TOUR: A Closer Look at the Collection
2025-10-11 13:00 - 13:30, 2025-10-12 13:00 - 13:30, 2025-10-18 13:00 - 13:30, 2025-10-25 13:00 - 13:30, 2025-10-26 13:00 - 13:30, 2025-11-02 13:00 - 13:30, 2025-11-08 13:00 - 13:30, 2025-11-09 13:00 - 13:30 (America/New_York) and 2 more dates | Ackland Art Museum, 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States
Join Ackland educators for a lively half-hour look at a small handful of artworks. These engaging conversational tours offer a closer look at and new perspectives on works on view at the Museum.
This is a free, walk-in event – no RSVP required.

This event is part of UNC–Chapel Hill’s Campus Life Experience (CLE) program. Students who attend can scan the QR code provided at the event to receive CLE credit.

Art Adventures (Afternoon Session)
2025-10-11 13:00 - 14:30 | Ackland Art Museum, 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States
In this art-inspired, hands-on art-making class for six- to nine-year-olds, participants will create their own artwork inspired by the art on view in Jen Clay: Soft Night, Watching.
Space is limited; registration required. Free for Ackland Members at the Household Level and above; $5 per child for all others.

TOUR: A Closer Look at "Color Triumphant"
2025-10-17 13:00 - 13:30, 2025-10-19 13:00 - 13:30, 2025-10-24 13:00 - 13:30, 2025-10-31 13:00 - 13:30, 2025-11-01 13:00 - 13:30, 2025-11-07 13:00 - 13:30, 2025-11-14 13:00 - 13:30, 2025-11-21 13:00 - 13:30 | Ackland Art Museum, 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States
Join Ackland educators for a lively half-hour look at a small handful of artworks. These engaging conversational tours offer a closer look at and new perspectives on works on view at the Museum. Today’s tour looks at Color Triumphant: Modern Art from the Collection of Julian and Josie Robertson.
This is a free, walk-in event – no RSVP required.

This event is part of UNC–Chapel Hill’s Campus Life Experience (CLE) program. Students who attend can scan the QR code provided at the event to receive CLE credit.

Take Two Tour: Two Perspectives on German art in "Color Triumphant"
2025-10-24 15:30 - 16:30 | Ackland Art Museum, 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States
This program is now FULL. To be added to our WAITLIST, please email acklandRSVP@unc.edu.

Join us for a conversational tour focused on German paintings in Color Triumphant: Modern Art from the Collection of Julian and Josie Robertson. Professor Richard Langston (UNC-Chapel Hill Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures) and Ackland deputy director for curatorial affairs Peter Nisbet, curator of the exhibition, will co-lead the tour, offering their perspectives as scholars of German literature, culture, and art.
Please register for a free ticket below as space is limited.

This event is part of UNC–Chapel Hill’s Campus Life Experience (CLE) program. Students who attend can scan the QR code provided at the event to receive CLE credit.

A Closer Look at One Work of Art: “Color Triumphant”
2025-10-29 13:00 - 13:30 | Ackland Art Museum, 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States
To be added to our WAITLIST, please email acklandRSVP@unc.edu.

Look closely and carefully at a single work of art in Color Triumphant: Modern Art from the Collection of Julian and Josie Robertson with Andrea Bolland, Professor Emerita of art history at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Please register for a free ticket below, as space is limited.

This event is part of UNC–Chapel Hill’s Campus Life Experience (CLE) program. Students who attend can scan the QR code provided at the event to receive CLE credit.

Ackland Film Forum: "Mississippi Masala" (Mira Nair, 1991)
2025-11-04 19:30 | Varsity Theatre, 123 E. Franklin Street, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States
Mira Nair’s second feature film, and her first set in the United States, tells the story of Ugandan Indian family who is forced to leave their country after the dictator Idi Amin expels all people of Asian descent from Uganda. As its title implies, the film largely takes place in Mississippi, where the family resettles and finds work running a hotel. The film’s cinematographer, Edward Lachman, uses two different color film stocks to contrast the scenes in Uganda, which some in the family look back at with fondness, with those in Mississippi, where the family’s daughter, Mina, falls in love with a self-employed carpet cleaner (Denzel Washington), against her family’s wishes.
The film will be introduced by Martin Johnson, associate professor of English and Comparative Literature and associate director of Film Studies.
This film will be screened at 7:30 p.m. at the Varsity Theatre (123 E. Franklin Street). Tickets are free, but must be reserved on the Ackland’s website. Register below. UNC-Chapel Hill students can receive CLE credit for attending by scanning the QR code at the event.

