Talks
Guided Tour: Ackland Collection and 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 of the Ackland Art Museum’s collection and our special exhibition Modern Black Culture: The Art of Aaron Douglas. Advance registration required;…
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.…
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:…
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…
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…
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…
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…