Practicing Contemporaries
Studio Art Faculty at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Practicing Contemporaries presents the work of the distinguished faculty of the studio art program at Carolina. In sculpture, photography, prints, drawings, designs, and other media, these artists demonstrate their creativity, technical abilities, and artistic excellence in more than forty individual works. When viewed as a whole, the exhibition is at once inspiring and challenging, spontaneous and well-conceived, hallmarked by the excellence of UNC-Chapel Hill faculty.

Like other faculty on campus, these eleven artists actively pursue their own research and creative expression. Practicing Contemporaries creates a new opportunity for the broader community to explore the most recent work of Patrick Ray Day, Beth Grabowski, Jim Hirschfield, Juan Logan, Mario Marzan, Kimowan McLain, Yun-Dong Nam, Susan Harbage Page, elin o'Hara slavick, Jeff Whetstone, and Dennis Zaborowski.

Each artist embraces particular themes and questions, while the exhibition as a whole reflects the diversity of the department and the strength of its capacity to teach each new generation of student artists. With finished works and elaborate designs for long-term projects, the exhibition explores the process and the product for each of these Practicing Contemporaries.