Art Adventures (Morning Session): Patterned Tapestries
Ackland Art Museum 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesIn this art-inspired, hands-on art-making class for six- to nine-year-olds, participants will create architectural ink drawings after observing selected works in our Ackland Upstairs installation with instructor Allison Tierney. Cost:…
Drawing for Tweens
Ackland Art Museum 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesThis program invites ten- to thirteen-year-olds to look at selected works in the Ackland’s collection and identify techniques that the artists used to make them. Gallery teacher Daniel Hammer demonstrates…
Art Adventures (Afternoon Session): Patterned Tapestries
Ackland Art Museum 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesIn this art-inspired, hands-on art-making class for six- to nine-year-olds, participants will create architectural ink drawings after observing selected works in our Ackland Upstairs installation with instructor Allison Tierney. Cost:…
Ackland Film Forum: Blake Edwards, “Victor/Victoria” (1982, US)
Varsity Theatre 123 E. Franklin Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesBlake Edwards, Victor/Victoria (1982, US) One of the first mainstream Hollywood films to frankly discuss the complexity of gender and sexuality, Blake Edwards’s Victor/Victoria is a backstage musical that continually…
Ackland Film Forum: Charles Allen, “Sidewalk Stories” (1989, US)
Varsity Theatre 123 E. Franklin Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesCharles Lane, Sidewalk Stories (1989, US) In this nearly silent homage to Charlie Chaplin’s The Kid (1921), Charles Lane directs and stars in a film about a street artist who unexpectedly…
Curators’ Introduction to “Drawn to Life”
Ackland Art Museum 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesJoin Dana Cowen, Sheldon Peck Curator for European and American Art before 1950, and Robert Fucci, Peck Collection Research Fellow, for an introductory look at Drawn to Life: Master Drawings…
Ackland F.A.M.: Dutch Drawingfest
Ackland Art Museum 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesAn all-ages celebration of drawing to mark the opening weekend of the Ackland's newest exhibition, Drawn to Life: Master Drawings from the Age of Rembrandt in the Peck Collection at…
Ackland Film Forum: Peter Strickland, “In Fabric” (2018, UK)
Varsity Theatre 123 E. Franklin Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesPeter Strickland, In Fabric (2018, UK) An homage to the Italian giallo horror films of the 1970s, In Fabric is the story of a spectacular red dress, and the fate…
Tour: One Work Wednesday
Ackland Art Museum 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesParticipate in a 30-minute guided conversational tour as we look closely at works on view at the Ackland. On Wednesday afternoons, we'll look in-depth at a single work of art. …
Tour: Thematic Thursday
Ackland Art Museum 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesParticipate in a 30-minute guided conversational tour as we look closely at works on view at the Ackland. On Thursday afternoons, we'll look at a handful of objects that are…