Events
Semester Revue: Student Research & Responses to the Collection
Ackland Art Museum 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesEach 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. The…
Artist Talk: “Layers of History: Andrew Raftery Speaks about Art and Research”
Ackland Art Museum 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesA 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…
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Semester Revue: Student Research & Responses to the Collection
Ackland Art Museum 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesEach 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. The Ackland…
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…
Semester Revue: Student Research & Responses to the Collection
Ackland Art Museum 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesEach 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. The Ackland…
Scholarly Talk: Joe Earle on “Radical Clay: Contemporary Women Artists from Japan”
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. Join 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…
FreeArtist Conversation: Radical Ceramicists in North Carolina
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. Join 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…
Free
Semester Revue: Student Research & Responses to the Collection
Ackland Art Museum 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesEach 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. The Ackland…
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,…