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SUMMARY:Art for Lunch: What We Believe
DESCRIPTION:Featuring Gabrielle Berlinger (UNC Department of American Studies) and Elizabeth Manekin (Ackland Head of University Programs and Academic Projects) \nJoin us for a virtual version of Art for Lunch\, our interview-style talk with the Ackland’s Elizabeth Manekin\, to discuss how Dr. Gabrielle Berlinger’s class “Introduction to Folklore” utilizes selections from the Ackland’s collection on view in Ackland Upstairs to interrogate the ways in which art objects can reveal and reinforce our belief systems. \nBring your lunch – and questions of your own – for this lively\, conversational program. \nFree. Register for a free ticket below to receive a Zoom link to this virtual program. \nThis program is supported by the Orange County Arts Commission.
URL:https://events.ackland.org/event/art-for-lunch-what-we-believe/
LOCATION:Zoom (Link Provided with Ticket)\, United States
CATEGORIES:Art for Lunch,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211111T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211111T190000
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SUMMARY:American Tastes in Japanese Art: The Influence of Sherman Emery Lee
DESCRIPTION:At this free virtual talk Dr. James Ulak will offer thoughts on Sherman Emery Lee’s (1918–2008) powerful influence in directing collecting tastes in Japanese art throughout America. Lee’s advice has benefited countless private and institutional collections — including the Ackland Art Museum — from the immediate post-WWII era\, through his distinguished museum career\, and well into his retirement years. His role as a confidant to the Rockefellers is well documented and on display in the Ackland’s current extraordinary exhibition of Asian art\, Buddha and Shiva\, Lotus and Dragon: Masterworks from the Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3rd Collection at Asia Society. In this talk\, Ulak will situate Sherman Lee in the context of America’s long interest in Japanese art and culture\, dating from the 1870s forward. Lee resisted clichés and trends to establish a clear understanding of the strength of Japan’s classical visual lineage. \nThis free virtual talk is presented in connection with Buddha and Shiva\, Lotus and Dragon: Masterworks from the Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3rd Collection at Asia Society.  \nFree; RSVP required below. Zoom webinar links will be sent to registered participants via email. \nThis program is supported by the Orange County Arts Commission. \n— \nJames T. Ulak is the current president of the United States-Japan Foundation (serving since November 2019) and had previously spent twenty-five years at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art — Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery in Washington\, D.C.\, serving in the capacities of Senior Curator of Japanese Art\, Head of Collections and Research\, Chief Curator and Deputy Director. Preceding his tenure in Washington\, he has been affiliated with the Cleveland Museum of Art\, Yale University Art Gallery\, and The Art Institute of Chicago. Before beginning his museum career\, an interest in Japanese Buddhist iconography led Jim into a full-time academic program of Japanese art history. With an initial focus on the history of narrative painting production in fourteenth- and fifteenth-century Japan\, Jim received his PhD from Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland\, Ohio) in 1994\, where he studied with Sherman Emery Lee. In addition to his interest in medieval Japanese narrative painting\, Jim has written on the genesis of modern painting styles in the early seventeenth century\, on eighteenth-century “eccentric” painters\, and on Japan’s artistic encounters with international modernity in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He has developed and produced numerous exhibitions on these topics\, including major projects in partnership with Japanese institutions. During his museum career\, Jim expanded collection holdings\, created programs for curatorial training\, and engaged major corporate\, government\, and private financial support for museum programs.
URL:https://events.ackland.org/event/ulak/
LOCATION:Ackland Art Museum\, 101 S. Columbia Street\, Chapel Hill\, NC\, 27514\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Programs,Talks,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211201T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211201T201500
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SUMMARY:Can Art Prevent War? A Discussion about the Power of Cultural Diplomacy
DESCRIPTION:With Barbara Stephenson (Vice Chancellor for Global Affairs and Chief Global Officer\, UNC-Chapel Hill) and Katie Ziglar (Director\, Ackland Art Museum) \nAt this free virtual panel\, Ackland director Katie Ziglar speaks with Vice Provost for Global Affairs and former diplomat Barbara Stephenson about the power of cultural diplomacy\, meditating on the provocative question\, “Can Art Prevent War?” Questions about the power of art in global affairs come implicit with the display of nearly seventy objects on view in the Museum’s current exhibition Buddha and Shiva\, Lotus and Dragon: Masterworks from the Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3rd Collection at Asia Society. The Rockefellers believed their collection of Asian Art — a portion of which can be seen at the Ackland this fall — would help facilitate cross-cultural dialogue and bolster diplomatic goals of the United States. On December 1\, join Ziglar and Stephenson for a lively conversation in which they share their perspectives — from the museum world and the world of U.S. diplomatic affairs — to explore the use of art in building cross-cultural connections and to comment on the Rockefellers’ goal of cultural diplomacy between the United States and Asia\, especially how it might work in today’s world. \nRegister below for this free Zoom webinar. Participants will be sent a link via email. \n— \nABOUT THE PANELISTS: \nBarbara J. Stephenson\, Vice Provost for Global Affairs and Chief Global Officer\, joined the University in 2019. She advances Carolina’s global reach\, impact and reputation. Previously\, she was president of the American Foreign Service Association. During her distinguished 34-year career in the Foreign Service\, she was U.S. ambassador to Panama\, the first woman chargé d’affaires and deputy ambassador at the U.S. Embassy in London\, and dean of the Leadership and Management School at the Foreign Service Institute. \nKatie Ziglar is the director of the Ackland Art Museum at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She has contributed substantially to the successful management of visual arts organizations including the Smithsonian American Art Museum\, the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute\, the National Gallery of Art\, and the Smithsonian’s Freer|Sackler Galleries in Washington\, D.C. Her academic background includes an expertise in Islamic Art in addition to studies in history from UNC-Chapel Hill as a Morehead-Cain scholar. \nThis program is supported by the Orange County Arts Commission.
