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  • Artist Conversation: Creating “Mysterious Ink World, Part One (2016)”

    Zoom (Link Provided with Ticket) , United States
    Virtual Event

    Join us Friday, April 9 for an in-depth look at Mysterious Ink World, Part One (2016), a collaborative contemporary work featured in the Ackland Art Museum's newest installation of Asian…

    Free

  • Two beer bottles with the words 'Arts' and 'Drafts' on bottle against a brick background

    Arts & Drafts: Watercolors with Craftboro

    Zoom (Link Provided with Ticket) , United States
    Virtual Event

    Learn watercolor basics from a regional artist, hear about watercolors on view in the Ackland’s newest exhibition, and taste local beers with the brewer who crafted them at a virtual…

    $13

  • Curator’s Conversation: Introduction to “Visions of Venice”

    Zoom (Link Provided with Ticket) , United States
    Virtual Event

    Join Dana E. Cowen, Sheldon Peck Curator for European and American Art before 1950, for an in-depth look at Visions of Venice. In this virtual discussion, participants will learn more…

    Free

  • Public Art Concept Presentation with The Urban Conga

    Zoom (Link Provided with Ticket) , United States
    Virtual Event

    Please join us in a Zoom webinar where design firm The Urban Conga will present concepts under development for the next public art commission to be installed on the Ackland’s…

    Free

  • Sketch of two orange fish swimming in blue and orange wavy lines

    Museum Pictionary

    Ackland Art Museum 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United States
    Virtual Event

    Think you can draw a work of art from description alone? Join us for an afternoon of virtual drawing games based on works now on view in Drawing Attention. Test…

    Free

  • Art & Lit: “Visions of Venice” and Italo Calvino’s “Invisible Cities”

    Ackland Art Museum 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United States
    Virtual Event

    This program is now SOLD OUT. To be added to a waitlist, please email acklandRSVP@unc.edu. Thank you! -- Join us in reading (or rereading!) Italo Calvino’s 1972 classic novel Invisible…

    $19

  • Ackland at Fall Arts Pop Up 2021

    Ackland at Fall Arts Pop Up 2021
    Davis Library Courtyard Chapel Hill, United States

    Visit the Ackland's art-making station as we welcome Carolina students back to campus alongside Arts Everywhere! Stop by our table on Thursday, September 16 or Friday, September 17 from 11…

  • Ackland at Fall Arts Pop Up 2021

    Ackland at Fall Arts Pop Up 2021
    Davis Library Courtyard Chapel Hill, United States

    Visit the Ackland's art-making station as we welcome Carolina students back to campus alongside Arts Everywhere! Stop by our table on Thursday, September 16 or Friday, September 17 from 11…

  • Image of tapestry work by Christopher Myers featured image of Black woman in a red dress holding a large blue and white fish. The background features a embroidered purple stripe on the left and a horizontal lime green stripe at top right with yellow rectangle filling the remainder of the background. The work is hung on wooden dowels.

    Artist Conversation: Christopher Myers

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    Ackland Art Museum 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

    Join us for a virtual conversation between artist Christopher Myers and the Ackland's Lauren Turner, assistant curator for the collection. Myers's work Fish Pieta (2020)(seen at right) is a new…

    Free

  • A black and white photograph that shows Zig Jackson, the artist, in a half-length portrait, standing, facing front and wearing a headdress, sunglasses, and a plaid shirt. Zig stands next to a large sign in the style of a city or landmark sign with a dark background and white lettering that states "Entering Zig’s Indian Reservation." Below is a smaller white sign with black lettering that states: "Private Property, open range cattle on highway, No Picture Taking, No Hunting, No Air Traffic, New Agers Prohibited, without permission from Tribal Council.” Zig stands in tall grass with a highway and a cityscape of San Francisco, California behind him.

    Artist Conversation: Zig Jackson

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    Zoom , United States
    Virtual Event

    Join us for a virtual conversation between artist Zig Jackson and the Ackland's Lauren Turner, assistant curator for the collection. Jackson's photograph Entering Zig’s Indian Reservation, China Basin, San Francisco,…

    Free