Virtual Art Adventures Afternoon Session: Crayon Resist Watercolor Painting
2021-04-10 13:00 - 13:45 (America/New_York) | Zoom (Link Provided with Ticket), United States
Join us as the Ackland takes our popular Art Adventures class online with instructor Allison Tierney! This special session will coincide with the North Carolina Science Festival, as we explore the science of watercolors.
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 Zoom, students will need access to an internet-connected computer, smartphone, or tablet with a built-in microphone; caregiver assistance may be needed. Art Adventures is geared towards children aged 6-9.

*Families with more than one child can participate together and should only register once.
During this time, we want to make sure price isn’t an added burden for families – please select the ticket price that you feel comfortable with ($0.00 or $5.00).
If you encounter registration issues, please email us at acklandRSVP@unc.edu. We apologize for any inconvenience.

Timed Ticketing – April 10, 2021
2021-04-10 13:00 - 17:00 | Ackland Art Museum, 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, 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 available for individuals and families with four or fewer people in their household.
· Social Distancing signage and gallery capacity signage in museum galleries will assist with a safe and easy flow of visitors.
· Currently, the Ackland is not offering in-person programs or group tours.
What We Request
The Ackland Art Museum cannot guarantee that any visitor will not contract COVID-19 while on the Ackland’s premises. By reserving a ticket and visiting the Ackland, all visitors voluntarily assume all risks related to COVID-19 exposure, since this risk exists in any public setting.
Tickets may be requested for parties of no more than four (4) people and must be reserved in advance. The Ackland may ask visitors whether they are experiencing symptoms of COVID-19 recognized by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The Ackland reserves the right to deny entrance to any visitor or members of that visitor’s party who report having COVID-19 or who exhibit possible COVID-19 symptoms. If visitors experience these symptoms while in the Museum, they may be asked to leave.
We ask for visitors’ cooperation to help protect the health and safety of our community. Visitors must comply with all visitor protocols set forth in the Ackland’s Visiting Us During the Pandemic webpage, ticketing confirmation communications, posted signage, and instructions from staff. The Ackland reserves the right to refuse or revoke entry to any visitor, including members of that visitor’s party, for failing to comply with protective measures.
The Ackland is collecting and retaining visitor contact information to allow for notification if a visitor may have been exposed to COVID-19. Contact information may be shared with public health officials if visitor has been exposed, and health officials will then contact you to answer your questions and provide resources. By purchasing a ticket, visitors consent to the collection, use, and disclosure of their contact information, and acknowledge that these procedures do not create any right to notification.
The information you provided for this reservation may also be used to inform you about future exhibitions, events, and programs or used to solicit for optional feedback via anonymous surveys; the Ackland will not share your information with any third parties. You can unsubscribe from future communications by clicking the unsubscribe link in any email you receive from the Ackland.
Welcome back! We thank you for visiting, and we appreciate your understanding.
Visitor Agreement
By signing up for a timed entry slot, you are acknowledging that have read these policies and agree to abide by them. If you are reserving tickets for others in your household, you agree to discuss policies prior to entering the Ackland Art Museum.
Select the time you would like to visit and ticket quantity below. Admission tickets are free, but you must add your free ticket to the cart and check out to complete your reservation.
Visitors who register for tickets will receive their tickets to the email address provided in the Billing details. If you register for more than one person; the primary ticket holder will receive all tickets to the email address provided in the Billings details. If tickets are not in your Inbox, please check your Spam or Junk folders.
All pre-visit emails will be sent by acklandrsvp@unc.edu (please add this address to your email contacts list).

