Chapel Hill Exhibitions
Tama Hochbaum at Horace Williams House
2026 Chapel Hill Exhibitions
2026 in Chapel Hill will feature exhibitions at Horace Williams House, Frank Gallery and the Arts Center in Carrboro.
Check back for details on dates and opening receptions!
Artist Talk: Tim Duffy-Music Makers Tintypes
Thursday, October 29, 2026
6:00-7:00 PM
Frank Gallery, Carrboro
Timothy Duffy is a renowned photographer and founder of the Music Maker Relief Foundation. Timothy has been recording and photographing traditional artists in the South since the age of 16, when he became interested in ethnomusicology. After earning a BA from Friends World College and MA from the Curriculum in Folklore at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Timothy and his wife Denise founded Music Maker Relief Foundation in 1994 to assist traditional musicians in need.
October 1-31, 2026
The ArtsCenter, Carrboro
Student/Teacher Exhibit: "Quiet Light/Loud Stories"
Our Second Friday Art-Walk reception will be for “"Quiet Light/Loud Stories.” Work created by Instructor Heather Craig and Student Mario Chen. The Exhibit runs through the entire month of October.
Photograph: Heather Craig
Image: Mario Chen
2025 Chapel Hill Exhibition Recap
Second Friday Opening Reception October 10, 6-9pm
Barbara Tyroler October Featured Photographer: "Seeing Trees”
Barbara Tyroler is a photographic image-maker producing collaborative multi-media art projects that address social and cultural issues. As an educator she blends fine art and humanitarian work, which is central to her art practice. As a seasoned professional, Barbara’s art and teachings explore how the lens inspires the journey, how the photographic image evokes feeling and conveys meaning, creating and recreating stories and memories beyond the frame. Her photography is conceived through the synthesis of light, imagination, and technology.
Artist Statement
As a fine art portrait artist and educator who utilizes pools and water for her backdrops, she is specifically interested in community outreach. The photographic series of portraiture created in pools and lakes throughout the east coast, explores how and why we immerse our bodies in water. The work is collaboratively produced with family and friends, students and colleagues, business clients, and strangers, to record gesture and the human figure, light, pattern, and reflective design. Beneath the surface are the intimate stories she encounters.
FRANK: in Focus will feature FRANK guest photographers; Dan Gotlieb, Tama Hochbaum, Tim Walter, and Gadisse Lee.
September 30 – November 8
The month of October is an exciting celebration of photography with FRANK:inFocus “The Click! Photography Festival celebrates the medium of photography and its cultural influence by engaging the photography community with exceptional photo-based works, artists, and programming.”
Please join us for this exciting month filled with engaging photography related events!
Dan Gottlieb studied art and biology (SUNY Buffalo, a Regents Scholar) before relocating to California where he lived for ten years as a student (SDSU, art and environmental design), cabinetmaker, and artist. It was there that Dan began experiments with alternative photographic processes and a 40-year career in museum design (at the San Diego Museum of Natural History). He has developed a unique method of printing with a process of his own design, combining archivally printed photographs with multiple layers of paint and laborious finishing.
Tama Hochbaum is a New York City-born artist and photographer living in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, with a background in fine arts and printmaking from Brandeis University and an MFA in painting from Queens College. She worked as a painter for 20 years before focusing on photography, with a central artistic theme of exploring the passage of time and memory through various projects, including her recent work, Over/Time: Imaging Landscape.
Timothy Walter, is an arts entrepreneur and art photographer based in Durham, NC. His art projects are the creation of striking portraits of friends and performers that give visual voice to experiences of past trauma. The subjects make visible emotions of anger, dismay, grief -- and sometimes resilience and resolve.
Gadisse Lee is a 25-year-old fine art photographer based in North Carolina. She was born and raised in Ethiopia for seven years before coming to the United States. Lee received her BFA in 2022 from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She has had numerous group exhibitions throughout North Carolina including the For Freedoms Project – Lawn Signs, and has had her work published in Stubborn Magazine, The Danger Issue.