Events
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Music in the Galleries: Ryan Dial-Stanley
Ackland Art Museum 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesRyan Dial-Stanley, a member of the Lumbee Tribe, is a well-known flutist, performing artist, and educator. Mr. Dial-Stanley is currently a student in the UNC School of Medicine majoring in Clinical Lab Science. He has traveled across the state of North Carolina presenting programs on the history and culture of the Lumbee Tribe. In addition…
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Department of Art and Art History Graduate Symposium
Ackland Art Museum 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesArt and Art History Graduate Symposium FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC Coordinated by the Art Student Graduate Organization and co-sponsored by the Department of Art and Art History, Department of Classics, Department of Romance Studies, and The Graduate and Professional Student Federation. Community: Public, Private, Patron, & Spectator Join us for this day-long, interdisciplinary…
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2nd Friday ArtWalk: She Who Tells a Story
Ackland Art Museum 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesFriday, 11/8/19|She Who Tells a Story: Intersections Between Art, Identity, and Mental Health 5:30 PM - 6:30 PM Free; no registration required. Join Stigma Free Carolina at the Ackland Art Museum as they explore the intersections of migration, cultural identity, and mental health as it relates to the Ackland's exhibition She Who Tells a Story. …
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Ackland Film Forum: “Filibus” Watch Party and Panel
101 South Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesVirtual EventThis spring, in collaboration with the Film Studies Programs in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at UNC-Chapel Hill, the Ackland Film Forum continues its all virtual series on Queer Cinema, now expanding to a selection of four international films for a look at Global Queer Cinema. View the selected films on your own…
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Virtual Art Adventures Morning Session: Crayon Resist Watercolor Painting
Zoom (Link Provided with Ticket) , United StatesVirtual EventJoin us as the Ackland takes our popular Art Adventures class online with instructor Allison Tierney! This special session will coincide with the North Carolina Science Festival, as we explore watercolors. Class sessions will be limited to 15 participants*. A supply list, printable template, and Zoom meeting link will be distributed to registrants prior to…
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Virtual Art Adventures Afternoon Session: Crayon Resist Watercolor Painting
Zoom (Link Provided with Ticket) , United StatesVirtual EventJoin us as the Ackland takes our popular Art Adventures class online with instructor Allison Tierney! This special session will coincide with the North Carolina Science Festival, as we explore the science of watercolors. Class sessions will be limited to 15 participants*. A supply list, printable template, and Zoom meeting link will be distributed to…
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Ackland Film Forum: “The Man Who Saved the World” (1982)
Varsity Theatre 123 E. Franklin Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesWe kick off our Global Cult Cinema series with the sci-fi/martial arts/fantasy film known as Turkish Star Wars. The Man Who Saved the World Çetin İnanç, Turkey, 1982, 1h 31m FILM SYNOPSIS Dünyayı Kurtaran Adam (The Man Who Saved the World) is an otherwise obscure Turkish Science Fantasy Martial Arts film from 1982 directed by…
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Ackland Film Forum: “Tears of the Black Tiger” (2000)
Varsity Theatre 123 E. Franklin Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesOur Global Cult Cinema series continues with this Thai cult film blending westerns and romance. Tears of the Black Tiger Wisit Sasanatieng, Thailand, 2000, 1h 50m Introduced by Martin Johnson, UNC Dept. of English & Comparative Literature FILM SYNOPSIS "In the countryside of Thailand, a gang of outlaws makes the region unsafe. Among them is…
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Radical Healing and Decoloniality: Museums in Transition
Zoom , United StatesThis 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…
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Ackland Film Forum: “The Big Boss” (1971)
Varsity Theatre 123 E. Franklin Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesJoin us at the next Global Cult Cinema screening to see the kung-fu classic that made Bruce Lee famous. The Big Boss Wei Lo, Hong Kong, 1971, 1h 40m Introduced by Martin Johnson, UNC-Chapel Hill FILM SYNOPSIS Cheng, played by Bruce Lee, is a city boy who moves with his cousins to work at a…