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  • Close Looks at Cocktail Hour: Renée Stout’s Ogun

    Zoom (Link Provided with Ticket) , United States
    Virtual Event

    Join the Ackland’s Object Based Teaching Fellow, Erin Dickey, for an informal conversation focused on one work of art from the Ackland’s new Close Looks digital feature. Plan to look closely and think collectively—and bring a drink of your choosing. On March 17, we'll look at Renée Stout's piece, Ogun. Registration is limited. After RSVPing,…

    Free

  • Ackland Film Forum: “Fire” Watch Party and Panel

    Zoom (Link Provided with Ticket) , United States
    Virtual Event

    Join us for the third film in the Ackland Film Forum's Global Queer Cinema Series, Deepa Mehta's Fire (1996, Canada/India). The series is a collaboration with the Film Studies Program in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at UNC-Chapel Hill, and features a selection of four international films presented in connection with the Ackland’s…

    Free

  • Ackland Film Forum Watch Party & Panel for “A Fantastic Woman”

    Zoom (Link Provided with Ticket) , United States
    Virtual Event

    Join us for the final film in the Ackland Film Forum's Global Queer Cinema Series, A Fantastic Woman (Sebastian Lelio, 2017, Chile). The series is a collaboration with the Film Studies Program in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at UNC-Chapel Hill, and features a selection of four international films presented in connection with…

    Free

  • Close Looks Conversational Tour: “10 Trashy Ideas about the Environment” by the Guerrilla Girls

    Ackland Art Museum 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

    Join Erin Dickey, Ackland Graduate Teaching Fellow, for an informal conversation about the Guerrilla Girls's 10 Trashy Ideas about the Environment, a work featured in the Ackland’s Close Looks project. Plan to look closely and think collectively. Registration is limited. Sign up for free tickets to this in-person program below. -- All visitors to the…

    Free
  • Image of tapestry work by Christopher Myers featured image of Black woman in a red dress holding a large blue and white fish. The background features a embroidered purple stripe on the left and a horizontal lime green stripe at top right with yellow rectangle filling the remainder of the background. The work is hung on wooden dowels.
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    Artist Conversation: Christopher Myers

    Ackland Art Museum 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

    Join us for a virtual conversation between artist Christopher Myers and the Ackland's Lauren Turner, assistant curator for the collection. Myers's work Fish Pieta (2020)(seen at right) is a new acquisition in the Museum's permanent collection and is featured in the 2021-2022 Close Looks series. In this free Zoom webinar, we'll hear from Myers about…

    Free
  • A black and white photograph that shows Zig Jackson, the artist, in a half-length portrait, standing, facing front and wearing a headdress, sunglasses, and a plaid shirt. Zig stands next to a large sign in the style of a city or landmark sign with a dark background and white lettering that states "Entering Zig’s Indian Reservation." Below is a smaller white sign with black lettering that states: "Private Property, open range cattle on highway, No Picture Taking, No Hunting, No Air Traffic, New Agers Prohibited, without permission from Tribal Council.” Zig stands in tall grass with a highway and a cityscape of San Francisco, California behind him.
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    Artist Conversation: Zig Jackson

    Zoom , United States
    Virtual Event

    Join us for a virtual conversation between artist Zig Jackson and the Ackland's Lauren Turner, assistant curator for the collection. Jackson's photograph Entering Zig’s Indian Reservation, China Basin, San Francisco, CA is featured in the Ackland's 2021-2022 Close Looks series. In this free virtual conversation, we'll hear from Jackson about this 1997 work, others in…

    Free
  • Photograph of 12-13th century white porcelain cup on a pedestal from the Song dynasty.

    Close Looks Conversational Tour: Song Dynasty “Stem Cup”

    Ackland Art Museum 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

    Join Weixin Zhou, Ackland Graduate Teaching Fellow, for an informal conversation about the Ackland's 12-13th century Song dynasty Stem Cup, a work featured in the Ackland’s Close Looks project. Plan to look closely and think collectively. Registration is limited. Sign up for free tickets to this in-person program below. This program is supported by the Orange County…

    Free

  • Close Looks Conversational Tour: Hale Woodruff’s Landscape “(Mississippi, Soil Erosion)”

    Ackland Art Museum 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, 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.…

    Free

  • Ackland FAM: Woodruff’s Landscapes

    Ackland Art Museum 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

    Join the Ackland as Ackland F.A.M. (Families at the Museum) focus on one of the Harlem Renaissance's leading artists, Hale Aspacio Woodruff and his piece, Landscape (Mississippi, Soil Erosion), seen on the right. We will be considering the variety of ways that humans depict and interact with their environments by looking closely at Landscape (Mississippi,…

  • Close Looks Conversational Tour: Mughal Perforated Screen

    Ackland Art Museum 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, 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…

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