TOUR: A Closer Look at "Dürer to Matisse: 400 Years of European Prints"
2024-11-29 13:00 - 13:30, 2024-11-22 13:00 - 13:30, 2024-11-15 13:00 - 13:30, 2024-11-08 13:00 - 13:30, 2024-11-01 13:00 - 13:30, 2024-10-25 13:00 - 13:30, 2024-10-18 13:00 - 13:30, 2024-10-11 13:00 - 13:30 (America/New_York) and 1 more date | Ackland Art Museum, 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States
Join Ackland educators for a lively half-hour look at small handful of artworks. These engaging conversational tours offer a closer look at and new perspectives on works on view at the Museum. Today’s tour looks at Dürer to Matisse: 400 Years of European Prints.
Free, no RSVP required.

TOUR: A Closer Look at the Collection
2024-11-24 13:00 - 13:30, 2024-11-23 13:00 - 13:30, 2024-11-17 13:00 - 13:30, 2024-11-16 13:00 - 13:30, 2024-11-10 13:00 - 13:30, 2024-11-09 13:00 - 13:30
Join Ackland educators for a lively half-hour look at three works of art. These engaging conversational tours offer a closer look at and new perspectives on works on view from the Ackland’s collection.
UNC-Chapel Hill students who attend may scan the QR code to apply for CLE credit.

Student-Led Tour: Explore the Ackland’s World-Class Art Collection
2024-11-03 13:00 - 13:30, 2024-11-02 13:00 - 13:30, 2024-11-01 16:00 - 16:30
Head to the Ackland Art Museum this Family Weekend for an interactive, thematic tour led by a Carolina student! Ackland Student Guides craft and deliver lively conversational tours of the collection based on themes they’ve chosen, from tragic love stories to copycats in art. After the tour, stick around to explore the incredible collection, as well as self-guided offerings like our Art & Music playlist and interactive ArtBot.
The Ackland Art Museum’s hours during Family Weekend are: Friday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Sunday, 1 – 5 p.m. Admission is always free! Visit ackland.org to learn more.
UNC-Chapel Hill students who attend may scan the QR code to apply for CLE credit.

TOUR: A Closer Look at the Collection
2024-10-27 13:00 - 13:30, 2024-10-26 13:00 - 13:30
Join Ackland educators for a lively half-hour look at three works of art. These engaging conversational tours offer a closer look at and new perspectives on works on view from the Ackland’s collection.
Today’s tour will be on the theme “Eye to the Sky.”
UNC-Chapel Hill students who attend may scan the QR code to apply for CLE credit.

Curator's Introduction to "Dürer to Matisse"
2024-09-27 15:30 - 16:30
A guided look at several of the exemplary European prints featured in Dürer to Matisse: 400 Years of European Prints led by exhibition curator Dana Cowen, Sheldon Peck Curator for European and American Art before 1950. Learn about the renowned artists featured, including Albrecht Dürer, Henri Matisse, Rembrandt van Rijn, Francisco de Goya, William Blake, Edgar Degas, Mary Cassatt, Käthe Kollwitz, Salvador Dali, and Vincent van Gogh among others, as well as the artist periods they represented including Renaissance, Baroque, Impressionism, and Surrealism.
Space is limited; registration required.
Public programs for Dürer to Matisse: 400 Years of European Prints are supported by the North Carolina Arts Council, a division of the Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.

Curator's Tour of "Arranged"
2024-08-24 11:00 - 12:00
Join Peter Nisbet, Deputy Director for Curatorial Affairs, for a guided look at Arranged: Recent Acquisitions of Modern and Contemporary Paintings. Taking its title from a newly acquired work by Peter Halley, Arranged brings together a varied selection of over thirty recent acquisitions of modern and contemporary paintings by twenty-two artists. Highlights of the exhibition will include works by UNC-Chapel Hill alums Frank Faulkner, Herb Jackson (with two paintings each), and Mark Brown; a powerful group of Color Field works by Jules Olitski and other painters of his generation such as Stanley Boxer, Jack Bush, and Friedel Dzubas; and individual paintings by Greg Drasler, Jeff Elrod, Shanequa Gay, John Gibson, Peter Halley, Reggie Burrows Hodges, Val Lewton, Allan McCollum, Beverly McIver, and Philip Taaffe. The Ackland has also collected internationally, and Arranged presents works by Etel Adnan (Lebanon), Esther Mahlangu (South Africa), Pinaree Sanpitak (Thailand), Aníbal Villacis (Ecuador), and John Walker (Great Britain).

