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Student Poetry Inspired by 2023 Gallery Exhibition Christina Haylett: Revelations in Paint

people in front of the home of the brave flag
Exhibition Event
Thursday, March 21, 2024, 5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.,
Mardigian Library, University of Michigan-Dearborn.
Help complete the collaborative flag Home of the Brave! Bring in a small personal item of choice that shows how participating in a local community brings you strength.

Current Exhibition

Andy T's Urban Vision, 2001-2024

January 25 - April 21, 2024
Installation Art - Clothes Pit Since You're Gone by Andy T.Clothes Pit Since You're Gone, Andy T.

Andy T's Urban Vision, 2001-2024 is the first mid-career retrospective of Detroit-based installation artist Andrew W. Thompson, popularly known as “Andy T.” As a sculptor, Thompson gives new life to discarded objects such as tires, grocery bags, plastic bottles, and mailing envelopes, thereby integrating questions of environmental, social, and economic sustainability into the context of art. Treating art as a “fundamental life-organizing principle,” the artist observes, researches, and interprets how everyday items circulate, shape, and express social beliefs and cultural customs. Over the past two decades, Kansas City and Detroit have stimulated an artistic investigation of sociocultural topics such as electoral mapping, fluctuations in money’s value, urban planning methods, waste management tactics, food sourcing policies, body image and clothing choices, and the effects of information storage on knowledge growth.

Opening Reception
Thursday, January 25, 2024, 5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.
Artist Andrew W. Thompson will speak at 6:00 p.m.
Reception is free to the public. Complimentary beverages and hors d'oeuvres provided.

Exhibition Event
Thursday, March 21, 2024, 5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.,
Mardigian Library, University of Michigan-Dearborn.
Help complete the collaborative flag Home of the Brave! Bring in a small personal item of choice that shows how participating in a local community brings you strength.

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Past Exhibition

Poster of Respond/​Resist/​Rethink: An Exhibition of Student Art for Change

Respond​/Resist/​Rethink: An Exhibition of Student Art for Change

November 3 - December 8

Respond/Resist/Rethink invites students to leverage their creativity to (re)imagine what they can do to create a more just and equitable community in the spaces that they inhabit. The exhibition includes a variety of art forms and will be displayed in four partner galleries across all three U-M campuses, including Stamps Gallery (Central Campus, Ann Arbor), Duderstadt Center Gallery (North Campus, Ann Arbor), Riverbank Arts (Flint), and Stamelos Gallery Center (Dearborn).

Opening Reception
Thursday, November 16, 2023, 5:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
Student artists will speak at 6:00 p.m.
Reception is free to the public. Complimentary beverages and hors d'oeuvres provided.

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Past Exhibition

Doug Cannell: Learning Curves

October 19 - December 10


Sculpture - Starbright by Doug CannellStarbright, Doug Cannell

Learning Curves is an expansive collection of works by Detroit-based sculptor Doug Cannell. Though his work has been shown widely, this is the most comprehensive exhibition of his sculpture to date, with a diverse collection of pieces created over the past ten years.

The exhibition is anchored by two new series of work rooted in calligraphy, brushwork, and the written word. Many of these unique and adeptly constructed works are inspired by Japanese sumi-e calligraphy, in particular the Zen practice of the enso, an ink circle drawn briefly and in one stroke. Others are deconstructed and reimagined letterforms from the Thai, Armenian, Korean and other alphabets. But all are meticulously fabricated from bent, laminated plywood, in a process that interprets loose, inky brushstrokes and typography into three dimensions.

Opening Reception
Thursday, October 19, 2023, 5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.
Artist Doug Cannell will speak at 6:00 p.m.
Reception is free to the public. Complimentary wine and hors d'oeuvres provided.

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Current Digital Exhibition

Kristin Anahit Cass


Kristin Anahit Cass is a Chicago-based artist working in photography, video, writing, sculpture and other media. Her art explores the intensely personal spaces where our lives intersect, considering underlying questions of social justice and human rights. As an artist of mixed ethnicity and a descendent of genocide survivors, Cass's work reflects her passion for amplifying diverse voices telling stories that inspire change. In addition to her arts education, her career as a lawyer gives her a unique perspective on the injustices that so many people and communities face every day. Cass is a graduate of the University of Chicago.

