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SUMMARY:Semester Revue: Student Research & Responses to the Collection
DESCRIPTION: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 through their short\, dynamic presentations. \nFree for all audiences; no registration required. \nThe Ackland Semester Revue is part of UNC-Chapel Hill’s Campus Life Experience program. Scan the QR code at the event for CLE credit.
URL:https://events.ackland.org/event/semester-revue-student-research-responses-to-the-collection-5126/
LOCATION:Ackland Art Museum\, 101 S. Columbia Street\, Chapel Hill\, NC\, 27514\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Programs,Talks
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SUMMARY:The Salon Salon: Floor to Ceiling Art at the Ackland
DESCRIPTION:Join Carolina Public Humanities and the Ackland Art Museum for a gathering that will foster deep thinking and conversation – a salon – through a guided viewing of Color Concentrated: A Salon-Style Show from the Robertson Collection. Color Concentrated displays paintings in the salon style\, hanging in rows that extend from eye level upward\, nearly to the ceiling of the gallery. \nWe’ll learn how the salon hanging tells the story of changing museum trends\, from the seventeenth century to the present. Featured presenters include Ackland director Shalini Le Gall\, deputy director for curatorial affairs Peter Nisbet\, head of university programs and academic projects Elizabeth Manekin\, and Nathan Marzen\, head of exhibition design and installation. \nSpace is limited; tickets are required. The $65 ticket includes admission to the program\, wine\, and hors d’oeuvres. Click here to purchase your ticket today! \n 
URL:https://events.ackland.org/event/the-salon-salon-floor-to-ceiling-art-at-the-ackland/
LOCATION:Ackland Art Museum\, 101 S. Columbia Street\, Chapel Hill\, NC\, 27514\, United States
CATEGORIES:Talks
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SUMMARY:The 11th Annual Symposium of the Art Student Graduate Organization - “Anachronic Enchantment: Temporalities in Visual and Material Culture"
DESCRIPTION:The symposium will be held in-person at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on Saturday\, February 28 from 9:00 AM- 2:30 PM. Presentations will be followed by a Q&A session and are open to a general audience. \nWhen something is described as anachronistic\, it is often to say that it is contradictory\, inconsistent\, illogical\, or misplaced. Essentially\, to be anachronistic is to exist outside of historical time. However\, has science not demonstrated that time is relative? Is temporality\, meaning our relationship with time\, not subject to change? Instead of anachronistic\, Alexander Nagel and Christopher Wood have coined the term anachronic to refer to art that has “witnessed time.” Art historian\, Keith Moxey\, adds that anachronicity is the ability of objects “to exceed the parameters of their chronological circumstances.” \nWith this in mind\, this symposium considers temporality as its central framework and invites interdisciplinary reflection on how time is constructed\, experienced\, and represented across humanistic study. By foregrounding temporal frameworks\, we seek to interrogate whose times are privileged\, silenced\, or contested\, and how alternative conceptions of time challenge dominant narratives. Central to this inquiry are questions that examine how artists have engaged with temporality to construct new and alternative histories; how meaning and interpretation inevitably shift across time\, requiring us to reconsider our own scholarly and curatorial practices; and how ephemeral forms of art disrupt and complicate traditional art historical methods.
URL:https://events.ackland.org/event/the-11th-annual-symposium-of-the-art-student-graduate-organization-anachronic-enchantment-temporalities-in-visual-and-material-culture-2/
LOCATION:Ackland Art Museum\, 101 S. Columbia Street\, Chapel Hill\, NC\, 27514\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Events,Talks
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SUMMARY:Semester Revue: Student Research & Responses to the Collection
DESCRIPTION: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 through their short\, dynamic presentations. Free; no registration required. \nThe Ackland Semester Revue is part of UNC-Chapel Hill’s Campus Life Experience program. Scan the QR code at the event for CLE credit.
URL:https://events.ackland.org/event/fall2025semester-revue-student-research-responses-to-the-collection-789/
LOCATION:Ackland Art Museum\, 101 S. Columbia Street\, Chapel Hill\, NC\, 27514\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Programs,Talks
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SUMMARY:Artist Conversation: Radical Ceramicists in North Carolina
DESCRIPTION:This program is now FULL. To be added to our WAITLIST\, please email acklandRSVP@unc.edu. \n  \n  \nJoin us for a lively artist conversation exploring themes of experimentation\, materiality\, and process in the work of North Carolina-based ceramic artists Jessica Dupuis (UNC-Pembroke; MFA ’10)\, Hitomi Shibata (Studio Touya\, Seagrove\, NC)\, and Isys Hennigar (BFA ’17) in the context of the innovative works by contemporary Japanese women artists on view in Radical Clay. The conversation will be moderated by the Ackland’s Head of Interpretive Resources Lillian Rodriguez\, part of the Museum’s Education and Interpretation Team. \n  \nSpace is limited; please register for a free ticket below! \n  \n— \n  \nAbout Radical Clay: Contemporary Women Artists from Japan \n  \nRadical Clay celebrates thirty-six contemporary ceramic artists — all women — represented by works selected from the private collection of Carol and Jeffrey Horvitz. All have explored the technical and conceptual possibilities of clay. The works in this exhibition are inventive and expressive\, at times mysterious or even shocking. The artists who created them are among the most technically accomplished contemporary ceramists. Some began their careers several decades ago while others started more recently — and over the past fifty years they have\, each in her distinctive way\, produced sculpture that pushes the physical limits of the medium. More about Radical Clay: https://ackland.org/exhibition/radical-clay-contemporary-women-artists-from-japan/.  \n  \nAbout the Artists \n  \nJessica Dupuis received her MFA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and her BFA with a concentration in ceramics and print media from Alfred University. Dupuis exhibits her work regionally and nationally. She has been a resident artist at the Houston Center for Contemporary Craft and Women’s Studio Workshop as well as a recipient of the International Sculpture Center’s Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award and an Ella Fountain Pratt Emerging Artists Grant from the Durham Arts Council. She is an Associate Professor of Art – Ceramics & A.D. Gallery Director at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke. More about Dupuis: https://www.jessicadupuis.com/.  \n  \nIsys Hennigar‘s work explores myth and narrative surrounding the body and the natural world. Referencing agricultural practice\, mythology\, and medicine\, the work considers systems of sustenance and healing\, cultural and ecological legacies of land cultivation\, and dualities of the body. In dialogue with clay’s metaphorical relationship to the body\, as well as with histories of metal adornment and objects of protection\, her work invokes real and reimagined ecological encounters that underscore transformation and hybridity as tools of renewal. Hennigar received her BFA from the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill and her MFA from the University of Georgia. Exhibitions of her work include Signature Contemporary Craft (Atlanta\, GA)\, Sow & Tailor Gallery (Los Angeles\, CA)\, The American Museum of Ceramics (Pomona\, CA)\, and the North Carolina Museum of Art (Raleigh\, NC). She is currently in residence as the 2025 Brightwork Fellow at Anchorlight in Raleigh\, NC. More about Hennigar: https://www.isyshennigar.com/. \n  \nHitomi Shibata creates ceramic works from natural clays\, using wood firing in her process\, giving them a sustainable energy and life. Shibata started learning ceramic art in Okayama\, Japan as a college student\, and after graduation moved to Shigaraki which is one of the oldest Japanese pottery towns. She lived and established her skill and knowledge as a professional potter in Shigaraki. Shibata received a scholarship by Rotary International to come to the USA to learn American ceramics in 2001. Now living in Seagrove\, North Carolina\, which is the most active pottery communities in USA\, she enjoys making pots in her studio. Shibata does wood firings with her husband\, Takuro Shibata by their Anagama plus chamber kiln that they built in 2009. More about Shibata: https://www.studiotouya.com/hitomi-shibata. 
