Events

TOUR: A Closer Look at the Collection
Ackland Art Museum 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesJoin Ackland educators for a lively half-hour look at a small handful of artworks. These engaging conversational tours offer a closer look at and new perspectives on works on view at the Museum. This is a free, walk-in event – no RSVP required. This event is part of UNC–Chapel Hill’s Campus Life Experience (CLE)…

Tour: A Closer Look at “Bill Bamberger: Boys Will Be Men”
Ackland Art Museum 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesJoin Ackland educators for a lively half-hour look at a small handful of artworks. These engaging conversational tours offer a closer look at and new perspectives on works on view at the Museum. Today’s tour looks at Bill Bamberger: Boys Will Be Men. This is a free, walk-in event – no RSVP required. This event…

Art Adventures (Morning Session)
Ackland Art Museum 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesIn this art-inspired, hands-on art-making class for six- to nine-year-olds, participants will create their own artwork inspired by the art on view in the Ackland galleries. Space is limited; registration required. Free for Ackland Members at the Household Level and above; $5 per child for all others.

TOUR: A Closer Look at the Collection
Ackland Art Museum 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesJoin Ackland educators for a lively half-hour look at a small handful of artworks. These engaging conversational tours offer a closer look at and new perspectives on works on view at the Museum. This is a free, walk-in event – no RSVP required. This event is part of UNC–Chapel Hill’s Campus Life Experience (CLE)…

Art Adventures (Afternoon Session)
Ackland Art Museum 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesIn this art-inspired, hands-on art-making class for six- to nine-year-olds, participants will create their own artwork inspired by the art on view in the Ackland galleries. Space is limited; registration required. Free for Ackland Members at the Household Level and above; $5 per child for all others.

TOUR: A Closer Look at the Collection
Ackland Art Museum 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesJoin Ackland educators for a lively half-hour look at a small handful of artworks. These engaging conversational tours offer a closer look at and new perspectives on works on view at the Museum. This is a free, walk-in event – no RSVP required. This event is part of UNC–Chapel Hill’s Campus Life Experience (CLE)…

“Bill Bamberger: Boys Will Be Men” Artist Conversation
Ackland Art Museum 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesArtist Bill Bamberger, exhibition curator Lauren Turner, and select participating current and former students from Durham School of the Arts will host a public conversation discussing the process behind and lessons learned from the community-driven exhibition Bill Bamberger: Boys Will Be Men. Please register for a free ticket below as space is limited. This event…

Ackland Film Forum: “Aftersun” (Charlotte Wells, 2022)
Chelsea Theater 1129 Weaver Dairy Road, Suite AB, Chapel Hill, United StatesSet during a modest holiday at a Turkish resort in the early 2000s, Aftersun approaches coming of age obliquely, through memory and retrospection. Stunningly shot on 35mm film, which is contrasted with mini DV home movie video footage, the plot follows young Sophie (Frankie Corio) and her father Calum (Paul Mescal). But it is the adult…

Tour: A Closer Look at “Color Concentrated”
Ackland Art Museum 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesJoin Ackland educators for a lively half-hour look at a small handful of artworks. These engaging conversational tours offer a closer look at and new perspectives on works on view at the Museum. Today’s tour looks at Color Concentrated: A Salon-Style Show from the Robertson Collection. This is a free, walk-in event – no RSVP…

The 11th Annual Symposium of the Art Student Graduate Organization – “Anachronic Enchantment: Temporalities in Visual and Material Culture”
Ackland Art Museum 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesThe symposium will be held in-person at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on Saturday, February 28 from 9:00 AM- 2:30 PM. Presentations will be followed by a Q&A session and are open to a general audience. When something is described as anachronistic, it is often to say that it is contradictory, inconsistent,…