Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design

  1. April 11, 2025

    Arts Initiative announces 2025 Creative Careers Residents

    The U-M Arts Initiative has announced the 2025 cohort of its Creative Careers Residency — a pioneering transitional program designed to support emerging creatives.

  2. April 7, 2025

    Campus briefs

    Short news items from around the University of Michigan.

  3. April 3, 2025

    Associate professor finalist for teaching award, $250k

    Melissa Gross, an associate professor in the School of Kinesiology and Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design, is a finalist for Baylor University’s 2026 Robert Foster Cherry Award for Great Teaching.

  4. March 28, 2025

    Bridging art and medicine: A transformative RISE journey

    Through the RISE Innovator Development Program, Courtney Burns, a medical student working in the Department of Anesthesiology, pursued a project aimed at acknowledging emotional distress.

  5. February 3, 2025

    Stamps helped Sandra Wiley see herself as an artist

    Sandra Wiley, director of international study programs at the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design, has been knitting since she was a child and creates all her own clothes.

  6. November 18, 2024

    New mural helps people visualize the concussion experience

    The Concussion Center at the School of Kinesiology is using visual art to capture the experiences of concussion patients.

  7. November 14, 2024

    How Native art forms sustain amid vanishing resources

    New and existing works by fifth- and sixth-generation Indigenous basket weavers are on display at the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design’s Stamps Gallery through Dec. 15.

  8. October 9, 2024

    Semester of ‘Gender Euphoria’ celebrates diversity through art at U-M

    The Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design is presenting a semester-long celebration featuring queer artists and artmaking around the theme of “Gender Euphoria.”

  9. October 1, 2024

    Culture of student voting fostered by design at U‑M

    Through the Creative Campus Voting Project, U-M has incorporated design thinking informed by behavioral insights to develop voting spaces for students.

  10. September 16, 2024

    Stamps professor seeks to create inspiring ‘interruptions’

    Nick Tobier, professor of art and design in the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design, aims to create art that brings about pleasant pauses in people’s otherwise methodical paths.