Talks
Lecture-Demo with Artist Elizabeth Alexander
Ackland Art Museum 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesJoin us for an unconventional artist talk with Boston-based multimedia artist Elizabeth Alexander. Alexander, whose work Spit Cake (2014) is on view at the Ackland as part of the Art…
Artist Conversation: Art / Science / Music / Math
Ackland Art Museum 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesJoin us for a lively conversation between visiting artist Kelsey Brookes and composer Allen Anderson about the intersections of art, science, music, and math. Brookes is a former scientist whose…
Rengetsu and Nantenbō: Calligraphy and Context
Ackland Art Museum 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United States*This event is sold out. Please contact acklandrsvp@unc.edu to join a registration wait list. Thank you!* A one-day symposium considering the two artists of Lotus Moon and Nandina Staff,…
Virtual Conversation: Mapping Joe Minter’s African Village in America
Zoom , United StatesWith Eric Courchesne, Rachel Stephens, and Emily Bibb (University of Alabama) Moderated by Lauren Turner, Ackland Art Museum Join the Ackland for a lively virtual program featuring three scholars at…
Semester Revue
Ackland Art Museum 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesStudent Research & Responses to the Collection Each semester, the Ackland Art Museum works with thousands of UNC-Chapel Hill students through courses and internships. Semester Revue offers a glimpse into…
“Unsettled Things” Study Day
Ackland Art Museum 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesRegister for a special opportunity to participate in a Study Day with scholars of The Unfinished Business of Unsettled Things, the publication that accompanies the Ackland's current exhibition Unsettled Things:…
Work-in-Progress Film Screening: “Minnie Evans: Draw or Die”
Ackland Art Museum 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesJoin us for a special work-in-progress screening of the forthcoming documentary Minnie Evans: Draw or Die (dir. Linda Royal). The documentary explores the life and work of Eastern North Carolina…
The 9th Annual Symposium of the Art Student Graduate Organization – “The Ways We Attach Ourselves”: Affect, Agency, and Emotion in the Visual Arts
Ackland Art Museum 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesPlease reserve your space at the event here. The symposium will be held in-person at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on Friday, September 15th at 5:30 -…
Artist Talk: Amalia Pica
Ackland Art Museum 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesJoin us for an artist talk with Amalia Pica, internationally renowned London-based Argentinian artist whose major commissioned installation Drawn to Explain has just been completed at the Craige Parking Deck…
Artist Talk: Alison Elizabeth Taylor
Ackland Art Museum 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesJoin us as we welcome Outwin first-prize-winning artist Alison Elizabeth Taylor to the Ackland for an artist talk about her fascinating body of work, which uses a technique she describes…