Penny Stamps Distinguished Speakers Series
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Penny Stamps Distinguished Speaker Series is a lecture series established by the University of Michigan School of Art & Design
. With the support of A&D alumna Penny W. Stamps, the Stamps Series presents visionary leaders who use their creative practice effectively. It celebrates those who transcend tradition and are progressive and influential with their work. Speakers are a range of emerging and established artists and designers from a broad spectrum of media.
The lectures take place on Thursdays at 5:10 pm at the Michigan Theater, in downtown Ann Arbor. All lectures are free of charge and open to the public.
Most lectures are available via podcast on iTunes in both audio and video formats, as well as at the University of Michigan channel on youtube.
University of Michigan School of Art & Design
The University of Michigan School of Art & Design , located in Ann Arbor, Michigan, offers graduate and undergraduate degrees in art and design. Established as an independent unit in 1974, A&D is one of 19 schools and colleges at the University of Michigan...
. With the support of A&D alumna Penny W. Stamps, the Stamps Series presents visionary leaders who use their creative practice effectively. It celebrates those who transcend tradition and are progressive and influential with their work. Speakers are a range of emerging and established artists and designers from a broad spectrum of media.
The lectures take place on Thursdays at 5:10 pm at the Michigan Theater, in downtown Ann Arbor. All lectures are free of charge and open to the public.
Most lectures are available via podcast on iTunes in both audio and video formats, as well as at the University of Michigan channel on youtube.
Stamps Speakers
| Year | Season | Date | Speaker | Practice |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Fall | 2010-09-09 | Temple Grandin Temple Grandin Temple Grandin is an American doctor of animal science and professor at Colorado State University, bestselling author, and consultant to the livestock industry on animal behavior... |
Doctor of Animal Science |
| 2010 | Fall | 2010-09-16 | Christopher Csikszentmihalyi & Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi is a Hungarian psychology professor, who emigrated to the United States at the age of 22. Now at Claremont Graduate University, he is the former head of the department of psychology at the University of Chicago and of the department of sociology and anthropology at Lake... |
Professor of Psychology |
| 2010 | Fall | 2010-09-23 | Christopher Sperandio Christopher Sperandio Christopher Sperandio is an American artist known for his collaborative work with British artist Simon Grennan.- Biography :Sperandio was born in Kingwood, West Virginia, West Virginia and attended West Virginia University, receiving his Bachelor of Fine Arts in Printmaking in 1987... & Simon Grennan |
Cartoonist |
| 2010 | Fall | 2010-09-30 | Joumana Haddad Joumana Haddad Joumana Haddad is a renowned Lebanese poet, translator and journalist.-Career:She has already published several poetry collections, widely acclaimed by critics... |
Journalist |
| 2010 | Fall | 2010-10-07 | Marije Vogelzang | Designer |
| 2010 | Fall | 2010-10-21 | Matthew Ritchie Matthew Ritchie Ritchie attended the Camberwell School of Art 1983-86. He describes himself as "classically trained" but also points to a minimalist influence.Ritchie's art revolves around a personal mythology drawn from creation myths, particle physics, thermodynamics, and games of chance, among other... |
Painter |
| 2010 | Fall | 2010-10-28 | Sarah Chayes | Reporter |
| 2010 | Fall | 2010-11-04 | Laura Kuhn | Executive Director, John Cage John Cage John Milton Cage Jr. was an American composer, music theorist, writer, philosopher and artist. A pioneer of indeterminacy in music, electroacoustic music, and non-standard use of musical instruments, Cage was one of the leading figures of the post-war avant-garde... Trust |
| 2010 | Fall | 2010-11-11 | Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle is an American artist.He graduated from Williams College with a BA in 1983, and from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago with an MFA in 1989.... |
Installation Artist |
