Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design

  1. February 7, 2022

    Stamps professor’s homemade table becomes much more

    Roland Graf made a simple table made of seven planks of untreated pine around which his family gathered for a retirement celebration in 2006.

  2. January 31, 2022

    Project tackles issues of fair representation in arts and data

    A team of U-M researchers is using popular face-detection algorithms designed to distinguish a variety of factors — including gender and race — to analyze the entire collection at the U-M Museum of Art.

  3. October 11, 2021

    Stamps lecturer puts love of art, skateboarding on display

    David Flaugher, a lecturer I in the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design, at one time considered a career as a professional skateboarder. He instead pursued a career teaching and creating art.

  4. September 13, 2021

    Advisory committee named in search for Stamps School dean

    Provost Susan M. Collins has appointed a 13-member advisory committee in the search for the next dean of the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design to succeed Guna Nadarajan.

  5. August 30, 2021

    Schools and colleges preparing for more traditional fall semester

    The Record asked schools and colleges to share some aspect of the coming year they’d like to highlight, within the context of moving on after the pandemic’s restrictions.

  6. June 22, 2021

    Stamps Gallery reopening to public in limited capacity

    Stamps Gallery will welcome pub­lic audi­ences to visit the gallery in a lim­ited capac­ity start­ing June 25. The gallery will be open three days each week: from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tues­days, Fri­days and Sat­ur­days.

  7. June 9, 2021

    Arts Initiative announces demonstration projects launching this fall

    U-M’s Arts Initiative continues to move forward exploring new models for students, faculty and staff to work within the arts with new demonstration projects set to launch this fall.

  8. May 27, 2021

    From Michigan to Ghana: Designing for generative justice

    A class in the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design explores what it means to build — and keep — value in a community through projects that demonstrate the concept of “generative justice.”

  9. April 25, 2021

    Mural by Stamps alumnae, students honors class of 2021

    Students from the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design, led by Stamps alumnae, created a chalk paint mural in front of the Rackham Graduate School to honor the Class of 2021.

  10. March 22, 2021

    Anti-racism faculty hiring moves forward

    Eight new U-M faculty positions have been selected for funding in the first round of the Anti-Racism Faculty Hiring Initiative, a three-year effort that will add at least 20 new tenured or tenure-track faculty members.