Calendar of Events
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| 0 events, | 0 events, | 1 event, Virtual Event –  Virtual Event This spring, in collaboration with the Film Studies Programs in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at UNC-Chapel Hill, the Ackland Film Forum continues its all virtual series on Queer Cinema, now expanding to a selection of four international films for a look at Global Queer Cinema. View the selected films on your own… Free | 0 events, | 0 events, | 1 event, Virtual Event –  Virtual Event Join Ackland Graduate Intern Sarah Farkas and Object Based Teaching Fellow Erin Dickey for a guided look at artwork from opposite corners of the Ackland’s collection. See how unexpected pairings can lead to exciting new insights! We will be looking at Ken Price's The Squeeze and Eugène Emmanuel Viollet-Le-Duc's Ciborium. This program will be held virtually,… Free | 0 events, |
| 0 events, | 1 event, –  HANES VISITING ARTIST LECTURE Maria Gaspar, Hương Ngô (UNC BFA Alumna), and Anna Martine Whitehead “Sousveillance and How to Think Like a Forest” Register to attend here: https://go.unc.edu/o9CJk Registration will end at 5 pm on February 7. A zoom link will be emailed to registrants 24 hours in advance of the lecture. Sousveillance – watching… | 0 events, | 0 events, | 0 events, | 0 events, | 2 events, Virtual Event –  Virtual Event Join us as the Ackland takes our popular Art Adventures class online with instructor Allison Tierney! We will be making paper relief sculptures inspired by Gaston Chaissac's work on view in Object Lessons. As of January 27, the Ackland will be open to the public. Should your family feel comfortable viewing the piece in person,… Free – $5 Virtual Event – Virtual Event Join us as the Ackland takes our popular Art Adventures class online with instructor Allison Tierney! We will be making paper relief sculptures inspired by Gaston Chaissac's work on view in Object Lessons. As of January 27, the Ackland will be open to the public. Should your family feel comfortable viewing the piece in person,… Free – $5 |
| 0 events, | 0 events, | 0 events, | 1 event, Virtual Event –  Virtual Event Join the Ackland’s Object Based Teaching Fellow, Erin Dickey, for an informal conversation focused on one work of art from the Ackland’s new Close Looks digital feature. Plan to look closely and think collectively—and bring a drink of your choosing. On February 17, we'll look at acclaimed playwright Tennessee William's artwork, Midnite Show. Registration is… Free | 0 events, | 1 event, Virtual Event –  Virtual Event Join us for a free virtual conversation with Denise Murrell about her exhibition Posing Modernity: The Black Model from Manet and Matisse to Today, which was on view at the Wallach Art Gallery at Columbia University and the Musée d'Orsay, Paris, in 2018 and 2019. Murrell is a UNC alumna ('76) and she was recently… | 0 events, |
| 0 events, | 0 events, | 0 events, | 1 event, Virtual Event –  Virtual Event The Ackland Student Guides are taking their tours virtual! Head Guide Brett Harris (Senior; Urban Studies & Planning, European Studies) kicks off our series of virtual tours this week with a look at Hung Lui's Peaches (2002). On subsequent Wednesdays, join pairs of Ackland Student Guides for a quick close look at two objects in… Free | 0 events, | 0 events, | 0 events, |
| 1 event, –  Celebrate the Chinese Lunar New Year (celebrated on February 12, 2021) with a storytime, UNC-Chapel Hill's very own Flying Silk dance troupe, and a closer look at works on display at the Ackland! Each month, the Ackland hosts a free program for families, kids, and the young at heart featuring hands-on art activities, live performances,… | 0 events, | 0 events, | 1 event, Virtual Event –  Virtual Event Featuring Daniel Sherman (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 Sherman's classes "Art, War, and Revolution" and "Modernism II, The Arts in Europe"… Free | 0 events, | 0 events, | 0 events, |