“Orientation”: Meaning in Memory and the Immediate Surrounding

This is a long exposure from April 23 to May 21, 2025 at The Stamp Gallery | University of Maryland, College Park | Written by Jasjot Kaur Gill Imagine extracting two decades of your life from your memory into a set of photographs. What would remain? A few clear shots of joy or pain, emptiness or … Continue reading “Orientation”: Meaning in Memory and the Immediate Surrounding

And I am Happy to Have Been Here Before: An Exploration of Repetition and Liminality in Julia Reising’s Linoleum Room

This is a long exposure from April 23 to May 21, 2025 at The Stamp Gallery | University of Maryland, College Park | Written by Rachel Schmid-James Déjà vu is a phenomenon very few are unfamiliar with. The sensation that one has been somewhere or experienced something before often creates an uneasy feeling within its host. … Continue reading And I am Happy to Have Been Here Before: An Exploration of Repetition and Liminality in Julia Reising’s Linoleum Room

The Aesthetic of Innocence

Open Ended Narratives: Mixed Media Assemblages on Wood by Schroeder Cherry from February 18 to April 5, 2025 at The Stamp Gallery | University of Maryland, College Park | Written by Trinitee Tatum For a fleeting moment, opening the wooden doors to Schroeder Cherry’s Adam and Eve Enter the Garden (2024) evokes the sensation of … Continue reading The Aesthetic of Innocence

The Sweetness of Liberation: Reclamation of the Watermelon as a Symbol of Autonomy in Schroeder Cherry’s Open Ended Narratives

Open Ended Narratives from February 18th to April 5th, 2025, at The Stamp Gallery | University of Maryland, College Park | Written by Rachel Schmid-James Just as the cogs of a machine must fit together seamlessly to work, an exhibition must build and mesh into something greater than the individual pieces. In Schroeder Cherry’s current show, … Continue reading The Sweetness of Liberation: Reclamation of the Watermelon as a Symbol of Autonomy in Schroeder Cherry’s Open Ended Narratives

Framing the Narrative: Access, Memory, and Identity in Schroeder Cherry’s Art

Open Ended Narratives from February 18th to April 5th, 2025, at The Stamp Gallery | University of Maryland, College Park | Written by Noa Nelson Schroeder Cherry’s mixed-media assemblages do more than capture a moment in time—they interrogate the ways history, culture, and personal experience intersect. Using found objects like keys, locks, playing cards, and discarded … Continue reading Framing the Narrative: Access, Memory, and Identity in Schroeder Cherry’s Art

Unlocking Narratives: Exploring Schroeder Cherry’s Barbershop Series

Written by Soeun Kim While people are often drawn to noticeably ostentatious and obtrusive works that grab their attention right away, there is an undeniable pull toward the everyday familiar spaces and moments that feel deeply personal and universally relatable. Even from outside the Stamp Gallery, Schroeder Cherry’s exhibition Open Ended Narratives immediately captures the … Continue reading Unlocking Narratives: Exploring Schroeder Cherry’s Barbershop Series

The Past and Future of Voting Rights and Racial Profiling in Shroeder Cherry’s Cute to Criminal and Voters #33 Test

Open Ended Narratives from February 18th to April 5th, 2025, at The Stamp Gallery | University of Maryland, College Park | Written by James Cho As visitors enter the STAMP Gallery to look at Shroeder Cherry’s work, they are greeted by two pieces, one of which being Cute to Criminal (2023) which is part of … Continue reading The Past and Future of Voting Rights and Racial Profiling in Shroeder Cherry’s Cute to Criminal and Voters #33 Test

Interview With ‘Open Ended Narratives:’ Artist Schroeder Cherry 

Open Ended Narratives: Mixed Media Assemblages on Wood by Schroeder Cherry from February 18 to April 5, 2025 at The Stamp Gallery | University of Maryland, College Park | Written by Olivia DiJulio  To start, could you tell me a bit about yourself and your background? I grew up in Washington, D.C, and I’ve always been … Continue reading Interview With ‘Open Ended Narratives:’ Artist Schroeder Cherry 

Spiritual Beings of Found Material

Open Ended Narratives: Mixed Media Assemblages on Wood by Schroeder Cherry from February 18 to April 5, 2025 at The Stamp Gallery | University of Maryland, College Park | Written by Oliver Foley There is an inherent spirituality to the found object assemblage, whether intentional or not. The diverse lived experiences of found materials form … Continue reading Spiritual Beings of Found Material

Shelter and Language in Tori Ellison’s Sky Writing

We Live in the Sky: Home, Displacement, Identity from October 16th to December 7th, 2024, at The Stamp Gallery | University of Maryland, College Park | Written by James Cho What is a home? Is it a shelter? A place where we are safe? Our families and friends? What happens when one becomes adrift, and … Continue reading Shelter and Language in Tori Ellison’s Sky Writing

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