URL:https://events.ackland.org/event/artist-conversation-radical-ceramicists-in-north-carolina827/
LOCATION:Ackland Art Museum\, 101 S. Columbia Street\, Chapel Hill\, NC\, 27514\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Programs,Talks
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SUMMARY:Scholarly Talk: Joe Earle on "Radical Clay: Contemporary Women Artists from Japan"
DESCRIPTION:This program is now FULL. To be added to our WAITLIST\, please email acklandRSVP@unc.edu. \n  \nJoin Joe Earle\, expert on Japanese ceramics and Radical Clay catalogue author\, for a discussion of the significance of several of the stunning works on view in Radical Clay: Contemporary Women Artists from Japan\, which opens today. Radical Clay features thirty-six contemporary ceramic artists — all women — represented by works selected from the private collection of Carol and Jeffrey Horvitz. All have explored the technical and conceptual possibilities of clay in ways that are inventive\, expressive\, and often surprising. \nSpace is limited; please register for a free ticket below! \nRead more about Radical Clay: Contemporary Women Artists from Japan.  \n— \nJoe Earle\, Bonhams Global Senior Consultant for Japanese Art\, has worked in the East Asian art field for the last 50 years. He has held leadership positions in Asian art departments at the Victoria and Albert Museum\, London\, and the Museum of Fine Arts\, Boston\, and was Director of Japan Society Gallery in New York from 2007 to 2012. Joe has organized more than two dozen exhibitions in Britain\, Japan\, Italy\, and the United States and written\, translated\, or edited books and catalogs on aspects of Japanese culture ranging from contemporary art and design through to samurai sword-fittings\, netsuke\, bamboo art\, flower-arrangement bronzes\, lacquer\, and the art of the Meiji era.
URL:https://events.ackland.org/event/earle-talk/
LOCATION:Ackland Art Museum\, 101 S. Columbia Street\, Chapel Hill\, NC\, 27514\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Programs,Talks
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SUMMARY:Semester Revue: Student Research & Responses to the Collection
DESCRIPTION: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 through their short\, dynamic presentations. Free; no registration required. \nThe Ackland Semester Revue is part of UNC-Chapel Hill’s Campus Life Experience program. Scan the QR code at the event for CLE credit.
URL:https://events.ackland.org/event/semester-revue-student-research-responses-to-the-collection-3pl/
LOCATION:Ackland Art Museum\, 101 S. Columbia Street\, Chapel Hill\, NC\, 27514\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Programs,Talks
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SUMMARY:Bettie Allison Rand Lectures in Art History: Stephanie Porras\, Tulane University
DESCRIPTION:The Ackland is pleased to host the UNC Department of Art and Art History’s Bettie Allison Rand Lecture in Art History featuring guest speaker Stephanie Porras (Tulane University) on “Ivory across Empires.” \nThe talk is free and open to the public. Seating is first come\, first served. Read below for additional details about the talk and speaker. \nIvory across Empires\nConsidering a range of seventeenth-century ivory objects made in Manila\, Goa\, Ceylon and Mexico\, this talk proposes a different narrative about empire. While these ivory sculptures certainly testify to the widespread use of imported European models\, the range of ivory carvings done across Asia\, also are part of a broader history of the creative agency of Asian makers in responding to European tastes and to the expanding global market for their work\, via both the Manila galleon and circum-African sea trade. Foregrounding the material of ivory and its varied uses\, and seeing these objects in dialogue with one another\, also gestures towards an alternative history of Portuguese and Spanish imperial ambitions in Asia\, as well as the motivations of different Asian empires\, from the kingdom of Kotte in Sri Lanka to the Ming and later Qing dynasties in China. For ivory operated between and across empires\, and this talk examines the various trade routes\, as well as the mobility of materials\, models and artists who produced ivories for an emerging global art market. \nStephanie Porras is Professor of Art History and Chair of the Newcomb Art Department at Tulane University. Her research interests include the visual and material culture of Northern Europe\, the Spanish world\, and the Dutch Atlantic from the fifteenth to the seventeenth centuries. Her latest book\, The First Viral Images: Maerten de Vos\, Antwerp print and the early modern globe (PSU press\, 2023) traces the complex production and reception histories of an illustrated book\, a painting and an engraving\, all made in Antwerp in the late sixteenth century\, but copied by Venetian print publishers\, Spanish and Latin American painters\, Mughal miniaturists and by Filipino ivory carvers. Most recently\, she is also the co-editor\, along with Stephen Campbell\, The Routledge Companion to the Global Renaissance\, a volume of forty essays\, introducing objects made across the early modern world; appearing later this year is another co-edited volume\, The Dutch Americas: art histories of the Atlantic World\, with Aaron Hyman. \nThrough a generous gift to the UNC Arts and Sciences Foundation\, William G. Rand established this lecture series in memory of his late wife\, Bettie Allison Rand. This funding allows the Department of Art and Art History to bring one or more eminent art historians to UNC-CH every other year for residencies of various lengths. While they are in Chapel Hill\, these scholars present a series of lectures and interact with undergraduate and graduate art history and studio art students. Following the campus visit\, the scholars prepare a manuscript\, which is then published by the UNC Press as part of the Rand Series of art history publications.
