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Reimagining the Black and Queer Body: A Conversation with Photographer Mikael Owunna

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

Friday, 11/8/19 | 7:00 – 9:00 PM Reimagining the Black and Queer Body: A Conversation with Photographer Mikael Owunna Free, RSVP requested. Light refreshments will be served. Growing up as a queer African person, photographer, Mikael Owunna was told that it was “un-African” to be gay, and that homosexuality was foreign to his culture. After enduring…

2nd Friday Art Walk: Lost and Found

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

2nd Friday ArtWalk Friday, December 13, 2019 5:00 - 9:00 PM | Public Celebration for the Ackland's Lost and Found : Stories for Vernacular Photographs exhibition 6:00- 8:00 PM | Come Meet the Poetry Fox! More details to be added shortly.           2nd Friday ArtWalk at the Ackland Every second Friday…

2nd Friday ArtWalk: Lost and Found

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

Friday, 1/10/20| Lost and Found 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM Free; no registration required. Come out and celebrate the last weekend of our current exhibition, Lost and Found: Stories from Vernacular Photographs! Our caption and story contest winners have been chosen. Browse the winning responses plus all entries (handwritten or typed) in the museum gallery.…

2nd Friday ArtWalk: Open the Shape Called Love!

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

See Yayoi Kusama: Open the Shape Called Love during our 2nd Friday evening hours! Throughout the night, experience Kusama-inspired modern dance performances choreographed by Killian Manning and screenings of Kusama’s 1967 experimental film Self-Obliteration (23 mins). 5:30 p.m. | Self-Obliteration Screening, ART& 6:00 p.m. | Performance in Gallery 7 6:30 p.m. | Self-Obliteration Screening, ART&…

2nd Friday Art Walk: Keen on Kusama

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

Book Discussion with Carolina Public Humanities | 6:30-8:30 p.m. “The Convenient Spot: Patterns and Repetition in Japanese Art and Literature at the Ackland” Register for a book discussion program with Carolina Public Humanities that pairs Yayoi Kusama: Open the Shape called Love with Sayaka Murata’s award-winning short novel Convenience Store Woman. The discussion of the…

Artist Conversation with Nelson Morales

Zoom (Link Provided with Ticket) , United States

This program has passed, but a recording of the conversation can be viewed below or on our YouTube channel. A free public conversation with photographer Nelson Morales, who will have select photographs from his series Musas Muxe on view at the Ackland. The photographs explore the everyday life of muxes­—people who identify as a third…

Artist Conversation with Shanequa Gay

Zoom (Link Provided with Ticket) , United States

This event has now passed. Watch a recording of the talk below! Join us for a conversation between artist Shanequa Gay and Lauren Turner, the Ackland’s assistant curator for the collection. They will discuss Gay’s commissioned installation holding space for nobility: a memorial for Breonna Taylor, which is now on view in the Ackland’s ART&…

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

Zoom (Link Provided with Ticket) , United States
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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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2nd Friday ArtWalk: Meet a Metalsmith

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

View Peace, Power & Prestige: Metal Arts in Africa during the Ackland’s monthly evening hours, held in conjunction with the Chapel Hill-Carrboro 2nd Friday ArtWalk. From 5:00 to 6:15 p.m., visitors will have the opportunity to meet special guest Karen Smith, metalsmith, educator, and founder of We Wield The Hammer, a nonprofit metalsmith training program…

2nd Friday ArtWalk: Sunsets Dance Party with WXYC

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

Sunsets Dance Party with WXYC A global dance party inspired by Aligned by the Sun (through the revolution), the seven-channel video installation by Ghost of a Dream featuring sunsets captured around the world by artists living through the COVID-19 pandemic. During the April 2nd Friday ArtWalk, all are invited to dance together as WXYC DJs…