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  • Sketch of two orange fish swimming in blue and orange wavy lines

    Museum Pictionary

    Ackland Art Museum 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United States
    Virtual Event

    Think you can draw a work of art from description alone? Join us for an afternoon of virtual drawing games based on works now on view in Drawing Attention. Test…

    Free

  • Art & Lit: “Visions of Venice” and Italo Calvino’s “Invisible Cities”

    Ackland Art Museum 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United States
    Virtual Event

    This program is now SOLD OUT. To be added to a waitlist, please email acklandRSVP@unc.edu. Thank you! -- Join us in reading (or rereading!) Italo Calvino’s 1972 classic novel Invisible…

    $19
  • Ackland at Fall Arts Pop Up 2021

    Ackland at Fall Arts Pop Up 2021

    Davis Library Courtyard Chapel Hill, United States

    Visit the Ackland's art-making station as we welcome Carolina students back to campus alongside Arts Everywhere! Stop by our table on Thursday, September 16 or Friday, September 17 from 11…

  • Ackland at Fall Arts Pop Up 2021

    Ackland at Fall Arts Pop Up 2021

    Davis Library Courtyard Chapel Hill, United States

    Visit the Ackland's art-making station as we welcome Carolina students back to campus alongside Arts Everywhere! Stop by our table on Thursday, September 16 or Friday, September 17 from 11…

  • Image of tapestry work by Christopher Myers featured image of Black woman in a red dress holding a large blue and white fish. The background features a embroidered purple stripe on the left and a horizontal lime green stripe at top right with yellow rectangle filling the remainder of the background. The work is hung on wooden dowels.
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    Artist Conversation: Christopher Myers

    Ackland Art Museum 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

    Join us for a virtual conversation between artist Christopher Myers and the Ackland's Lauren Turner, assistant curator for the collection. Myers's work Fish Pieta (2020)(seen at right) is a new…

    Free
  • A black and white photograph that shows Zig Jackson, the artist, in a half-length portrait, standing, facing front and wearing a headdress, sunglasses, and a plaid shirt. Zig stands next to a large sign in the style of a city or landmark sign with a dark background and white lettering that states "Entering Zig’s Indian Reservation." Below is a smaller white sign with black lettering that states: "Private Property, open range cattle on highway, No Picture Taking, No Hunting, No Air Traffic, New Agers Prohibited, without permission from Tribal Council.” Zig stands in tall grass with a highway and a cityscape of San Francisco, California behind him.
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    Artist Conversation: Zig Jackson

    Zoom , United States
    Virtual Event

    Join us for a virtual conversation between artist Zig Jackson and the Ackland's Lauren Turner, assistant curator for the collection. Jackson's photograph Entering Zig’s Indian Reservation, China Basin, San Francisco,…

    Free
  • Photograph of James Ulak

    American Tastes in Japanese Art: The Influence of Sherman Emery Lee

    Ackland Art Museum 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United States
    Virtual Event

    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…

    Free

  • Art & Lit at the Ackland: “The Hare with Amber Eyes” by Edmund de Waal

    Ackland Art Museum 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

    Join us in reading artist and author Edmund de Waal's captivating family memoir The Hare with Amber Eyes, which traces the story of his family through a collection of hand-carved…

    $18 – $22

  • Can Art Prevent War? A Discussion about the Power of Cultural Diplomacy

    Zoom , United States
    Virtual Event

    With Barbara Stephenson (Vice Chancellor for Global Affairs and Chief Global Officer, UNC-Chapel Hill) and Katie Ziglar (Director, Ackland Art Museum) At this free virtual panel, Ackland director Katie Ziglar…

    Free

  • Ackland F.A.M. | Art All Around You

    Ackland Art Museum 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

    Did you know that art can be found all around you? Carolina's campus is filled with gems like Carolina Performing Arts' Memorial Hall and our very own Ackland Art Museum!…