Guided Tour: Buddha and Shiva, Lotus and Dragon
2021-10-15 13:30 - 14:00 (America/New_York) | Ackland Art Museum, 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States
Meet in the lobby for a 30-minute, guided tour exploring highlights of our current special exhibition Buddha and Shiva, Lotus and Dragon: Masterworks from the Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3rd Collection at Asia Society.
Advance registration required; space is limited.

Ackland F.A.M.: Diwali Celebration
2021-10-17 13:00 - 17:00 | 101 South Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States
Join the Ackland as we explore Diwali, known as the Festival of Lights, in connection with our current special exhibition Buddha and Shiva, Lotus and Dragon: Masterworks from the Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3rd Collection at Asia Society. Diwali is a five-day holiday that began in India and is celebrated by over one billion people across faiths around the world. In 2021, Diwali will occur from November 2 to November 6.
Learn more about India and Diwali, courtesy of the Carolina Navigators’ Culture Kit at our Family & Friends Sunday on Sunday, October 17th from 1:00 – 5:00 p.m.
Free Family Activity Kits with art-making activities and more will be available on Sunday, October 17th til supplies last.

Yoga in the Galleries
2021-10-18 12:15 - 13:15 | Ackland Art Museum, 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States
This fall, our Yoga in the Galleries practice will be inspired by art from the Ackland’s current exhibition Buddha and Shiva, Lotus and Dragon: Masterworks from the Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3rd Collection at Asia Society (on view October 8, 2021-January 9, 2022). The hour-long session is taught by registered yoga teacher Joanne Marshall. Take a break from your day and explore the world of yoga in the beautiful setting of the Ackland!
Beginners are welcome. Yoga mats are available, but you are welcome to bring your own. Wear comfortable clothing that will allow you to stretch.
Masks are required in the Museum. See Reopening Information for the Ackland’s full COVID-19 safety protocols.
Space is limited and registration is required. Yoga in the Galleries is $5 per session or free with current Museum membership.

Art for Lunch: Picture Books
2021-10-18 12:30 - 13:30 | Ackland Art Museum, 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, 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, to discuss how Dr. Laurie Langbauer’s class “Picture Books” utilizes selections from the Ackland’s collection on view in Ackland Upstairs to explore traditions of illustration in children’s literature.
Bring your lunch – and questions of your own – for this lively, conversational program.
Free. Register for a free ticket below to receive a Zoom link to this virtual program.

Guided Tour: Buddha and Shiva, Lotus and Dragon
2021-10-22 13:30 - 14:00, 2021-10-29 13:30 - 14:00, 2021-11-04 13:30 - 14:00, 2021-11-12 13:30 - 14:00, 2021-11-19 13:30 - 14:00, 2021-12-02 13:30 - 14:00 | Ackland Art Museum, 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States
Meet in the lobby for a 30-minute, guided tour exploring highlights of our current special exhibition Buddha and Shiva, Lotus and Dragon: Masterworks from the Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3rd Collection at Asia Society.
Advance registration required; space is limited.
This program is supported by the Orange County Arts Commission.

Yoga in the Galleries
2021-10-25 12:15 - 13:15, 2021-11-01 12:15 - 13:15, 2021-11-08 12:15 - 13:15, 2021-11-15 12:15 - 13:15, 2021-11-22 12:15 - 13:15, 2021-11-29 12:15 - 13:15 | Ackland Art Museum, 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States
This fall, our Yoga in the Galleries practice will be inspired by art from the Ackland’s current exhibition Buddha and Shiva, Lotus and Dragon: Masterworks from the Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3rd Collection at Asia Society (on view October 8, 2021-January 9, 2022). The hour-long session is taught by registered yoga teacher Joanne Marshall. Take a break from your day and explore the world of yoga in the beautiful setting of the Ackland!
Beginners are welcome. Yoga mats are available, but you are welcome to bring your own. Wear comfortable clothing that will allow you to stretch.
Masks are required in the Museum. See Reopening Information for the Ackland’s full COVID-19 safety protocols.
Space is limited and registration is required. Yoga in the Galleries is $5 per session or free with current Museum membership.
This program is supported by the Orange County Arts Commission.