URL:https://events.ackland.org/event/porras/
LOCATION:Ackland Art Museum\, 101 S. Columbia Street\, Chapel Hill\, NC\, 27514\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Programs,Talks
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SUMMARY:Artist Talk & Panel with Sherrill Roland
DESCRIPTION:This program is now FULL. To be added to our WAITLIST\, please email acklandRSVP@unc.edu. \n  \nUsing Sherrill Roland’s piece Processing Systems: Bonding as a jumping off point\, this artist talk and panel will explore artistic expression\, the American carceral system\, and the visualization of data. After a discussion of Roland’s monumental numerical portraits on view at the Ackland\, Roland will be joined by panelists Bharati Zvara\, Associate Professor in the Department of Maternal and Child Health (MCH) in the Gillings School of Global Public Health\, and Kylie Seltzer\, art historian and Carolina Public Humanities Zietlow Postdoctoral Fellow. The program will be moderated by Lauren Turner\, associate curator for contemporary art and special projects at the Ackland. \nPresented in partnership with Carolina Public Humanities.   \n— \nSherrill Roland’s interdisciplinary practice deals with concepts of innocence\, identity\, and community; reimagining their social and political implications in the context of the American criminal justice system. For more than three years\, Roland’s right to self-determination was lost to a wrongful incarceration. After spending ten months in prison for a crime he was later exonerated for\, he returned to his artistic practice\, which he now uses as a vehicle for self-reflection and an outlet for emotional release. Converting the haunting nuances of his experiences into drawings\, sculptures\, multimedia objects\, performances\, and participatory activities\, Roland shares his story and creates space for others to do the same\, illuminating the invisible costs\, damages\, and burdens of incarceration. Roland is an assistant professor of Studio Art in Sculpture at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. https://www.sherrillroland.com/ \nKylie Seltzer is an architectural historian\, educator\, digital humanist\, and community builder whose work focuses on dismantling white supremacy and creating a more equitable world. An award winning scholar and teacher\, Kylie is committed to using her humanistic background and historical knowledge to solve today’s problems. Her doctoral research analyzed the ways that architecture and built forms were used to popularize race theory in the 19th century. This pseudoscience represents the foundation for white supremacist ideologies of the present day. Seltzer is currently the Zietlow Postdoctoral Fellow at Carolina Public Humanities. https://kylierjseltzer.com/ \nDr. Bharathi Zvara is an Associate Professor in the Department of Maternal and Child Health (MCH) in the Gillings School of Global Public Health. She is a developmental psychologist whose main research interest is in the emotional and behavioral development in young children. A central focus of her research is to characterize the effects of early-life adversity and trauma and identify the biological and behavioral mechanisms through which early childhood experiences impact growth and development. Her work documents the key role of the family system\, responsive caregiving practices\, and the broader environment in which children live and develop. Her goal is to produce translatable knowledge to inform policies and programs that ultimately improve the lives of children and families. https://sph.unc.edu/adv_profile/bharathi-j-zvara-phd/
URL:https://events.ackland.org/event/talk-panel-roland/
LOCATION:Ackland Art Museum\, 101 S. Columbia Street\, Chapel Hill\, NC\, 27514\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Events,Special Programs,Talks
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SUMMARY:Semester Revue: Student Research & Responses to the Collection
DESCRIPTION: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 through their short\, dynamic presentations. Free; no registration required. \nThe Ackland Semester Revue is part of UNC-Chapel Hill’s Campus Life Experience program. Scan the QR code at the event for CLE credit.
URL:https://events.ackland.org/event/semester-revue-student-research-responses-to-the-collection-12-5/
LOCATION:Ackland Art Museum\, 101 S. Columbia Street\, Chapel Hill\, NC\, 27514\, United States
CATEGORIES:Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241120T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241120T190000
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SUMMARY:Artist Talk: "Layers of History: Andrew Raftery Speaks about Art and Research"
DESCRIPTION:A free public talk by expert engraver and printmaker Andrew Raftery\, a professor of printmaking at Rhode Island School of Design\, whose prints highlight scenes of contemporary life while employing historically-informed techniques like copper plate engraving\, as seen in Dürer to Matisse. Raftery’s talk is entitled\, “Layers of History: Andrew Raftery Speaks About Art and Research.” \nSpace is limited; registration required. UNC-Chapel Hill students who attend may scan the QR code to apply for CLE credit. \nPublic 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. \n— \nAbout Andrew Raftery: \nAndrew Raftery is a Rhode Island based artist who explores both observational and autobiographical narratives of contemporary American life. His artistic work combines deep expertise with an appreciation for antique methods of art-making\, most notably copperplate engraving. His precise and labor-intensive works demonstrate the enduring relevance of this medium’s application to modern-day subjects in disseminating universally accessible images. \nRaftery received his BFA from Boston University and his MFA from Yale University. Since 1991 he has been Professor of Printmaking at Rhode Island School of Design. Awards include the Winterthur Research Fellowship in 2022\, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in 2008 and the Louis Comfort Tiffany Award in 2003. He was elected to membership of the National Academy of Design in 2009 and Print Council of America in 2012. \nHis work can be found in the collections of Baltimore Museum of Art\, British Museum\, Cleveland Museum of Art\, Detroit Institute of Arts\, Fogg Art Museum\, Metropolitan Museum of Art\, Museum of Fine Arts Boston\, Whitney Museum of American Art and Yale University Art Gallery\, among others.
URL:https://events.ackland.org/event/talk-112024/
LOCATION:Ackland Art Museum\, 101 S. Columbia Street\, Chapel Hill\, NC\, 27514\, United States
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SUMMARY:Semester Revue: Student Research & Responses to the Collection
DESCRIPTION:Each semester\, the Ackland Art Museum works with thousands of UNC-Chapel Hill students through courses and fellowships. 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 through their short\, dynamic presentations. Light refreshments will be served.  \nThe Ackland Semester Revue is part of UNC-Chapel Hill’s Campus Life Experience program. Scan the QR code at the event for CLE credit.
