Events
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African Textiles at the Ackland I
Ackland Art Museum 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesThis program is now FULL. To be added to our WAITLIST, please email acklandRSVP@unc.edu. A guided look at African textiles on view in Continental Shift: Recent Acquisitions of African Art and the Museum’s African art collection gallery. Led by Dr. Victoria Rovine, Department of Art and Art History and Carolina Public Humanities, Millie West,…
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Tour: A Closer Look at “Continental Shift”
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 in Continental Shift: Recent Acquisitions of African Art. These engaging conversational tours offer a closer look at and new perspectives on works on view at the Museum. Free, but space is limited to 20 participants; first come, first served. This event…
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Tour: A Closer Look at “Care and Concern”
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 in Care and Concern: Recent Acquisitions of Modern and Contemporary Art. These engaging conversational tours offer a closer look at and new perspectives on works on view at the Museum. Free, but space is limited to 20 participants; first come, first…
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2nd Friday ArtWalk: Extended Museum Hours
Ackland Art Museum 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesJoin us for extended hours at the Ackland Art Museum during the Carrboro-Chapel Hill 2nd Friday ArtWalk! Each month, we stay open from 5:00 – 9:00 p.m. to give visitors more time to explore. Stroll through our galleries featuring highlights from a collection of over 21,000 works of art and sketch in the galleries using…
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Artist Conversation: Phaan Howng
Ackland Art Museum 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesArtist Phaan Howng speaks with Lauren Turner, associate curator for contemporary art and special projects, about Phaan Howng: Against Nature, the newest installation in the Museum’s ART& space, and its place in Howng’s body of work. Free, but space is limited; registration required below. This event is part of UNC–Chapel Hill’s Campus Life Experience (CLE)…
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Ackland Film Forum: “Z” (Costa-Gavras, 1969)
The Lumina Theater 620 Market Street, Chapel Hill, United StatesYves Montand, Jean-Louis Trintignant, and Irène Papas headline this electrifying political thriller. A politician is assassinated in broad daylight, setting in motion an investigation that gradually exposes the distance between official narratives and lived reality. Racing ahead with remarkable urgency, Z channels late-1960s anti-authoritarian currents and the growing sense that democratic institutions can no longer be…
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“She Will Be Quite a Manager”: From Plantation Owner to Girl Boss
Ackland Art Museum 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesWhat do a Civil War-era plantation owner and a modern “girl boss” have in common? More than you think. Adelicia Acklen and Dorothy Thomas were two of the most powerful plantation-owning women—one in the US South and the other in South America—but both wielded the power of ownership by deploying and playing on particular ideas of femininity.…
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Tour: Curators’ Tour of “Continental Shift” and “Care and Concern”
Ackland Art Museum 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesJoin Peter Nisbet, deputy director for curatorial affairs, and Lauren Turner, associate curator for contemporary art for this tour of both exhibitions. In this tour, the curators of both Continental Shift: Recent Acquisitions of African Art and Care and Concern: Recent Acquisitions of Modern and Contemporary Art discuss the ways that the recently-acquired works of…
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Tour: A Closer Look at “Continental Shift”
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 in Continental Shift: Recent Acquisitions of African Art. These engaging conversational tours offer a closer look at and new perspectives on works on view at the Museum. Free, but space is limited to 20 participants; first come, first served. This event…
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Ackland F.A.M. Day: “Care and Concern”
Ackland Art Museum 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesSpend an art-filled afternoon at the Ackland with family-friendly events and self-guided activities inspired by our current exhibition Care and Concern: Recent Acquisitions of Modern and Contemporary Art. F.A.M. (Families at the Museum) Day is a free, walk-in program for all ages; drop in all afternoon.