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Virtual Art for Lunch: Dan Sherman

Zoom , United States
Virtual Event Virtual Event

Featuring Daniel Sherman (UNC Department of Art and Art History) 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 Sherman's classes "Art, War, and Revolution" and "Modernism II, The Arts in Europe"…

Free

A Quick Close Look: Ackland Student Guide Virtual Tour

Zoom (Link Provided with Ticket) , United States
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The Ackland Student Guides are teaming up to take their tours virtual! Join us select Wednesdays at 5 p.m. on Zoom for a half-hour close look at two objects on one theme from the Ackland's collection. This week: Karly Smith (Senior) and Cameron Ward (Senior) look the theme of "stillness" with Judith Nutt's East Africa…

Free

Artist Conversation: Renée Stout

Ackland Art Museum 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United States
Virtual Event Virtual Event

Join us for a conversation between artist Renée Stout and the Ackland's Lauren Turner, assistant curator for the collection. Stout's work Ogun (1995) is part of the Museum's permanent collection and will be featured in the digital Close Looks project. In this free public conversation, we'll revisit Ogun twenty-five years on, using the work to…

Free

Virtual Art Adventures Morning Session – Salt Dough Coil Pots

Zoom (Link Provided with Ticket) , United States
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Join us as the Ackland takes our popular Art Adventures class online with instructor Allison Tierney! We will be looking at the work of Mark Hewitt. Class sessions will be limited to 15 participants*. A supply list, printable template, and Zoom meeting link will be distributed to registrants prior to the class session. To use…

Free – $5

Virtual Art Adventures Afternoon Session – Salt Dough Coil Pots

Zoom (Link Provided with Ticket) , United States
Virtual Event Virtual Event

Join us as the Ackland takes our popular Art Adventures class online with instructor Allison Tierney! We will be looking at the work of Mark Hewitt. Class sessions will be limited to 15 participants*. A supply list, printable template, and Zoom meeting link will be distributed to registrants prior to the class session. To use…

Free – $5

Ackland Film Forum: “Happy Together” Watch Party and Panel

Zoom (Link Provided with Ticket) , United States
Virtual Event Virtual Event

Join us for the second film in the Ackland Film Forum's spring series on Global Queer Cinema: Happy Together (Wong Kar Wai, 1997). 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…

Free

Close Looks at Cocktail Hour: Renée Stout’s Ogun

Zoom (Link Provided with Ticket) , United States
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Join the Ackland’s Object Based Teaching Fellow, Erin Dickey, for an informal conversation focused on one work of art from the Ackland’s new Close Looks digital feature. Plan to look closely and think collectively—and bring a drink of your choosing. On March 17, we'll look at Renée Stout's piece, Ogun. Registration is limited. After RSVPing,…

Free

Kusama and Beyond: A Conversation with Collectors JK Brown and Eric Diefenbach

Zoom (Link Provided with Ticket) , United States
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Join collectors of modern and contemporary art JK Brown and Eric Diefenbach in a lively conversation with Ackland Director Katie Ziglar and Deputy Director for Curatorial Affairs Peter Nisbet. Brown and Diefenbach are currently lending works from their personal collection by internationally-renowned contemporary artist Yayoi Kusama to the Ackland's exhibition Yayoi Kusama: Open the Shape…

Free

Odd Couples: Objects in Conversation

Zoom (Link Provided with Ticket) , United States
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Join Ackland Graduate Intern Sarah Farkas and Object Based Teaching Fellow Erin Dickey for a guided look at artwork from opposite corners of the Ackland’s collection. See how unexpected pairings can lead to exciting new insights! We will be looking at Louise Bourgeois's Crouching Spider and the bronze Mother and Child. This program will be…

Free

Virtual Art for Lunch: Patricia Sawin

Zoom , United States
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Featuring Patricia Sawin (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 Sawin's class "Introduction to Folklore" utilizes selections from the Ackland’s collection of North Carolina pottery…

Free