URL:https://events.ackland.org/event/semester-revue-student-research-responses-to-the-collection-2/
LOCATION:Ackland Art Museum\, 101 S. Columbia Street\, Chapel Hill\, NC\, 27514\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Programs,Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240412T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240412T210000
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SUMMARY:2nd Friday ArtWalk: Caldwell Artists in Conversation
DESCRIPTION:This program is now FULL. To be added to our WAITLIST\, please email acklandRSVP@unc.edu. \nJoin us for a lively conversation entitled “We Work and Make Beautiful Things” featuring artists Teri Greeves (Kiowa) and Keri Ataumbi (Kiowa)\, who will discuss their artistic practices\, influences that have shaped their work\, and recent projects. Curator Jami Powell (Osage) will join the artists for a moderated conversation around themes of intergenerational knowledge transfer and women’s roles in arts and leadership as well as their connections to their own mothers\, aunts\, and grandmothers. \nThe talk begins at 6 p.m. and a reception for participants will follow. Registration is required — reserved your free ticket below! \nThe Ackland will be open before the talk and until 9 p.m. this evening. \nThis talk has been made possible by the generous support of the Caldwell Family Fund and has been co-organized with UNC-Chapel Hill’s Department of American Studies in honor of Jenny Tone-Pah-Hote (Kiowa). \n\nPast Forward: Native American Art from Gilcrease Museum is co-organized by the American Federation of Arts and Gilcrease Museum. \nThe Ackland’s presentation of this exhibition has been made possible by the William R. Kenan\, Jr. Charitable Trust\, the Arthur F. and Alice E. Adams Charitable Foundation\, and Jeff and Liesl Wilke ’92 (JD). \nExhibition-related public programs are supported by a Spark the Arts Grant from the North Carolina Arts Council\, a division of the Department of Natural and Cultural Resources. \nAdditional support for the Ackland’s presentation of Past Forward: Native American Art from Gilcrease Museum is provided by Kerry D. Bird & Ken Gahagan.
URL:https://events.ackland.org/event/2nd-friday-artwalk-4/
LOCATION:Ackland Art Museum\, 101 S. Columbia Street\, Chapel Hill\, NC\, 27514\, United States
CATEGORIES:2nd Friday ArtWalk,Talks
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SUMMARY:Guest Lecture: Dr. Shanna Ketchum-Heap of Birds
DESCRIPTION:Hear from visiting scholar Shanna Ketchum-Heap of Birds (Diné/Navajo)\, whose research focuses on contemporary Native American/Indigenous art\, theater\, and performance. The talk is presented at the Ackland as part of the Art History Lecture Series organized by UNC-Chapel Hill’s Department of Art and Art History. This talk is co-sponsored by the Department of American Studies. Space is limited; register below for a free ticket. \nABOUT THE TALK\n“Indigenous Performance Politics: An Analysis of Works by Kent Monkman\, Spiderwoman Theater Company\, Rebecca Belmore and James Luna” \nBy internationalizing the debate concerning Indigeneity and decolonial thought\, as well as examining the basis of North American multiculturalism in the art world\, my research foregrounds a complex understanding of gender\, sexualities\, and race in line with moving away from a heteropatriarchal understanding imposed by colonialist and anthropological thinking. In this talk\, I focus on four artists/artists groups to offer new interpretations that question how we understand the colonial past by using images\, artworks\, and performances in strategic and interventionist ways that constitute acts of decolonization. Following Linda Tuhiwai Smith’s Decolonizing Methodologies (1999)\, it is my contention that decolonial theories and processes are inherent to the struggles of Indigenous Peoples worldwide and intersect with one another on local\, national\, and global levels. Therefore\, going beyond previous frameworks\, such as postmodern and postcolonial theories\, implies a renegotiation of the readings and analyses of Native American/First Nation’s artists/artists’ groups\, and their works\, in ways that problematize Indigenous erasure in favor of Indigenous presence and futurity. \nABOUT THE SPEAKER\nShanna Ketchum-Heap of Birds is a citizen of the Diné/Navajo Nation. In 2022\, she completed her PhD at Middlesex University\, London\, focused on contemporary Native American/Indigenous visual artists and theater and performance studies. Recent essays were published in Artforum International\, Wired Italia\, and Art Review magazine and in Tony Fisher and Eve Katsouraki (eds.)\, Beyond Failure: New Essays on the Cultural History of Failure in Theatre and Performance\, Routledge\, 2018. See her website https://dinehwriter.art. Ketchum-Heap of Birds has lectured at Artists Space in NYC\, the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis\, Nanyang University in Singapore\, and Skype/Zoom lectures for the Barcelona Facultat De Geografia; Història Universitat De Barcelona; Museu D’art Contemporani De Barcelona (MACBA) and Shape: A Virtual Artist Residency sponsored by Vinegar Projects: An Artists-Run Space. Ketchum-Heap of Birds also curated Suffer\, Dance\, Stand: Native Survival with Edgar Heap of Birds\, Douglas Miles\, and Warren Realrider in 2022 at OK #1 in Tulsa\, Oklahoma. Dr. Ketchum-Heap of Birds currently teaches at the University of Central Oklahoma and is board president of Spiderwoman Theater Company (the longest running Native American feminist theater group in the USA). \nABOUT THE EXHIBITION\nPast Forward: Native American Art from Gilcrease Museum is co-organized by the American Federation of Arts and Gilcrease Museum. \nThe Ackland’s presentation of this exhibition has been made possible by the William R. Kenan\, Jr. Charitable Trust\, the Arthur F. and Alice E. Adams Charitable Foundation\, and Jeff and Liesl Wilke ’92 (JD). \nExhibition-related public programs are supported by a Spark the Arts Grant from the North Carolina Arts Council\, a division of the Department of Natural and Cultural Resources. \nAdditional support for the Ackland’s presentation of Past Forward: Native American Art from Gilcrease Museum is provided by Kerry D. Bird & Ken Gahagan.