| 2010 | Fall | 2010-11-18 | Wangechi Mutu Wangechi Mutu Wangechi Mutu is an artist and sculptor who lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.-Early life:Originally from the Kenyan Kikuyu tribe, she was educated in Nairobi at Loreto Convent Msongari and later studied at the United World College of the Atlantic, Wales... |
Painter |
| 2010 | Fall | 2010-12-02 | Luis Chomiak | Industrial Designer |
| 2010 | Fall | 2010-12-09 | Natasha Tsakos Natasha Tsakos Natasha Tsakos is a conceptual director, and a motion and visual performance artist from Geneva, Switzerland, living in Florida in the United States. She is the current president and founder of ZERO llc... |
Performance Artist |
| 2010 | Winter | 2010-04-08 | Tim Brown | Industrial Designer |
| 2010 | Winter | 2010-04-01 | Cameron Carpenter Cameron Carpenter Cameron Carpenter is an American organist known for his virtuosity, showmanship, technique and arrangements for the organ.-Biography:... |
Musician |
| 2010 | Winter | 2010-03-25 | Matthias Müller | Filmmaker |
| 2010 | Winter | 2010-03-18 | Marian Bantjes Marian Bantjes Marian Bantjes was born in 1963 and is a Canadian designer, artist, illustrator, typographer and writer.Bantjes started working in the field of visual communication in 1983 and worked as a book typesetter from 1984–1994... |
Graphic Designer |
| 2010 | Winter | 2010-03-11 | Dayna Baumeister | Biomomicry |
| 2010 | Winter | 2010-02-18 | Saskia Olde Wolbers Saskia Olde Wolbers Saskia Olde Wolbers is a video artist who lives and works in London, England .-Background:She studied at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, The Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam and Chelsea College of Art and Design.Since the mid-1990s, she has been developing fictional documentaries... |
Installation Artist |
| 2010 | Winter | 2010-02-11 | James Geary James Geary James Geary is an American-born, London-based writer and the former Europe editor of Time.His most recent book is Geary’s Guide to the World's Great Aphorists which he claims to be the largest collection of aphorisms in the English language, and follows on from his previous volume on aphorists and... |
Writer |
| 2010 | Winter | 2010-02-04 | Bjarke Ingels Bjarke Ingels Bjarke Ingels is a Danish architect. He heads the architectural practice Bjarke Ingels Group which he founded in 2006. In 2009 he co-founded the design consultancy KiBiSi... |
Architect |
| 2010 | Winter | 2010-01-28 | Dave Hickey Dave Hickey David Hickey is an American art and cultural critic. He has written for many American publications including Rolling Stone, Art News, Art in America, Artforum, Harper's Magazine, and Vanity Fair... |
Writer |
| 2010 | Winter | 2010-01-21 | Bill T. Jones Bill T. Jones Bill T. Jones is an American artistic director, choreographer and dancer.-Early life:Jones was born in Bunnell, Florida and his family moved North as part of the Great Migration in the first half of the twentieth century. They settled in Wayland, New York, where Jones attended Wayland High School... |
Dancer/Coreographer |
| 2009 | Fall | 2009-12-10 | Lucy Orta Lucy Orta Lucy Orta is a British contemporary visual artist living and working between London and Paris where she resides since 1991. She was born in 1966 in Sutton Coldfield, Great Britain.... |
Fashion Designer |
| 2009 | Fall | 2009-12-03 | Stewart Brand Stewart Brand Stewart Brand is an American writer, best known as editor of the Whole Earth Catalog. He founded a number of organizations including The WELL, the Global Business Network, and the Long Now Foundation... |
Critical Thinker and Innovator |
| 2009 | Fall | 2009-11-19 | Phoebe Gloeckner Phoebe Gloeckner Phoebe Louise Adams Gloeckner is an American cartoonist, illustrator, painter, and novelist.-Background:Gloeckner was born in 1960 in Philadelphia, and spent most of her later childhood and young adult life in San Francisco, where her family moved in the early 1970s... |
Graphic Novelist |
| 2009 | Fall | 2009-11-12 | Robert & Shana ParkeHarrison Robert ParkeHarrison Robert ParkeHarrison is a photographer, best known for his work in the area of fine art photography.... |
Photographer |
| 2009 | Fall | 2009-11-05 | Jamy Ian Swiss Jamy Ian Swiss Jamy Ian Swiss is an American close-up magician who works primarily with cards.-Career as a Magician:Jamy Ian Swiss is world renowned as a sleight of hand performer specializing in close-up card magic.... |
Performance Artist |