About the Series:
Join the Ackland Film Forum on selected Tuesdays evenings this fall for Color Triumphant in Film, a series that accompanies the Ackland exhibition Color Triumphant: Modern Art from Collection of Julian and Josie Robertson. While the natural world is full of color, for filmmakers color is a choice. Recreating color in the cinema required expensive technologies, careful attention to costumes and set design, and an openness to experimentation. In this series, we highlight how filmmakers have used color from the beginnings of the movies to tell stories.
The Ackland Film Forum is co-organized by the Ackland Art Museum and UNC Film Studies, housed in the UNC-Chapel Hill Department of English and Comparative Literature.
All films will be screened at 7:30 p.m. The first two films will be shown at the Chelsea Theater and the third film will be shown at the Varsity Theatre.

A Closer Look at “Color Triumphant” - featuring Weixin Zhou
2025-11-14 15:30 - 16:30 | Ackland Art Museum, 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States
This program is now FULL. To be added to our WAITLIST, please email acklandRSVP@unc.edu.

Join us at a special time for a conversational tour led by Weixin Zhou, UNC-Chapel Hill doctoral candidate in art history, specialist in European modernism, and researcher and co-author of Color Triumphant: Modern Art from the Collection of Julian and Josie Robertson exhibition texts.
Please register for a free ticket below as space is limited.

This event is part of UNC–Chapel Hill’s Campus Life Experience (CLE) program. Students who attend can scan the QR code provided at the event to receive CLE credit.

Focus on American Indian Art on Paper
2025-11-14 18:00 - 18:45 | Ackland Art Museum, 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States
This session is now FULL.

Join Peter Nisbet (deputy director for curatorial affairs) and Carolyn Allmendinger (director of education and interpretation) for an intimate and conversational close looking session with the Ackland’s small but growing collection of American Indian art on paper, works that are light-sensitive and therefore not exhibited often. They will share insights about two recent acquisitions.
Space is very limited; please register for a free ticket below. An additional session will be held at 7 p.m.

This event is part of UNC–Chapel Hill’s Campus Life Experience (CLE) program. Students who attend can scan the QR code provided at the event to receive CLE credit.

Focus on American Indian Art on Paper
2025-11-14 19:00 - 19:45 | Ackland Art Museum, 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States
Join Peter Nisbet (deputy director for curatorial affairs) and Carolyn Allmendinger (director of education and interpretation) for an intimate and conversational close looking session with the Ackland’s small but growing collection of American Indian art on paper, works that are light-sensitive and therefore not exhibited often. They will share insights about two recent acquisitions.
Space is very limited; please register for a free ticket below. An additional session will be held at 6 p.m.

This event is part of UNC–Chapel Hill’s Campus Life Experience (CLE) program. Students who attend can scan the QR code provided at the event to receive CLE credit.

Art Adventures (Morning Session)
2025-11-15 10:30 - 12:00 | Ackland Art Museum, 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States
In this art-inspired, hands-on art-making class for six- to nine-year-olds, participants will create artworks based on works on view in Color Triumphant: Modern Art from the Collection of Julian and Josie Robertson.

Space is limited; registration required. Free for Ackland Members at the Household Level and above; $5 per child for all others.

Art Adventures (Afternoon Session)
2025-11-15 13:00 - 14:30 | Ackland Art Museum, 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States

Ackland F.A.M. Day: "Color Triumphant"
2025-11-16 13:00 - 17:00 | Ackland Art Museum, 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States
Activities for the whole family inspired by the Ackland’s current exhibition Color Triumphant: Modern Art from the Collection of Julian and Josie Robertson.
No ticket needed; drop in all afternoon!

The Lost World: The Art of Minnie Evans
2025-11-20 17:30 - 19:30 | Ackland Art Museum, 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States
This program is now FULL. To be added to our WAITLIST, please email acklandRSVP@unc.edu.

Acclaimed American artist Minnie Evans (1892–1987) once described her drawings, filled with human, botanical, and animal forms, as coming from “the lost world,” referring to “the nations destroyed before the Flood.” After her grandmother died in 1934 and the dreams and visions she had been experiencing since childhood became stronger, Evans went on to produce a large and celebrated body of work and in 1975 became one of the first Black artists to have a solo exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art.
Katherine Jentleson, PhD, is Senior Curator of American Art and the Merrie and Dan Boone Curator of Folk and Self-Taught Art at the High Museum of Art. In this talk, Jentleson will pay tribute to her mentor, Dr. Bernard L. Herman—a tireless advocate for the legacies of self-taught artists like Evans—and share insights into her current exhibition, “The Lost World: The Art of Minnie Evans,” opening at the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, on November 14.
Register for your free ticket below as space is limited.

Sponsored by the UNC Department of American Studies through the generosity of the Maness Fund.

Drawing in the Galleries
2025-11-22 10:00 - 12:00 | Ackland Art Museum, 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States
Join us for our popular Drawing in the Galleries program this month during Studio Saturday! Amanda Hughes leads participants in a creative exploration of a particular object in the Ackland’s collection.
Participants all draw from one object using their own gallery-safe materials (paper/notebooks and dry media like crayons and pencils), then discuss what they’ve noticed through the process of drawing.
This is a free public program. No registration required; all skill levels are welcome.