Artist Conversation: Zig Jackson
2021-10-27 13:00 - 14:00 | Zoom, United States
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, 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 the series and about how it fits into his larger body of photography.
Register below for a free ticket. A Zoom link will be sent to all registered participants via email.
Zig Jackson (Rising Buffalo) is a photographer of Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara descent who was raised on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation in North Dakota. Though art was always part of his life, he began formally learning sketching, painting, and then photography during his primary and second education within the government Indian boarding school systems. Jackson earned a bachelor’s degree in education at Northeastern Oklahoma State, while also studying with several area artists, before pursuing his interest in photography through continued studies at the University of New Mexico. In 1994, Jackson received a Master of Fine Arts in photography from San Francisco Art Institute. He is the recipient of numerous prestigious awards and grants including a residential fellowship at the Headlands Center for the Arts in Sausalito, California; a Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation Grant for excellence in the photographic arts, which culminated with an exhibition, “Entering Zig’s Indian Reservation,” at the American Indian Contemporary Arts center in San Francisco; a National Millennium Survey Grant; and the inaugural Beaumont Newhall Award for Photographic Excellence from the New Mexico Humanities Council. In 2005, Jackson became the first Native American photographer collected by the Library of Congress, when twelve of his images were accessioned by its Prints and Photographs Division. Jackson has taught photography at Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, at San Francisco State University and UC Davis, and beginning in 1999 at the Savannah College of Art and Design, where he is now professor emeritus.
This program is supported by the Orange County Arts Commission.

Guided Tour: Explore the Ackland’s Collection
2021-11-05 13:30 - 14:00, 2021-11-11 13:30 - 14:00, 2021-11-18 13:30 - 14:00, 2021-12-03 13:30 - 14:00 | Ackland Art Museum, 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States
Meet in the lobby for a 30-minute, guided tour of the Ackland Art Museum’s collection.
Advance registration required; space is limited.
This program is supported by the Orange County Arts Commission.

Art for Lunch: What We Believe
2021-11-10 12:30 - 13:30 | 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 in Ackland Upstairs to interrogate the ways in which art objects can reveal and reinforce our belief systems.
Bring your lunch – and questions of your own – for this lively, conversational program.
Free. Register for a free ticket below to receive a Zoom link to this virtual program.
This program is supported by the Orange County Arts Commission.

American Tastes in Japanese Art: The Influence of Sherman Emery Lee
2021-11-11 18:00 - 19:00 | Ackland Art Museum, 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States
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 his retirement years. His role as a confidant to the Rockefellers is well documented and on display in the Ackland’s current extraordinary exhibition of Asian art, Buddha and Shiva, Lotus and Dragon: Masterworks from the Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3rd Collection at Asia Society. In this talk, Ulak will situate Sherman Lee in the context of America’s long interest in Japanese art and culture, dating from the 1870s forward. Lee resisted clichés and trends to establish a clear understanding of the strength of Japan’s classical visual lineage.
This free virtual talk is presented in connection with Buddha and Shiva, Lotus and Dragon: Masterworks from the Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3rd Collection at Asia Society.
Free; RSVP required below. Zoom webinar links will be sent to registered participants via email.
This program is supported by the Orange County Arts Commission.
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James T. Ulak is the current president of the United States-Japan Foundation (serving since November 2019) and had previously spent twenty-five years at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art — Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery in Washington, D.C., serving in the capacities of Senior Curator of Japanese Art, Head of Collections and Research, Chief Curator and Deputy Director. Preceding his tenure in Washington, he has been affiliated with the Cleveland Museum of Art, Yale University Art Gallery, and The Art Institute of Chicago. Before beginning his museum career, an interest in Japanese Buddhist iconography led Jim into a full-time academic program of Japanese art history. With an initial focus on the history of narrative painting production in fourteenth- and fifteenth-century Japan, Jim received his PhD from Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, Ohio) in 1994, where he studied with Sherman Emery Lee. In addition to his interest in medieval Japanese narrative painting, Jim has written on the genesis of modern painting styles in the early seventeenth century, on eighteenth-century “eccentric” painters, and on Japan’s artistic encounters with international modernity in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He has developed and produced numerous exhibitions on these topics, including major projects in partnership with Japanese institutions. During his museum career, Jim expanded collection holdings, created programs for curatorial training, and engaged major corporate, government, and private financial support for museum programs.

Close Looks Conversational Tour: Song Dynasty "Stem Cup"
2021-11-17 13:30 - 14:00 | Ackland Art Museum, 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States
Join 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 Arts Commission.
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All visitors to the Ackland and its programs must wear a mask (ages 2 and above) and should familiarize themselves with the Ackland’s latest visitor protocols. We look forward to seeing you back in the galleries!

Art & Lit at the Ackland: "The Hare with Amber Eyes" by Edmund de Waal
2021-11-19 15:30 - 17:00 | Ackland Art Museum, 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, 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 Japanese netsuke as the objects traveled across time, space, and generations. After you’ve read it, spend time exploring the Ackland’s exhibition Buddha and Shiva, Lotus and Dragon, on view October 8, 2021 – January 9, 2022.
On Friday, November 19, Art & Lit participants will gather on Zoom for a lively virtual discussion with Morgan Pitelka, Professor and Chair of UNC’s Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, and the Ackland’s Director of Education and Interpretation, Carolyn Allmendinger.
GET THE BOOK:
Your ticket includes admission to the virtual program and one copy of The Hare with Amber Eyes (2021 edition). Please select a pick-up/shipping option at check out.

Option 1: Pick up the book at the Ackland (101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC). ($18) You will be notified by email when your book is available for pick up.