Curator's Tour of "Arranged"
2024-06-15 11:00 - 12:00
This program is now FULL. To be added to our WAITLIST, please email acklandRSVP@unc.edu.
Join Peter Nisbet, Deputy Director for Curatorial Affairs, for a guided look at Arranged: Recent Acquisitions of Modern and Contemporary Paintings. Taking its title from a newly acquired work by Peter Halley, Arranged brings together a varied selection of over thirty recent acquisitions of modern and contemporary paintings by twenty-two artists. Highlights of the exhibition will include works by UNC-Chapel Hill alums Frank Faulkner, Herb Jackson (with two paintings each), and Mark Brown; a powerful group of Color Field works by Jules Olitski and other painters of his generation such as Stanley Boxer, Jack Bush, and Friedel Dzubas; and individual paintings by Greg Drasler, Jeff Elrod, Shanequa Gay, John Gibson, Peter Halley, Reggie Burrows Hodges, Val Lewton, Allan McCollum, Beverly McIver, and Philip Taaffe. The Ackland has also collected internationally, and Arranged presents works by Etel Adnan (Lebanon), Esther Mahlangu (South Africa), Pinaree Sanpitak (Thailand), Aníbal Villacis (Ecuador), and John Walker (Great Britain).

Last Look at "A Product of Its Environment: Selected Works by the MFA Class of 2024"
2024-05-19 15:30 - 16:30
Join Lauren Turner, Associate Curator for Contemporary Art and Special Projects, for a final guided look at A Product of Its Environment: Selected Works by the MFA Class of 2024. The exhibition investigates the idea that physical surroundings, both ancestral and current, influence people’s personal identities just as much as past and present populations correspondingly shape their geographies and landscapes. The participating artists are Mark Anthony Brown Jr., Molly English, Matthew Troyer, and Vera Weinfield, this year’s graduates from UNC-Chapel Hill’s Master of Fine Arts in Studio Art program.

Curator's Tour of "Arranged: Recent Acquisitions of Modern and Contemporary Paintings"
2024-05-17 15:30 - 16:30
Join Peter Nisbet, Deputy Director for Curatorial Affairs, for a first guided look at Arranged: Recent Acquisitions of Modern and Contemporary Paintings. Taking its title from a newly acquired work by Peter Halley, Arranged brings together a varied selection of over thirty recent acquisitions of modern and contemporary paintings by twenty-two artists. Highlights of the exhibition will include works by UNC-Chapel Hill alums Frank Faulkner, Herb Jackson (with two paintings each), and Mark Brown; a powerful group of Color Field works by Jules Olitski and other painters of his generation such as Stanley Boxer, Jack Bush, and Friedel Dzubas; and individual paintings by Greg Drasler, Jeff Elrod, Shanequa Gay, John Gibson, Peter Halley, Reggie Burrows Hodges, Val Lewton, Allan McCollum, Beverly McIver, and Philip Taaffe. The Ackland has also collected internationally, and Arranged presents works by Etel Adnan (Lebanon), Esther Mahlangu (South Africa), Pinaree Sanpitak (Thailand), Aníbal Villacis (Ecuador), and John Walker (Great Britain).

TOUR: A Closer Look at "A Product of Its Environment"
2024-05-17 13:00 - 13:30, 2024-05-10 13:00 - 13:30, 2024-05-03 13:00 - 13:30
Join Ackland educators for a lively half-hour look at two works of art. These engaging conversational tours offer a closer look at and new perspectives on works on view in A Product of Its Environment: Selected Works by the MFA Class of 2024.
Free, no RSVP required.