Ackland Film Forum: "Fire" Watch Party and Panel
2021-04-13 19:30 - 22:30 | Zoom (Link Provided with Ticket), United States
Join us for the third film in the Ackland Film Forum’s Global Queer Cinema Series, Deepa Mehta’s Fire (1996, Canada/India). 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 with the Ackland’s Close Looks digital initiative. View the selected films on your own or join us for a watch party. Watch parties will be followed by a live post-film panel discussion with scholars from around the globe.
Fire will be available to stream April 9-15, 2021 with a virtual watch party on Tuesday, April 13 at 7:30 p.m. followed by a live panel discussion at 9:30 p.m. We are excited to welcome Dr. Gayatri Gopinath (New York University) for our post-film panel, who will be in conversation with Martin L. Johnson (UNC-Chapel Hill). Register for free tickets below to receive a link to stream the film and a link to attend the panel via Zoom on April 13.
About Fire:
Radha (Shabana Azmi) is unwavering in her devotion to her husband Ashok (Kulbushan Kharbanda), despite their sexless arranged marriage. For 15 years Radha has been the consummate Indian wife while Ashok, under the guidance of a spiritual leader, is attempting to rid himself completely of any form of desire. Meanwhile, Ashok’s brother Jatin (Jaaved Jaaferi) has brought home his new wife Sita (Nandita Das), but is unwilling to give up his relationship with his Chinese girlfriend. Added to the mix are Biji (Kushal Rekhi), Ashok and Jatin’s infirm mother, who keeps a watchful eye over the family, and Mundu (Ranjit Chowdhry), who works in the family’s restaurant and video store under their small apartment. Slowly, Sita’s presence causes the threads that held the family together to unravel. Each member tries to hang on to a semblance of allegiance to the deeply rooted traditions of Indian family life, while at the same time seeking expression for their own personal needs and desires. Unable to woo her new husband, the young and feisty Sita is the first to question the order of things. Her doubts are contagious, and soon Radha’s devotion begins to waver too. Deprived of their husbands’ affections, the two women draw closer together in ways neither imagined.
Director-writer Deepa Mehta has captured the shifting landscape of the entire Indian subcontinent, where both men and women are caught in the immense tension between the continuity of the extended family and the desire for greater freedom and independence. Lusciously photographed and passionately told, FIRE ignites the senses as well as the emotions.
This event is supported in part by Laughing Gull Foundation.
Fire Watch Parties | Tweet along with Ackland and UNC Film Studies using #AcklandFilmForum
7:30 p.m. Watch Party
9:30 p.m. Panel
Link to the panel is provided with registration. Streaming links will be sent at a later date. Registration is open!

Timed Ticketing – April 14, 2021
2021-04-14 13:00 - 17:00 | Ackland Art Museum, 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States

A Quick Close Look: Ackland Student Guide Virtual Tour
2021-04-14 17:00 - 17:30 | Zoom (Link Provided with Ticket), United States
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: Christina Barta (Senior) and Alice Lim (Senior) look the theme of “near and far” with Mark Hewitt’s Large Lidded Jar (1993) and Camille Pissarro’s The Banks of the Oise, Near Pontoise (1876).
View the full schedule on our calendar.
Get your free ticket below for access to the Zoom link!

Timed Ticketing – April 15, 2021
2021-04-15 13:00 - 17:00 | Ackland Art Museum, 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States

