Special Programs
Ackland at Fall Arts Pop Up 2021
Davis Library Courtyard Chapel Hill, United StatesVisit 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 a.m. - 1 p.m. at the Davis Library Courtyard. Pick up materials to make origami shapes inspired by our upcoming exhibition, Buddha and Shiva, Lotus…
Ackland at Fall Arts Pop Up 2021
Davis Library Courtyard Chapel Hill, United StatesVisit 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 a.m. - 1 p.m. at the Davis Library Courtyard. Pick up materials to make origami shapes inspired by our upcoming exhibition, Buddha and Shiva, Lotus…
Artist Conversation: Christopher Myers
Ackland Art Museum 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesJoin 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 acquisition in the Museum's permanent collection and is featured in the 2021-2022 Close Looks series. In this free Zoom webinar, we'll hear from Myers about…
Artist Conversation: Zig Jackson
Zoom , United StatesJoin 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, CA is featured in the Ackland's 2021-2022 Close Looks series. In this free virtual conversation, we'll hear from Jackson about this 1997 work, others in…
American Tastes in Japanese Art: The Influence of Sherman Emery Lee
Ackland Art Museum 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesAt this free virtual talk Dr. James Ulak will offer thoughts on Sherman Emery Lee's (1918–2008) powerful influence in directing collecting tastes in Japanese art throughout America. Lee's advice has benefited countless private and institutional collections — including the Ackland Art Museum — from the immediate post-WWII era, through his distinguished museum career, and well into…
Art & Lit at the Ackland: “The Hare with Amber Eyes” by Edmund de Waal
Ackland Art Museum 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesJoin us in reading artist and author Edmund de Waal's captivating family memoir The Hare with Amber Eyes, which traces the story of his family through a collection of hand-carved Japanese netsuke as the objects traveled across time, space, and generations. After you’ve read it, spend time exploring the Ackland's exhibition Buddha and Shiva, Lotus…
Can Art Prevent War? A Discussion about the Power of Cultural Diplomacy
Zoom , United StatesWith Barbara Stephenson (Vice Chancellor for Global Affairs and Chief Global Officer, UNC-Chapel Hill) and Katie Ziglar (Director, Ackland Art Museum) At this free virtual panel, Ackland director Katie Ziglar speaks with Vice Provost for Global Affairs and former diplomat Barbara Stephenson about the power of cultural diplomacy, meditating on the provocative question, "Can Art…
Ackland F.A.M. | Art All Around You
Ackland Art Museum 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesDid you know that art can be found all around you? Carolina's campus is filled with gems like Carolina Performing Arts' Memorial Hall and our very own Ackland Art Museum! This December, our Ackland F.A.M. theme is Interactive Art. Find out more ways to get involved below: VISIT THE ACKLAND Family & Friends Sunday December…
Virtual “Peace, Power & Prestige” Curator Conversation
Zoom (Link Provided with Ticket) , United StatesSusan Cooksey (Harn Museum of Art) in conversation with Victoria L. Rovine (Art History, UNC-Chapel Hill) Join us for a free virtual conversation about Peace, Power & Prestige, with exhibition curator Dr. Susan Cooksey (Curator Emerita of African Art, Harn Museum of Art) and Dr. Victoria Rovine (Professor of African Art History, Department of Art…
Radical Healing and Decoloniality: Museums in Transition
Zoom , United StatesThis talk by Amanda Maples, Curator of African Art at the NC Museum of Art, is part of UNC Chapel Hill's African Studies Center’s Decolonizing African Studies Series. With the advent of global protests urgently calling for social justice and the end of systemic racism, museums have been called upon to reflect on their own…