Close Looks Conversational Tour: “10 Trashy Ideas about the Environment” by the Guerrilla Girls
Ackland Art Museum 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesJoin Erin Dickey, Ackland Graduate Teaching Fellow, for an informal conversation about the Guerrilla Girls's 10 Trashy Ideas about the Environment, a work featured in the Ackland’s Close Looks project. Plan to look closely and think collectively. Registration is limited. Sign up for free tickets to this in-person program below. -- All visitors to the…
Ackland Away for the Day: FRANK
101 South Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesJoin us on an Ackland Away for the Day trip to FRANK gallery to meet painter Gordon Jameson and textile artist Michelle Maynard. They will discuss their current works on view as well as the history of FRANK gallery. Gordon Jameson learned to use (and love) oil paint at about the age of 8 from…
Art & Lit: “Visions of Venice” and Italo Calvino’s “Invisible Cities”
Ackland Art Museum 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesThis 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 Cities, which features a fictional Marco Polo describing fascinating vignettes of his travels to an aged Kublai Khan. After you’ve read it, spend time exploring…
Drawing in the Galleries: Draw & Discuss
Ackland Art Museum 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesInspired by our Drawing in the Galleries program and the amazing variety of drawings on view in the Ackland's current exhibition Drawing Attention, Draw & Discuss offers the chance to experience the comradery and creativity of Drawing in the Galleries at a time when gathering in large groups isn't possible. Both longtime Drawing in the…
Virtual Art Adventures – Draw Your Own Home
Ackland Art Museum 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesJoin us as the Ackland takes our popular Art Adventures class online with instructor Allison Tierney! Class sessions will be limited to 15 participants*. A supply list and Zoom meeting link will be distributed to registrants prior to the class session. To use Zoom, students will need access to an internet-connected computer, smartphone, or tablet…
Virtual Art Adventures – Draw Your Own Home
Ackland Art Museum 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesJoin us as the Ackland takes our popular Art Adventures class online with instructor Allison Tierney! Class sessions will be limited to 15 participants*. A supply list and Zoom meeting link will be distributed to registrants prior to the class session. To use Zoom, students will need access to an internet-connected computer, smartphone, or tablet…
Ackland at Fall Arts Pop Up 2021
Davis Library Courtyard Chapel Hill, United StatesVisit 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 a.m. - 1 p.m. at the Davis Library Courtyard. Pick up materials to make origami shapes inspired by our upcoming exhibition, Buddha and Shiva, Lotus…
Ackland at Fall Arts Pop Up 2021
Davis Library Courtyard Chapel Hill, United StatesVisit 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 a.m. - 1 p.m. at the Davis Library Courtyard. Pick up materials to make origami shapes inspired by our upcoming exhibition, Buddha and Shiva, Lotus…
Artist Conversation: Christopher Myers
Ackland Art Museum 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesJoin 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 acquisition in the Museum's permanent collection and is featured in the 2021-2022 Close Looks series. In this free Zoom webinar, we'll hear from Myers about…
Ackland Film Forum: “The Underground Railroad” First Virtual Screening
Ackland Art Museum 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesAcross his three feature films to date (Medicine for Melancholy, Moonlight, and If Beale Street Could Talk), Barry Jenkins has devised a new cinematic vocabulary for the portrayal of Black experience in the United States. With sumptuous imagery and hypnotic soundscapes, Jenkins has embraced aesthetic beauty as a strategy for addressing the past and present…