Ackland Film Forum Watch Party & Panel for "A Fantastic Woman"
2021-04-27 19:30 - 22:30 | Zoom (Link Provided with Ticket), United States
Join us for the final film in the Ackland Film Forum’s Global Queer Cinema Series, A Fantastic Woman (Sebastian Lelio, 2017, Chile). 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 with the Ackland’s Close Looks digital initiative. View the selected films on your own or join us for a watch party. Watch parties will be followed by a live post-film panel discussion with scholars from around the globe.
A Fantastic Woman will be available to stream April 23-29, 2021 with a virtual watch party on Tuesday, April 27 at 7:30 p.m. followed by a live panel discussion at 9:30 p.m. We are excited to welcome Dr. Javier García Léon (UNC-Charlotte) for our post-film panel, who will be in conversation with Martin L. Johnson (UNC-Chapel Hill). Register for free tickets below to receive a link to stream the film and a link to attend the panel via Zoom on April 27.
About A Fantastic Woman:
Marina and Orlando are in love and planning for the future. Marina is a young waitress and aspiring singer. Orlando is 20 years older than her, and owns a printing company. After celebrating Marina’s birthday one evening, Orlando falls seriously ill. Marina rushes him to the emergency room, but he passes away just after arriving at the hospital. Instead of being able to mourn her lover, suddenly Marina is treated with suspicion. The doctors and Orlando’s family don’t trust her. A woman detective investigates Marina to see if she was involved in his death. Orlando’s ex-wife forbids her from attending the funeral. And to make matters worse, Orlando’s son threatens to throw Marina out of the flat she shared with Orlando. Marina is a trans woman and for most of Orlando’s family, her sexual identity is an aberration, a perversion. So Marina struggles for the right to be herself. She battles the very same forces that she has spent a lifetime fighting just to become the woman she is now – a complex, strong, forthright and fantastic woman.
This event is supported in part by Laughing Gull Foundation.
A Fantastic Woman Watch Party | Tweet along with Ackland and UNC Film Studies using #AcklandFilmForum
7:30 p.m. Watch Party
*Please note there is a space between the letters and numbers in your Username*
9:30 p.m. Panel
Link to the panel is provided with registration. Streaming links will be sent at a later date. Registration is open!

Virtual Art for Lunch: Maggie Cao
2021-04-28 12:00 - 13:00 | Zoom (Link Provided with Ticket), United States
Featuring Maggie Cao (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 Cao’s class “Introduction to American Art” utilizes the Ackland’s collection to explore diverse expressions of American-ness in American art from the colonial period through 1960.
Bring your lunch–and questions of your own–for this lively, conversational program.
Free, registration is now open.

Timed Ticketing – April 28, 2021
2021-04-28 13:00 - 17:00 | Ackland Art Museum, 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States

A Quick Close Look: Ackland Student Guide Virtual Tour
2021-04-28 17:00 - 17:30 | Zoom (Link Provided with Ticket), United States
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: Josh Massey (Senior) and Taylor Buck (Senior) look the theme of “perception” with an unidentified artist’s (Cameroon, Bekom culture) Divination Kit: Box and Elements (20th century) and John Francis Murphy’s Landscape (1881).
View the full schedule on our calendar.
Get your free ticket below for access to the Zoom link!

Virtual Art Adventures Morning Session: Object of Meaning Grid Drawing
2021-05-08 10:30 - 11:15 | Zoom (Link Provided with Ticket), United States
Join us as the Ackland takes our popular Art Adventures class online with instructor Allison Tierney! This special session will feature an artwork found in Micro/Macro, which is on view at the Ackland through May 22.
Class sessions will be limited to 15 participants*. A supply list and Zoom meeting link will be distributed to registrants prior to the class session. To use Zoom, students will need access to an internet-connected computer, smartphone, or tablet with a built-in microphone; caregiver assistance may be needed. Art Adventures is geared towards children aged 6-9.

*Families with more than one child can participate together and should only register once.
During this time, we want to make sure price isn’t an added burden for families – please select the ticket price that you feel comfortable with ($0.00 or $5.00).
If you encounter registration issues, please email us at acklandRSVP@unc.edu. We apologize for any inconvenience.

Virtual Art Adventures Afternoon Session: Object of Meaning Grid Drawing
2021-05-08 13:00 - 13:45 | Zoom (Link Provided with Ticket), United States

Timed Ticketing – May 12, 2021
2021-05-12 13:00 - 17:00 | Ackland Art Museum, 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States

