Events
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Semester Revue: Student Research & Responses to the Collection
Ackland Art Museum 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesEach semester, the Ackland Art Museum works with thousands of UNC-Chapel Hill students through courses and internships. The Semester Revue offers a glimpse into the quality and variety of the…
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Tour: Curator’s Tour of “Continental Shift”
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. A guided look at Continental Shift: Recent Acquisitions of African Art with exhibition curator Peter…
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Artist Conversation: Phaan Howng
Ackland Art Museum 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesArtist 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…
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“She Will Be Quite a Manager”: From Plantation Owner to Girl Boss
Ackland Art Museum 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesWhat do a Civil War-era plantation owner and a modern “girl boss” have in common? More than you think. Adelicia Acklen and Dorothy Thomas were two of the most powerful plantation-owning women—one…
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Porcelains and Power: The Politics of Chinese Art in the Age of American Ascendancy
Ackland Art Museum 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesA talk by Dr. Ian Shin (Department of American Culture, University of Michigan), co-sponsored with the Department of History. How can we understand the relationship between art collecting and Western…
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Collecting African, Ancient Mediterranean, and Native American Art
Ackland Art Museum 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesAckland 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,…