2025 marks 10 years of the Grand on River Building in its current iteration as a multi-purpose venue for art studios, gallery, events, living space, and now, wine bar. Join the resident artists in celebrating this decennial. The studios will be open for viewing, along with a pop-up market in the Vesper Books & Wine portion of the building.

Invite Me In situates the viewer at a domestic boundary where interior and exterior blur. Through layered textiles and installation, the exhibition explores craft traditions from the artist’s Armenian culture alongside contemporary surveillance and security practices. Protective motifs, disrupted patterns, and veiled imagery represent a search for grounded reality amidst an assault of misinformation and mass-surveillance.

Opening Reception: Friday, September 5, 5-8pm
Closing: Sunday, September 14, 2-5pm
Where: Sometimes Space, 306 W. Cross St, Ypsilanti, MI
Street parking is available on Cross Street and side streets. 
Please enter through the gate.

I will be showing a new installation, Invite Me In, at Newlab for this event.
Art Fair | Detroit is a three-day event showcasing contemporary affordable works ranging from emerging to mid-career artists, making it accessible to the general public.

Join the artists at the Grand on River building for an open studio visit on Saturday, Sept. 21st from 2-6pm.

Shop handmade objects, see works in progress, and enjoy refreshments.

Grand on River is located at 5001 Grand River Ave, Detroit, MI. There is zero step entry into the building, and 1-3 steps to various studios in the building including the bathroom. Free parking on 17th Street off of Warren.

My installation Watching You Watch Me will be on display, and I’ll give a short artist talk during the reception.

WHEN
Thursday, April 21, 2022
4:30 – 5:45 pm

WHERE
Virtual Event

DETAILS
Lecture / Discussion
Open to the public
Free of charge

RSVP REQUIRED

Join us for our second annual virtual celebration of Earth Day, as we host our next installment of Stamps @ Home: Sustainability from Farm to Studio.

At Stamps, we believe in the value of creative practice as an engine for cultural and social change. This virtual event provides an exciting opportunity to hear from members of the community who are exploring new technologies and sustainable dyeing practices, and using them to change the way we work in studios and celebrate our graduates. From facilitating a dye garden at U‑M’s campus farm, to creating graduation cords with homegrown materials for students working in sustainability, collaborations across campus are empowering us to engage in this innovative work.

Moderated by Professor Joseph E. Trumpey, Associate Professor of Art, Environment, and Natural Resources and Director, Sustainable Living Experience. 

Speakers include:

• Alex Bryan (BA LSA ​‘07), Manager, U‑M Sustainable Food Program

• Ellie Keessen (BFA Stamps ​‘25), Current Student and Sustainable Living Experience (SLE) Participant

• Kit Parks (BFA Stamps ​’15), 2D/​Fibers Studio Coordinator, Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design

• Sherri Smith, Catherine B. Heller Collegiate Professor Emerita of Art, School of Art & Design

• Jon Zeilinger, Owner & Operator, Zeilinger Woolen Mill in Frankenmuth, MI

Register Here

Auto-generated Live Transcript will be available for this Zoom event. If you anticipate needing any additional accommodations to participate, please contact Melissa Herter at arnettm@​umich.​edu. Please note that this event will be recorded.

The Stamps School of Art and Design will host a panel on Object-Oriented Feminism and the question of "a feminist object" posed by OOF author Irina Aristarkhova. I will be in discussion with Irina Aristarkhova and two Stamps alumnae, Emily Dibble (BFA 2016) and Kit Parks (BFA 2015), and student Riley Hanson (BFA 2017).

Is painting an object that can be objectified? Should objects give "consent"? This panel discusses these questions within the context of Object-Oriented Feminism (Minnesota University Press, 2016), a new book edited by guest speaker Katherine Behar and including a chapter by Stamps Professor Irina Aristarkhova, and artwork made by Stamps students (Hanson, Parks, Williams, Dibble).

Copies of the book will be available for purchase, signed by the authors, following the event.

Book Panel: Feminist Object / Object-Oriented Feminism
March 14, 2017
5:00-8:00pm

Room 2417, Art & Architecture Building
2000 Bonisteel Blvd
Ann Arbor, MI