Events
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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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WAITLIST ONLY: Art & Lit: “All the Beauty in the World”
Ackland Art Museum 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesThis is program is now SOLD OUT. To join the waitlist, please email Carolina Public Humanities at human@unc.edu. -- Join Melissa Faliveno (UNC English and Comparative Literature) and Lauren Turner (Ackland Associate Curator of Contemporary Art and Special Projects) for a discussion of All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and…
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Ackland Film Forum: Color Triumphant in Silent Film
Chelsea Theater 1129 Weaver Dairy Road, Suite AB, Chapel Hill, United StatesContrary to popular myth, color didn’t arrive to the movies when Dorothy landed in Oz. While Hollywood studios embraced black and white cinematography in the sound era, reserving the use of the complex, and expensive, Technicolor for only its biggest productions, filmmakers in the silent era embraced the use of color. Films were tinted using…
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2nd Friday ArtWalk: Acktoberfest
Ackland Art Museum 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesJoin us for the Ackland Art Museum’s fourth annual Acktoberfest – an evening of art-inspired cheese and drink pairings, plus a floral arranging craft station inspired by the special exhibition Color Triumphant: Modern Art from the Collection of Julian and Josie Robertson. Cheese and alcoholic beverage pairings curated by Wedgewood Cheese Bar will be available…
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A Closer Look at “Color Triumphant” – featuring Weixin Zhou
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 at a special time for a conversational tour led by Weixin Zhou, UNC-Chapel Hill doctoral candidate in art history, specialist in European modernism, and researcher and co-author of Color Triumphant: Modern Art from the Collection of Julian and…
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Art and Literature: “Soft Night, Watching” and “The Colour out of Space”
Ackland Art Museum 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesJoin Lauren Turner (associate curator for contemporary art and special projects), artist Jen Clay, and Ben Bolling (teaching assistant professor of English and Comparative Literature) for a special viewing and discussion at the Ackland Art Museum. Explore the interactive, quilted installation Soft Night, Watching, currently on view, along with the H.P. Lovecraft story that helped…
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A Closer Look at “Color Concentrated” – Featuring Weixin Zhou
Ackland Art Museum 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesJoin us at a special time for a conversational tour led by Weixin Zhou, UNC-Chapel Hill doctoral candidate in art history, specialist in European modernism, and researcher and co-author of exhibition texts for both Color Concentrated: A Salon-Style Show from the Robertson Collection and last fall’s Color Triumphant. Please register for a free ticket below…
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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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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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2nd Friday ArtWalk: Acktoberfest
Ackland Art Museum 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesJoin us for the Ackland Art Museum’s fifth annual Acktoberfest — an evening filled with art, crafts, and local vendors! Art supplies will be available in our ART& space, where visitors can create their own paper plants inspired by Phaan Howng: Against Nature. There will also be postcards inspired by the installation for visitors to…