Ackland Events

Guided Tour: Explore the Ackland's Collection
2019-04-21 13:30 - 14:00, 2019-04-20 13:30 - 14:00, 2019-04-19 13:30 - 14:00, 2019-04-18 13:30 - 14:00, 2019-04-17 13:30 - 14:00, 2019-04-14 13:30 - 14:00, 2019-04-13 13:30 - 14:00, 2019-04-12 13:30 - 14:00 (America/New_York) and 7 more dates | Ackland Art Museum, 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States
Tour: Explore the Ackland’s Collection
Meet in the lobby for a 30-minute, guided tour of the Ackland Art Museum’s collection.
Free. No reservation needed.

Art for Lunch: Dr. Marsha Penner and Dr. Michelle Robinson
2019-04-18 12:30 - 13:30 | Ackland Art Museum, 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States
Art for Lunch 18 April 2019 | 12:30 PM
Join Dr. Marsha Penner and Dr. Michelle Robinson for a discussion of how they’re using the Ackland to learn about cognitive and literary approaches to problem solving as part of their jointly-taught course on detective fiction, “Methods of Detection.”
Not only do paperbacks like Gone Girl and television mega-franchises like Law & Order invite their audiences to perform extraordinary feats of detection, they also communicate information about the cognitive processes that make mystery-solving possible. Both literary theorists and behavioral neuroscientists have developed models that explain the ways detection—the accumulation and logical assembly of clues and evidence to solve mysteries—takes place.
This Art for Lunch will include an activity involving four objects from the Ackland’s permanent collection, including the one in the image above. Image credit: Unidentified Artist, Indian/Swiss, Watch and Compass, brass, enamel, silver overlay, and glass. 2 11/16 x 1 7/8 in. Ackland Fund, selected by The Ackland Associates. 96.3.2.
LUNCH
Bring your own bag lunch.
COST
Free
RSVP
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Parking options: www.parkonthehill.com

Rosemary Lot – 100 E Rosemary St $1.50/hour
Wallace Parking Deck – 150 E Rosemary St $1/hour
PNC/Sea Turtle Lot – 164 N Columbia St FREE after 6 PM
UNC-CH Swain Lot (located off Cameron Avenue) – FREE after 5 PM

Tai Chi in the Galleries
2019-04-15 13:00 - 14:00, 2019-04-08 13:00 - 14:00 | Ackland Art Museum, 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States
Join us for Tai Chi in the Galleries, inspired by the renowned Asian art collections at the Ackland!
Tai chi is an ancient Chinese movement practice known to reduce pain and improve your mental and physical balance and well-being. This class uses gentle Sun-style tai chi routines that are safe, easy to learn, and suitable for all ages and fitness levels.
Tai Chi in the Galleries takes place most Mondays from 1:00-2:00 PM and is taught by Joanne Marshall, a certified yoga and Tai Chi for Health instructor. All movements are done standing. Wear comfortable clothes and supportive flat shoes.
COST
Free for Ackland Members; $5 per session for all others.
RSVP for Jan-Apr 2019 Classes:
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Yoga in the Galleries
2019-04-15 12:00 - 13:00, 2019-04-08 12:00 - 13:00 | Ackland Art Museum, 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States
Take a break from your day and explore the world of yoga in the beautiful setting of the Ackland!
The hour-long session offered most Mondays from 12:00-1:00 PM is taught by registered yoga teacher Joanne Marshall. Yoga in the Galleries provides an opportunity to practice a series of gentle yoga poses inspired by the art in the gallery. Beginners are welcome. Yoga mats are provided. Wear comfortable clothing that will allow you to stretch.
COST
Free for Ackland Members; $5 per session for all others.
RSVP for Jan-April 2019 Classes:
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Drawing for Tweens (PM Session)
2019-04-13 13:00 - 14:30 | Ackland Art Museum, 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States
This program invites 10- to 13-year-olds to look at selected works in the Ackland’s galleries and identify techniques that the artists used to make them. Gallery teachers demonstrate and teach participants technical skills, which they can then apply to their own artistic creations. A mix of drawing from works on display and creating one’s own original works is offered in each session. Materials are provided.
Free to members | $5 per child for non-members.
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Art Adventures (PM Session)
2019-04-13 13:00 - 14:30 | Ackland Art Museum, 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States
Art Adventures
Designed for 6- to 9-year-olds, Art Adventures sessions provide kids with a guided view of art in the Ackland’s galleries, followed by the opportunity to create take-home treasures in an adjacent art studio using newly-learned art-making techniques. Materials are provided.
13 April 2019 | 1:00 – 2:30 PM (PM Session)
Cost
Free for Ackland Members (Household/$75 and above), $5 for non-members. Space is limited.
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Image Credit: Julian Stanczak, Glare, 1969
Acrylic on canvas
50 1/8 x 50 1/8 in. (127.3 x 127.3 cm)
Ackland Art Museum