| 2009 | Fall | 2009-10-29 | Margaret Livingston Margaret Livingston Margaret Livingston was an American film actress, most notable for her work during the silent film era.... e |
Neurobiologist |
| 2009 | Fall | 2009-10-22 | Paula Scher Paula Scher Paula Scher, born October 6, 1948, in Washington, DC., is an American graphic designer, illustrator, painter and art educator in design, and the first female principal at Pentagram, which she joined in 1991... |
Graphic Designer |
| 2009 | Fall | 2009-10-08 | Bernard Khoury | Architect |
| 2009 | Fall | 2009-10-01 | Douglas Hollis | Installation Artist |
| 2009 | Fall | 2009-09-24 | Dave Gallo & Bill Lange | Ocean Explorer |
| 2009 | Fall | 2009-09-17 | Richard Barnes | Photographer |
| 2009 | Fall | 2009-09-10 | Robert Mankoff Robert Mankoff Robert Mankoff is the current cartoon editor for The New Yorker magazine. Before he succeeded Lee Lorenz as editor, Mankoff was a cartoonist for The New Yorker for 20 years.... |
Cartoonist |
| 2009 | Winter | 2009-04-09 | Clotaire Rapaille Clotaire Rapaille Dr. G Clotaire Rapaille, or Gilbert Clotaire Rapaille, is a marketing specialist. Born in France, he has a doctorate from La Sorbonne. Rapaille is also the CEO and Founder of Archetype Discoveries Worldwide, located in Palm Beach, Florida.... |
Critical Thinker and Innovator |
| 2009 | Winter | 2009-04-02 | Mary Ellen Strom | Installation Artist |
| 2009 | Winter | 2009-03-26 | George Manupelli | Filmmaker |
| 2009 | Winter | 2009-03-19 | Marina Abramovic Marina Abramovic Marina Abramović is a Belgrade-born New York-based Serbian performance artist who began her career in the early 1970s. Active for over three decades, she has recently begun to describe herself as the “grandmother of performance art.” Abramović's work explores the relationship between performer and... |
Performance Artist |
| 2009 | Winter | 2009-03-12 | Richard Saul Wurman Richard Saul Wurman Richard Saul Wurman is an architect and graphic designer who is considered to be a pioneer in the practice of making information easily understandable. Wurman has written and designed over 80 books, and created the TED conferences, but remains associated only with TEDMED.-Early life and... |
Graphic Designer |
| 2009 | Winter | 2009-03-05 | Jacque Fresco Jacque Fresco Jacque Fresco , is a self-educated structural designer, philosopher of science, concept artist, educator, and futurist. His interests span a wide range of disciplines including several in philosophy, science, and engineering... |
Architect |
| 2009 | Winter | 2009-02-12 | Anne Pasternak | Curator |
| 2009 | Winter | 2009-02-05 | Jose Francisco Salgado | Astronomer |
| 2009 | Winter | 2009-01-22 | Gilgamesh | Musician |
| 2008 | Fall | 2008-11-20 | Daniel J. Martinez | Installation Artist/Performance Artist |
| 2008 | Fall | 2008-11-13 | Jun Nguyen-Hatsushiba Jun Nguyen-Hatsushiba Jun Nguyen-Hatsushiba was born in Tokyo to a Japanese mother and a Vietnamese father in 1968, the year of the Tet Offensive staged by the Vietcong and North Vietnamese troops. He earned an M.F.A. from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 1994 after receiving his B.F.A. from the School of the... |
Filmmaker |
| 2008 | Fall | 2008-11-06 | Theo Jansen Theo Jansen Theo Jansen is a Dutch artist and kinetic sculptor. He builds large works which resemble skeletons of animals, that are able to walk using wind power on the beaches of the Netherlands... |
Sculptor |
| 2008 | Fall | 2008-10-30 | Antanas Mockus Antanas Mockus Aurelijus Rutenis Antanas Mockus Šivickas is a Colombian mathematician, philosopher, and politician.The son of Lithuanian immigrants, he left his post as the president of the National University of Colombia in Bogotá in 1993, and later that year ran a successful campaign for mayor... |
Politician |
| 2008 | Fall | 2008-10-23 | Jane Evelyn Atwood | Photographer |
| 2008 | Fall | 2008-10-09 | Cheyenne Medina & Gretchen Schulfer | Graphic Designer |
| 2008 | Fall | 2008-10-02 | Cary Fowler Cary Fowler Cary Fowler is the executive director of the Global Crop Diversity Trust, based in Rome, Italy. Previously, Fowler was Professor and Director of Research in the Department for International Environment & Development Studies at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences in Ås, Norway. Fowler holds... |
Critical Thinker and Innovator |
| 2008 | Fall | 2008-09-25 | Sir Ken Robinson | Critical Thinker and Innovator |