URL:https://events.ackland.org/event/guest-lecture-dr-shanna-ketchum-heap-of-birds/
LOCATION:Ackland Art Museum\, 101 S. Columbia Street\, Chapel Hill\, NC\, 27514\, United States
CATEGORIES:Talks
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240221T180000
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SUMMARY:Guest Lecture: W. Richard West\, Jr.\, Elder-in-Residence
DESCRIPTION:This talk is now FULL. To be added to the waitlist\, please email acklandRSVP@unc.edu. \n— \nA free public talk presented by the American Indian Center at the Ackland as part of their Elder-in-Residence program. Dr. W. Richard West\, Jr. (Southern Cheyenne) has served as the founding director of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of the American Indian and the president and CEO of the Autry Museum of the American West. The talk will be followed by a reception. Space is limited and registration is required. \nThis talk is sponsored by the American Indian Center at UNC-Chapel Hill as part of their weeklong Elder-in-Residence program and presented in connection with Past Forward: Native American Art from Gilcrease Museum. \n\nPast Forward: Native American Art from Gilcrease Museum is co-organized by the American Federation of Arts and Gilcrease Museum. \nThe Ackland’s presentation of this exhibition has been made possible by the William R. Kenan\, Jr. Charitable Trust\, the Arthur F. and Alice E. Adams Charitable Foundation\, and Jeff and Liesl Wilke ’92 (JD). \nExhibition-related public programs are supported by a Spark the Arts Grant from the North Carolina Arts Council\, a division of the Department of Natural and Cultural Resources. \nAdditional support for the Ackland’s presentation of Past Forward: Native American Art from Gilcrease Museum is provided by Kerry D. Bird & Ken Gahagan.
URL:https://events.ackland.org/event/guest-lecture-w-richard-west-jr-elder-in-residence/
LOCATION:Ackland Art Museum\, 101 S. Columbia Street\, Chapel Hill\, NC\, 27514\, United States
CATEGORIES:Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240121T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240121T150000
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SUMMARY:WAITLIST ONLY: Defining a "We": Parsing the Potentialities of Poetry and Portraiture
DESCRIPTION:This program is now FULL. To be added to our WAITLIST\, please email acklandRSVP@unc.edu! \n— \nJoin us for a special ekphrastic poetry and portraiture discourse event curated by Chapel Hill Poet Laureate Cortland Gilliam and inspired by The Outwin: American Portraiture Today. Hear readings of ekphrastic poems written in response to The Outwin\, as well as poems representative of the portraiture\, from Gilliam and local poets. This reading will be followed by a panel bringing together poets\, visual artists\, and literary/art scholars for a multidisciplinary conversation about the potential of poetry and portraiture to convey personal and collective stories and help us define a “we” today. \n— \nThis program is now FULL. To be added to our WAITLIST\, please email acklandRSVP@unc.edu! \n— \nThe Outwin: American Portraiture Today has been organized by the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery. The competition and exhibition are made possible by the Virginia Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition Endowment\, established by Virginia Outwin Boochever and sustained by her family. The Ackland’s presentation is supported in part by Caroline and Arthur Rogers. \nOrganized by:
URL:https://events.ackland.org/event/poetry-event-jan2024/
LOCATION:Ackland Art Museum\, 101 S. Columbia Street\, Chapel Hill\, NC\, 27514\, United States
CATEGORIES:Performances,Special Programs,Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240111T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240111T190000
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SUMMARY:Artist Talk: Alison Elizabeth Taylor
DESCRIPTION:Join us as we welcome Outwin first-prize-winning artist Alison Elizabeth Taylor to the Ackland for an artist talk about her fascinating body of work\, which uses a technique she describes as “marquetry hybrid” and can be seen in her prize-winning portrait titled Anthony Cuts under the Williamsburg Bridge\, Morning (2020) (right). \nAlison Elizabeth Taylor depicted hair groomer Anthony Payne after encountering him in their Brooklyn neighborhood. Taylor used her marquetry hybrid technique to create the piece\, combining vivid paints\, inkjet prints and the natural grains of over 100 wood veneers. Her multilayered portrait began as sketches she made of Payne from life as well as photographs. With his workplace shuttered as a result of the pandemic\, Payne was offering donation-based haircuts to support Black Lives Matter\, and Taylor was struck by the way he embodied perseverance and solidarity. \nThis program is presented in connection with The Outwin: American Portraiture Today. Tickets are free\, but space is limited. Please register below! \nThe Outwin: American Portraiture Today has been organized by the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery. The competition and exhibition are made possible by the Virginia Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition Endowment\, established by Virginia Outwin Boochever and sustained by her family. The Ackland’s presentation is supported in part by Caroline and Arthur Rogers. \nOrganized by:
URL:https://events.ackland.org/event/artist-talk-alison-elizabeth-taylor/
LOCATION:Ackland Art Museum\, 101 S. Columbia Street\, Chapel Hill\, NC\, 27514\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Programs,Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230921T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230921T190000
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SUMMARY:Artist Talk: Amalia Pica
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an artist talk with Amalia Pica\, internationally renowned London-based Argentinian artist whose major commissioned installation Drawn to Explain has just been completed at the Craige Parking Deck on UNC’s campus. Pica will discuss how this very large-scale\, multifaceted work fits within her broader body of work\, which often explores systems of communication and human understanding in a playful\, engaging way. \nSpace is limited; please register for a free ticket below. \nThis talk has been made possible by a generous gift from Carol Cole Levin. \nUNC Students attending this talk can receive Campus Life Experience (CLE) credit by scanning the QR code at the event.  \n—\nABOUT DRAWN TO EXPLAIN \nDrawn to Explain is a large-scale mixed media art installation at the Craige Parking Deck on the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s campus. The work uses powder-coated aluminum elements and paint on concrete to reflect diagrams from different disciplines and departments across the University\, conveying the sense of discovery at Carolina.