Virtual Fundraiser: Treasures from the Cellar
2021-05-12 18:30 - 20:00 | Zoom, United States
The Ackland curators have selected their favorite “treasure” from the Museum’s collection not currently on view, and Wine Feed, local wine bar in Durham and Raleigh, has paired each piece of art to a specially selected wine and a gourmet chocolate bar from Raleigh’s Videri Chocolate Factory.
Price includes live curator-led presentations and instructor-led tastings, 3 full bottles of wine, 3 gourmet chocolate bars and a recording of the program to enjoy at your leisure. Only one purchase needed per household so you can share the wine and chocolate! All goods available for curbside pickup. Delivery and shipping available for some areas.
$50-$80 of the price will go directly to support education and public programs at the Ackland. Feel free to give an additional donation at checkout!
Thank you to our event sponsors:
Smith Freeman & Austin Scarlett
Ella & Atticus Parrott
Stephen M. Cumbie & Druscilla French, PhD
Alice & John May

Timed Ticketing – May 13, 2021
2021-05-13 13:00 - 17:00 | Ackland Art Museum, 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States

Virtual Art Adventures Morning Session: "Exquisite Corpse" Paper Books
2021-06-19 10:30 - 11:15 | Zoom (Link Provided with Ticket), United States
Families with kids ages 6-9 are invited to join us virtually for a hands-on art-making class inspired by art on view in Drawing Attention. This month, we’ll make “exquisite corpse” paper books with instructor Allison Tierney!
Class sessions will be limited to 15 participants.* A supply list and Zoom meeting link will be distributed to registrants prior to the class session. To use Zoom, students will need access to an internet-connected computer, smartphone, or tablet with a built-in microphone; caregiver assistance may be needed.

*Families with more than one child can participate together and should only register once.
During this time, we want to make sure price isn’t an added burden for families – please select the ticket price that you feel comfortable with ($0.00 or $5.00).
If you encounter registration issues, please email us at acklandRSVP@unc.edu. We apologize for any inconvenience.

Virtual Art Adventures Afternoon Session: "Exquisite Corpse" Paper Books
2021-06-19 13:00 - 13:45 | Zoom (Link Provided with Ticket), United States

Curator's Tour of "Drawing Attention"
2021-06-19 14:00 - 15:00 | Ackland Art Museum, 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States
Join Drawing Attention curator and Deputy Director for Curatorial Affairs Peter Nisbet for an in-person tour of the exhibition.
Space is limited and registration is required below. Participants must adhere to the Ackland’s current visitor policies, including wearing a mask while in the Museum and practicing social distancing.
This tour will be offered a second time on Saturday, June 26, at 2:00 p.m.
About Drawing Attention
In its collections, exhibitions, and programs, the Ackland has always paid special attention to works on paper. This exhibition presents around seventy European and American drawings, watercolors, and collages, selected from well over 570 acquired both by gift and by purchase over the past twelve years.
The works in the exhibition showcase a broad chronological span, from the sixteenth to the twenty-first centuries, and a variety of techniques and functions. The display includes works by a wide range of artists, including Domenichino, Jan van Goyen, Thomas Gainsborough, Edgar Degas, Otto Dix, Robert Motherwell, Thornton Dial, Marcel Dzama, and Lauren Frances Adams. The works are presented in ten thematic sections: Varieties of Portraiture; American Abstraction of the 1960s; Fantasy and Transformation; Image and Text in Contemporary Art; German Modernism; Christian Piety; Landscapes and Architectures; Cartoon and Caricature; Sketches and Studies in Nineteenth-Century France and Britain; and a special wall devoted to Very Recent Arrivals which can accommodate new acquisitions made even during the run of the show.
Drawing Attention, organized by Peter Nisbet, deputy director for curatorial affairs, has been made possible by generous support from the Ackland’s National Advisory Board.

