The Stamps MFA in Art

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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. 1


M EXPANDING THE

F REACH OF

A CREATIVE WORK

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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 3


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 A T 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 power STAMPS FULL -TIME FACULTY

of mentorship OF ARTISTS AND SCHOLARS

and strategic HELP SHAPE THE PROGRAM

career planning

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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. B E C AU S E C L O S E W O R K I N G R E L AT I O N S H I P S

In addition to their creative studies, each

with faculty are a key component of graduate

graduate student participates in a strategic

study at Stamps, applicants are asked to

planning process for post graduation,

identify three Stamps faculty members who

developing an individualized career

they feel would potentially be suitable mentors

trajectory with financial support available

and advisors during their course of study.

for transitional professional opportunities.

Photo by James Rotz (MFA ‘14)

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Spacious IN FACULTY / GRADUATE

Individual STUDIO BUILDING

Studios 1919 GREEN RD, ANN ARBOR

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. A T S T A M P S , G R A D U A T 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)

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International EACH STUDENT

Travel & CONDUCTS A SELF-DIRECTED

Study INTERNATIONAL PROJECT

Photo by Peter Leix (MFA ‘14)

S TA M P S R E C O G N I Z E S T H AT C R E AT I V E PR AC T IC 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.

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Generous STIPENDS

Financial ASSISTANTSHIPS

Support TUITION WAIVERS

T H E S TA M P S S C HO OL OF F E R S G E N E ROU 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 Photo by James Rotz (MFA ‘14)

teaching and arts management.

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Stamps STAMPS DISTINGUISHED

Visiting SPEAKER SERIES

Artists 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.

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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 Ernesto Neto, Installation Artist Anthropodino, photo by Senior James Ewing Paola Antonelli, Curator, MOMA

Painter Alexis Rockman Sculptor Nick Cave

Photo by James Rotz (MFA ‘14)

Temple Grandin, Author and Designer

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Faculty MENTORS

Research ROLE MODELS

Interests COLLABORATORS

Are Vast

Heidi Kumao Wins Best Experimental Film at Female Eye Festival

Heidi Kumao

S T A M P S FA C U L T 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

•  women’s criminalization and censorship

•  art and commerce

•  performing arts and contemporary media

•  audio narrative

•  the body as screen

•  mixed race identity politics

•  reproductive technology

•  art and early childhood development

•  sustainable communities

•  african american history, culture and representation

•  rapid prototyping technologies

•  hybridized narratives and memory

and more...

•  displacement, migration and alienation 13


A S A M P L I N G O F FA C U L T Y W O R K R E C E N T

Faculty Accomplishments

Pulitzer Prize Winner David Turnley Chosen as Best New Filmmaker

Phoebe Gloeckner’s Diary of a Teenage Girl Becomes Major Motion Picture

Anne Mondro: Artist in Residence at the Icelandic Textile Center

Matt Kenyon Selected as TED Fellow

Nick Tobier Awarded National Endowment for the Arts Grant

David Chung’s Drawing 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

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)

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Small School ACCESS TO UNPARALLELED

Big University RESOURCES AND FACILITIES

Artwork by Siyang Chen (MFA ‘13)

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YO U ' L L H AV E

YOU'LL

Access

Collaborate

TO…

WITH…

world-class studios

engineers

2 Stamps School galleries

filmmakers

radiology lab

dancers

state of the art digital media labs

climatologists

multi-camera HD video studios

architects

robotics institute

astrophysicists

virtual reality cave

playwrights

3D printers, routers, and scanners

urban planners

physical computing studio

musicians

materials library

art historians

computer and video game archive

public policy makers

nanotechnology institute

journalists

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

microbiologists

You

nanotechnology researchers  anthropologists  curators   sound engineers   social workers  chemists  ecologists  neuroscientists  botanists   information architects   data analysts   cancer researchers  egyptologists  poets   forensic scientists

dance studios

screenwriters

Gamelan ensemble

entrepreneurs

1.7 million plants in the Herbarium  marine hydrodynamics lab

and more…

public health experts   3D modeling experts

and more… 16


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The

Best College Town Stamps graduate students curate and exhibit in the heart of Ann Arbor at Work Gallery.

Photo by James Rotz (MFA ‘14)

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Student YOU’LL STUDY ALONGSIDE

Work TALENTED CREATIVES

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.

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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 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.

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)

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Meghan Reynard (MFA ‘12)

Investigating the experiences of daylight, latitude and time, and how the

One Year Daylight: Ann Arbor

daylight phenomenon can be perceived outside of conventional constraints.


Mike Bianco Hive

(MFA ‘15)

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.

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Cameron Van Dyke (MFA ‘15)

At the intersection of engineering, urban planning, and art and design,

Future Cycles

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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Cosmo Whyte (MFA ‘15)

Taken in its entirety, the show seeks to ask the following question: can one

Wake the Town and Tell the People

form a sense of self, while not owning or being owned by one place?

In 2015, Cosmo received the International Sculpture Center’s Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award and a Vermont Studio Center Fellowship. 27


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. 29


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 roleplay, 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 Natasa Prljevic (MFA ‘15)

Installation by Juliet Hinely (MFA ‘14)

Artwork by Siyang Chen (MFA ‘13)

Artwork by Joshua Nierodzinski (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 Degree Requirements MFA students complete 15 credits of coursework per semester for a total of 60 credits at the completion of the two-year program.

Summary → 30 CR EDITS – DIR ECTED STU DIO COU R SES 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 CR EDITS – ELECTI V E COU R SES TH E CU R R ICU LU M IS DE SIGN ED TO

Students choose elective courses to meet their

accommodate a range of art practices,

individual MFA curriculum goals: they can pursue

and combines studio-based inquiry with

additional studio courses to emphasize “making”

more scholarly, research-focused work.

and studio practice, or select academic courses to achieve a hybrid “maker/scholar” focus.

→ 1 2 CR EDITS – SEMINA 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. DIR ECTED STU DIO ELECTIVES

MFA students are required to participate in an

SEMINARS

approved international project. Stamps supports a

HISTORY / TH EORY / CR ITICISM

three- to five-week international experience for all

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→ 3 C R E DI T S – I N T E R N AT ION A L PRO J E C T

graduate students during the summer between their first and second year.


→ Apply Now

stamps.umich.edu/mfa-apply

MFA Program Attributes:

Successful applicants will:

•  Opportunity to strengthen linkages between art practice and other fields of inquiry

•  Hold a bachelor’s degree in art or related field

•  Access to resources only available at a   top-tier research university

•  Have a strong portfolio of creative work and a record of exhibitions •  Demonstrate an interest in interdisciplinary inquiry

•  Generous funding packages (partial to full) •  Project support including annual stipends and grant opportunities

•  Have substantive life experience to draw on in charting new directions for creative practice

•  Integration of creative work and research

•  Identify faculty at Stamps and within the University with whom to work

•  Mentorship by faculty from the School and from U-M in fields beyond art

•  Be prepared for intensive, focused creative inquiry and production

•  Supported international travel and research

F OL L OW US ON:

•  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

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