Ackland Events

Guided Tour: Explore the Ackland's Collection
2019-10-31 13:30 - 14:00, 2019-10-27 13:30 - 14:00, 2019-10-26 13:30 - 14:00, 2019-10-24 13:30 - 14:00, 2019-10-23 13:30 - 14:00, 2019-10-20 13:30 - 14:00, 2019-10-19 13:30 - 14:00, 2019-10-13 13:30 - 14:00 (America/New_York) | 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.

Guided Tour: She Who Tells a Story
2019-10-30 13:30 - 14:00, 2019-10-25 13:30 - 14:00 | Ackland Art Museum, 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States
Tour: She Who Tells a Story
Meet in the lobby for a 30-minute, guided tour of the She Who Tells a Story exhibition
Free. No reservation needed.

Image credit: Gohar Dashti (b. 1980). Untitled #5. From the series Today’s Life and War, 2008. Pigment print. Courtesy of the artist, Azita Bina and Robert Klein Gallery, Boston. Used with artist’s permission.

Art for Lunch: What is "African" about "African Art"?
2019-10-30 12:20 - 13:20 | Ackland Art Museum, 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States
Wednesday, 30 October 2019 | 12:20 PM

Art for Lunch: What is “African” about “African Art”?

Featuring Amanda Maples (UNC Art History; NCMA) and Elizabeth Manekin (Ackland Head of University Programs and Academic Projects)
Join us for an interview-style talk with the Ackland’s Elizabeth Manekin and the NCMA’s Curator of African Art and UNC Art History professor Amanda Maples to hear how her class, “African Art Survey,” uses objects in the Ackland’s collection. Bring a bag lunch–and questions of your own–for this lively, conversational program.
Free, RSVP below.

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Ackland Film Forum: The Blessed
2019-10-29 19:00 - 21:00 | Varsity Theatre, 123 E. Franklin Street, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States
Ackland Film Forum: Recent Films by Arab Women Filmmakers
Tuesdays, Oct 29, Nov 5, Nov 12, Nov 19 | 7 PM at the Varsity Theatre

October 29, 2019: The Blessed
Dir. Sofia Djama, Qatar, 2017

SYNOPSIS
Algiers, a few years after the civil war. Amal and Samir have decided to celebrate their twentieth wedding anniversary in a restaurant. While on their way, their share their views on Algeria: Amal tells about lost illusions and Samir about the necessity to cope with them. At the same time, their son Fahim and his friends Feriel and Reda are wandering about in a hostile Algiers about to steal their youth.
TICKETS
$7; Free with UNC One Card
Tickets available at the Varsity Theatre, 123 E. Franklin St.

ABOUT THE SERIES
The Ackland Film Forum’s Fall 2019 series Recent Films by Arab Women Filmmakers is organized by the UNC Department of Asian Studies, the UNC Global Cinema Studies program in the Department of English and Comparative Literature, and the Ackland Art Museum. The series is presented in connection with the Ackland’s current exhibition She Who Tells a Story: Women Photographers from Iran and the Arab World (on view through December 1, 2019). The exhibition was organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Family and Friends Sunday: She Who Tells a Story
2019-10-27 08:00 - 17:00 | Ackland Art Museum, 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States
Family and Friends Sunday
Sunday, 27 October 2019 | 2-5 PM
Join us as we explore the Ackland’’s traveling exhibition, She Who Tells a Story.

Enjoy exploring the art on view with a themed scavenger hunt
Find hands-on art-making activities for all ages
Learn more about the country of Jordan with a Carolina Navigators Culture Kit
Visit the UNC Persian Cultural Society in the lobby!

Free and open to the public.
Exhibition organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Image credit: Gohar Dashti (b. 1980). Untitled #5. From the series Today’s Life and War, 2008. Pigment print. Courtesy of the artist, Azita Bina and Robert Klein Gallery, Boston. Used with artist’s permission.

Music in the Galleries: Mozart on the Moon/Astronauts at the Ackland: UNC Opera Preview Performances
2019-10-26 14:00 - 16:00 | Ackland Art Museum, 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States
Mozart on the Moon/Astronauts at the Ackland: UNC Opera Preview Performances
Saturdays, Oct 26 and Nov 2 | 2-4 PM
Free and open to the public; no RSVP needed

Join us for a pair of lively open rehearsals/preview performances featuring the cast of UNC Opera as they prepare for the premiere of their retro-futuristic, outer-space adaptation of Mozart’s Il Sogno di Scipio (Scipio’s Dream; Nov 16 & 17, 2019). The curtain will be pulled back for Ackland audiences to see how UNC Opera has combined Mozart’s music with experimental set, prop, and choreographic design in this Ackland Course Grant-winning production.