Arts & Drafts: Watercolors with Craftboro
2021-06-24 19:30 - 21:00 | Zoom (Link Provided with Ticket), United States
Learn watercolor basics from a regional artist, hear about watercolors on view in the Ackland’s newest exhibition, and taste local beers with the brewer who crafted them at a virtual version of our hands-on art-making and beer-tasting event. This summer’s event will feature watercolor artist Jeanine Tatlock, curator Dana Cowen, and brewer/owner Jason McCarter of Craftboro. Presented in connection with Drawing Attention (on view June 18 – Sept 12, 2021).
Event Tickets (includes art kit):
$13, includes art kit and virtual program ticket. Cost of the growler (and bottle deposit) is additional. Event tickets must be purchased through the Ackland calendar. Beverages must be purchased through Craftboro.
Art Kits:
After you buy your tickets, your art kit full of supplies for the event can be picked up at Craftboro Brewing Depot between June 15 and June 24. While you’re there, purchase a growler of Craftboro beer or a non-alcoholic beverage from the menu of options selected for our event.
Beverages:
Beer and non-alcoholic beverages must be purchased on site at Craftboro at time of pickup or through Craftboro’s website: https://commerce.arryved.com/location/BDsMDyTE.
In-Person Pickup and Curbside Pickup are available for online beverage orders. Craftboro Brewing Depot is located at 101 TWO HILLS DRIVE UNIT 180 (just off S. Greensboro Street), CARRBORO, NC 27510.
Event Location:
This is a virtual event held on Zoom. Your link to join will come in your confirmation email. If you do not see it, please check your spam or junk folder. Email acklandRSVP@unc.edu if you encounter any problems.

Curator's Tour of "Drawing Attention"
2021-06-26 14:00 - 15:00 | Ackland Art Museum, 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States
Join Drawing Attention curator and Deputy Director for Curatorial Affairs Peter Nisbet for an in-person tour of the exhibition.
Space is limited and registration is required below. Participants must adhere to the Ackland’s current visitor policies, including wearing a mask while in the Museum and practicing social distancing.
If this event reaches capacity and you’d like to join the waitlist, please email acklandRSVP@unc.edu.
About Drawing Attention
In its collections, exhibitions, and programs, the Ackland has always paid special attention to works on paper. This exhibition presents around seventy European and American drawings, watercolors, and collages, selected from well over 570 acquired both by gift and by purchase over the past twelve years.
The works in the exhibition showcase a broad chronological span, from the sixteenth to the twenty-first centuries, and a variety of techniques and functions. The display includes works by a wide range of artists, including Domenichino, Jan van Goyen, Thomas Gainsborough, Edgar Degas, Otto Dix, Robert Motherwell, Thornton Dial, Marcel Dzama, and Lauren Frances Adams. The works are presented in ten thematic sections: Varieties of Portraiture; American Abstraction of the 1960s; Fantasy and Transformation; Image and Text in Contemporary Art; German Modernism; Christian Piety; Landscapes and Architectures; Cartoon and Caricature; Sketches and Studies in Nineteenth-Century France and Britain; and a special wall devoted to Very Recent Arrivals which can accommodate new acquisitions made even during the run of the show.
Drawing Attention, organized by Peter Nisbet, deputy director for curatorial affairs, has been made possible by generous support from the Ackland’s National Advisory Board.

Family & Friends Sunday: Day of Drawing
2021-06-27 13:00 - 17:00 | Ackland Art Museum, 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States
Visit us virtually or find art activity kits to enjoy with your friends or family group in the galleries.
This month, enjoy art-inspired activities exploring the wide-ranging themes and works in Drawing Attention including word art, watercolors, and landscapes.
Zoom Storytime | 2:30 P.M. EDT
Join the Ackland’s Public Programs Coordinator as she reads “Cat Says Meow: And Other Animalopoeia” by Michael Arndt!
Register on Zoom here.
Free Family Art Kit | Museum Lobby
Pick up our Drawing Attention Family Activity Art Kit and get inspired by “Untitled (Filling up Time)” by Chris Johanson. Quantities are limited; one per person.
At Home Art Making
Blow Painting with Straws by the Artful Parent
Inspired by the American Abstraction of the 1960s section of Drawing Attention, try out this simple yet exciting activity! Supplies needed: paper, watercolor paints, straws, and lots of air!
Inspiration: Paul Jenkins and Damien Hirst – for a more advanced activity, visit the Tate UK website!
Textured Landscapes by the Children’s Museum of San Jose
Create a drawing inspired by a landscape that recreates texture through the use of lines! Get inspiration from two works in the Ackland: Jean Metzinger’s “Landscape” and Max Liebermann’s “Village Scene”.
If you’re in the galleries, don’t miss Pierre Bonnard’s “Landscape” as an example of creating texture with lines!

