Events
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Ackland F.A.M. Kits: “We put the A in STEAM”
Ackland Art Museum 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesIn connection with the North Carolina Science Festival's theme "Full STEAM Ahead," find out how the Ackland puts the "A" in STEAM. Color and take home your own set of bookmarks featuring four artworks on view at the Ackland that highlight the connections between Art and Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics. Bookmark templates and coloring…
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Artist Conversation: Art / Science / Music / Math
Ackland Art Museum 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesJoin 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…
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Guided Tour: Exploring Connections Between Art & Science
Ackland Art Museum 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesMeet 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.
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Guided Tour: Exploring Connections Between Art & Science
Ackland Art Museum 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesMeet 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.
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Guided Tour: Exploring Connections Between Art & Science
Ackland Art Museum 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesMeet 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.
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Guided Tour: Exploring Connections Between Art & Science
Ackland Art Museum 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesMeet 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.
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2nd Friday ArtWalk: Georgie Nakima Installation Reception
Ackland Art Museum 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesJoin the Ackland in celebrating Georgie Nakima's new installation, Pantheress, in our ART& space. Georgie Nakima is a North Carolina-based multi-disciplinary artist with a focus on public art and the relationship between 2D and 3D space. Georgie’s formal background in life sciences and research inspires her to bridge the network of ecosystems into her…
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Artist Talk & Panel with Sherrill Roland
Ackland Art Museum 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesThis program is now FULL. To be added to our WAITLIST, please email acklandRSVP@unc.edu. Using 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…
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Bettie Allison Rand Lectures in Art History: Stephanie Porras, Tulane University
Ackland Art Museum 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesThe 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." The talk is free and open to the public. Seating is first come, first served. Read below for additional details about the talk…
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Public Opening of “Phantom Limb: Selected Works by the MFA Class of 2025”
Ackland Art Museum 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesJoin the Ackland in celebrating the opening of Phantom Limb: Selected Works by the MFA Class of 2025! A phantom limb is the sensation of a part of one’s body still being present when it has been removed. In science and philosophy, the phenomenon has been used to understand how we link the mind and…
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