Ackland Film Forum: “Fire” Watch Party and Panel
Zoom (Link Provided with Ticket) , United StatesJoin us for the third film in the Ackland Film Forum's Global Queer Cinema Series, Deepa Mehta's Fire (1996, Canada/India). The series is a collaboration with the Film Studies Program in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at UNC-Chapel Hill, and features a selection of four international films presented in connection with the Ackland’s…
Ackland Film Forum Watch Party & Panel for “A Fantastic Woman”
Zoom (Link Provided with Ticket) , United StatesJoin us for the final film in the Ackland Film Forum's Global Queer Cinema Series, A Fantastic Woman (Sebastian Lelio, 2017, Chile). The series is a collaboration with the Film Studies Program in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at UNC-Chapel Hill, and features a selection of four international films presented in connection with…
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…
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…
Artist Conversation: Zig Jackson
Zoom , United StatesJoin 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, CA is featured in the Ackland's 2021-2022 Close Looks series. In this free virtual conversation, we'll hear from Jackson about this 1997 work, others in…
Close Looks Conversational Tour: Song Dynasty “Stem Cup”
Ackland Art Museum 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesJoin Weixin Zhou, Ackland Graduate Teaching Fellow, for an informal conversation about the Ackland's 12-13th century Song dynasty Stem Cup, 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. This program is supported by the Orange County…
Ackland FAM: Woodruff’s Landscapes
Ackland Art Museum 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesJoin the Ackland as Ackland F.A.M. (Families at the Museum) focus on one of the Harlem Renaissance's leading artists, Hale Aspacio Woodruff and his piece, Landscape (Mississippi, Soil Erosion), seen on the right. We will be considering the variety of ways that humans depict and interact with their environments by looking closely at Landscape (Mississippi,…
Ackland FAM: Fishes and Dishes, Plates and Plants
Ackland Art Museum 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesJoin the Ackland as Ackland F.A.M. (Families at the Museum) focus on Clare Leighton, an American who was known for her engravings, and her piece, Whaling, seen on the right. We will be considering the variety of ways that humans depict and interact with their environments by looking closely at Leighton's Whaling, featured in the…
Lecture-Demo with Artist Elizabeth Alexander
Ackland Art Museum 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesJoin us for an unconventional artist talk with Boston-based multimedia artist Elizabeth Alexander. Alexander, whose work Spit Cake (2014) is on view at the Ackland as part of the Art Bridges Collection Loan Partnership, will talk about her work as she demonstrates the various techniques used to create her delicate cut-porcelain sculptures. Audience members will…
A Closer Look at the Collection
Ackland Art Museum 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesJoin Ackland educators for a lively half-hour look at two works of art. These engaging conversational tours offer a closer look at and new perspectives on works on view from the Ackland's collection.