Events
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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…
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“Bill Bamberger: Boys Will Be Men” Artist Conversation
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. Artist Bill Bamberger, exhibition curator Lauren Turner, and select participating current and former students from Durham School of the Arts will host a public conversation discussing the process behind and lessons learned from the community-driven exhibition Bill Bamberger: Boys Will…
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Stuff Your Fears with Artist Jen Clay
Ackland Art Museum 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesInspired by the themes in her installation Soft Night, Watching, artist Jen Clay is hosting a drop-in activity to create stuffie versions of your fears and anxieties. The Ackland will provide supplies to decorate your own stuffie. Clay will be available to answer questions about how she uses soft textures and also encourages touch in…
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2nd Friday ArtWalk: Documentary Photography
Ackland Art Museum 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesSome tour sessions are now FULL. To be added to the tour's WAITLIST, please email acklandRSVP@unc.edu. Spend a spring evening learning more about documentary photography during this month’s 2nd Friday ArtWalk inspired by Bill Bamberger: Boys Will Be Men. In partnership with the Duke Center for Documentary Studies, where Bamberger is a longtime photography…
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Public Opening of “Ancestral Frequencies: Selected Works by the MFA Class of 2026”
Ackland Art Museum 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesJoin the Ackland in celebrating the opening of Ancestral Frequencies: Selected Works by the MFA Class of 2026! Each year the Ackland invites a local arts professional to curate a group exhibition of works by UNC-Chapel Hill’s Master of Fine Arts in Studio Arts candidates. For 2026, Annah Lee, cultural center manager for the Town…
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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 for all audiences; no registration…
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Welcome Back to Campus: Reception for “Against Nature”
Ackland Art Museum 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesThe Ackland welcomes back faculty, students, and staff to campus with a celebration for its newest installation in the ART& space, Phaan Howng: Against Nature. In Against Nature, artist Phaan Howng positions an ornate botanical composition above wainscotting that suggests the architecture of a late nineteenth-century study or parlor. The paneling’s mint green tint evokes the…
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Artist Conversation: Phaan Howng
Ackland Art Museum 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesArtist Phaan Howng speaks with Lauren Turner, associate curator for contemporary art and special projects, about Phaan Howng: Against Nature, the newest installation in the Museum’s ART& space, and its place in Howng’s body of work. Free, but space is limited; registration required below. This event is part of UNC–Chapel Hill’s Campus Life Experience (CLE)…
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Collecting African, Ancient Mediterranean, and Native American Art
Ackland Art Museum 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesAckland Director Shalini Le Gall moderates a discussion with specialists in African, Ancient Mediterranean, and Native American art: Dr. Victoria Rovine of UNC-Chapel Hill’s Department of Art and Art History, Dr. Jennifer Gates-Foster of UNC-Chapel Hill’s Department of Classics, and Nancy Chavis, director and curator of the Museum of the Southeast American Indian at UNC-Pembroke.…
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An Ackland Odyssey
Ackland Art Museum 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesHow have artists represented the characters from Homer’s Odyssey through the centuries? How do images translate and adapt the words from this epic poem for new, diverse audiences? Professors Timothy Shea and Hérica Valladares, both from UNC-Chapel Hill’s Department of Classics with adjunct appointments in the Department of Art and Art History, will lead a seminar-style discussion focusing…