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Odd Couples: Objects in Conversation

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

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
Virtual Event Virtual Event

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

A Quick Close Look: Ackland Student Guide Virtual Tour

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

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: Niki Suchy (Senior; Double Major in Media & Journalism and Contemporary European Studies, Minor in Art History)…

Free

Virtual Family & Friends Sunday: Pottery and Postcards

Zoom (Link Provided with Ticket) , United States

Explore the Tar Heel State through pottery and postcards! Get a closer look at works from the Ackland and Wilson Library's Special Collections. Both pottery and postcards can be functional, aesthetically pleasing, and fun to make! Each can also inform us about the past-  what North Carolina used to look like or how objects have…

A Quick Close Look: Ackland Student Guide Virtual Tour

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

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: Madeline Nelson (Sophomore; Latin Major, Entrepreneurship Minor) and Robert Rhinehart (Senior) look the theme of "portraiture and…

Free

Timed Ticketing – April 1, 2021

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

What to Expect · Ackland staff will regularly sanitize high touch surfaces, including the doors and restrooms. · Ackland staff will wear masks and perform transactions from behind a Plexiglas shield. · Using timed ticketing, visitation to the museum will be limited so that visitors have space to safely enjoy our exhibitions. · Tickets are…

Free

Timed Ticketing – April 2, 2021

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

What to Expect · Ackland staff will regularly sanitize high touch surfaces, including the doors and restrooms. · Ackland staff will wear masks and perform transactions from behind a Plexiglas shield. · Using timed ticketing, visitation to the museum will be limited so that visitors have space to safely enjoy our exhibitions. · Tickets are…

Free

Timed Ticketing – April 3, 2021

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

What to Expect · Ackland staff will regularly sanitize high touch surfaces, including the doors and restrooms. · Ackland staff will wear masks and perform transactions from behind a Plexiglas shield. · Using timed ticketing, visitation to the museum will be limited so that visitors have space to safely enjoy our exhibitions. · Tickets are…

Free

A Quick Close Look: Ackland Student Guide Virtual Tour

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

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. his week: Paige Watts (Senior) and Hattie Doherty (Senior) look the theme of "transcendence" with an artist from the…

Free

Artist Conversation: Creating “Mysterious Ink World, Part One (2016)”

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

Join us Friday, April 9 for an in-depth look at Mysterious Ink World, Part One (2016), a collaborative contemporary work featured in the Ackland Art Museum's newest installation of Asian art, Clouding: Shape and Sign in Asian Art. The immersive work is composed of an abstract ink painting by Ming Ren (American, b. 1956) installed…

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