Last Look Tour for “The Outwin: American Portraiture Today”
Ackland Art Museum 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesJoin Lauren Turner, Associate Curator for Contemporary Art and Special Projects, for a final tour of The Outwin: American Portraiture Today on the closing afternoon of the exhibition. The Outwin: American Portraiture Today has been organized by the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery. The competition and exhibition are made possible by the Virginia Outwin Boochever Portrait…
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F.A.M. Fun in the Galleries: Exploring “Past Forward”
Ackland Art Museum 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesSpend an art-filled afternoon at the Ackland with family-friendly events and self-guided activities inspired by our current exhibition Past Forward: Native American Art from Gilcrease Museum. Local storyteller Ryan Dial (Lumbee; American Indian Center) will lead a storytime session for kids and their families at 1:30 and 3:30 p.m. A special close-looking activity sheet will…
Opening Reception: Selected Works by the MFA Class of 2024
Ackland Art Museum 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesAll are invited to celebrate the opening of A Product of Its Environment: Selected Works by the MFA Class of 2024. Join us for a first look at the exhibition, remarks from the exhibition's organizers and artists, and festive food and drinks (cash bar is 21+). The celebration is open to all and no tickets…
Curator’s Tour of A Product of Its Environment: Selected Works by the MFA Class of 2024
Ackland Art Museum 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesJoin Lauren Turner, Associate Curator for Contemporary Art and Special Projects, for a first guided look at A Product of Its Environment: Selected Works by the MFA Class of 2024. The exhibition investigates the idea that physical surroundings, both ancestral and current, influence people’s personal identities just as much as past and present populations correspondingly…
FreeLast Look at “A Product of Its Environment: Selected Works by the MFA Class of 2024”
Ackland Art Museum 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesJoin Lauren Turner, Associate Curator for Contemporary Art and Special Projects, for a final guided look at A Product of Its Environment: Selected Works by the MFA Class of 2024. The exhibition investigates the idea that physical surroundings, both ancestral and current, influence people’s personal identities just as much as past and present populations correspondingly…
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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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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…
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…
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…
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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