Join us for a celebration of Respond/Resist/Rethink: An Exhibition of Student Art for Change at Stamelos Gallery Center, U-M Dearborn. The exhibition features work by U-M students from across all three campuses.
In conjunction with the Fall 2023 Theme Semester: Arts & Resistance, Stamps Gallery (Central Campus, Ann Arbor), Duderstadt Center Gallery (North Campus, Ann Arbor), Riverbank Arts (Flint), and Stamelos Gallery Center (Dearborn) are partnering with the U-M Arts Initiative to expand the 4th annual Respond/Resist/Rethink student art exhibition. All undergraduate and graduate students enrolled at the Ann Arbor, Dearborn, or Flint U-M campuses in Fall 2023 were invited to apply to this juried exhibition that explores what can be done to create more just and equitable futures in the 21st Century and beyond.
The 2023 exhibition will include art of a variety of mediums and will be displayed in all four galleries across all three U-M campuses.
The arts play a central role in shaping cultural and political narratives. Artists, designers and creatives of diverse backgrounds have been at the forefront of social change by offering alternate models and ways of thinking, making and creating that do not perpetuate dominant regimes. Creative processes have been used time and again to reveal under-told stories and to resist simple narratives. Regardless of one's personal politics, an artwork's potential to change hearts and minds is urgent and necessary.
Respond/Resist/Rethink invited 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.
Respond/Resist/Rethink: An Exhibition of Student Art for Change is co-presented by Stamps Gallery and Arts Initiative in partnership with the Duderstadt Center Gallery, Riverbank Arts, and Stamelos Gallery Center.
Disco Diaries, Kaitlyn Parker, Lithographic crayon and ink on paper
Big World, Avery J., Mixed Media
State of Denial, Elena Mills, Collage
Opening Reception (Stamelos)
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.
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 lacotton@umich.edu.
Prisoner of Continuity,
Scott Chaseling (b.1962), n.d.,
Blown, fused glass
Gift of Richard and Louise Abrahams, Collection of UM-Dearborn (2014.1.8), Photograph by Kip Kriigel
Australian glass artist Scott Chaseling (b. 1962) attended the Australian National University’s Canberra School of Art in 1995. In a collaborative project with fellow glass artist Klaus Moje, the two artists invented the Australian Roll-Up technique. Their process is quite similar to the traditional Venetian murrini cane pick-up method with one major difference. Chaseling and Moje’s concept involves picking up pre-fused panels of glass. This innovative approach allows artists to create carefully controlled designs that are not possible with traditional glassblowing methods. The pre-fused sheets of glass allow varying interior and exterior imagery, precise color placement, and full cross-sections of color, all seen in the skillful craftsmanship of this piece. After picking up the pre-fused panels on a punty, a glass blowing pipe, the final steps to the Australian Roll-Up technique consist of blowing, rolling and manipulating the glass form into a finished standing vessel shape.