| 2008 | Fall | 2008-09-18 | Michael Moore Michael Moore Michael Francis Moore is an American filmmaker, author, social critic and activist. He is the director and producer of Fahrenheit 9/11, which is the highest-grossing documentary of all time. His films Bowling for Columbine and Sicko also place in the top ten highest-grossing documentaries... |
Filmmaker |
| 2008 | Fall | 2008-09-12 | Complicite Complicite The British theatre company Complicite was founded in 1983 by Simon McBurney, Annabel Arden, and Marcello Magni. Its original name was Théâtre de Complicité. "The Company's inimitable style of visual and devised theatre [has] an emphasis on strong, corporeal, poetic and surrealist image supporting... |
Performance Artist |
| 2008 | Fall | 2008-09-11 | Stasys Eidrigevicius Stasys Eidrigevicius Stasys Eidrigevičius is a graphic artist.-Biography:Eidrigevičius graduated from the College of Fine Arts and Crafts in Kaunas in 1968. In 1973, he obtained a diploma from Vilnius Academy of Fine Arts. Since 1980 he has lived in Poland... |
Visual Artist |
| 2008 | Winter | 2008-04-03 | Michele Oka Doner | Sculptor |
| 2008 | Winter | 2008-03-27 | Joost Rekveld | Filmmaker |
| 2008 | Winter | 2008-03-20 | Eric Staller Eric Staller Eric Staller an American artist born September 14, 1947. He uses light and architecture as a medium to create and design works of art.-Biography:... |
Public Artist |
| 2008 | Winter | 2008-03-13 | Julie Mehretu Julie Mehretu Julie Mehretu is an artist, best known for her densely-layered abstract paintings and prints. She lives and works in New York City... |
Painter |
| 2008 | Winter | 2008-03-06 | Chip Kidd Chip Kidd Chip Kidd is an American author, editor, and graphic designer, best known for his book covers.- Early life :Born in Reading, Pennsylvania, Kidd grew up in the Reading suburb of Shillington, strongly influenced by American popular culture... |
Graphic Designer |
| 2008 | Winter | 2008-02-14 | Trimpin Trimpin Trimpin is a Seattle, Washington-based kinetic sculptor, sound artist, musician, and composer, most of whose pieces integrate both sculpture and music in some way, and many of which make use of computers to play these instruments... |
Sound Artist |
| 2008 | Winter | 2008-01-17 | Chaz Maviyane-Davies | Graphic designer |
| 2008 | Winter | 2008-01-10 | Dan Hurlin | Puppetteer |
| 2007 | Fall | 2007-11-29 | Lawrence Weschler Lawrence Weschler Lawrence Weschler is an author of works of creative nonfiction.A graduate of Cowell College of the University of California, Santa Cruz , Weschler was for over twenty years a staff writer at The New Yorker, where his work shuttled between political tragedies and cultural comedies... |
Writer |
| 2007 | Fall | 2007-11-08 | Xu Bing Xu Bing Xu Bing is a Chinese-born artist, resident in the United States since 1990. He currently resides in Beijing.-Biography:... |
Installation Artist |
| 2007 | Fall | 2007-11-01 | Pat Oleszko | Performance artist |
| 2007 | Fall | 2007-10-25 | Charles McGee Charles McGee (painter) Charles McGee is an American artist. McGee moved to Detroit at the age of 10, where he found that “everything was on the move and it hasn’t slowed down yet.” McGee’s paintings, assemblages and sculptures are in prestigious national and international collections, and are on permanent display at the... |
Painter |
| 2007 | Fall | 2007-10-18 | Andy Kirshner Andy Kirshner Andy Kirshner is a composer, performer, writer, and media artist.He is an Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan, jointly appointed by the School of Art and Design and the School of Music. He holds a Doctorate in Music Composition from the University of Michigan, where he studied with... |
Performance Artist |
| 2007 | Fall | 2007-10-04 | Carole Bilson | Industrial Designer |
| 2007 | Fall | 2007-09-27 | Gijs Bakker, Droog Design Droog design Droog is a conceptual Dutch design company situated in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.Droog works with independent designers to design and realize products, projects, exhibitions and events... |
Industrial Designer |
| 2007 | Fall | 2007-09-20 | Ellen Lupton Ellen Lupton Ellen Lupton was born in 1963, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Ellen Lupton is a graphic designer, writer, curator, and educator. Well known for her fascination and study within "typography", Lupton decided to expand her love for design, and later took on the graphic design world... |
