Special Programs
Hanes Visiting Artist Series: Sousveillance
Zoom (Link Provided with Ticket) , United StatesHANES VISITING ARTIST LECTURE Maria Gaspar, Hương Ngô (UNC BFA Alumna), and Anna Martine Whitehead “Sousveillance and How to Think Like a Forest” Register to attend here: https://go.unc.edu/o9CJk Registration will end at 5 pm on February 7. A zoom link will be emailed to registrants 24 hours in advance of the lecture. Sousveillance – watching…
“Posing Modernity: A Retrospective View” with Denise Murrell
Zoom , United StatesJoin us for a free virtual conversation with Denise Murrell about her exhibition Posing Modernity: The Black Model from Manet and Matisse to Today, which was on view at the Wallach Art Gallery at Columbia University and the Musée d'Orsay, Paris, in 2018 and 2019. Murrell is a UNC alumna ('76) and she was recently…
Artist Conversation: Renée Stout
Ackland Art Museum 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesJoin us for a conversation between artist Renée Stout and the Ackland's Lauren Turner, assistant curator for the collection. Stout's work Ogun (1995) is part of the Museum's permanent collection and will be featured in the digital Close Looks project. In this free public conversation, we'll revisit Ogun twenty-five years on, using the work to…
Kusama and Beyond: A Conversation with Collectors JK Brown and Eric Diefenbach
Zoom (Link Provided with Ticket) , United StatesJoin collectors of modern and contemporary art JK Brown and Eric Diefenbach in a lively conversation with Ackland Director Katie Ziglar and Deputy Director for Curatorial Affairs Peter Nisbet. Brown and Diefenbach are currently lending works from their personal collection by internationally-renowned contemporary artist Yayoi Kusama to the Ackland's exhibition Yayoi Kusama: Open the Shape…
Artist Conversation: Creating “Mysterious Ink World, Part One (2016)”
Zoom (Link Provided with Ticket) , United StatesJoin 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 art, Clouding: Shape and Sign in Asian Art. The immersive work is composed of an abstract ink painting by Ming Ren (American, b. 1956) installed…
Arts & Drafts: Watercolors with Craftboro
Zoom (Link Provided with Ticket) , United StatesLearn 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 version of our hands-on art-making and beer-tasting event. This summer’s event will feature watercolor artist Jeanine Tatlock, curator Dana Cowen, and brewer/owner Jason McCarter of…
Curator’s Conversation: Introduction to “Visions of Venice”
Zoom (Link Provided with Ticket) , United StatesJoin 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 about the circumstances of Whistler’s 1879 trip to Venice, his unique views of the floating city, his experimental working method, and how his works were…
Public Art Concept Presentation with The Urban Conga
Zoom (Link Provided with Ticket) , United StatesPlease 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 front terrace. They will introduce an assortment of possible designs being considered, and then they will follow the presentation by answering questions and receiving feedback…
Museum Pictionary
Ackland Art Museum 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesThink 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 your drawing skills against two of the Ackland's curators, Dana Cowen and Lauren Turner, in our Zoom-based, museum version of Pictionary! We'll take turns drawing…
Art & Lit: “Visions of Venice” and Italo Calvino’s “Invisible Cities”
Ackland Art Museum 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesThis 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 Cities, which features a fictional Marco Polo describing fascinating vignettes of his travels to an aged Kublai Khan. After you’ve read it, spend time exploring…