Events
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Artist 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…
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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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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,…
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The Salon Salon: Floor to Ceiling Art at the Ackland
Ackland Art Museum 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesJoin Carolina Public Humanities and the Ackland Art Museum for a gathering that will foster deep thinking and conversation – a salon – through a guided viewing of Color Concentrated: A Salon-Style Show from the Robertson Collection. Color Concentrated displays paintings in the salon style, hanging in rows that extend from eye level upward, nearly…
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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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Tour: Curator’s Tour of “Continental Shift”
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. A guided look at Continental Shift: Recent Acquisitions of African Art with exhibition curator Peter Nisbet, deputy director for curatorial affairs. 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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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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“She Will Be Quite a Manager”: From Plantation Owner to Girl Boss
Ackland Art Museum 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesWhat do a Civil War-era plantation owner and a modern “girl boss” have in common? More than you think. Adelicia Acklen and Dorothy Thomas were two of the most powerful plantation-owning women—one in the US South and the other in South America—but both wielded the power of ownership by deploying and playing on particular ideas of femininity.…
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Porcelains and Power: The Politics of Chinese Art in the Age of American Ascendancy
Ackland Art Museum 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesA talk by Dr. Ian Shin (Department of American Culture, University of Michigan), co-sponsored with the Department of History. How can we understand the relationship between art collecting and Western imperialism as more than simply a story of victim and aggressor, of the plundered and the plunderer? From the Gilded Age to World War II,…
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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.…