For more information about UNC Opera’s Il Sogna di Scipio, click here: https://music.unc.edu/event/unc-opera-scipios-dream/

From Personal to Universal: Photographs by Rania Matar
2019-10-23 19:00 - 20:00 | Ackland Art Museum, 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States
Wednesday, 10/23/19 | 7 PM
From Personal to Universal
Photographs by Rania Matar
As a Lebanese-born American woman and mother, she has dedicated her artistic practice to exploring both sides of her cultural background, cross-cultural experience, and personal narrative, in addressing issues of personal and collective identity, through photographing girls and women both in the United States where she lives and in the Middle East where she is from.
Throughout her work, and by making intimate portraits of girls and women, she seeks to focus on our essence, our physicality, and on the commonalities that make us human, to emphasize underlying similarities rather than apparent differences. Her photographs reveal the beauty in our shared humanity – in the universal as well as personal experience of women encountering the challenges of growing up regardless of background, culture, and religion.
Matar was a recipient of the 2018 Guggenheim Fellowship.
Image credit: Dominic Chavez
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Free and open to the public
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Tai Chi in the Galleries
2019-10-21 13:10 - 14:00, 2019-10-14 13:10 - 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 1:10-2:00 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 Sept – December 2019 classes:
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Yoga in the Galleries
2019-10-21 12:00 - 13:00, 2019-10-14 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 Sept – Dec 2019 Classes:
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Curator Led Tour: All the Rembrandt Drawings!
2019-10-20 14:30 - 15:00 | Ackland Art Museum, 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States
Tour: All the Rembrandt Drawings!

Meet in the lobby for a 30-minute, guided tour of the Ackland Art Museum’s special presentation led by Dana Cowen, Sheldon Peck Curator for European and American Art before 1950.
First come, first served; space limited to 15 visitors per tour.*

* Community groups may request a free, private, guided tour of All the Rembrandt Drawings! (or any Ackland exhibition) by visiting https://ackland.org/education/request-a-tour/

Rembrandt van Rijn, Dutch, 1606-1669, Studies of a woman and two children, c. 1640, pen and brown ink, 5 3/8 × 5 3/16 in. (13.6 × 13.2 cm). Ackland Art Museum, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The Peck Collection, 2017.1.64.

Art Adventures - Oct. Late PM Session
2019-10-19 15:00 - 16:30 | Ackland Art Museum, 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States
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.

Free for Members, $5 for non-members. Space is limited.
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Drawing for Tweens - October PM Session
2019-10-19 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 - October PM Session
2019-10-19 13:00 - 14:30 | Ackland Art Museum, 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States

Drawing for Tweens - October AM Session
2019-10-19 10:30 - 12:00 | Ackland Art Museum, 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States

Art Adventures - Oct. AM Session
2019-10-19 10:30 - 12:00 | Ackland Art Museum, 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States
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.
October’s project will be making layered abstract paintings, inspired by James Brooks’s piece Bozrah.

Free for Members, $5 for non-members. Space is limited.
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Drawing in the Galleries
2019-10-19 10:00 - 12:00 | Ackland Art Museum, 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States
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.

Guided Tour: All the Rembrandt Drawings!
2019-10-18 13:30 - 14:00, 2019-10-17 13:30 - 14:00 | Ackland Art Museum, 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States
Tour: All the Rembrandt Drawings!

Meet in the lobby for a 30-minute, guided tour of the Ackland Art Museum’s special presentation.
First come, first served; space limited to 15 visitors per tour.*
A second tour will be offered at 2:00 PM in the event that the 1:30 tour is full.
* Community groups may request a free, private, guided tour of All the Rembrandt Drawings (or any Ackland exhibition) by visiting https://ackland.org/education/request-a-tour/

Rembrandt van Rijn, Dutch, 1606-1669, Studies of a woman and two children, c. 1640, pen and brown ink, 5 3/8 × 5 3/16 in. (13.6 × 13.2 cm). Ackland Art Museum, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The Peck Collection, 2017.1.64.

Guided Tour: All the Rembrandt Drawings!
2019-10-16 13:30 - 14:00 | Ackland Art Museum, 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States
Tour: All the Rembrandts!

Meet in the lobby for a 30-minute, guided tour of the Ackland Art Museum’s special presentation.
First come, first served; space limited to 15 visitors per tour.*
A second tour will be offered at 2:00 PM in the event that the 1:30 tour is full.
* Community groups may request a free, private, guided tour of All the Rembrandt Drawings (or any Ackland exhibition) by visiting https://ackland.org/education/request-a-tour/

Rembrandt van Rijn, Dutch, 1606-1669, Studies of a woman and two children, c. 1640, pen and brown ink, 5 3/8 × 5 3/16 in. (13.6 × 13.2 cm). Ackland Art Museum, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The Peck Collection, 2017.1.64.

Guided Tour: All the Rembrandt Drawings!
2019-10-13 14:30 - 15:00 | Ackland Art Museum, 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States
Tour: All the Rembrandt Drawings!

Meet in the lobby for a 30-minute, guided tour of the Ackland Art Museum’s special presentation.
First come, first served; space limited to 15 visitors per tour.*

* Community groups may request a free, private, guided tour of All the Rembrandt Drawings (or any Ackland exhibition) by visiting https://ackland.org/education/request-a-tour/

Rembrandt van Rijn, Dutch, 1606-1669, Studies of a woman and two children, c. 1640, pen and brown ink, 5 3/8 × 5 3/16 in. (13.6 × 13.2 cm). Ackland Art Museum, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The Peck Collection, 2017.1.64.
