Tour: A Closer Look at the Collection
2026-10-10 13:00 - 13:30, 2026-10-11 13:00 - 13:30, 2026-10-24 13:00 - 13:30, 2026-10-25 13:00 - 13:30, 2026-10-31 13:00 - 13:30, 2026-11-01 13:00 - 13:30, 2026-11-07 13:00 - 13:30, 2026-11-08 13:00 - 13:30 (America/New_York) and 4 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 in the collection. These engaging conversational tours offer a closer look at and new perspectives on works on view at the Museum. Free, but space is limited to 20 participants; first come, first served.
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)
2026-10-10 13:00 - 14:30, 2026-11-07 13:00 - 14:30, 2026-12-05 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 the Ackland galleries.
Space is limited; registration required below. Free for Ackland Members at the Household Level and above; $5 per child for all others.

Tour: A Closer Look at "Care and Concern"
2026-10-16 13:00 - 13:30, 2026-10-30 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 in Care and Concern: Recent Acquisitions of Modern and Contemporary Art. These engaging conversational tours offer a closer look at and new perspectives on works on view at the Museum. Free, but space is limited to 20 participants; first come, first served.
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.

Tour: A Closer Look at "Continental Shift"
2026-10-23 13:00 - 13:30, 2026-11-06 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 in Continental Shift: Recent Acquisitions of African Art. These engaging conversational tours offer a closer look at and new perspectives on works on view at the Museum. Free, but space is limited to 20 participants; first come, first served.
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.

Tour: A Closer Look at One Work of Art
2026-10-28 13:00 - 13:30, 2026-11-25 13:00 - 13:30 | Ackland Art Museum, 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States
Look closely and carefully at a single work of art, guided by an Ackland educator. Free, but space is limited to 20 participants; first come, first served.
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.

African Textiles at the Ackland II
2026-11-01 14:00 - 15:00 | Ackland Art Museum, 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States
Artist and conservator Stacey L. Kirby discusses her work with textiles and costume and the treatments she completed on textiles on view in Continental Shift: Recent Acquisitions of African Art. Free, but space is limited; registration required below.
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.

Drawing in the Galleries
2026-11-07 10:00 - 12:00, 2026-12-05 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.

Art Adventures (Morning Session)
2026-11-07 10:30 - 12:00, 2026-12-05 10:30 - 12:00 | Ackland Art Museum, 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States

Ackland Film Forum: "Nightcrawler" (Dan Gilroy, 2014)
2026-11-09 19:30 - 21:00 | The Lumina Theater, 620 Market Street, Chapel Hill, 27516, United States
Jake Gyllenhaal delivers a career-defining performance as an ambitious freelancer who prowls Los Angeles after dark in search of footage for local television news. The city’s nocturnal landscape of police sirens, flashing lights, and breaking stories becomes the backdrop for a mordant examination of ambition, competition, and media culture in the twenty-first century.
This film will be introduced by Kino Korner, graduate student association.
It will be screened at 7:30 p.m. at The Lumina Theater (620 Market St, Chapel Hill, NC 27516). Tickets are free for all audience members, and registration is required via The Lumina’s webpage. When this link is live, click to reserve your free ticket.
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 this fall for Crime Thrillers from the Americas: Snapshots of Social Anxiety, a series that accompanies the Ackland exhibition Care and Concern: Recent Acquisitions of Modern and Contemporary Art.
As vehicles of social commentary and stylistic bravura, crime thrillers often register the pressures and contradictions of their historical moment. Across nearly half a century, the films in this series stage encounters with political power, public trust, inequality, and ambition through assassination plots, botched robberies, and media-driven spectacle.
From the crises of the late 1960s to the intensified media environments of the twenty-first century, these works show how genre cinema can capture social anxiety in real time. Each film stands both as a gripping narrative and as a record of a world under strain, where institutions falter and everyday life becomes fraught with conflict.
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.

2nd Friday ArtWalk: Extended Museum Hours
2026-11-13 17:00 - 21:00, 2026-12-11 17:00 - 21:00 | Ackland Art Museum, 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States
Join us for extended hours at the Ackland Art Museum during the Carrboro-Chapel Hill 2nd Friday ArtWalk! Each month, we stay open from 5:00 – 9:00 p.m. to give visitors more time to explore.
Stroll through our galleries featuring highlights from a collection of over 21,000 works of art and sketch in the galleries using art supplies from our lobby’s art cart.
Admission to the Ackland is always free; no prior registration needed. Whether you’re stopping by solo or bringing friends, come be inspired during our extended open hours!

Curator’s Tour of "Care and Concern"
2026-11-13 18:00 - 19:00 | Ackland Art Museum, 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States
A guided look at art by Native American artists in Care and Concern: Recent Acquisitions of Modern and Contemporary Art with exhibition curator Lauren Turner, associate curator for contemporary art. Free, but space is limited; registration required below.
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.
