Events
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…
Ackland Film Forum: “Boyhood” (Richard Linklater, 2014)
The Lumina Theater 620 Market Street, Chapel Hill, United StatesFilmed over twelve years with the same cast members who conspicuously age from segment to segment, Boyhood offers one of cinema’s most literal and radical explorations of coming of age. Following Mason (Ellar Coltrane) from early childhood through his first days of college, the film refuses traditional narrative climaxes in favor of accumulation: small moments, shifting…
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…
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…
Ackland F.A.M. Day: Growing Up
Ackland Art Museum 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesActivities for the whole family inspired by the Ackland’s current exhibition Bill Bamberger: Boys Will Be Men. F.A.M. (Families at the Museum) Day is a free, walk-in program for all ages; drop in all afternoon!
Ackland Film Forum: “Crooklyn” (Spike Lee, 1994)
Varsity Theatre 123 E. Franklin Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesSet in 1970s Brooklyn, Crooklyn recounts childhood from the perspective of nine-year-old Troy Carmichael (Zelda Harris), whose coming of age unfolds within the rhythms of Black family life, neighborhood culture, and social constraint. The film balances warmth and humor with moments of rupture, revealing how maturity often arrives through confrontation with authority, injustice, and grief. Lee…
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…
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…
2nd Friday ArtWalk: Documentary Photography
Ackland Art Museum 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesSpend a spring evening learning more about documentary photography during this month’s 2nd Friday ArtWalk inspired by Bill Bamberger: Boys Will Be Men. Artist Bill Bamberger will offer tours of the exhibition alongside his faculty colleagues from the Duke Center for Documentary Studies while deputy director for curatorial affairs Peter Nisbet presents documentary photographs from…
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 a portrait based on the themes in the works on view in Bill Bamberger: Boys Will Be Men. Space is limited; registration required. Free for Ackland Members at the Household Level and above; $5 per child for all others.