Picture of Ine and Mariam

The New Freedom Fighters: Women And Nonviolent Resistance project explores the often unrecognized role that women play in the survival and evolution of cultures and communities. The women profiled in this project live every day under military threat and use different types of nonviolent resistance to defend their human rights and mitigate the consequences of war in their communities. The lives of the women you meet here have been irrevocably shaped by war. Despite feeling the effects of the violence on their homes, families, career prospects, and communities, these women understand the need for creative nonviolence to break the cycle of war and intolerance.

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Picture of shoes on window sill

Borderlands Under Fire exposes the world of a frozen conflict and documents the effects of state-sponsored violence on daily life in the frontier villages of Armenia, a tiny country in the South Caucasus. Caught at the geopolitical crossroads of East and West, Armenian villagers find themselves used as pawns in a political power game, and ignored by international organizations like the OSCE and the UN. But they refuse to give up their agency, and they continue working to make change from within their communities. Even as the people of these border villages suffer violence and privation daily as a result of war, they hold fast to their homeland, preserving their language and culture as part of the world's heritage. The project explores the villagers' use of creative nonviolent resistance to defend their human rights and develop their communities.

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Current Digital Exhibition

Art In a Time of Pandemic

Stamelos Gallery Center Photo Competition

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And the
prize-winning
photos are...

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Guest Lecture

The Hidden Talents of Paper: Pop-Up Cameras, Planetariums and Other Work by Kelli Anderson

Kelli Anderson is an artist, designer, animator, and tinkerer who pushes the limits of ordinary materials by seeking out possibilities hidden in plain view. Her books and projects have included a pop-up paper planetarium, a book that transforms into a pinhole camera, and a working paper record. Intentionally lo-fi, she believes that humble materials can make the complexity and magic of our world accessible.

 

Guest Lecture

The Human Cost of Frozen Conflict
by Kristin Anahit Cass

Faced with the use of violence to enforce geopolitical borders, people struggle to preserve culture and community. Within Armenia and the rest of the SWANA (Southwest Asia and North Africa) region, as well as across the world, the human cost is painfully high. This lecture considers the hope of many to end the bloody cycle of violence, learning to live together and embracing a better future for all.

 

 

Upcoming Gallery Exhibitions

Fiber Arts Group Exhibition (title TBD)

May 16 - August 18, 2024

Lester Johnson Exhibition (title TBD)

September 12 - December 8, 2024

Student/Faculty Exhibition (title TBD)

Dates TBD


The Stamelos Gallery Center is located on the first floor of the Mardigian Library at the University of Michigan-Dearborn. For more information, see below for contact information. Anyone requiring accommodations under the provisions of the Americans with Disabilities Act should contact (313)593-5087.

Bill and Electra Stamelos


Electra was a remarkably gifted painter and Bill was an avid photographer. The couple loved to travel, and they acquired artwork from all over the world for their collection. Bill and Electra contributed greatly to the university's art collection for decades including donating the majority of Electra's body of work and many other art pieces that they collected throughout their years together. The couple also contributed a sizeable, and very generous, gift which, along with the support of other donors, will allow for the creation of the new Stamelos Gallery.

Bill and Electra Stamelos

Featured University Art Collection Piece

Featured collection glass artwork

Taketori Tale, Kyohei Fujita (b. 1921), n.d., Mold blown glass with gold and silver foil inclusions
Gift of Richard and Louise Abrahams, Collection of UM-Dearborn (Adp39), Photograph by Kip Kriigel


World renowned artist Kyohei Fujita was born in Japan in 1921. He is known as the father of Japanese studio glass. Many of his works, including this one, were inspired by early Japanese boxes that were richly decorated with lacquerwork and mother-of-pearl inlays, and traditionally used to store Buddhist writings, jewelry, inkstones and brushes. Fujita's celebrated ornamental glass boxes revive conventional Japanese aesthetics in a contemporary form. This breathtaking piece was mold blown with gold and silver foil inclusions. Whenever asked by collectors what to keep in the boxes, the artist usually stated "You should put your dreams in them."

---Laura Cotton, Art Curator and Gallery Manager

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