URL:https://events.ackland.org/event/artist-talk-amalia-pica/
LOCATION:Ackland Art Museum\, 101 S. Columbia Street\, Chapel Hill\, NC\, 27514\, United States
CATEGORIES:Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230915T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230916T160000
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SUMMARY:The 9th Annual Symposium of the Art Student Graduate Organization - “The Ways We Attach Ourselves”: Affect\, Agency\, and Emotion in the Visual Arts
DESCRIPTION:Please reserve your space at the event here. \nThe symposium will be held in-person at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on\nFriday\, September 15th at 5:30 – 7:30 PM and Saturday\, September 16th from 9:00 AM-\n4:00 PM. Presentations will be followed by a Q&A session and are open to a general audience. \nAffect theory in art highlights the power of art to evoke intense emotions and bodily sensations\ninfluenced by social\, cultural\, and historical factors. It recognizes that our bodies actively\nparticipate in the affective encounter with art\, generating physical responses that contribute to the\nexperience. This approach explores how art can transform emotions\, challenge interpretations\,\nand provoke new perspectives\, examining the aesthetic strategies artists employ to evoke\naffective responses in viewers. \nDrawing inspiration from the insightful work of Lauren Berlant and Sarah Ahmed\, this year’s\nsymposium delves into the captivating realm of affect\, agency\, and emotion within the visual\narts. Our objective is to embrace an affective approach that illuminates the emotional and sensory\ndimensions of art\, showcasing the profound transformative potential inherent in encounters with\nartworks. ASGO cordially invites you to immerse yourself in art on a deeply visceral and embodied\nlevel\, transcending mere intellectual analysis and embarking on an exploration of the boundless\naffective possibilities offered by artistic experiences. \nPlease reserve your space at the event here.
URL:https://events.ackland.org/event/the-9th-annual-symposium-of-the-art-student-graduate-organization-the-ways-we-attach-ourselves-affect-agency-and-emotion-in-the-visual-arts/
LOCATION:Ackland Art Museum\, 101 S. Columbia Street\, Chapel Hill\, NC\, 27514\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Programs,Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230617T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230617T181500
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SUMMARY:Work-in-Progress Film Screening: "Minnie Evans: Draw or Die"
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a special work-in-progress screening of the forthcoming documentary Minnie Evans: Draw or Die (dir. Linda Royal). The documentary explores the life and work of Eastern North Carolina artist Minnie Evans\, whose work is featured in the Ackland’s current exhibition Unsettled Things: Art from an African American South (on view through July 2\, 2023). Following the screening\, we will hear from director Linda Royal\, producer Olympia Stone\, anthropologist Elizabeth M. Penton\, and Wayne Evans\, great-grandson of Minnie Evans. \nThis project was supported by the North Carolina Arts Council\, a division of the Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.  \nSOLD OUT: Please email acklandRSVP@unc.edu to reserve a spot on the waitlist. \n—\nABOUT THE FILM \nThis is the story of Minnie Evans (1892-1987) whose artistic mastery of a lifetime of visionary dreaming is now recognized on a world-wide stage by art collectors. Born in 1892 in rural coastal North Carolina at a time of racial oppression of her community\, Evans worked for decades as the gatekeeper of Airlie Gardens on Wrightsville Sound\, NC. In the small wooden gatehouse\, she produced hundreds of paintings and drawings. She gave her pictures to people who admired her work\, and eventually hung them up near the gatehouse\, selling them for a tiny fraction of what her work brings at art auctions today. Working with simple crayon and pencil\, Evans’ unique drawings combine exquisitely colored forms and elements of nature and spirituality into her own awe-inspiring creations. Read more on the film’s website. \nABOUT THE PANELISTS \nLinda Royal\, (fka Booker) received a Certificate in Documentary Studies from Duke University in 2005 and started By the Brook Productions. Her documentaries “STRAWS\,” “Bringing It Home\,” and “Love Lived on Death Row” have won awards at U.S. and international film festivals and reached audiences globally through educational use\, community screenings\, corporate office events and in-flight entertainment. With her films\, Linda has coordinated engagement and impact campaigns to address domestic violence\, restorative justice and environmental policy in addition to educating thousands of students nationwide about single-use plastic pollution. Her first documentary project featured folk artist Clyde Jones and she’s grateful to honor Minnie Evans with a new documentary film to recognize her as one of the greatest self-taught artists of the twentieth century. \nOlympia Stone’s documentaries have been showcased nationally on public television and have won numerous festival awards. Olympia’s films probe the motivations and personal histories of extraordinary artists as a way of providing insight into their work. Aldwyth: Fully Assembled is Olympia’s eighth film. Her other films include portraits of Richard Estes\, Elizabeth King\, James Grashow\, and David Beck. Olympia’s first film\, The Collector: Allan Stone’s Life in Art (2007)\, chronicles the obsessive collecting of her father\, a New York art world gallerist whose habits and prescient scouting shaped his life and the lives of many in his artfully cluttered orbit. \nElizabeth M. Penton\, PhD\, A native of Wilmington\, N.C.\, Liz has been teaching non-Western art and Anthropology at the college level for over 30 years. She took three degrees in Anthropology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with her dissertation work on Paleolithic cave paintings. A lifelong interest in art and culture\, and visionary art in particular\, has kept the works of Minnie Evans near the top of her mind. In 2020 she partnered with the Cameron Art Museum to engage in a disciplined analysis of the forms of Evans’ drawings and paintings. Her forthcoming manuscript\, Minnie Evans (1892 – 1987): A Beautiful Light\, addresses the artist’s complex use of perspective and showcases the artist’s own words with the objective of elevating her oeuvre to its rightful place among the world’s famous visionary artists. Liz is also on the production team with Linda Royal of By the Brook Films\, creating a new documentary film on her life and works. \nWayne Evans is the great-grandson of Minnie Evans\, who spent much of his formidable years living in Minnie’s home. After 20 years of working with the special needs population in the New Hanover County School District\, Wayne is now a Foster Care Administrator with fifteen years of experience working with a team of professionals in his district for a National Healthcare Company. His work ensures that all required records are in state compliance with North Carolina Foster Care State Regulatory policies. Wayne currently lives in Raleigh\, North Carolina. In his free time\, he enjoys reading comics\, fantasy fiction novels\, especially the writings of Anne Rice and other similar authors\, visiting his son\, and spoiling his grandson\, Jaden.
