Guided Tour: Peace, Power & Prestige: Metal Arts in Africa
2022-02-11 13:30 - 14:00, 2022-02-17 13:30 - 14:00, 2022-03-03 13:30 - 14:00, 2022-03-11 13:30 - 14:00, 2022-03-17 13:30 - 14:00, 2022-03-24 13:30 - 14:00, 2022-04-01 13:30 - 14:00 (America/New_York) | Ackland Art Museum, 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States
Meet in the lobby for a 30-minute, guided tour exploring highlights of our current special exhibition Peace, Power & Prestige: Metal Arts in Africa.
Advance registration required; space is limited.
If you find yourself unable to attend, please email acklandrsvp@unc.edu, so that we may offer the space to others.
This program is supported by the Orange County Arts Commission.

Virtual "Peace, Power & Prestige" Curator Conversation
2022-02-11 15:30 - 16:30 | Zoom (Link Provided with Ticket), United States
Susan Cooksey (Harn Museum of Art) in conversation with Victoria L. Rovine (Art History, UNC-Chapel Hill)
Join us for a free virtual conversation about Peace, Power & Prestige, with exhibition curator Dr. Susan Cooksey (Curator Emerita of African Art, Harn Museum of Art) and Dr. Victoria Rovine (Professor of African Art History, Department of Art and Art History, UNC-Chapel Hill).
Learn about highlights of this exhibition, which explores the roles of metal objects in sustaining, unifying, and enhancing life in African communities while demonstrating the aesthetic and expressive power of metal arts. The exhibition of over 140 pieces includes a diverse range of iron, brass, bronze, gold, copper, silver, and alloyed works created by artists in Sub-Saharan Africa between the twelfth and twenty-first centuries.

Guided Tour: Explore the Ackland’s Collection and Peace, Power & Prestige
2022-02-18 13:30 - 14:00, 2022-02-24 13:30 - 14:00, 2022-03-10 13:30 - 14:00, 2022-03-18 13:30 - 14:00, 2022-03-25 13:30 - 14:00, 2022-03-31 13:30 - 14:00 | Ackland Art Museum, 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States
Meet in the lobby for a 30-minute, guided tour of the Ackland Art Museum’s collection and our special exhibition Peace, Power & Prestige: Metal Arts in Africa.
Advance registration required; space is limited.
If you find yourself unable to attend, please email acklandrsvp@unc.edu, so that we may offer the space to others.
This program is supported by the Orange County Arts Commission.

Close Looks Conversational Tour: Hale Woodruff's Landscape "(Mississippi, Soil Erosion)"
2022-02-23 13:30 - 14:00 | Ackland Art Museum, 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States
Join Weixin Zhou, Ackland Graduate Teaching Fellow, for an informal conversation about Hale Aspacio Woodruff’s 1940s painting Landscape (Mississippi, Soil Erosion), a work featured in the Ackland’s Close Looks project and part of the Museum’s permanent collection. Plan to look closely and think collectively.
Registration is limited. Sign up for free tickets to this in-person program below.
If you find yourself unable to attend, please email acklandrsvp@unc.edu, so that we may offer the space to others.
This program is supported by the Orange County Arts Commission.

Radical Healing and Decoloniality: Museums in Transition
2022-02-24 17:00 - 18:00 | Zoom, United States
This talk by Amanda Maples, Curator of African Art at the NC Museum of Art, is part of UNC Chapel Hill’s African Studies Center’s Decolonizing African Studies Series.
With the advent of global protests urgently calling for social justice and the end of systemic racism, museums have been called upon to reflect on their own institutional histories and grapple with the role they have played in perpetuating stereotypes and inequities—both in gallery and collections representation, and within their administration. A critical aspect of this relatively recent pursuit to decolonize includes facing the violence at play in colonial and imperial histories, and making efforts towards reparations more broadly. Such momentum has catapulted museums into a period of transition and their responsibilities are fundamentally changing towards creating space for radical healing.
Register here for this free virtual talk!
Organized by the African Studies Center, College of Arts and Sciences, UNC-Chapel Hill.

Guided Tour: Peace, Power & Prestige: Metal Arts in Africa
2022-02-25 13:30 - 14:00 | Ackland Art Museum, 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States
Meet in the lobby for a 30-minute, guided tour exploring highlights of our current special exhibition Peace, Power & Prestige: Metal Arts in Africa.
Advance registration required; space is limited.
This program is supported by the Orange County Arts Commission.

Guided Tour: Explore the Ackland's Collection and Peace, Power & Prestige
2022-03-04 13:30 - 14:00 | Ackland Art Museum, 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States

Close Looks Conversational Tour: Mughal Perforated Screen
2022-03-23 13:30 - 14:00 | Ackland Art Museum, 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States
Join Weixin Zhou, Ackland Graduate Teaching Fellow, for an informal conversation about the Ackland’s Mughal perforated sandstone screen, a work featured in the Ackland’s Close Looks project and part of the Museum’s permanent collection. Plan to look closely and think collectively.
Registration is limited. Sign up for free tickets to this in-person program below.
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 optional in our galleries.
If you find yourself unable to attend, please email acklandrsvp@unc.edu, so that we may offer the space to others.
This program is supported by the Orange County Arts Commission.

Collectors' Seminar: Building an Art Collection
2022-03-24 17:30 - 18:30 | 101 South Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States
This program has been rescheduled from January 28th. Please join us on March 24th!

