Talks
Odd Couples: Objects in Conversation
Ackland Art Museum 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesJoin Ackland Graduate Intern Sarah Farkas and Object Based Teaching Fellow Erin Dickey for a guided look at artwork from opposite corners of the Ackland's collection. See how unexpected pairings can lead to exciting new insights! This program will be held virtually, via Zoom. Registered participants will receive a link to join the program in…
Odd Couples: Objects in Conversation
Ackland Art Museum 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesJoin Ackland Graduate Intern Sarah Farkas and Object Based Teaching Fellow Erin Dickey for a guided look at artwork from opposite corners of the Ackland's collection. See how unexpected pairings can lead to exciting new insights! This program will be held virtually, via Zoom. Registered participants will receive a link to join the program in…
Close Looks at Cocktail Hour: Shanequa Gay’s holding space for nobility: a memorial for Breonna Taylor
Zoom (Link Provided with Ticket) , United StatesJoin the Ackland’s Object Based Teaching Fellow, Erin Dickey, for an informal conversation focused on one work of art from the Ackland’s new Close Looks digital feature. Plan to look closely and think collectively—and bring a drink of your choosing. On January 27, we'll look at Shanequa Gay's site-specific installation, holding space for nobility: a…
Odd Couples: Objects in Conversation
Zoom (Link Provided with Ticket) , United StatesJoin Ackland Graduate Intern Sarah Farkas and Object Based Teaching Fellow Erin Dickey for a guided look at artwork from opposite corners of the Ackland’s collection. See how unexpected pairings can lead to exciting new insights! We will be looking at Ken Price's The Squeeze and Eugène Emmanuel Viollet-Le-Duc's Ciborium. This program will be held virtually,…
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…
Close Looks at Cocktail Hour: Tennessee Williams’s “Midnite Show”
Zoom (Link Provided with Ticket) , United StatesJoin the Ackland’s Object Based Teaching Fellow, Erin Dickey, for an informal conversation focused on one work of art from the Ackland’s new Close Looks digital feature. Plan to look closely and think collectively—and bring a drink of your choosing. On February 17, we'll look at acclaimed playwright Tennessee William's artwork, Midnite Show. Registration is…
“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…
Ackland Film Forum: “Happy Together” Watch Party and Panel
Zoom (Link Provided with Ticket) , United StatesJoin us for the second film in the Ackland Film Forum's spring series on Global Queer Cinema: Happy Together (Wong Kar Wai, 1997). The series is a collaboration with the Film Studies Program in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at UNC-Chapel Hill, and features a selection of four international films presented in connection…
Close Looks at Cocktail Hour: Renée Stout’s Ogun
Zoom (Link Provided with Ticket) , United StatesJoin the Ackland’s Object Based Teaching Fellow, Erin Dickey, for an informal conversation focused on one work of art from the Ackland’s new Close Looks digital feature. Plan to look closely and think collectively—and bring a drink of your choosing. On March 17, we'll look at Renée Stout's piece, Ogun. Registration is limited. After RSVPing,…