2025 Family Saturday Arts at Stamp Program
The Stamp Gallery is pleased to present the 2025 Family Saturday Arts at Stamp Program, a series of workshops inspired by the themes and works in the Contemporary Art Purchasing Program (CAPP) collection. We invite families to join us for hands-on activities that exercise creativity, connection, and imagination at these free Saturday workshops! Each session will offer a unique opportunity to learn, make, and celebrate community through contemporary art.
Interested in exploring art, play, and storytelling together? Please RSVP here.
Questions for a Dinosaur
Led by Charlotte Richardson-Deppe
Saturday, May 17, 2025
Stamp Gallery, 1220 Stamp Union, 2 - 4 pm
In this workshop, children and their caregivers will create dinosaur-inspired accessories such as masks, claws, tails, and spikes using simple craft materials. Inspired by Questions for a Dinosaur by Rachel Garber Cole, participants will be invited to reflect on what they might ask a dinosaur. Families will also contribute floral and plant drawings to a shared backdrop, which will be displayed at the end of the session. Participants are welcome to take photos in their handmade dinosaur gear in front of the finished backdrop, echoing Garber Cole’s artworks.
Paper and Mixed Media Weaving
Led by Jill Stauffer
Saturday, May 31, 2025
Stamp Gallery, 1220 Stamp Union, 2 - 4 pm
In this session, inspired by Noel Kassewitz’s I Wish to Communicate With You, children and caretakers will learn basic weaving techniques. Starting with paper, they will learn how to weave different pieces together to create a geometric artwork. They will then move on to curved weaving patterns, and incorporating different elements such as string, vinyls, and ribbon.
Happiness Jar Exchange
Led by Vainavi Gambhir
Saturday, June 14, 2025
Stamp Gallery, 1220 Stamp Union, 2 - 4 pm
In this workshop, inspired by Patrick Jacobs’ Fairy Ring with White Clover, children and their caregivers are invited to decorate nature-inspired happiness jars, and fill them with handwritten notes of gratitude, happy moments, and appreciation for one another. At the end of the session, they’ll exchange jars and celebrate their bond through creative expression.
Design a Game Card
Led by Jill Stauffer
Saturday, June 28, 2025
Stamp Gallery, 1220 Stamp Union, 2 - 4 pm
In this session, inspired by the Game Changing series by Derrick Adams, children will design a game card that reflects an aspect of our identity, interests, or passions. We will begin the workshop by discussing Derrick Adams’ Game Changing series, then prototype our own ideas or themes for a deck of cards. Students will receive a card template printed on cardstock to draw and color their final design.
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Saturday, July 12, 2025
Stamp Gallery, 1220 Stamp Union, 2 - 4 pm
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Saturday, July 26, 2025
Stamp Gallery, 1220 Stamp Union, 2 - 4 pm
About Us
The Adele H. Stamp Student Union Arts Center is formed by the Stamp Gallery, the Contemporary Arts Purchasing Program, and Studio A.
The Stamp Gallery is dedicated to the exhibition of contemporary art with an emphasis on the work of emerging and mid-career artists. The gallery supports contemporary art that is challenging and/or academically engaging and that addresses broad community and social issues. Through meaningful exhibitions and programming the gallery offers an outside-of-the-classroom experiential learning opportunity. Our space can be used as a laboratory for emerging artists and curators to experiment and work through their ideas, emphasizing the importance of the process to contemporary artistic practice. The gallery serves by providing exhibitions of social responsibility and artistic substance, as well as by offering an educational forum in which dialogue between artist and viewer and art and community is encouraged.
The Contemporary Arts Purchasing Program (CAPP) was developed by the University of Maryland College Park Stamp Student Union with the mission to educate and inspire by exposing the campus community to thought-provoking contemporary art. Now, in its eighteenth year, the program provides a student committee with the opportunity to interact with the art world by researching, discussing, and purchasing artwork by emerging and established contemporary artists. CAPP operates on a biannual basis and students of diverse majors are selected to participate through a competitive application process. Together, they embark on a rigorous research and training program, including extensive visits to galleries and artists’ studios across Baltimore, New York, and Washington, DC.