Option 2: Ship the book to your home. Please provide your mailing address when you check out. ($22)
SEE THE EXHIBITION:
Buddha and Shiva, Lotus and Dragon is on view at the Ackland from October 8, 2021-January 9, 2022. Admission is always free.
JOIN US FOR THE DISCUSSION:
Zoom link will be sent to registered participants via email. A reminder will also be sent closer to the program date.
Space is limited.
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Presented in partnership with Carolina Public Humanities.
This program is supported by the Orange County Arts Commission. This program is sponsored in part by Diana M. Braunstein.

Virtual Art Adventures A.M. Session - All About Shapes!
2021-11-20 10:30 - 11:15 | 101 South Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States
Join 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 with a built-in microphone; caregiver assistance may be needed. Art Adventures is geared towards children aged 6-9.

*Families with more than one child can participate together and should only register once.
During this time, we want to make sure price isn’t an added burden for families – please select the ticket price that you feel comfortable with ($0.00 or $5.00).
If you encounter registration issues, please email us at acklandRSVP@unc.edu. We apologize for any inconvenience.

Curator-Led Tour: Buddha and Shiva, Lotus and Dragon
2021-11-20 11:00 - 12:00 | Ackland Art Museum, 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States
Join Deputy Director for Curatorial Affairs Peter Nisbet for a guided look at Buddha and Shiva, Lotus and Dragon: Masterworks from the Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3rd Collection at Asia Society. The exhibition features nearly seventy works of ceramic and metalwork from across Asia collected by the Rockefellers in the mid-twentieth century with belief that sharing these extraordinary works of art with audiences in the United States could facilitate cross-cultural dialogue. Read more about the exhibition here: https://ackland.org/exhibition/buddha-and-shiva-lotus-and-dragon-masterworks-from-the-mr-and-mrs-john-d-rockefeller-3rd-collection-at-asia-society/.
This tour is free and open to the public. Tickets are required and space is limited to 15 participants. Masks are required at this in-gallery program; see full COVID-19 precautions on our website.
This program is supported by the Orange County Arts Commission.

Virtual Art Adventures P.M. Session - All About Shapes!
2021-11-20 13:00 - 13:45 | 101 South Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States

Ackland F.A.M: Sights and Sounds of Southeast Asia
2021-11-21 13:00 - 17:00 | 101 South Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States
The Ackland’s current special exhibition Buddha and Shiva, Lotus and Dragon: Masterworks from the Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3rd Collection at Asia Society highlights works from Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam, India, and China – just to name a few!
Join the Ackland at 2:00 p.m. for a masked, space-limited viewing of Disney’s “Raya and the Last Dragon” (runtime: 1 hr 54 min) in ART&.
Take a melodic tour throughout the Museum as you learn about the Seven Swaras of Indian classical music.
Learn more about day-to-day life in Cambodia and Thailand, courtesy of Carolina Navigator’s Culture Kits on Sunday, November 21st from 1:00 – 5:00 p.m.
There will be free family art making kits available from Sunday, November 21, 2021 until supplies last.
This program is supported by the Orange County Arts Commission.

Can Art Prevent War? A Discussion about the Power of Cultural Diplomacy
2021-12-01 19:00 - 20:15 | Zoom, United States
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 Prevent War?” Questions about the power of art in global affairs come implicit with the display of nearly seventy objects on view in the Museum’s current exhibition Buddha and Shiva, Lotus and Dragon: Masterworks from the Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3rd Collection at Asia Society. The Rockefellers believed their collection of Asian Art — a portion of which can be seen at the Ackland this fall — would help facilitate cross-cultural dialogue and bolster diplomatic goals of the United States. On December 1, join Ziglar and Stephenson for a lively conversation in which they share their perspectives — from the museum world and the world of U.S. diplomatic affairs — to explore the use of art in building cross-cultural connections and to comment on the Rockefellers’ goal of cultural diplomacy between the United States and Asia, especially how it might work in today’s world.
Register below for this free Zoom webinar. Participants will be sent a link via email.
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ABOUT THE PANELISTS:
Barbara J. Stephenson, Vice Provost for Global Affairs and Chief Global Officer, joined the University in 2019. She advances Carolina’s global reach, impact and reputation. Previously, she was president of the American Foreign Service Association. During her distinguished 34-year career in the Foreign Service, she was U.S. ambassador to Panama, the first woman chargé d’affaires and deputy ambassador at the U.S. Embassy in London, and dean of the Leadership and Management School at the Foreign Service Institute.
Katie Ziglar is the director of the Ackland Art Museum at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She has contributed substantially to the successful management of visual arts organizations including the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, the National Gallery of Art, and the Smithsonian’s Freer|Sackler Galleries in Washington, D.C. Her academic background includes an expertise in Islamic Art in addition to studies in history from UNC-Chapel Hill as a Morehead-Cain scholar.
This program is supported by the Orange County Arts Commission.
