Talks
Guided Tour: Modern Black Culture: The Art of Aaron Douglas
Ackland Art Museum 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesMeet in the lobby for a 30-minute, guided tour exploring highlights of our current special exhibition Modern Black Culture: The Art of Aaron Douglas. Advance registration required; space is limited. The Ackland Art Museum is operating under the guidelines of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. As of March 7, 2022, masks are…
Ackland F.A.M.: Juneteenth Celebration
Ackland Art Museum 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesOur June Ackland F.A.M. (Families at the Museum) theme celebrates Juneteenth with several activities available in person on June 19, the final day of our current exhibition Modern Black Culture: The Art of Aaron Douglas. Juneteenth Celebration June 19| 1-5 p.m. Interactive Family Tour | 2:00 p.m. Join Ackland docents in a family-friendly close look…
Hanes Visiting Artist Talk: Alexis Rockman
Hanes Art Center Auditorium (Room 121) 121 East Cameron Avenue, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesJoin us for an artist talk with Alexis Rockman, part of the UNC Art & Art History Department's Hanes Visiting Artist series. The talk is presented in connection with the Ackland Art Museum's current exhibition Alexis Rockman: Shipwrecks. Free and open to the public. The talk will be held in the Hanes Art Center Auditorium,…
Special Lecture by Wayne Franits
Ackland Art Museum 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesPaper Delights: The Peck Collection of Seventeenth-Century Dutch Drawings Join us for a free public talk by distinguished professor Wayne Franits (Syracuse University), specialist in seventeenth century Dutch and Flemish Art. This lecture examines some of the highlights of the exhibition of the incomparable Peck Collection of Seventeenth-Century Dutch Drawings, which is currently on view…
Fall 2022 Semester Revue
Ackland Art Museum 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesSEMESTER REVUE | ART& Student Research & Responses to the Collection Each semester, the Ackland Art Museum works with thousands of UNC-Chapel Hill students through courses and internships. The Semester Revue offers a glimpse into the quality and variety of the students’ research, projects, and performances. Come learn about the collection and see it anew…
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 Bridges Collection Loan Partnership, will talk about her work as she demonstrates the various techniques used to create her delicate cut-porcelain sculptures. Audience members will…
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 work One Pointed Attention 2 (2014), a large-scale painting based on the Fibonacci sequence, is on loan to the Ackland through the Art Bridges Collection…
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, open to the general public and scholars alike. The symposium will look at the work of artists Ōtagaki Rengetsu and Nakahara Nantenbō from multiple perspectives,…
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 the University of Alabama who have been collaborating across disciplines to create a dynamic website that maps and preserves artist Joe Minter's African Village in…
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 the quality and variety of the students’ research, projects, and performances. Come learn about the collection and see it anew through their short, dynamic presentations.