URL:https://events.ackland.org/event/cultural-diplomacy/
LOCATION:Zoom\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Programs,Talks,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Virtual Art for Lunch: Antonia Randolph
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a virtual Art for Lunch\, our interview-style talk with the Ackland’s Elizabeth Manekin\, to discuss how Dr. Antonia Randolph’s class “North Carolina Black Feminisms” utilize selected works of portraiture and self-portraiture by Black artists from the Ackland’s collection to explore the construction of Black feminist identities. The installation features works by Lezley Saar\, Renee Stout\, Shanequa Gay\, and Willie Cole and will be on view in Ackland Upstairs from January 10 to March 20\, 2022. \nBring your lunch – and questions of your own – for this lively\, conversational program. \nFree. Register for a free ticket below to receive a Zoom link to this virtual program. \n 
URL:https://events.ackland.org/event/art-for-lunch-antonia-randolph/
LOCATION:Zoom (Link Provided with Ticket)\, United States
CATEGORIES:Art for Lunch,Talks,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220211T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220211T163000
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SUMMARY:Virtual "Peace\, Power & Prestige" Curator Conversation
DESCRIPTION:Susan Cooksey (Harn Museum of Art) in conversation with Victoria L. Rovine (Art History\, UNC-Chapel Hill) \nJoin us for a free virtual conversation about Peace\, Power & Prestige\, with exhibition curator Dr. Susan Cooksey (Curator Emerita of African Art\, Harn Museum of Art) and Dr. Victoria Rovine (Professor of African Art History\, Department of Art and Art History\, UNC-Chapel Hill). \nLearn about highlights of this exhibition\, which explores the roles of metal objects in sustaining\, unifying\, and enhancing life in African communities while demonstrating the aesthetic and expressive power of metal arts. The exhibition of over 140 pieces includes a diverse range of iron\, brass\, bronze\, gold\, copper\, silver\, and alloyed works created by artists in Sub-Saharan Africa between the twelfth and twenty-first centuries.
URL:https://events.ackland.org/event/curator-conversation-susan-cooksey-harn-museum-of-art/
LOCATION:Zoom (Link Provided with Ticket)\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Programs,Talks,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220224T170000
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SUMMARY:Radical Healing and Decoloniality: Museums in Transition
DESCRIPTION:This talk by Amanda Maples\, Curator of African Art at the NC Museum of Art\, is part of UNC Chapel Hill’s African Studies Center’s Decolonizing African Studies Series.  \nWith the advent of global protests urgently calling for social justice and the end of systemic racism\, museums have been called upon to reflect on their own institutional histories and grapple with the role they have played in perpetuating stereotypes and inequities—both in gallery and collections representation\, and within their administration. A critical aspect of this relatively recent pursuit to decolonize includes facing the violence at play in colonial and imperial histories\, and making efforts towards reparations more broadly. Such momentum has catapulted museums into a period of transition and their responsibilities are fundamentally changing towards creating space for radical healing. \nRegister here for this free virtual talk! \nOrganized by the African Studies Center\, College of Arts and Sciences\, UNC-Chapel Hill.
URL:https://events.ackland.org/event/radical-healing-and-decoloniality-museums-in-transition/
LOCATION:Zoom\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Programs,Talks,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220408T143000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220408T153000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Artist Conversation: Ghost of a Dream
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a virtual artist conversation between Ghost of a Dream\, the artistic collaboration of Lauren Was and Adam Eckstrom\, and the Ackland’s assistant curator for the collection Lauren Turner. Ghost of a Dream will discuss their commissioned installation for the Ackland\, Aligned by the Sun (through the revolution)\, as well as their larger body of work. \nThis program is presented in connection with UNC’s Arts Everywhere Day and its 2022 theme “Grounded Growth\,” which examines the role of art — especially the ways in which it was able to uplift and connect — during COVID. \nRegister for a free ticket for this Zoom webinar below. If you encounter registration issues\, please contact email us at acklandRSVP@unc.edu. \n— \nAbout Aligned by the Sun (through the revolution) \nAligned by the Sun (through the revolution) is a seven-channel video installation created specifically for the Ackland Art Museum that uses the formal positioning of the horizon line to connect each video of the sun. By overlaying images of a setting sun that align vastly different and often non-neighboring locations\, Ghost of a Dream’s Aligned by the Sun (through the revolution) offers entry points to important conversations around equality\, location\, migration\, and the environment. On view through July 3\, 2022.
URL:https://events.ackland.org/event/artist-conversation-ghost-of-a-dream/
LOCATION:Zoom (Link Provided with Ticket)\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Programs,Talks,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220413T123000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Art for Lunch: John Bechtold
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a virtual Art for Lunch\, our interview-style talk with the Ackland’s Elizabeth Manekin\, to discuss how John Bechtold’s class Visualizing War in Contemporary American Culture utilizes different media to explore the social and political consequences of war. \nBring your lunch – and questions of your own – for this lively\, conversational program. \nFree. Register for a free ticket below to receive a Zoom link to this virtual program. \n 
URL:https://events.ackland.org/event/virtual-art-for-lunch-john-bechtold/
LOCATION:Zoom (Link Provided with Ticket)\, United States
CATEGORIES:Art for Lunch,Talks,Virtual
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