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Guided Tour: Explore the Ackland’s Collection
Guided Tour: Explore the Ackland’s Collection
Join us for a half-hour close look at two objects on one theme from the Ackland's collection with an Ackland Student Guide! Jack Brownlee '22 leads participants in a tour entitled “Birds of a Feather: Animals Across Cultures” with Still Life with Hunting Trophies by Jan Weenix and Ntan Drum by Osei Bonsu. Free, no registration needed.
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Guided Tour: Ackland Collection and Modern Black Culture: The Art of Aaron Douglas
Guided Tour: Ackland Collection and Modern Black Culture: The Art of Aaron Douglas
Meet in the lobby for a 30-minute, guided tour of the Ackland Art Museum’s collection and our special exhibition Modern Black Culture: The Art of Aaron Douglas. Advance registration required; space is limited. The Ackland Art Museum is operating under the guidelines of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. As of March 7,…
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Guided Tour: Modern Black Culture: The Art of Aaron Douglas
Guided Tour: Modern Black Culture: The Art of Aaron Douglas
Meet in the lobby for a 30-minute, guided tour exploring highlights of our current special exhibition Modern Black Culture: The Art of Aaron Douglas. Advance registration required; space is limited. The Ackland Art Museum is operating under the guidelines of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. As of March 7, 2022, masks are…
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CANCELED: Guided Tour: Explore the Ackland’s Collection
CANCELED: Guided Tour: Explore the Ackland’s Collection
Please note this tour has been CANCELED. The Museum will remain open for normal hours (1-5 p.m.) on Sunday, May 8! -- Join us for a half-hour close look at two objects on one theme from the Ackland's collection with an Ackland Student Guide! Tessa McGuire '23 will guide participants in looking at Eugene Delacroix's…
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Annual Spring Luncheon
Annual Spring Luncheon
11:00 a.m. Social Hour 12:00 p.m. Lunch We are thrilled to announce that our Annual Luncheon guest speaker will Suzanne Brennan Firstenberg. Firstenberg '83 (MBA) is the social practice artist who created In America: Remember, an art installation of over 700,000 white flags on the National Mall in September 2021 to honor the lives lost to Covid-19. Her…
Guided Tour: Modern Black Culture: The Art of Aaron Douglas
Guided Tour: Modern Black Culture: The Art of Aaron Douglas
Meet in the lobby for a 30-minute, guided tour exploring highlights of our current special exhibition Modern Black Culture: The Art of Aaron Douglas. Advance registration required; space is limited. The Ackland Art Museum is operating under the guidelines of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. As of March 7, 2022, masks are…
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Guided Tour: Ackland Collection and Modern Black Culture: The Art of Aaron Douglas
Guided Tour: Ackland Collection and Modern Black Culture: The Art of Aaron Douglas
Meet in the lobby for a 30-minute, guided tour of the Ackland Art Museum’s collection and our special exhibition Modern Black Culture: The Art of Aaron Douglas. Advance registration required; space is limited. The Ackland Art Museum is operating under the guidelines of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. As of March 7,…
Drop-In Printmaking Workshop with Raj Bunnag
Drop-In Printmaking Workshop with Raj Bunnag
Drop-In Printmaking Workshop with Raj Bunnag 6-7:30 p.m. Join Raj Bunnag, 2022 MFA candidate whose work is featured in Myth & Memory: Selected Works by the MFA Class of 2022, for a special hands-on printmaking workshop during the 2nd Friday ArtWalk! In this drop-in workshop, visitors will be able to make their own tiny stamps…
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Drawing for Tweens (AM Session) – May
Drawing for Tweens (AM Session) – May
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…
Art Adventures A.M. Session: Myth & Memory
Art Adventures A.M. Session: Myth & Memory
Join us as the Ackland resumes our popular Art Adventures class in person with instructor Allison Tierney! We will be inspired by Phượng Duyên Hải Nguyễn's Nowhen (2022). 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…
Art Adventures P.M. Session: Myth & Memory
Art Adventures P.M. Session: Myth & Memory
Join us as the Ackland resumes our popular Art Adventures class in person with instructor Allison Tierney! We will be inspired by Phượng Duyên Hải Nguyễn's Nowhen (2022). 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…
