
and cinemagraphs to speak about
holding onto memories of people when
they leave, momentarily or forever.
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Molly Dierks
(MFA ‘14)
home/Body
The sculptures in
home/Body deal with
the mother-daughter
bond, gendered role-
play, and self and body,
drawing on personal
experiences, memory,
and feminist theory.
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Artwork by Siyang Chen (MFA ‘13)
Artwork by Math Monahan (MFA ‘15)
Artwork by Katie St. Clair (MFA ‘14)
Artwork by Carolyn Clayton (MFA ‘16)Paintings by Jon Verney (MFA ‘16)
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Artwork by Siyang Chen (MFA ‘13)
Artwork by Joshua Nierodzinski (MFA ‘15)
Installation by Juliet Hinely (MFA ‘14)
Artwork by Natasa Prljevic (MFA ‘15)
Photo by Alex Mandrilla
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Trevor King (MFA ‘15)
Listener
A contemplative installation including
ceramics, installation, video, sound,
photography, and sculpture, Listener
encourages sensory consideration of
the human being as a vessel.
In 2015, Trevor received the International
Sculpture Center’s Outstanding Student
Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award.
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Alisha Wessler (MFA ‘13)
Often working with hundreds of
individual objects in display cases,
Alisha Wessler’s work explores the
possibilities of sculpture through
installation. Following the completion of
her MFA in 2013, Alisha interned at the
Drawing Center as a project manager.
Her work was featured in an exhibition
of emerging sculptors at the Meier
Gardens & Sculpture Park in 2014, and
she was selected for a 2015 artist's
residency at Wave Hill in New York City.
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MFA students complete 15 credits of coursework per semester for a total of 60 credits at the completion of the two-year program.
T H E C U R R I C U L U M I S D E S I G N E D T O
accommodate a range of art practices,
and combines studio-based inquiry with
more scholarly, research-focused work.
D I R E C T E D S T U D I O
E L E C T I V E S
S E M I N A R S
H I S T O R Y / T H E O R Y / C R I T I C I S M
I N T E R N AT I O N A L P R O J E C T
Summary
3 0 C R E D I T S – D I R E C T E D S T U D I O C O U R S E S
Directed studios are the core of the MFA program.
Each semester, students engage in at least six
credit hours of intense exploration, research,
production, and critique of their individual creative
work, in close collaboration with their Stamps
faculty advisors and peers.
9 C R E D I T S – E L E C T I V E C O U R S E S
Students choose elective courses to meet their
individual MFA curriculum goals: they can pursue
additional studio courses to emphasize “making”
and studio practice, or select academic courses to
achieve a hybrid “maker/scholar” focus.
1 2 C R E D I T S – S E M I N A R S
Every semester, students participate in graduate
seminars, including seminars in “Research
Methods”, “Professional Practice”, and other topics
related to contemporary art practice.
6 C R E D I T S – H I S T O R Y/ T H E O R Y/C R I T I C I S M
MFA students take six credits of History/Theory/
Criticism, choosing courses to support their field of
inquiry. These classes may be offered by Stamps,
History of Art, or other units across the University.
3 C R E D I T S – I N T E R N AT I O N A L P R O J E C T
MFA students are required to participate in an
approved international project. Stamps supports a
three- to five-week international experience for all
graduate students during the summer between their
first and second year.
MFA Degree Requirements
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MFA Program Attributes:
• Opportunity to strengthen linkages between art practice and other fields of inquiry
• Access to resources only available at a top-tier research university
• Generous funding packages (partial to full)
• Project support including annual stipends and grant opportunities
• Integration of creative work and research
• Mentorship by faculty from the School and from U-M in fields beyond art
• Supported international travel and research
• Individual studios in Faculty/Graduate facility
• Direct involvement with visiting artists who come each week as part of the Stamps Speaker Series, and each year as Witt Fellows
• Strategic, individualized professional development and post graduate transition funding
Successfulapplicants will:
• Hold a bachelor’s degree in art or related field
• Have a strong portfolio of creative work and a record of exhibitions
• Demonstrate an interest in interdisciplinary inquiry
• Have substantive life experience to draw on in charting new directions for creative practice
• Identify faculty at Stamps and within the University with whom to work
• Be prepared for intensive, focused creative inquiry and production
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Editor
Kate West
MFA Program Director
David Chung
Art Direction & Design
Carl Greene