Curator's Conversation: Introduction to "Visions of Venice"
2021-07-09 15:30 - 16:30 | Zoom (Link Provided with Ticket), United States
Join Dana E. Cowen, Sheldon Peck Curator for European and American Art before 1950, for an in-depth look at Visions of Venice. In this virtual discussion, participants will learn more about the circumstances of Whistler’s 1879 trip to Venice, his unique views of the floating city, his experimental working method, and how his works were received back in London.
Visions of Venice: Etchings by James McNeill Whistler from the Collection of Ambassador C. Boyden Gray showcases thirty of Whistler’s etchings of Venice and explores some of the artist’s most picturesque and atmospheric views of the city. Through his use of varied lines, compelling compositional motifs, and creative printing techniques, Whistler depicted sites unknown to the average tourist, such as back alleyways, obscure canals, and working-class neighborhoods, that challenged the expectations of nineteenth-century viewers and still captivate us today.

Virtual Art Adventures Morning Session: Blind Contour Drawings
2021-07-10 10:30 - 11:15 | Zoom (Link Provided with Ticket), United States
Families with kids ages 6-9 are invited to join us virtually for a hands-on art-making class inspired by art on view in Drawing Attention. This month, we’ll make Blind Contour Portraits with instructor Allison Tierney!
Class sessions will be limited to 15 participants.* A supply list and Zoom meeting link will be distributed to registrants prior to the class session. To use Zoom, students will need access to an internet-connected computer, smartphone, or tablet with a built-in microphone; caregiver assistance may be needed.

*Families with more than one child can participate together and should only register once.
During this time, we want to make sure price isn’t an added burden for families – please select the ticket price that you feel comfortable with ($0.00 or $5.00).
If you encounter registration issues, please email us at acklandRSVP@unc.edu. We apologize for any inconvenience.

Virtual Art Adventures Afternoon Session: Blind Contour Drawing
2021-07-10 13:00 - 13:45 | Zoom (Link Provided with Ticket), United States

Public Art Concept Presentation with The Urban Conga
2021-07-20 19:00 - 20:00 | Zoom (Link Provided with Ticket), United States
Please join us in a Zoom webinar where design firm The Urban Conga will present concepts under development for the next public art commission to be installed on the Ackland’s front terrace. They will introduce an assortment of possible designs being considered, and then they will follow the presentation by answering questions and receiving feedback from participants. This forum is open to the public.
The Urban Conga focuses on promoting community activity and social interaction through open-ended play. The studio has been awarded the Architizer A+ Firm of the Year Award for Small Projects in 2021.
If you encounter registration issues, please contact email us at acklandRSVP@unc.edu.

Family & Friends Sunday: Whistler's World
2021-07-25 13:00 - 17:00 | Ackland Art Museum, 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States
Visit us virtually or find art activity kits to enjoy with your friends or family group in the galleries.
This month, enjoy art-inspired activities inspired by James McNeill Whistler’s etchings in Visions of Venice including:
FREE FAMILY ACTIVITY KIT | MUSEUM LOBBY