Graphic Designer |
| 2007 | Fall | 2007-09-13 | Jeremy Deller Jeremy Deller Jeremy Deller is an English conceptual, video and installation artist. He is a Turner Prize winner.Deller is best-known for his Battle of Orgreave , a reenactment of the actual Battle of Orgreave which occurred during the UK miners' strike in 1984.-Life and work:Jeremy Deller was born in London,... |
Public Artist |
| 2007 | Winter | 2007-04-05 | Liz Lerman Liz Lerman Liz Lerman is an American choreographer and founder of Liz Lerman Dance Exchange.They have appeared at the National Cathedral, Kennedy Center Opera House, and Millennium Stage, Lansburgh Theater, Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center,and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago.She plans to retire... |
Dancer/Coreographer |
| 2007 | Winter | 2007-03-29 | Franz John | Installation Artist |
| 2007 | Winter | 2007-03-22 | Ken Jacobs Ken Jacobs Ken Jacobs is an American experimental filmmaker. He is the director of Tom, Tom, The Piper's Son , which was admitted to the National Film Registry in 2007, and Star Spangled to Death , a nearly seven hour film consisting largely of found footage.He coined the term paracinema in the early 1970s,... |
Filmmaker |
| 2007 | Winter | 2007-03-15 | David Small David Small David Small is an American author and illustrator. He was only 2 years old when he began drawing, health problems having kept him home for much of his childhood.-Life:... |
Graphic Designer |
| 2007 | Winter | 2007-03-08 | William Pope.L William Pope.L William Pope.L is an American visual artist best known for his work in performance art, and interventionist public art. However, he has also produced art in painting, photography and theater... |
Performance Artist |
| 2007 | Winter | 2007-02-15 | Peter Richards Peter Richards (artist) Peter Richards is both an artist and curator living and working in Belfast, Northern Ireland since 1994. Born in Cardiff in 1970 Richards studied a BA in Fine Art at Howard Gardens, Cardiff part of the University of Wales. He moved to Northern Ireland to further his studies, completing an MPhil... |
Public Artist |
| 2007 | Winter | 2007-02-08 | 2x4 Design | Graphic Designer |
| 2007 | Winter | 2007-02-01 | Shrinking Cities | Filmmaker |
| 2007 | Winter | 2007-01-25 | Janie Paul | Visual Artist |
| 2007 | Winter | 2007-01-18 | Anne Wilson Anne Wilson (artist) Anne Wilson is a Chicago-based visual artist. Wilson creates sculpture, drawings, Internet projects, photography, performance, and DVD stop motion animations employing table linens, bed sheets, human hair, lace, thread and wire. Her work extends the traditional processes of Fiber art to other media... |
Installation Artist |
| 2006 | Fall | 2006-11-30 | Chris Impey | Astronomer |
| 2006 | Fall | 2006-11-16 | Susie Brandt | Textile Artist |
| 2006 | Fall | 2006-11-09 | Father Boyle | Social Worker |
| 2006 | Fall | 2006-11-02 | Royal Shakespeare Company Royal Shakespeare Company The Royal Shakespeare Company is a major British theatre company, based in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England. The company employs 700 staff and produces around 20 productions a year from its home in Stratford-upon-Avon and plays regularly in London, Newcastle-upon-Tyne and on tour across... |
Performance Artist |
| 2006 | Fall | 2006-10-26 | Ellen Harvey | Painter |
| 2006 | Fall | 2006-10-19 | Alicyn Warren | Composer/New Media Artist |
| 2006 | Fall | 2006-10-05 | Peter Chung Peter Chung Peter Kunshik Chung Peter Kunshik Chung Peter Kunshik Chung (born April 19, 1961 in Seoul, South Korea, as 정건식 (Chung Geun-sik, or alternative spelling Jeong Geun-Sik) is a Korean American animator... |
Animator |
| 2006 | Fall | 2006-09-28 | Nikki Lee | Photographer |
| 2006 | Fall | 2006-09-21 | Amy Goodman Amy Goodman Amy Goodman is an American progressive broadcast journalist, syndicated columnist, investigative reporter and author. Goodman is the host of Democracy Now!, an independent global news program broadcast daily on radio, television and the internet.-Early life:Goodman was born in Bay Shore, New York... |
Journalist |
| 2006 | Fall | 2006-09-14 | Marga Gomez Marga Gomez Marga Gomez is a Puerto Rican/Cuban-American comedian, playwright, and humorist. She is openly lesbian.... |
Performance Artist |