Drawing for Tweens (AM Session)
2019-04-13 10:30 - 12:00 | Ackland Art Museum, 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States

Art Adventures (AM Session)
2019-04-13 10:30 - 12:00 | Ackland Art Museum, 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States
Art Adventures
Designed for 6- to 9-year-olds, Art Adventures sessions provide kids with a guided view of art in the Ackland’s galleries, followed by the opportunity to create take-home treasures in an adjacent art studio using newly-learned art-making techniques. Materials are provided.
13 April 2019 | 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM (AM Session)
Cost
Free for Ackland Members (Household/$75 and above), $5 for non-members. Space is limited.
RSVP
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Image Credit: Julian Stanczak, Glare, 1969
Acrylic on canvas
50 1/8 x 50 1/8 in. (127.3 x 127.3 cm)
Ackland Art Museum

Drawing in the Galleries
2019-04-13 10:00 - 12:00 | Ackland Art Museum, 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States
The second Saturday of every month, Amanda Hughes leads participants in a creative exploration of a particular object in the Ackland’s collection.
For all sessions, bring paper and dry media (crayon, pencils, etc.). All levels are welcome.
Free and open to the public. No reservation is necessary.

2nd Friday ArtWalk: Stacey L. Kirby and Lonnie Holley
2019-04-12 18:00 - 22:00 | Ackland Art Museum, 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States
2nd Friday ArtWalk: An Eclectic and Unusual Double Bill
Friday, 12 April | 6-10 PM. Free.

6-8 PM: ART& artist Stacey L. Kirby and her team conduct civil presence assessments within her new installation, The Department of Reflection.

8:30-10 PM: Concert and talk with Lonnie Holley. Part of the 50th anniversary celebrations for the Department of American Studies at UNC-Chapel Hill.

Lonnie Holley’s concert and talk is now sold out and waitlisted. Click here to join the waitlist.

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2nd Friday ArtWalk at the Ackland
Every second Friday of the month, the Ackland participates as a venue in the Chapel Hill-Carrboro 2nd Friday ArtWalk, staying open until 9:00 PM and offering a variety of interactive, all-ages activities in addition to all exhibitions being open to visitors. Admission is free.

Louise Bourgeois's Crouching Spider: Do Not Touch or Climb Talk
2019-04-11 12:30 - 14:00 | Ackland Art Museum, 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States
Hosted by Arts Everywhere, join fellow students and community members in a lively discussion about contemporary artist Louise Bourgeois and her work at the Ackland Art Museum.
Can a meme be a way of engaging with a work of art? Can a meme describe how and what we see around us, both individually and collectively? How does such description differ from traditional ways of interacting with art in and outside of a museum? How does the location of a work of art (outside rather than inside) condition or liberate the viewer’s interaction with it?
The installation of artist Louise Bourgeois’s Crouching Spider and Eye Benches I on UNC’s campus inspired a variety of responses. Louise Bourgeois was a hugely influential contemporary artist, and Crouching Spider manifests some of the major themes of her work. We’ll be giving some background on Bourgeois and her art, but also facilitating an open discussion of some of the dank spider memes generated by UNC undergrads. These productions comment on collective emotional and intellectual experiences of the art, compare it to other structures on campus, and draw out some of the political implications of public art. This event will also include a walk over to Crouching Spider, where the Ackland Art Museum’s Object-Based Teaching Fellow, Alexandra Zeigler, will lead us in an exercise in close looking, encouraging us to deepen and critically examine our responses to the sculpture and its context.
Free, no registration required. Light refreshments will be served.