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With Drs. John and Nicole Dintenfass, Moderated by Peter Nisbet
Join us for an intimate conversation with Drs. John and Nicole Dintenfass about their lifelong passion for collecting art, the latest in a series of talks with collectors whose works have been on view at the Ackland. The Dintenfasses have collected art for an astonishing fifty-three years, beginning with John’s medical residency in West Africa and continuing for several decades as the French and American couple traveled throughout the U.S. and Europe. Their varied collection is comprised of African metalwork — some of which can now be seen at the Ackland in our exhibition Peace, Power & Prestige: Metal Arts in Africa — but also extends to wooden miniatures, Chinese art, and American paintings and coins. The Dintenfasses, together in conversation with Deputy Director for Curatorial Affairs Peter Nisbet, will discuss selected works from their African collection currently on view at the Museum, talk about how they have built and refined their collection, and share their thoughts on the psychology of collecting art, the subject of a book they are currently writing.
Space is extremely limited at this in-person program and registration is required. Please reserve your free tickets below.
If you find yourself unable to attend, please email acklandrsvp@unc.edu, so that we may offer the space to others.
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 optional in our galleries.

UNC Universe Week: The Art of Science Tour
2022-04-07 13:30 - 14:00, 2022-04-08 13:30 - 14:00 | Ackland Art Museum, 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States
Meet in the Ackland’s lobby for a guided tour that reveals the interplay between art on view and science! The tour will be 30 minutes in length.
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 optional in our galleries.

Virtual Artist Conversation: Ghost of a Dream
2022-04-08 14:30 - 15:30 | Zoom (Link Provided with Ticket), United States
Please join us for a virtual artist conversation between Ghost of a Dream, the artistic collaboration of Lauren Was and Adam Eckstrom, and the Ackland’s assistant curator for the collection Lauren Turner. Ghost of a Dream will discuss their commissioned installation for the Ackland, Aligned by the Sun (through the revolution), as well as their larger body of work.
This program is presented in connection with UNC’s Arts Everywhere Day and its 2022 theme “Grounded Growth,” which examines the role of art — especially the ways in which it was able to uplift and connect — during COVID.
Register for a free ticket for this Zoom webinar below. If you encounter registration issues, please contact email us at acklandRSVP@unc.edu.
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About Aligned by the Sun (through the revolution)
Aligned by the Sun (through the revolution) is a seven-channel video installation created specifically for the Ackland Art Museum that uses the formal positioning of the horizon line to connect each video of the sun. By overlaying images of a setting sun that align vastly different and often non-neighboring locations, Ghost of a Dream’s Aligned by the Sun (through the revolution) offers entry points to important conversations around equality, location, migration, and the environment. On view through July 3, 2022.

Virtual Art for Lunch: John Bechtold
2022-04-13 12:30 - 13:30 | Zoom (Link Provided with Ticket), United States
Join us for a virtual Art for Lunch, our interview-style talk with the Ackland’s Elizabeth Manekin, to discuss how John Bechtold’s class Visualizing War in Contemporary American Culture utilizes different media to explore the social and political consequences of war.
Bring your lunch – and questions of your own – for this lively, conversational program.
Free. Register for a free ticket below to receive a Zoom link to this virtual program.

Curator-Led Tour for “Modern Black Culture: The Art of Aaron Douglas”
2022-04-22 15:30 - 16:30 | Ackland Art Museum, 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States
Join John Bowles, associate professor of African American art in the UNC-Chapel Hill Department of Art and Art History and faculty affiliate of the Institute for African American Research, as we walk through Modern Black Culture: The Art of Aaron Douglas. The exhibition features more than 40 paintings, prints, book and magazine illustrations, drawings, and other artworks, and demonstrates how Douglas developed an immediately recognizable style of dynamic, Art Deco-like forms and starkly silhouetted figures. He also advanced the idea that modern Black culture drew upon music, dance, visual art, and faith traditions developed in Black communities throughout the world.
The tour is currently full; please email acklandrsvp@unc.edu to join the wait list. Thank you!
This program is supported by the Orange County Arts Commission.

Artist-Led Tour of “Myth & Memory: Selected Works by the MFA Class of 2022”
2022-04-23 13:00 - 14:00 | Ackland Art Museum, 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States
Join the 2022 Master of Fine Arts students for a special walk-through! This tour will be led by all five MFA candidates and introduced by exhibition curator Laura Ritchie.
Through the work of five artists, Myth & Memory imagines a future in which the margins become the center. Drawing from personal narrative, each of the artists engages a vocabulary of fantasy to make visible the stories that have been forgotten, obscured, or erased by white heteropatriarchal modes of dominance. Their work interrogates practices of history-making and history-keeping at the individual, institutional, and systemic level. Intimate gestures and acts of subversion reframe the lens through which memory is archived and myth is defined. As a result, new stories emerge from a restructured past.
Presented in connection with Myth & Memory: Selected Works by the MFA Class of 2022. This program is sponsored by the Orange County Arts Commission.

Guided Tour: Modern Black Culture: The Art of Aaron Douglas
2022-04-28 13:30 - 14:00 | Ackland Art Museum, 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States
Meet 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 optional in our galleries.
If you find yourself unable to attend, please email acklandrsvp@unc.edu, so that we may offer the space to others.
This program is supported by the Orange County Arts Commission.

Semester Revue: Student Research & Responses to the Collection
2022-04-28 14:00 - 16:00 | Ackland Art Museum, 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States
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Student 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.
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 optional in our galleries.

Guided Tour: Ackland Collection and Modern Black Culture: The Art of Aaron Douglas
2022-04-29 13:30 - 14:00, 2022-05-05 13:30 - 14:00 | Ackland Art Museum, 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States
Meet 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; 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 optional in our galleries.
If you find yourself unable to attend, please email acklandrsvp@unc.edu, so that we may offer the space to others.
This program is supported by the Orange County Arts Commission.