URL:https://events.ackland.org/event/work-in-progress-film-screening-minnie-evans-visionary-artist/
LOCATION:Ackland Art Museum\, 101 S. Columbia Street\, Chapel Hill\, NC\, 27514\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Programs,Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230617T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230617T160000
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SUMMARY:"Unsettled Things" Study Day
DESCRIPTION:Register for a special opportunity to participate in a Study Day with scholars of The Unfinished Business of Unsettled Things\, the publication that accompanies the Ackland’s current exhibition Unsettled Things: Art from an African American South. Laura Bickford\, Michael J. Bramwell\, Bernard L. Herman\, and Lauren Turner will each lead short gallery discussions about individual works of art in the exhibition\, expanding on what we might learn from looking closely at objects as well as how the study of this group of southern artists allows us the opportunity to push the boundaries of what constitutes American art.   \nParticipants should add free tickets for each of the four individual sessions they’d like to attend. Space is very limited for each session. \nThis project was supported by the North Carolina Arts Council\, a division of the Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.
URL:https://events.ackland.org/event/unsettled-things-study-day/
LOCATION:Ackland Art Museum\, 101 S. Columbia Street\, Chapel Hill\, NC\, 27514\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Programs,Talks,Tours
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230428T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230428T160000
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SUMMARY:Semester Revue
DESCRIPTION:Student Research & Responses to the Collection \nEach 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.
URL:https://events.ackland.org/event/semester-revue-2/
LOCATION:Ackland Art Museum\, 101 S. Columbia Street\, Chapel Hill\, NC\, 27514\, United States
CATEGORIES:Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230418T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230418T150000
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LAST-MODIFIED:20230413T150027Z
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SUMMARY:Virtual Conversation: Mapping Joe Minter's African Village in America
DESCRIPTION:With Eric Courchesne\, Rachel Stephens\, and Emily Bibb (University of Alabama) \nModerated by Lauren Turner\, Ackland Art Museum \nJoin 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 America. Using drone video\, LIDAR scans\, image descriptions\, interviews\, and more\, scholars Eric Courchesne (Geography)\, Rachel Stephens (Art History)\, and Emily Bibb (Art History) have worked with Birmingham-based artist Joe Minter – whose work is currently on view in the Ackland’s exhibition Unsettled Things: Art from an African American South – to document and catalogue Minter’s site-specific installations for generations to come\, developing a new model for artists and scholars alike.  \nRegister for this free Zoom conversation here: https://unc.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEkc-isrDooHddSxUic_p7czA71QNJojZbk  \n 
URL:https://events.ackland.org/event/virtual-conversation-mapping-joe-minters-african-village-in-america/
LOCATION:Zoom\, United States
CATEGORIES:Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230415T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230415T160000
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SUMMARY:Rengetsu and Nantenbō: Calligraphy and Context
DESCRIPTION:*This event is sold out. Please contact acklandrsvp@unc.edu to join a registration wait list. Thank you!* \n  \nA 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\, including Japanese Buddhism\, the materiality and functions of the work\, the role of literature\, and the aesthetics of calligraphy. This symposium celebrates gifts from Ray Kass and Jerrie Pike\, organized by the Ackland Art Museum from an initial concept by Professor Stephen Addiss (1935-2022).\n \nThe symposium is free and open to the public. Registration is required as space is limited.\n \n9:00 to 9:30: Registration and refreshments \n9:30 to 9:45: Welcome – Katie Ziglar\, Director\, Ackland Art Museum \n9:45 to 10:30: Prologue – The Odd Couple – Peter Nisbet\, Deputy Director for Curatorial Affairs\, Ackland Art Museum \nCollecting and Collaborating: Stephen Addiss and the Mountain Lake Workshop – Ray Kass\, Artist and collector\, Christiansburg\, VA \n10:30 to 12:00: Rengetsu’s Waka Poetics: Collaborations and Convergences – Melissa McCormick\, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Japanese Art and Culture\, Harvard University \nJourneys Through Space and Time: The Multiple Dimensions of Rengetsu and Nantenbō Calligraphy – Paul Berry\, Independent Scholar\, Kyoto\, Japan \n12:00 to 12:30: Discussion and Questions \n12:30 to 2:00: Lunch \n2:00 to 3:30: The Art of Rengetsu and Nantenbō in the Buddhist World of their Time – Patricia J. Graham\, Center for East Asian Studies\, University of Kansas \nCommunities of Practice: Social Relations and the Functions of Art in the Careers of Rengetsu and Nantenbō – Morgan Pitelka\, Bernard L. Herman Distinguished Professor\, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill \n3:30 to 4:00: Discussion and Questions \n4:00 to 5:00: Exhibition viewing. \nThis symposium has been made possible by the Ackland’s Ruth and Sherman Lee Fund for Asian Art and by the Carolina Asia Center. \n  \nImage Credit: \nLeft to right: Ōtagaki Rengetsu\, Japanese\, 1791-1875\, Waka Poem: “The Blood…” (detail)\, early 1860s\, hanging scroll; ink\, color\, and tarnished silver flakes on textured paper\, mounted\, overall: 55 × 12 1/4 in. (139.7 × 31.1 cm)\, Gift of Ray Kass ’67 (’69 MFA) and Jerrie Pike in honor of Burl Ives\, 2022.18.13; Nakahara Nantenbō\, Japanese\, 1839-1925\, Staff\, with Inscription: “Speak – Nantenbo! …” (detail)\, 1920\, hanging scroll; ink on paper\, mounted\, overall: 81 1/8 × 19 11/16 in. (206.1 × 50 cm)\, Gift of Ray Kass ’67 (’69 MFA) and Jerrie Pike in honor of Mountain Lake Symposium and Workshop\, 2022.18.22
URL:https://events.ackland.org/event/rengetsu-and-nantenbo-calligraphy-and-context/
LOCATION:Ackland Art Museum\, 101 S. Columbia Street\, Chapel Hill\, NC\, 27514\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Programs,Talks
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230331T163000
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SUMMARY:Artist Conversation: Art / Science / Music / Math
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a lively conversation between visiting artist Kelsey Brookes and composer Allen Anderson about the intersections of art\, science\, music\, and math. \nBrookes 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 Loan Partnership program. \nAnderson’s compositions are often multimedia and interdisciplinary\, responding to artworks or the natural environment. In addition to the spoken conversation\, Anderson will debut a short musical composition written in response to Brookes’s painting on view in the Ackland’s galleries. \nTickets are free\, but space is limited. Register below! \n  \nPresented in connection with the Art Bridges Collection Loan Partnership and the North Carolina Science Festival. \n 
URL:https://events.ackland.org/event/artist-conversation-art-science-music-math/
LOCATION:Ackland Art Museum\, 101 S. Columbia Street\, Chapel Hill\, NC\, 27514\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Programs,Talks
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SUMMARY:Lecture-Demo with Artist Elizabeth Alexander
DESCRIPTION:Join 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 be able to see the stages of crafting sculptures from found porcelain dishware into evocative works that comment on the deterioration of domestic space.  \nFree tickets are required for this program\, as space is limited. See below! \nThis program is presented in connection with Houseguests: American Art from the Art Bridges Collection Loan Partnership and made possible thanks to a generous award from the Art Bridges Foundation. \nElizabeth Alexander is an interdisciplinary artist specializing in sculptures and installations made from deconstructed domestic materials. She holds degrees in sculpture from the Cranbrook Academy\, MFA\, and Massachusetts College of Art\, BFA. Her work has been exhibited across the country at institutions including the Museum of Art and Design\, the National Museum of Women in the Arts\, the North Carolina Museum of Art\, the Southeast Center for Contemporary Art\, the Nasher Museum at Duke University\, and the Currier Museum\, and is included in permanent collections at the Crystal Bridges Museum in Bentonville\, AR\, Fidelity\, and the Mint Museum in Charlotte\, NC. She is currently an Associate Professor and Sculpture Department Coordinator at Montserrat College of Art.  \nIn addition to her sculpture Spit Cake on view at the Ackland through May 14\, local audience members can see Alexander’s work and you did not even know enough to be sorry on view at the North Carolina Museum of Art\, as well as in an upcoming exhibition at Cassilhaus in Chapel Hill.
