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SUMMARY:2nd Friday ArtWalk: She Who Tells a Story
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, 11/8/19|She Who Tells a Story: Intersections Between Art\, Identity\, and Mental Health \n5:30 PM – 6:30 PM \nFree; no registration required. \nJoin Stigma Free Carolina at the Ackland Art Museum as they explore the intersections of migration\, cultural identity\, and mental health as it relates to the Ackland’s exhibition She Who Tells a Story.  \nPanelists include: \n\nBanu Gökarıksel\, UNC Department of Geography\nMinoo Emami\, UNC Department of Studio Art\nKeely Muscatell\, UNC Department of Psychology & Neuroscience\n\n  \nPhoto Books Pop-Up: Rare and Special Photo Books from the Sloane Art Library Collection \n6:00 PM – 8:00 PM \nPeek at photo books from our neighbors at the Sloane Art Library in our lobby! \nPresented in connection with She Who Tells a Story: Women Photographers from Iran and the Arab World \nFriday\, 11/8/19 |Artist Talk: Mikael Owunna\n \n7:00 – 9:00 PM \n\nReimagining the Black and Queer Body: A Conversation with Photographer Mikael Owunna \n \nThe Ackland Art Museum is also pleased to welcome artist Mikael Owunna to the museum for a conversation with NCMA curator Amanda Maples from 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm. Click here to learn more and RSVP! \n  \n  \n  \nImage 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. \nImage credit: Courtesy of the artist \n\n2nd Friday ArtWalk at the Ackland\nEvery 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.
URL:https://events.ackland.org/event/2nd-friday-artwalk/
LOCATION:Ackland Art Museum\, 101 S. Columbia Street\, Chapel Hill\, NC\, 27514\, United States
CATEGORIES:2nd Friday ArtWalk
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SUMMARY:Reimagining the Black and Queer Body: A Conversation with Photographer Mikael Owunna
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, 11/8/19 | 7:00 – 9:00 PM \n\n\n\nReimagining the Black and Queer Body: A Conversation with Photographer Mikael Owunna \nFree\, RSVP requested. \nLight refreshments will be served. \nGrowing 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 years of severe alienation from his Nigerian heritage and a series of exorcisms\, he found photography as his voice and his method for healing\, leading him to where he is today. \nHis most recent project\, Limit(less)\, seeks to reclaim his African-ness and queerness on his own terms. Limit(less) is an award-winning documentary photography project on LGBTQ African immigrants in North America and Europe. Framing the work as a quest to debunk the myth that it is “un-African” to be LGBTQ\, in the process Owunna found that there are no safe spaces anywhere for LGBTQ Africans – even in the “liberal” West. As Owunna states\, “This body of work is a collaborative response between me and my community to redefine what it means to be an immigrant\, African and queer in North America and Europe at this time. To confront\, with our self-love and stories\, the oppressive narratives that say we should not exist. We are Limitless.” \nOwunna’s work extends to the love and acceptance of one’s body. His other projects\, especially Infinite Essence in which he paints the models with fluorescent paints\, illuminate the black body as not ‘dead or dying/gunned down’ but as something beautiful and eternal—to be loved and embraced by its owner. Owunna’s work coaches self-love\, dignity\, and self-respect\, despite sexuality\, color\, or nationality. \nThe event organizer is Amanda Maples\, Curator of African Art at the NCMA and Visiting Professor in the Department of Art & Art History. She will be introducing Mikael Owunna and leading the conversation. \nThe Provost’s Committee on LGBTQ Life\, the African Studies Center\, the Student Affairs LGBTQ Center\, and Arts Everywhere invite the UNC community to join LGBTQ photographer Mikael Owunna at the Ackland Art Museum as he discusses his personal experiences of growing up queer in Nigeria\, and how this has informed his subsequent global artistic practice. \nRSVP Here: \nOops! We could not locate your form. \n\nMikael Chukwuma Owunna\nMikael Chukwuma Owunna (b. 1990) is an award-winning queer Nigerian-Swedish artist\, photographer\, Fulbright Scholar and engineer born and raised in Pittsburgh\, Pennsylvania. Mikael has dual degrees in Biomedical Engineering and History (Duke University ’12)\, where he graduated with distinction in engineering and a full merit scholarship. Mikael’s Fulbright scholarship took place in Taiwan (2012-13) where he taught photography to Taiwanese aboriginal youth as a space for cultural empowerment with Prof. Christine Yeh of USF\, ultimately culminating in a full floor exhibition of the students’ works at the National Taiwan Museum (2014). \nMikael’s work centers around identity while bending the photograph with his engineering and multidisciplinary background. His projects: I am Atayal!