Events Search and Views Navigation

Event Views Navigation

Today

Filters

Changing any of the form inputs will cause the list of events to refresh with the filtered results.

Your selections
Category: Special Programs

  • Artist-Led Workshop with Elizabeth Alexander

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

    In this hands-on workshop, explore the concept of creative excision — extracting or removing information to create new meaning — while learning more about how visiting artist Elizabeth Alexander employs the technique in her own works. Alexander, whose porcelain work Spit Cake (2014) is currently on view at the Ackland, will lead participants in a…

    Free

  • Artist Conversation: Art / Science / Music / Math

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

    Join 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 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…

    Free

  • Guided Tour: Exploring Connections Between Art & Science

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

    Meet in the Ackland's lobby for a guided conversational tour that reveals the interplay between art on view and science! The tour will be 30 minutes in length. All ages welcome and tickets are free, but space is limited to 15 participants. 

    Free

  • Guided Tour: Exploring Connections Between Art & Science

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

    Meet in the Ackland's lobby for a guided conversational tour that reveals the interplay between art on view and science! The tour will be 30 minutes in length. All ages welcome and tickets are free, but space is limited to 15 participants. 

    Free

  • 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, 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,…

    Free

  • Ackland Presents: Poetry at the Arboretum

    Coker Arboretum

    This April commemorates the 120th anniversary of Coker Arboretum. In connection with this celebration and the Ackland Art Museum’s exhibition Lotus Moon and Nandina Staff, the Ackland will host a free, drop-in poetry writing program on the arboretum's central lawn. Visit any time from 10:30am - 1:30pm to enjoy the serene landscape and the pleasure of crafting poetry…

  • Guided Tour: Exploring Connections Between Art & Science

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

    Meet in the Ackland's lobby for a guided conversational tour that reveals the interplay between art on view and science! The tour will be 30 minutes in length. All ages welcome and tickets are free, but space is limited to 15 participants. 

    Free

  • Guided Tour: Exploring Connections Between Art & Science

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

    Meet in the Ackland's lobby for a guided conversational tour that reveals the interplay between art on view and science! The tour will be 30 minutes in length. All ages welcome and tickets are free, but space is limited to 15 participants. 

    Free

  • Reception for Unsettled Things: Art from an African American South – Hosted by Triangle Friends of African American Arts

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

    Please join us for a reception, hosted by the Triangle Friends of African American Arts, to celebrate the Ackland’s upcoming exhibition, Unsettled Things: Art from an African American South. This special afternoon will include light refreshments, an introduction to the exhibition, spotlight discussions, and self-tour guides. Including forty-four works by twenty-eight artists – largely drawn…

    Free

  • 2nd Friday ArtWalk: Congrats, Grads!

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

    Planning for a graduation weekend filled with fun and celebration? The Ackland is the perfect place to add to your itinerary! Join us Friday, May 12, as we stay open until 9:00 p.m. for an evening of music, art, and Carolina camaraderie. TRACK MEET by THE BEAT LAB A dynamic live beatmaking showcase hosted by…