URL:https://events.ackland.org/event/lecture-demo-alexander/
LOCATION:Ackland Art Museum\, 101 S. Columbia Street\, Chapel Hill\, NC\, 27514\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Programs,Talks
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SUMMARY:Fall 2022 Semester Revue
DESCRIPTION:SEMESTER REVUE | ART&\nStudent Research & Responses to the Collection \nEach 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 through their short\, dynamic presentations. \nThis semester\, the Semester Revue features presentations by students in English 208: Reading and Writing Nonfiction: Encounters with Art and Objects (Julia Ridley Smith\, MFA)\, Comparative Literature 260: Landscape: Reimagining the Natural World (Dr. Janice Koelb)\, and American Studies 371: LGBTQ Fiction and Film from 1950 to the Present (Dr. Michelle Robinson). \nFree\, no ticket required. Cookies and coffee will be served. Drop in any time!
URL:https://events.ackland.org/event/semester-revue-fall2022/
LOCATION:Ackland Art Museum\, 101 S. Columbia Street\, Chapel Hill\, NC\, 27514\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Programs,Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221110T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221110T180000
DTSTAMP:20260522T085539
CREATED:20220809T165939Z
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SUMMARY:Special Lecture by Wayne Franits
DESCRIPTION:Paper Delights: The Peck Collection of Seventeenth-Century Dutch Drawings \nJoin 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 at the Ackland Art Museum. Wayne Franits is a well-known scholar of seventeenth-century Dutch art and an occasional drawings collector himself. He will shed further light on several of the drawings in the exhibition and briefly share his own recollections of Sheldon Peck. \nHosted by the UNC-Chapel Hill Department of Art and Art History and MEMS\, UNC’s Medieval and Early Modern Studies Program \nFree and open to the public.
URL:https://events.ackland.org/event/special-lecture-by-wayne-franits/
LOCATION:Ackland Art Museum\, 101 S. Columbia Street\, Chapel Hill\, NC\, 27514\, United States
CATEGORIES:Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220825T180000
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SUMMARY:Hanes Visiting Artist Talk: Alexis Rockman
DESCRIPTION:Join 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. \nFree and open to the public. The talk will be held in the Hanes Art Center Auditorium\, Room 121. \nAn endowment established in 1983 through the generosity of Nancy and Robin Hanes supports the Art Department’s Visiting Artist Series. This important program brings both established and emerging artists to campus to discuss their work in public lectures and to offer individual critiques to our M.F.A. students. The Hanes Visiting Artist series greatly enriches both our academic programs and our outreach to the wider community. All lectures are free and open to the public.
URL:https://events.ackland.org/event/hva-alexis-rockman/
LOCATION:Hanes Art Center Auditorium (Room 121)\, 121 East Cameron Avenue\, Chapel Hill\, NC\, 27514\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Programs,Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220619T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220619T170000
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SUMMARY:Ackland F.A.M.: Juneteenth Celebration
DESCRIPTION:Our 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. \nJuneteenth Celebration\nJune 19| 1-5 p.m. \nInteractive Family Tour | 2:00 p.m.\nJoin Ackland docents in a family-friendly close look at Aaron Douglas’ 1931 mural Harriet Tubman. \nStorytime | 3:00 p.m.\nJoin the Ackland’s Public Program Team as we read books about the significance of murals! Meet in ART&. Books are appropriate for ages 5 and up. \nMural & Graffiti Wall | All Afternoon in the Ackland courtyard \nMake your mark on our temporary mural wall with spray paint and inspiration from the art on view at the Ackland. Hosted by Chapel Hill Arts and Culture \nFree Family Activity Kits | Available in the Ackland Lobby beginning May 18\nPick up a kit to use in the galleries or at home to make your own “mural sketch” using stencils and textured paper\, inspired by Aaron Douglas’s vibrant Harriet Tubman mural. \nSelf-Guided Art Walk to Chapel Hill-Carrboro Juneteenth Celebration at Hargraves Community Center\nExplore Chapel Hill’s vibrant public art on a self-guided art walk between the Ackland and Chapel Hill-Carrboro’s 2nd Annual Juneteenth Celebration at Hargraves Community Center from 2-6 p.m. on June 19. Pick up a copy at the Ackland or view a PDF of the Mural Walk here. \nFind out more about the performances\, poetry\, and more at the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Juneteenth celebration of Black community and culture by visiting their event page: https://www.chapelhillarts.org/calendar/juneteenth-celebration/. \n  \n\n  \n 
URL:https://events.ackland.org/event/ackland-f-a-m-juneteenth-celebration/
LOCATION:Ackland Art Museum\, 101 S. Columbia Street\, Chapel Hill\, NC\, 27514\, United States
CATEGORIES:F.A.M. (Families at the Museum),Special Programs,Talks
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