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Join Erin Dickey, Ackland Graduate Teaching Fellow, for an informal conversation about the Guerrilla Girls's 10 Trashy Ideas about the Environment, a work featured in the Ackland’s Close Looks project. Plan to look closely and think collectively. Registration is limited. Sign up for free tickets to this in-person program below. -- All visitors to the…
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This program is now SOLD OUT. To be added to a waitlist, please email acklandRSVP@unc.edu. Thank you! -- Join us in reading (or rereading!) Italo Calvino’s 1972 classic novel Invisible Cities, which features a fictional Marco Polo describing fascinating vignettes of his travels to an aged Kublai Khan. After you’ve read it, spend time exploring…
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Inspired by our Drawing in the Galleries program and the amazing variety of drawings on view in the Ackland's current exhibition Drawing Attention, Draw & Discuss offers the chance to experience the comradery and creativity of Drawing in the Galleries at a time when gathering in large groups isn't possible. Both longtime Drawing in the…
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Visit the Ackland's art-making station as we welcome Carolina students back to campus alongside Arts Everywhere! Stop by our table on Thursday, September 16 or Friday, September 17 from 11 a.m. - 1 p.m. at the Davis Library Courtyard. Pick up materials to make origami shapes inspired by our upcoming exhibition, Buddha and Shiva, Lotus… |
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Join us for a virtual conversation between artist Christopher Myers and the Ackland's Lauren Turner, assistant curator for the collection. Myers's work Fish Pieta (2020)(seen at right) is a new acquisition in the Museum's permanent collection and is featured in the 2021-2022 Close Looks series. In this free Zoom webinar, we'll hear from Myers about…
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Visit the Ackland's art-making station as we welcome Carolina students back to campus alongside Arts Everywhere! Stop by our table on Thursday, September 16 or Friday, September 17 from 11 a.m. - 1 p.m. at the Davis Library Courtyard. Pick up materials to make origami shapes inspired by our upcoming exhibition, Buddha and Shiva, Lotus… |
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Across his three feature films to date (Medicine for Melancholy, Moonlight, and If Beale Street Could Talk), Barry Jenkins has devised a new cinematic vocabulary for the portrayal of Black experience in the United States. With sumptuous imagery and hypnotic soundscapes, Jenkins has embraced aesthetic beauty as a strategy for addressing the past and present…
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Kick off the autumn season at the Ackland! Explore the art of lettering throughout history, complete an A-to-Z scavenger hunt, and design your very own alphabet book inspired by art. Self-guided activities will be on hand at the museum and online components will be added to ackland.org for virtual visitors. Free Family Art Kits Pick… |
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Across his three feature films to date (Medicine for Melancholy, Moonlight, and If Beale Street Could Talk), Barry Jenkins has devised a new cinematic vocabulary for the portrayal of Black experience in the United States. With sumptuous imagery and hypnotic soundscapes, Jenkins has embraced aesthetic beauty as a strategy for addressing the past and present…
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