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SUMMARY:Tour: Curator's Tour of "Continental Shift"
DESCRIPTION:This program is now FULL. To be added to our WAITLIST\, please email acklandRSVP@unc.edu. \n  \nA 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. \nThis event is part of UNC–Chapel Hill’s Campus Life Experience (CLE) program. Students who attend can scan the QR code provided at the event to receive CLE credit.
URL:https://events.ackland.org/event/pn-aug-tour-curators-tour-of-continental-shift-2/
LOCATION:Ackland Art Museum\, 101 S. Columbia Street\, Chapel Hill\, NC\, 27514\, United States
CATEGORIES:Talks
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SUMMARY:Artist Conversation: Phaan Howng
DESCRIPTION:Artist 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. \nFree\, but space is limited; registration required below. \nThis event is part of UNC–Chapel Hill’s Campus Life Experience (CLE) program. Students who attend can scan the QR code provided at the event to receive CLE credit. \n  \n 
URL:https://events.ackland.org/event/artist-conversation-phaan-howng/
LOCATION:Ackland Art Museum\, 101 S. Columbia Street\, Chapel Hill\, NC\, 27514\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Programs,Talks
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SUMMARY:“She Will Be Quite a Manager”: From Plantation Owner to Girl Boss
DESCRIPTION:What do a Civil War-era plantation owner and a modern “girl boss” have in common? More than you think. \nAdelicia 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. This talk hosted by Carolina Public Humanities traces their unsettling legacy into the present\, asking what happens when women gain power within systems built on inequality. \nFree\, but space is limited; registration is required via the Carolina Public Humanities event webpage. \nAbout the speaker: \nTanya Shields is an Associate Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies whose research focuses on Caribbean studies and plantation logics. She teaches courses on the Caribbean\, the arts of activism\, growing up girls globally\, and the continuing influence of plantation economics and politics. She is currently working on her second monograph\, Gendered Labor: Race\, Place\, and Power on Female-Owned Plantations\, a comparative study of women who owned plantations in the Caribbean and the U.S. South. \n  \n 
URL:https://events.ackland.org/event/she-will-be-quite-a-manager-from-plantation-owner-to-girl-boss/
LOCATION:Ackland Art Museum\, 101 S. Columbia Street\, Chapel Hill\, NC\, 27514\, United States
CATEGORIES:Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261104T173000
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SUMMARY:Porcelains and Power: The Politics of Chinese Art in the Age of American Ascendancy
DESCRIPTION:A talk by Dr. Ian Shin (Department of American Culture\, University of Michigan)\, co-sponsored with the Department of History. \nHow 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\, elite collectors and museums in the United States transformed from owning a smattering of Chinese porcelains to possessing some of the world’s largest and most sophisticated collections of Chinese art. \nIn this talk\, historian Ian Shin shows that\, beyond aesthetic taste and economics\, geopolitics were vital to this transformation. Collecting and studying Chinese art honed Americans’ belief that they should dominate Asia and the Pacific Ocean through the ideology of “imperial stewardship.” U.S. imperial stewardship encompassed both genuine curiosity and care for Chinese art\, and the enduring structures of domination that underpinned the growing transpacific art market in the early twentieth century. Far more than a history of cultural “exchange” between the United States and China\, this is also a history of rivalries and feuds with European curators and enterprising Chinese merchants. \nUltimately\, this talk challenges us to come to terms with how our interest in and desire for beautiful art are inextricable from questions of power. \nFree\, but space is limited; registration required below. \n  \nThis event is part of UNC–Chapel Hill’s Campus Life Experience (CLE) program. Students who attend can scan the QR code provided at the event to receive CLE credit. \n  \n 
URL:https://events.ackland.org/event/nov4-porcelains-and-power-the-politics-of-chinese-art-in-the-age-of-american-ascendancy/
LOCATION:Ackland Art Museum\, 101 S. Columbia Street\, Chapel Hill\, NC\, 27514\, United States
CATEGORIES:Talks
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SUMMARY:Collecting African\, Ancient Mediterranean\, and Native American Art
DESCRIPTION:Ackland 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. \nParticipants will talk about some of the important questions and issues involved with collecting art in these areas. \nFree\, but space is limited; registration required below. \n  \nThis event is part of UNC–Chapel Hill’s Campus Life Experience (CLE) program. Students who attend can scan the QR code provided at the event to receive CLE credit.
URL:https://events.ackland.org/event/collecting-african-ancient-mediterranean-and-native-american-art/
LOCATION:Ackland Art Museum\, 101 S. Columbia Street\, Chapel Hill\, NC\, 27514\, United States
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