Right: Nicholas Femia, Generation Station, 2025, screen print, 11 x 15 inches.
December 22, 2026 - February 6, 2026
Closing Reception: February 6, 2026, 5-7 pm
Juried by Craig Kier
College Park, MD. The Stamp Gallery is pleased to present the 2026 Juried Student Exhibition, an annual display of artwork created by University of Maryland students. The included artworks were carefully selected by guest juror Craig Kier from a large pool of anonymous submissions by students across campus. Kier aimed to bring together a constellation of works that, across a broad range of media, explore how artists consider human relationships, whether to ourselves and to one another, to history and the environments we inhabit, or to the passage of time that shapes us. While each work stands on its own, together they invite a dialogue about how we connect, adapt, and endure. This exhibition will be displayed on the walls in front of the windows of the Stamp Gallery during the winter session, with a closing reception during STAMP’s All Niter on February 6th from 5 pm to 7 pm.
Featuring Shruthi Arunkumar, John Stock, Lynne Regules, Nicholas Femia, Hannah Chen, Jiahua Huang, Casey Kenreich, Allison Stokes, Kaylyn Simms, Jake Farr, Grant Mozeak, Axel Nicholson, Piper Stankiewicz, Perri Gross, Sofia Apgar, and Lubaba Lamisa.
Craig Kier is the Director of the Presidential initiative, Arts for All, and currently serves as Advisor for the Maryland Opera Studio. In 2020, he was named Artistic and Music Director of the Annapolis Opera, where he continues to lead performances, programming, and community engagement activities. In recent years, Kier has conducted productions with San Francisco Opera’s Merola Opera Program, Wolf Trap Opera, Arizona Opera, Houston Ballet, the Brevard Music Center’s Janiec Opera Company, Anchorage Opera, Indianapolis Opera, and Opera Saratoga.
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, with an emphasis on the work of emerging and mid-career artists. The gallery supports contemporary art that is both challenging and academically engaging, addressing broad community and social issues. Through meaningful exhibitions and programming, the gallery provides an experiential learning opportunity outside the classroom. The gallery space can serve as a laboratory for emerging artists and curators to experiment with and refine their ideas, highlighting the importance of the process in contemporary artistic practice. The gallery serves by providing exhibitions that demonstrate social responsibility and artistic substance, as well as by offering an educational forum in which dialogue between artists, viewers, and the art and community is encouraged.
FREE and open to the public.
More information: stamp.umd.edu/gallery.