\, Limit(less) and Infinite Essence – have collectively exhibited across Asia\, Europe and North America and been featured in media ranging from the New York Times\, CNN\, NPR\, PBS\, The British Journal of Photography\, BuzzFeed\, VICE\, Al-Jazeera Plus\, Photo District News and Teen Vogue to the official outlet of Taiwan’s Ministry of Culture. Mikael has been awarded with selections for Photolucida’s Critical Mass Top 50\, the FotoEvidence Book Award with World Press Photo (finalist)\, the New York Times Portfolio Review\, the Magenta Foundation Flash Forward Awards and juried selection for Review Santa Fe. He has spoken and lectured about his work at venues including World Press Photo (Netherlands)\, Harvard Law School\, Columbia Law School\, Duke University\, the Paris Institute of Political Studies (France) and Sveriges Radio (Sweden). Mikael speaks English (fluent)\, French (advanced professional-proficiency) and basic Mandarin Chinese. His work imagines new universes and realities for marginalized communities around the globe. \nMikael’s work has been supported by The Heinz Endowments\, The Pittsburgh Foundation\, The Fine Foundation\, The Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council and The Opportunity Fund. \n\n\n2nd Friday ArtWalk at the Ackland\nEvery 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.
URL:https://events.ackland.org/event/mikael-owunna/
LOCATION:Ackland Art Museum\, 101 S. Columbia Street\, Chapel Hill\, NC\, 27514\, United States
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SUMMARY:SOLD OUT A Day with Jonah Bokaer Choreography
DESCRIPTION:16 Nov 2019 |10 a.m. – 5 p.m.\nA Day with Jonah Bokaer Choreography\nFree\, RSVP requested for performance of Odalisques. \nExperience the Ackland Art Museum’s current exhibition She Who Tells a Story: Women Photographers from Iran and the Arab World through the lens of world-renowned choreographer\, dancer\, and Carolina Performing Arts/Mellon Foundation Discovery through Iterative Learning (DisTIL) fellow Jonah Bokaer. The day will feature both a durational work in the galleries choreographed by Bokaer and a performance choreographed and danced by the artist. These events are hosted in partnership with Carolina Performing Arts as part of Bokaer’s DisTIL residency: \n \nJehan Sadat in Three Dimensions\n*New Commission*\nDurational Performance (Trio)\, 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. \nDancers of Jonah Bokaer Choreography perform a new trio inside the exhibition She Who Tells a Story \n        Costume Design | Special Collaboration: Austin Scarlett \nOdalisques\nSolo by Jonah Bokaer\, 4 p.m. \nChoreographed and performed by Jonah Bokaer in the Ackland’s ART& space. Seating is limited; RSVP below. \nThe 4:00 pm solo is sold out. Please email acklandrsvp@unc.edu to be placed on a wait list. \nBokaer’s choreographic work — often performed in museums and/or in response to visual art — frequently draws on his Middle Eastern and American heritage to explore ideas of orientalism in the art world. Inspired by the photography of She Who Tells a Story\, Bokaer has organized a day of live choreography in the galleries that allows visitors to examine similar themes in the Ackland’s exhibition\, offering an immersive art-viewing and performance experience. \nThis program has been made possible by the generous support of Austin Scarlett and Smith Freeman. It has also been funded in part by a grant from Arts Everywhere. \n \nRSVP Below! \n\nABOUT THE ARTIST \nJonah Bokaer has cultivated a new form of Choreography merged with Visual Art & Design. American and Middle Eastern\, he is among the most widely distributed artists to have emerged since the post-modern era. Jonah Bokaer Choreography has authored 63 original works\, produced in 34 nations\, 27 of the United States\, and 292 cities – including 41 Museum Exhibitions worldwide. Bokaer is currently an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation DisTIL Fellow at Carolina Performing Arts (2018-2020). More info at https://jonahbokaer.net/. \nIMAGE: Arabesque (2019)\, Photography\, Digital Software\, Graphite\, Ink\, and Acrylic © Jonah Bokaer \n\nOops! We could not locate your form.
URL:https://events.ackland.org/event/jonah-bokaer/
LOCATION:Ackland Art Museum\, 101 S. Columbia Street\, Chapel Hill\, NC\, 27514\, United States
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