Art Exhibit at the Stamp Gallery: "We Live in the Sky: Home, Displacement, Identity"

We Live in the Sky: Home, Displacement, Identity

October 16 - December 7, 2024

Opening Reception: October 16, 6 - 8

Free and Open to the Public

The Stamp Gallery is pleased to present the mixed media installation “We Live in the Sky: Home, Displacement, Identity,” by Tori Ellison and Mami Takahashi, Takahashi’s sound collage and videos accompany Ellison’s sculpture and prints made with UMD MFA student/teacher Varvara Tokareva, which incorporate UMD writing students’ poetic phrases about home and place. The central symbol is the swift, the bird that lives aloft for years, sleeps on the wing, drifting through clouds, drinking raindrops. UMD and George Mason University teacher Ellison, a former Guggenheim editor and LA Weekly art critic, focuses on the body, absence and transformation in art collected by the cities of Seattle, Inglewood, and Paul Allen’s Vulcan Inc. Takahashi’s art explores life as a woman far from her Tokyo home. Both have exhibited in 11 American states and abroad.

This exhibition and related programming is supported in part by the Maryland State Arts Council

ABOUT THE GALLERY

Located on the first floor of the Adele H. Stamp Student Union—Center for Campus Life at the University of Maryland, College Park, the Stamp Gallery is dedicated to exhibiting contemporary art, especially the work of emerging and mid-career artists. The Stamp Gallery supports contemporary art that is challenging, academically engaging, and attuned to broad community and social issues. Through meaningful exhibitions and programming, the Gallery offers outside-of-the-classroom experiential learning opportunities. It functions as a laboratory where emerging artists and curators experiment and work through their ideas. The Gallery’s programming aims to emphasize the importance of process to contemporary artistic practice and to provide a forum for dialogue.

FREE and open to the public.

Gallery hours: Mondays–Thursdays: 10 am – 8 pm, Fridays: 10 am – 5 pm, Saturdays: 11 am – 5 pm, Sundays: Closed. More information: stamp.umd.edu/gallery.