Pick up our Visions of Venice Family Activity Art Kit and try your hand at scratchboard art! Quantities are limited; one per person.
ART MAKING ACTIVITIES | EXPLORE AT HOME
D.I.Y. Scratch Art (ages 4 and up)
Foil Engraving
CURATOR’S CONVERSATION: “Visions of Venice” with Dana E. Cowen
Watch the Ackland’s Sheldon Peck Curator of European and American Art before 1950, Dana E. Cowen, as she speaks about Visions of Venice.
VIRTUAL TOUR OF THE PEACOCK ROOM | 2:30 P.M. EDT
Join the Ackland as we ‘visit’ the Freer Gallery of Art in D.C., space is limited to 15 households. The tour will be one hour in length and suitable for all ages.
The Peacock Room and American Art
Freer Gallery of Art founder Charles Lang Freer did not only acquire diverse holdings of Asian art; he also assembled outstanding examples of American art in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Today, the Freer Gallery of Art houses the world’s largest collection of works by James McNeill Whistler, including his famed Peacock Room.
Registration will open on June 18th. Email acklandrsvp@unc.edu with any registration issues. A Zoom link will be provided in the days leading up to the online tour.
WHISTLER’S NORTH CAROLINA CONNECTION
Whistler’s mother, Anna, was born in Wilmington, North Carolina. She is the subject of his famous work, Arrangement in Grey and Black No. 1, commonly known as Whistler’s Mother. The piece resides in the Musée d’Orsay in Paris, France.
Read several of her letters published in the Atlantic Monthly in 1925. Her final letter in this ten-page document indicates that her son, James, is about to travel to Venice to make a set of twelve etchings – sound familiar?

Museum Pictionary
2021-08-06 15:30 - 16:30 | Ackland Art Museum, 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States
Think you can draw a work of art from description alone? Join us for an afternoon of virtual drawing games based on works now on view in Drawing Attention. Test your drawing skills against two of the Ackland’s curators, Dana Cowen and Lauren Turner, in our Zoom-based, museum version of Pictionary! We’ll take turns drawing and describing and learn more about the art on view in Drawing Attention along the way.
About Drawing Attention
In its collections, exhibitions, and programs, the Ackland has always paid special attention to works on paper. This exhibition presents around seventy European and American drawings, watercolors, and collages, selected from well over 570 acquired both by gift and by purchase over the past twelve years.
The works in the exhibition showcase a broad chronological span, from the sixteenth to the twenty-first centuries, and a variety of techniques and functions. The display includes works by a wide range of artists, including Domenichino, Jan van Goyen, Thomas Gainsborough, Edgar Degas, Otto Dix, Robert Motherwell, Thornton Dial, Marcel Dzama, and Lauren Frances Adams. The works are presented in ten thematic sections: Varieties of Portraiture; American Abstraction of the 1960s; Fantasy and Transformation; Image and Text in Contemporary Art; German Modernism; Christian Piety; Landscapes and Architectures; Cartoon and Caricature; Sketches and Studies in Nineteenth-Century France and Britain; and a special wall devoted to Very Recent Arrivals which can accommodate new acquisitions made even during the run of the show.
Drawing Attention, organized by Peter Nisbet, deputy director for curatorial affairs, has been made possible by generous support from the Ackland’s National Advisory Board.

Virtual Art Adventures Morning Session - Exploring Op Art
2021-08-14 10:30 - 11:15 | Zoom (Link Provided with Ticket), United States
Join us as the Ackland takes our popular Art Adventures class online with instructor Allison Tierney!
Class sessions will be limited to 15 participants*. A supply list and Zoom meeting link will be distributed to registrants prior to the class session. To use Zoom, students will need access to an internet-connected computer, smartphone, or tablet with a built-in microphone; caregiver assistance may be needed. Art Adventures is geared towards children aged 6-9.

*Families with more than one child can participate together and should only register once.
During this time, we want to make sure price isn’t an added burden for families – please select the ticket price that you feel comfortable with ($0.00 or $5.00).
If you encounter registration issues, please email us at acklandRSVP@unc.edu. We apologize for any inconvenience.

Virtual Art Adventures Afternoon Session - Exploring Op Art
2021-08-14 13:00 - 13:45 | Zoom (Link Provided with Ticket), United States

Weeks of Welcome: Open House
2021-08-20 15:00 - 17:00 | Ackland Art Museum, 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States
Check out the Ackland Art Museum, Carolina’s local art museum with a global outlook. Explore the Ackland’s free exhibitions, find out how to get involved as a student, and take a self-guided tour of the Museum designed especially for new students!