Last Look Tour: "The Beautiful Brain"
2019-04-07 15:30 - 16:30 | Ackland Art Museum, 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States
On the exhibition’s final day, join Peter Nisbet, Deputy Director for Curatorial Affairs, for a final reflection on the captivating Cajal drawings and contemporary scientific images of The Beautiful Brain.

About The Beautiful Brain
Santiago Ramón y Cajal’s drawings of the brain are both aesthetically astonishing and scientifically significant. The Beautiful Brain: The Drawings of Santiago Ramón y Cajal is the first museum exhibition to present these amazing works within their historical context.
Scientists throughout the world know Cajal (1852–1934) as the father of the study of the structure and function of the brain—i.e. modern neuroscience. One of his most important discoveries was that individual cells called neurons make up the brain (most late-19th century scientists believed that the brain was a continuous, interconnected network). The centerpiece of The Beautiful Brain is 80 original drawings by Cajal lent by the Cajal Institute in Madrid, Spain. Contemporary neuroscience imagery provides a context for these remarkable works. Read more…

The Beautiful Brain: The Drawings of Santiago Ramón y Cajal was organized by the Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum at the University of Minnesota with the Cajal Institute, Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Madrid, Spain.

The Ackland presentation of this exhibition has been made possible in part by generous support from Betsy Blackwell & John Watson and the UNC Neuroscience Center at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s School of Medicine.

Santiago Ramón y Cajal, calyces of Held in the nucleus of the trapezoid body, 1934, ink and pencil on paper. 5 5/8 × 3 5/8 in. (14.2 × 9.1 cm). Courtesy of Instituto Cajal (CSIC).

UNC Science Expo
2019-04-06 11:00 - 16:00 | Ackland Art Museum, 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States
Visit the Ackland’s booth at the UNC Science Expo at Morehead Planetarium to sketch neurons based on the work of Santiago Ramón y Cajal, the father of modern neuroscience featured in the exhibition The Beautiful Brain. Build a working model of a neuron to demonstrate the neuron doctrine. Food trucks and many other activities on site. Visit the Ackland and the Ackland Museum Store before or after the Science Expo: we are open from 10AM-5PM.

Image Credit: Santiago Ramón y Cajal, The pyramidal neuron of the cerebral cortex, 1904, ink and pencil on paper. Courtesy of Instituto Cajal (CSIC).

Ackland Film Forum: "The Headless Woman" (2008, Argentina)
2019-04-02 19:00 - 21:00 | Varsity Theatre, 123 E. Franklin Street, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States
Ackland Film Forum | Spring 2019
Fantastic Voyage: Cinematic Journeys into the Brain
Tuesday, 2 April 2019 | 7 PM
Varsity Theatre, 123 E. Franklin Street
The Headless Woman (2008, Argentina), Lucrecia Martel
One of the leading filmmakers of New Argentine Cinema, Lucrecia Martel’s films explore the struggle of the bourgeoisie to keep up appearances even as the world crumbles about them. In The Headless Woman, Martel’s third feature, we meet an upper-class woman, Vero, who appears to be successfully attending to the chores of her station—gardening, party planning, worrying about relatives–when she hits something after being distracted by her cell phone. Over the rest of the film, we perceive her world as she sees it, and struggle to solve the mystery of what she actually hit—was it a dog? A child? Or nothing at all? For the remainder of the film, we watch Vero recover from the trauma of her accident, and try to solve the mystery therein, all while everyone around her encourages to forget about what happened. Like Vero herself, the surface of Martel’s films are deceptively shallow. With each viewing you notice another clue—an errant sound, a stray image—that underscores of the depth of the deception and resonates with a broader societal impulse, in Argentina and many other places, to bury our darkest secrets in hopes that they never resurface.
ABOUT THE SERIES:TICKETS:
Free for UNC One Card holders; $7 general public. Tickets available at the Varsity Theatre Box Office.
The Spring 2019 Ackland Film Forum series “Fantastic Voyage: Cinematic Journeys into the Brain” is organized by the Ackland Art Museum and the UNC-Chapel Hill Department of English and Comparative Literature and presented in connection with the Ackland’s exhibition The Beautiful Brain: The Drawings of Santiago Ramón y Cajal (25 Jan – 7 April 2019).
