Reimagining the Black and Queer Body: A Conversation with Photographer Mikael Owunna
Ackland Art Museum 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesFriday, 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 States2nd 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 StatesFriday, 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 StatesSee 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 StatesBook 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 StatesThis 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 StatesThis 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 StatesJoin 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…
2nd Friday ArtWalk: Meet a Metalsmith
Ackland Art Museum 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesView 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 StatesSunsets 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…