Mark Sloan is an artist, curator, and author. Since his arrival in 1994, the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art has grown considerably.  During his tenure, HICA has received three National Endowment for the Arts grants, along with grants from the Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation, the Henry Luce Foundation, and the Asian Cultural Council, to list a few. HICA programs have received favorable reviews in the local, regional, and national media, including interviews on NPR's Week-end Edition, and reviews in Art in America, the New York Times, and the International Herald Tribune. Sloan has expanded the reach of HICA by initiating programs for Visiting Artists, commissioned installations,  International Artists-in-Residence, publications, the website, film screenings, and membership.

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 Institute of Contemporary Art at the College of Charleston (1994- present).

He has authored or co-authored seven books: Hoaxes, Humbugs, and Spectacles: Astonishing Photographs of Smelt Wrestlers, Human Projectiles, Giant Hailstones, Contortionists, Elephant Impersonators, and Much, Much, More! (Villard Books/Random House 1990); 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); Wild, Weird, and Wonderful: The American Circus 1901-1927 as Seen by F. W. Glasier, Photographer (Quantuck Lane Press, 2002); Rarest of the Rare: Stories Behind the Treasures at the Harvard Museum of Natural History, with writer Nancy Pick and a forward by E.O. Wilson Harvard Museum of Natural History, (photographer) with writer Nancy Pick and a forward by E.O. Wilson (this book was selected as one of the top science books of 2004 by Discover Magazine); and Force of Nature: Site Installations by Ten Japanese Artists (Halsey Institute and Van Every/Smith Galleries, 2007).

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

Sloan received his BA in Interdisciplinary Studies from the University of Richmond and a Master of Fine Arts from Virginia Commonwealth University. He is an Associate Professor of Arts Management and an amateur antipodist.

Charles Ailstock, Susan Bass, Tom Bradford, Terry Fox, Leah Greenberg, Alice Guess, Holly Hull, Lynn Letson, Spencer Lynch, Michael Maher, Kenton Morrison, Janyce McMenamin, Tjelda Vander Meijden, Bette Mueller-Roemer, Michael Newman, Giorgina Ngozo, Colin Quashie, Robben Richards, Leila Ross, Katherine Saenger, Wally Seinsheimer, Jr., Darcy Shankland, Harriet Smartt, Andra Watkins, Jackie Webber, Judy Werrell, Trevor Weston, Alis Whitt, Pete Wyrick

Marian Mazzone is an associate professor in the art history department at the College of Charleston, and a curator at the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art. In addition to serving as Chair of the Department of Art History, Marian teaches courses on modern and contemporary art, and art theory/historiography. Prior to coming to Charleston, she worked in the curatorial department at the Columbus Museum of Art while completing her Ph.D. in art history at The Ohio State University.

For the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art Marian has curated several exhibitions, including Calin Dan: Azimuth of Fissure; NSK: Retro-Spection; and Yu Hong: A Woman's Life; and co-curated The Right to Assemble (with Mark Sloan).

Rebecca graduated from the College of Charleston in May of 2008 with a BA in Arts Management and Studio Art. During her time as a student, Rebecca served as a Halsey intern where she helped facilitate exhibitions such as Richard McMahan's MINI Museum; Aldwyth: work v., work n.; and Call and Response - Africa to America - The Art of Nick Cave and Phyllis Galembo. In addition to her work at the Halsey, she stayed active with the school and Charleston community through her positions at the Addlestone Library and Spoleto Festival USA. Rebecca joined the Halsey as the full time Project Coordinator in September of 2008.

In addition to her duties as a Consulting Curator at HICA, Roberta is an independent curator and author. She received her B.A. and M.A. degrees in Art History from the University of Pittsburgh in 1973 and 1996, respectively. In 1973 she began her career as an assistant curator at the Smithsonian's Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, working on the inaugural exhibition catalogue and collection archives until 1977. Moving to Charleston, she was public relations director at the Gibbes Museum of Art from 1980 to 1987. Her subsequent curatorial projects for the Gibbes include Landscape of Slavery: The Plantation in American Art (2008); Rhythms of Life: The Art of Jonathan Green (2004) and The Poetry of Place: Landscapes of Thomas Coram and Charles Fraser (1997).

For Spoleto Festival USA, Roberta was the public relations/press director in 1980, and then later served as associate curator for the exhibitions, Human/Nature: Art and Landscape in Charleston and the Lowcountry (1997) and Joel Shapiro Sculpture (2000). She also contributed to 100 Years/100 Artists: Views of the 20th Century in South Carolina Art (1999) for the South Carolina State Museum; and A Portion of the People: 300 Years of Jewish Life in South Carolina (2002) for McKissick Museum at the University of South Carolina. As an editor, she produced several volumes, including Calm in the Shadow of the Palmetto & Magnolia: Southern Art from The Charleston Renaissance Gallery, Private Gardens of Charleston, The A.B. Frost Book, Alice R.H. Smith, and Tales of Charleston 1930s. She collaborated on the monograph, Charleston in My Time: The Paintings of West Fraser, published by the University of South Carolina Press.

Roberta's current projects include a catalogue of southern works on paper for the Charleston Renaissance Gallery (Fall 2008) and an exhibition of contemporary narrative painters for the City Gallery at Waterfront Park in Charleston (April 2009).

Buff Ross served as a curator of the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art from 2001-2004 after completing his Masters Degree in Museum Studies at John F. Kennedy University in San Francisco, California. Ross left HICA and established AllOneWord Design, a consultancy offering website solution to the museum community. The gallery has retained his services in designing and developing the website. In the Fall of 2005, Ross will return to the classroom in the Arts Management program at the College of Charleston to teach Technology and the Arts.

In addition to curating exhibitions at the gallery, Ross was an Adjunct Professor in the Arts Management program teaching the Gallery Fundamentals class. Among the many other hats he donned during his tenure at the gallery were those of graphic and web designer for the gallery.