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Guided Tour: Ackland Collection and Modern Black Culture: The Art of Aaron Douglas
Guided Tour: Ackland Collection and Modern Black Culture: The Art of Aaron Douglas
Meet in the lobby for a 30-minute, guided tour of the Ackland Art Museum’s collection and our special exhibition Modern Black Culture: The Art of Aaron Douglas. Advance registration required; space is limited. The Ackland Art Museum is operating under the guidelines of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. As of March 7,…
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Guided Tour: Modern Black Culture: The Art of Aaron Douglas
Guided Tour: Modern Black Culture: The Art of Aaron Douglas
Meet in the lobby for a 30-minute, guided tour exploring highlights of our current special exhibition Modern Black Culture: The Art of Aaron Douglas. Advance registration required; space is limited. The Ackland Art Museum is operating under the guidelines of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. As of March 7, 2022, masks are…
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“African American Trailblazers” Mural Walk
“African American Trailblazers” Mural Walk
This program is now FULL. To be added to a waitlist, please email acklandRSVP@unc.edu -- Hear from artist Kiara Sanders about her new mural African American Trailblazers, which was inspired by the work of Aaron Douglas. We’ll meet at the Ackland to see Modern Black Culture: The Art of Aaron Douglas then embark on our…
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Guided Tour: Modern Black Culture: The Art of Aaron Douglas
Guided Tour: Modern Black Culture: The Art of Aaron Douglas
Meet in the lobby for a 30-minute, guided tour exploring highlights of our current special exhibition Modern Black Culture: The Art of Aaron Douglas. Advance registration required; space is limited. The Ackland Art Museum is operating under the guidelines of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. As of March 7, 2022, masks are…
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Guided Tour: Ackland Collection and Modern Black Culture: The Art of Aaron Douglas
Guided Tour: Ackland Collection and Modern Black Culture: The Art of Aaron Douglas
Meet in the lobby for a 30-minute, guided tour of the Ackland Art Museum’s collection and our special exhibition Modern Black Culture: The Art of Aaron Douglas. Advance registration required; space is limited. The Ackland Art Museum is operating under the guidelines of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. As of March 7,…
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Guided Tour: Ackland Collection and Modern Black Culture: The Art of Aaron Douglas
Guided Tour: Ackland Collection and Modern Black Culture: The Art of Aaron Douglas
Meet in the lobby for a 30-minute, guided tour of the Ackland Art Museum’s collection and our special exhibition Modern Black Culture: The Art of Aaron Douglas. Advance registration required; space is limited. The Ackland Art Museum is operating under the guidelines of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. As of March 7,…
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Guided Tour: Modern Black Culture: The Art of Aaron Douglas
Guided Tour: Modern Black Culture: The Art of Aaron Douglas
Meet in the lobby for a 30-minute, guided tour exploring highlights of our current special exhibition Modern Black Culture: The Art of Aaron Douglas. Advance registration required; space is limited. The Ackland Art Museum is operating under the guidelines of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. As of March 7, 2022, masks are…
Friday Performance: “God’s Trombones”
Friday Performance: “God’s Trombones”
Performance: God’s Trombones June 3, 2022 | 8:00 p.m. Hayti Heritage Center, Durham, NC Buy tickets through Eventbrite! Experience a performance of God’s Trombones, a multimedia work featuring songs, sermons, and the art of Aaron Douglas. This production by OnQ Performing Arts (Charlotte, NC) uses the text of James Weldon Johnson’s 1927 work God’s Trombones:…
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Saturday Performance: “God’s Trombones”
Saturday Performance: “God’s Trombones”
Performance: God’s Trombones June 4, 2022 | 3:00 p.m. Hayti Heritage Center, Durham, NC Purchase tickets on Eventbrite now! Experience a performance of God’s Trombones, a multimedia work featuring songs, sermons, and the art of Aaron Douglas. This production by OnQ Performing Arts (Charlotte, NC) uses the text of James Weldon Johnson’s 1927 work God’s…
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