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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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Ackland Art Museum at the UNC Science Expo
Ackland Art Museum 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesJoin the Ackland Art Museum at the UNC Science Expo, hosted by the Morehead Planetarium and Science Center! Find us at our booth for hands-on art-making activities inspired by STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math) objectives. Explore the connections between creativity and science through interactive crafts! Afterward, take a short walk over to the…
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2nd Friday ArtWalk: “Phantom Limb” Artist Workshops and Tours
Ackland Art Museum 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesJoin us for a special 2nd Friday ArtWalk focused on the newly-opened exhibition Phantom Limb: Selected Works by the MFA Class of 2025! Drop in throughout the night for hands-on workshops with two of the artists whose work is on view or hop on a mini tour of the exhibition by its curator. The Museum…
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The 11th Annual Symposium of the Art Student Graduate Organization – “Anachronic Enchantment: Temporalities in Visual and Material Culture”
Ackland Art Museum 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesThe 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. When something is described as anachronistic, it is often to say that it is contradictory, inconsistent,…