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| 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, |
| 0 events, | 0 events, | 1 event, –  Join us for the second 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. Short Films by Ghost of a Dream and More Varsity Theatre, 123 E. Franklin Street | 7:30 p.m. Free Tickets at the Varsity Theatre… | 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 | 3 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. Today's tour will include works in our current exhibition Good Object / Bad Object. Find the full schedule of tours and topics… Free –  Join us for this month's 2nd Friday ArtWalk evening hours as we explore two new exhibitions at the Ackland: Good Object / Bad Object and Laurel Nakadate: Ten Performances from 365 Days: A Catalogue of Tears. The evening will feature: - the debut of a three-day sound installation by Lee Weisert, Both Man and Beast…  Experience a three day sound installation by composer and UNC composition professor Lee Weisert. Weisert's Both Man and Beast and the Creeping Thing will be on view in the Ackland's ART& space February 10-12, 2023 in connection with Good Object / Bad Object. In this new exhibition, the Ackland examines how contemporary sculpture might employ unexpected placement, language, reflectivity, accumulation, and other strategies… | 1 event, Experience a three day sound installation by composer and UNC composition professor Lee Weisert. Weisert's Both Man and Beast and the Creeping Thing will be on view in the Ackland's ART& space February 10-12, 2023 in connection with Good Object / Bad Object. In this new exhibition, the Ackland examines how contemporary sculpture might employ unexpected placement, language, reflectivity, accumulation, and other strategies… |
| 1 event, Experience a three day sound installation by composer and UNC composition professor Lee Weisert. Weisert's Both Man and Beast and the Creeping Thing will be on view in the Ackland's ART& space February 10-12, 2023 in connection with Good Object / Bad Object. In this new exhibition, the Ackland examines how contemporary sculpture might employ unexpected placement, language, reflectivity, accumulation, and other strategies… | 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 | 2 events, – 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 –  Join the Carolina Asia Center and the UNC Department of Communication for a screening of the feature-length documentary Pushed Up the Mountain, directed by UNC’s own Prof. Julia Haslett. Pushed Up the Mountain (Julia Haslett, 2020) FedEx Global Education Center, UNC-Chapel Hill | 5:45 p.m. Free, no tickets required. Doors open at 5:30pm, with the… | 1 event, – 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, |
| 0 events, | 0 events, | 1 event, –  Join us for the next screening in the Ackland Film Forum's Spring 2023 series Do Something: Responding to Climate Change presented by UNC Film Studies and the Ackland Art Museum. Woman at War/Kona fer í stríð (Benedikt Erlingsson, 2018) Varsity Theatre, 123 E. Franklin Street | 7:30 p.m. Free Tickets at the Varsity Theatre Introduction… | 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 | 1 event, – 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. Today's tour will include works in our current exhibition Good Object / Bad Object. Find the full schedule of tours and topics… 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 | 2 events, – 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. Register for a free ticket to the… Free –  Join us for an unconventional artist talk with Boston-based multimedia artist Elizabeth Alexander. Alexander, whose work Spit Cake (2014) is on view at the Ackland as part of the Art Bridges Collection Loan Partnership, will talk about her work as she demonstrates the various techniques used to create her delicate cut-porcelain sculptures. Audience members will… Free | 1 event, – 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 | 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… |