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Courses:

• ARTM 240 Gallery Fundamentals

Mark Sloan is an artist, curator, and author who has been directing the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art since 1994.

He has authored or co-authored five books: Hoaxes, Humbugs, and Spectacles: Astonishing Photographs of Smelt Wrestlers, Human Projectiles, Giant Hailstones, Contortionists, Elephant Impersonators, and Much, Much, More! Dear Mr. Ripley: A Compendium of Curioddities from the Believe It or Not Archives (Bulfinch Press/Little, Brown, & Co. 1993 -- also published in United Kingdom and Japanese versions),PHOTOGLYPHS: Rimma Gerlovina and Valeriy Gerlovin (New Orleans Museum of Art, 1993), Self Made Worlds: Visionary Folk Art Environments (Aperture,1997) and Wild, Weird, and Wonderful: The American Circus 1901-1927 as Seen by F. W. Glazier, Photographer (Quantuck Lane Press, 2002). He is currently co authoring a book entitled Rarest of the Rare: Stunning Specimens at the Harvard Museum of Natural History (HarperCollins, scheduled for Fall 2004 release).

As a museum/arts professional, he has directed two national non-profit artists' organizations--The Light Factory in Charlotte, NC (1985-86) and San Francisco Camerawork in California (Associate Director, 1986-89), and two university art galleries -- Roland Gibson Gallery of the State University of New York, Potsdam (1992-94) and the William Halsey Gallery at the College of Charleston (1994- present).

As an artist, his works have been shown in exhibitions at the Grand Palais in Paris, Boston University, the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art in Winston Salem, NC, the Chrysler Museum in Norfolk, VA, and the High Museum in Atlanta. His work is in the permanent collections of the High Museum of Art, the Chrysler Museum, and the Maison Municipale in La Rochelle, France, among others.

He is an Associate Professor of Arts Management and an amateur antipodist.