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Art

Tammy Rae Carland earned her M.F.A. at The University of California at Irvine and teaches photography at UNC. Her photographic artwork is a merger of autobiographical writings and performances that explore community histories and archives. She also works in experimental, narrative, and interactive video, installation, digital imaging, and small editions of independent press publications.

Pika Ghosh (no bio on file)

Beth Grabowski (BA, studio art, University of Virginia; MFA, printmaking, University of Wisconsin, Madison) has received two UNC-Chapel Hill awards for excellence in undergraduate teaching (Johnston Award, 1994; Bowman and Gordon Gray Professorship, 1994-97).

Professor Michael Harris has been a practicing artist as well as an art historian. He has taught at Morehouse College, Wellesley College, Georgia State University, and has been at UNC since 1996.

Jim Hirschfield has been teaching art at UNC since 1988.  He began thinking about the experience of time when he traveled through the deserts of the southwest in his VW Microbus.  He still likes to travel, only now he usually travels as a part of his art.  He has received a number of art commissions from cities across the country: From Anchorage, Alaska to Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and from Phoenix, Arizona to Providence, Rhode Island.  He has also received numerous awards for his artwork, which he describes as the exploration of meditative and ethereal environments that expand our perceptions of time.

Juan Logan received his Master of Fine Arts degree from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 1998. He has been making art for more than thirty years and his work has been featured in over 250 solo and group exhibitions in venues across the country. Logan is currently an Associate Professor of Studio Art.

Carol Mavor (MFA, University of California-San Diego; PhD, University of California-Santa Cruz) began making art before she became interested in writing about art. At UC San Diego, her sculptures became stage sets and she became a performance artist. At UC Santa Cruz, she wrote on childhood.

Kimowan McLain has a Masters of Fine Arts degree from the University of New Mexico. He is a mixed-media artist whose art installations make creative use of photography and light. Often, the Cree Indian artist makes poetic and social commentaries about contemporary Native American conditions.

When asked why she studies Italian art, Mary Pardo answers: "Because of Italian cooking"-though she admits the art is pretty amazing too. She is fascinated by all varieties of world art, ancient and modern-perhaps because she feels she grew up "multicultural" (part-Venezuelan, part-French). Prof. Pardo's specialty is Renaissance art theory, but she has also published work on Giotto, Leonardo da Vinci, and Titian.

Mary D. Sheriff is a Daniel W. Patterson Distinguished Term Professor. She has published widely on French art and culture, on women artists, and on eighteenth-century theories of creativity. When she's on vacation, you can find her scuba diving on the pristine reefs of Bonaire.

Daniel Shermanjoined the UNC faculty in 2008, having taught previously at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where he was also director of the Center for 21st Century Studies, and at Rice University. He received his B.A. from Harvard and his Ph.D. from Yale. A specialist in modern art and French cultural history, he has written and edited several books on art museums, the commemoration of World War I in France, and culture and politics after 9/11. As a historian who has taught French studies, art history, and general humanities courses, he is committed to discussion and debate across traditional disciplinary boundaries. He enjoys travel, especially to France, baking, and hanging out with his two cats.

The medium of photography has allowed professor Jeff Whetstone to enter into many different worlds and adopt many different skills. He has traveled in the migrant worker stream, harvesting tobacco, broccoli and oranges. He learned how to work the slime line and a hydraulic crane while photographing the fishing industry off the coast of Alaska. In the coalfields of Kentucky, he gardened on strip mines, and worshiped with snake-handlers. And at Yale he learned how to talk about art and how to eat pasta with a spoon.