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Ackland F.A.M.: Food and Art
In late August, explore our F.A.M. (Families at the Museum) theme connecting food and art! Pick up a F.A.M. art kit to use at the Museum or at home, search for hidden food in works on view in the galleries, and be sure to check out Houseguests: American Art from the Art Bridges Collection Loan…
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Ackland Film Forum: Ang Lee, “Life of Pi” (2012, US)
Ackland Film Forum: Ang Lee, “Life of Pi” (2012, US)
Join us for the first film in the Ackland Film Forum's Fall 2022 series "Art and Artifice"! Ang Lee, Life Of Pi (2012, US) With a special introduction by Whitney Crothers Dilley, author of The Cinema of Ang Lee: The Other Side of the Screen. A wild and improbable tale of a sixteen-year-old boy, Pi…
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Ackland Film Forum: Andre DeToth, “House of Wax” (1953, US)
Ackland Film Forum: Andre DeToth, “House of Wax” (1953, US)
Andre DeToth, House Of Wax (1953, US) Although best known as one of the few films that successfully exploited the 3D fad of the 1950s, Andre DeToth’s film House of Wax begins as a sensitive portrait of a sculptor struggling to keep his small, dignified wax museum afloat. After experiencing what appears to be a…
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Student Member Soiree
Student Member Soiree
Ackland Student members are invited for a special evening at the Museum during extended hours! *Hear a live performance by UNC student jazz musicians *Take a student-guided tour of the galleries *Enjoy free appetizers and lemonade *Make your own buttons! The Ackland Student membership program is your community on campus to experience art with fellow…
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Art Adventures (Morning Session): Patterned Tapestries
Art Adventures (Morning Session): Patterned Tapestries
In this art-inspired, hands-on art-making class for six- to nine-year-olds, participants will create architectural ink drawings after observing selected works in our Ackland Upstairs installation with instructor Allison Tierney. Cost: $5; Free for Ackland Members at the Household Level and above. Register below. Each session limited to ten participants.
Drawing for Tweens
Drawing for Tweens
This program invites ten- to thirteen-year-olds to look at selected works in the Ackland’s collection and identify techniques that the artists used to make them. Gallery teacher Daniel Hammer demonstrates and teaches participants technical skills, which they can then apply to their own artistic creations. A mix of drawing from works on display and creating…
Art Adventures (Afternoon Session): Patterned Tapestries
Art Adventures (Afternoon Session): Patterned Tapestries
In this art-inspired, hands-on art-making class for six- to nine-year-olds, participants will create architectural ink drawings after observing selected works in our Ackland Upstairs installation with instructor Allison Tierney. Cost: $5; Free for Ackland Members at the Household Level and above. Register below. Each session limited to ten participants.
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Ackland Film Forum: Blake Edwards, “Victor/Victoria” (1982, US)
Ackland Film Forum: Blake Edwards, “Victor/Victoria” (1982, US)
Blake Edwards, Victor/Victoria (1982, US) One of the first mainstream Hollywood films to frankly discuss the complexity of gender and sexuality, Blake Edwards’s Victor/Victoria is a backstage musical that continually calls into question what it means to perform. Set in Paris in the 1930s, Julie Andrews plays the titular role, an actor and singer who…
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Ackland Film Forum: Charles Allen, “Sidewalk Stories” (1989, US)
Ackland Film Forum: Charles Allen, “Sidewalk Stories” (1989, US)
Charles Lane, Sidewalk Stories (1989, US) In this nearly silent homage to Charlie Chaplin’s The Kid (1921), Charles Lane directs and stars in a film about a street artist who unexpectedly becomes the caregiver of a toddler. Set on the streets of lower Manhattan, where Lane’s character is one of many unsheltered people struggling to get…
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Curators’ Introduction to “Drawn to Life”
Curators’ Introduction to “Drawn to Life”
Join Dana Cowen, Sheldon Peck Curator for European and American Art before 1950, and Robert Fucci, Peck Collection Research Fellow, for an introductory look at Drawn to Life: Master Drawings from the Age of Rembrandt in the Peck Collection at the Ackland Art Museum. Drawn to Life includes over seventy exceptional Dutch drawings from the…
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Ackland F.A.M.: Dutch Drawingfest
Ackland F.A.M.: Dutch Drawingfest
An all-ages celebration of drawing to mark the opening weekend of the Ackland's newest exhibition, Drawn to Life: Master Drawings from the Age of Rembrandt in the Peck Collection at the Ackland Art Museum. Events include: The Living Line: watch as animator Stella Rosalie Rosen, MFA '22, brings pieces from Drawn to Life into conversation…
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