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Art for Lunch: Picture Books

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

*This program was moved from Wednesday, October 13 to Monday, October 18 at 12:30 p.m. EDT.* Featuring Laurie Langbauer (UNC Department of English and Comparative Literature) and Elizabeth Manekin (Ackland Head of University Programs and Academic Projects) Join us for a virtual version of Art for Lunch, our interview-style talk with the Ackland’s Elizabeth Manekin,…

Free

Art for Lunch: What We Believe

Zoom (Link Provided with Ticket) , United States

Featuring Gabrielle Berlinger (UNC Department of American Studies) and Elizabeth Manekin (Ackland Head of University Programs and Academic Projects) Join 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…

Free

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 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 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…

Free

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

Zoom , United States
Virtual Event 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 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…

Free

Virtual Art for Lunch: Antonia Randolph

Zoom (Link Provided with Ticket) , United States
Virtual Event Virtual Event

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…

Free

Virtual “Peace, Power & Prestige” Curator Conversation

Zoom (Link Provided with Ticket) , United States
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Susan Cooksey (Harn Museum of Art) in conversation with Victoria L. Rovine (Art History, UNC-Chapel Hill) Join 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…

Free

Radical Healing and Decoloniality: Museums in Transition

Zoom , United States

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. With 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…

Virtual Artist Conversation: Ghost of a Dream

Zoom (Link Provided with Ticket) , United States
Virtual Event Virtual Event

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…

Free

Virtual Art for Lunch: John Bechtold

Zoom (Link Provided with Ticket) , United States
Virtual Event Virtual Event

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. Bring your lunch – and questions of your own – for this lively, conversational program.…

Free