Exhibits & Events

The Day Job highlights the connections between creative pursuit and economic necessity, exploring how artists navigate their roles in the studio and the workplace. Far from separate, together, these worlds can fuel artistic growth, offering new materials, methods, and insights that expand an artist’s way of thinking.

Featured artists— Ray Bailey, Joe Grubb, Carolyn Kline-Coyle, Sue Liedke, Mark Rice, Michele Southworth, Christina Wills, and Zach Zecha— reflect on how their day jobs might influence their art. Accompanying their pieces are personal reflections on a simple yet revealing question: What is your “day job,” and how does it inform your artistic practice?

Through themes like unseen labor, the essential nature of work, and the shaping of identity, this exhibit invites you to consider what factors underpin the creative process. What stories are revealed, obscured, or reimagined in the intersection of artistic practice and the day job?