Ackland Events

TOUR: A Closer Look at the Collection
2025-04-20 13:00 - 13:30, 2025-04-26 13:00 - 13:30, 2025-05-03 13:00 - 13:30, 2025-05-11 13:00 - 13:30, 2025-05-16 13:00 - 13:30, 2025-05-23 13:00 - 13:30, 2025-05-30 13:00 - 13:30 (America/New_York) | Ackland Art Museum, 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States
Join Ackland educators for a lively half-hour look at small handful of artworks. These engaging conversational tours offer a closer look at and new perspectives on works on view at the Museum.

TOUR: A Closer Look at "Phantom Limb"
2025-04-25 13:00 - 13:30, 2025-05-09 13:00 - 13:30
Join Ackland educators for a lively half-hour look at small handful of artworks in Phantom Limb: Selected Works by the MFA Class of 2025. These engaging conversational tours offer a closer look at and new perspectives on works on view at the Museum.

Art Adventures (Morning Session)
2025-04-26 10:30 - 12:00
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 Triple Take: Dialogues with the Terra Collection-in-Residence.
Space is limited; registration required. Free for Ackland Members at the Household Level and above; $5 per child for all others.

Art Adventures (Afternoon Session)
2025-04-26 13:00 - 14:30

Semester Revue: Student Research & Responses to the Collection
2025-04-30 13:30 - 16:00
Each semester, the Ackland Art Museum works with thousands of UNC-Chapel Hill students through courses and internships. The Semester Revue offers a glimpse into the quality and variety of the students’ research, projects, and performances. Come learn about the collection and see it anew through their short, dynamic presentations. Free; no registration required.
The Ackland Semester Revue is part of UNC-Chapel Hill’s Campus Life Experience program. Scan the QR code at the event for CLE credit.

TOUR: A Closer Look at "Triple Take"
2025-05-02 13:00 - 13:30
Join Ackland educators for a lively half-hour look at small handful of artworks in Triple Take: Dialogues with the Terra Collection-in-Residence. These engaging conversational tours offer a closer look at and new perspectives on works on view at the Museum.

WAITLIST ONLY: Art & Lit: "All the Beauty in the World"
2025-05-02 15:00 - 16:30
This is program is now SOLD OUT. To join the waitlist, please email Carolina Public Humanities at human@unc.edu.
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Join Melissa Faliveno (UNC English and Comparative Literature) and Lauren Turner (Ackland Associate Curator of Contemporary Art and Special Projects) for a discussion of All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me (Patrick Bringley, 2023) in the context of Triple Take: Dialogues with the Terra Collection–in–Residence.
$40 includes a copy of the book and light snacks.
This is program is now SOLD OUT. To join the waitlist, please email Carolina Public Humanities at human@unc.edu.

Art Adventures (Morning Session)
2025-05-03 10:30 - 12:00
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 Phantom Limb: Selected Works by the MFA Class of 2025.
Space is limited; registration required. Free for Ackland Members at the Household Level and above; $5 per child for all others.

Art Adventures (Afternoon Session)
2025-05-03 13:00 - 14:30

Drawing in the Galleries
2025-05-17 10:00 - 12:00, 2025-06-07 10:00 - 12:00
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. All levels are welcome.

Scholarly Talk: Joe Earle on "Radical Clay: Contemporary Women Artists from Japan"
2025-06-06 15:30 - 16:30
This program is now FULL. To be added to our WAITLIST, please email acklandRSVP@unc.edu.

Join Joe Earle, expert on Japanese ceramics and Radical Clay catalogue author, for a discussion of the significance of several of the stunning works on view in Radical Clay: Contemporary Women Artists from Japan, which opens today. Radical Clay features thirty-six contemporary ceramic artists — all women — represented by works selected from the private collection of Carol and Jeffrey Horvitz. All have explored the technical and conceptual possibilities of clay in ways that are inventive, expressive, and often surprising.
Space is limited; please register for a free ticket below!
Read more about Radical Clay: Contemporary Women Artists from Japan.
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Joe Earle, Bonhams Global Senior Consultant for Japanese Art, has worked in the East Asian art field for the last 50 years. He has held leadership positions in Asian art departments at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and was Director of Japan Society Gallery in New York from 2007 to 2012. Joe has organized more than two dozen exhibitions in Britain, Japan, Italy, and the United States and written, translated, or edited books and catalogs on aspects of Japanese culture ranging from contemporary art and design through to samurai sword-fittings, netsuke, bamboo art, flower-arrangement bronzes, lacquer, and the art of the Meiji era.

Art Adventures (Morning Session)
2025-06-07 10:30 - 12:00
This event is sold-out. Please see the Ackland events calendar to explore other opportunities.

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 Radical Clay: Contemporary Women Artists from Japan.
Space is limited; registration required. Free for Ackland Members at the Household Level and above; $5 per child for all others.

Art Adventures (Afternoon Session)
2025-06-07 13:00 - 14:30

TOUR: A Closer Look at “Radical Clay”
2025-06-13 13:00 - 13:30, 2025-06-14 13:00 - 13:30, 2025-06-15 13:00 - 13:30, 2025-06-22 13:00 - 13:30, 2025-06-27 13:00 - 13:30, 2025-06-28 13:00 - 13:30
Join Ackland educators for a lively half-hour look at small handful of artworks in Radical Clay: Contemporary Women Artists from Japan. These engaging conversational tours offer a closer look at and new perspectives on works on view at the Museum. This is a free event; no registration required.

2nd Friday ArtWalk: Create Your Own "Radical" Clay Sculpture
2025-06-13 17:30 - 21:00
Spend a summer evening creating your own “radical” clay sculpture during this month’s 2nd Friday ArtWalk inspired by the Ackland’s new exhibition Radical Clay: Contemporary Women Artists from Japan.
Relax on the Ackland’s front Terrace during this drop-in experimental clay workshop led by local ceramic artist Betsy Vaden. The event is free, all ages, and all materials will be provided. The Museum will be open until 9 p.m. to see the exhibition and more.

Tour: A Closer Look at the Collection
2025-06-20 13:00 - 13:30, 2025-06-21 13:00 - 13:30
Join Ackland educators for a lively half-hour look at a small handful of artworks. These engaging conversational tours offer a closer look at and new perspectives on works on view at the Museum. This is a free event; no registration required.
