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| 0 events, | 0 events, | 0 events, | 0 events, | 0 events, | 1 event, –  Are you ready to jumpstart an amazing new year? Looking for new inspiration in 2023? Join us for a campus arts fair and discover some of the creative organizations and activities at UNC! Meet new friends, learn how to become an Ackland member, and enjoy the galleries into the evening. The Ackland is open late, until 9 p.m., every second Friday… | 0 events, |
| 0 events, | 0 events, | 0 events, | 0 events, | 0 events, | 1 event, –  Join Deputy Director for Curatorial Affairs Peter Nisbet for a guided look at the Ackland Art Museum's newest exhibition Good Object / Bad Object (on view January 20 – April 2, 2023). Learn how these "misbehaving" objects flout expectations while continuing a lineage of contemporary sculpture that pushes back against traditional "object-on-a-pedestal" conventions. Artists in… Free | 1 event, –  Join us as we resume our popular Drawing in the Galleries program this month during Studio Saturday! Amanda Hughes leads participants in a creative exploration of a particular object in the Ackland’s collection. Participants all draw from one object using their own gallery-safe materials (paper/notebooks and dry media like crayons and pencils), then discuss what… |
| 0 events, | 0 events, | 2 events, –  Join us for the first screening in the Ackland Film Forum's Spring 2023 series "Do Something: Responding to Climate Change" presented by UNC Film Studies Program and the Ackland Art Museum. Beasts of the Southern Wild (Behn Zeitlin, 2012) Varsity Theatre, 123 E. Franklin Street | 7:30 p.m. (early screening) FREE TICKET REQUIRED (below) Introduction… Free – Join us for the first screening in the Ackland Film Forum's Spring 2023 series "Do Something: Responding to Climate Change" presented by UNC Film Studies Program and the Ackland Art Museum. Beasts of the Southern Wild (Behn Zeitlin, 2012) Varsity Theatre, 123 E. Franklin Street | 9:15 p.m. (late screening) FREE TICKET REQUIRED (below) Introduction… Free | 1 event, –  Participate in a 30-minute guided conversational tour as we look closely at works on view at the Ackland. On Wednesday afternoons, we'll look in-depth at a single work of art. Find the full schedule of tours and topics here. Register for a free ticket to the tour below. Free | 1 event, –  Participate in a 30-minute guided conversational tour as we look closely at works on view at the Ackland. On Thursday afternoons, we'll look at a handful of objects that are linked by one theme. Find the full schedule of tours and topics here. Register for a free ticket to the tour below. Free | 2 events, –  Participate in a 30-minute guided conversational tour as we look closely at works on view at the Ackland. On Friday afternoons, we'll look at a selection of our guide's favorite works on view. This Friday we will explore the special exhibition Good Object / Bad Object. Find the full schedule of tours and topics here.… Free – Join Deputy Director for Curatorial Affairs Peter Nisbet for a guided look at the Ackland Art Museum's newest exhibition Good Object / Bad Object (on view January 20 – April 2, 2023). Learn how these "misbehaving" objects flout expectations while continuing a lineage of contemporary sculpture that pushes back against traditional "object-on-a-pedestal" conventions. Artists in… Free | 0 events, |
| 0 events, | 0 events, | 0 events, | 1 event, – Participate in a 30-minute guided conversational tour as we look closely at works on view at the Ackland. On Wednesday afternoons, we'll look in-depth at a single work of art. Find the full schedule of tours and topics here. Register for a free ticket to the tour below. Free | 1 event, – Participate in a 30-minute guided conversational tour as we look closely at works on view at the Ackland. On Thursday afternoons, we'll look at a handful of objects that are linked by one theme. Today’s tour will include works in our current exhibition Good Object / Bad Object. Find the full schedule of tours and… Free | 2 events, –  ART-MAKING WORKSHOP This hands-on art-making workshop will be led by Boston-based artist Sheila Gallagher. Gallagher will lead participants in a collective hands-on art-making project that uses some of the processes of her plastic landscape paintings like her work Plastic Lila (right), which is currently on view at the Ackland. We'll create pieces of a plastic… – Participate in a 30-minute guided conversational tour as we look closely at works on view at the Ackland. On Friday afternoons, we’ll look at a selection of our guide’s favorite works on view. Find the full schedule of tours and topics here. Register for a free ticket to the tour below. Free | 0 events, |