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| 0 events, | 0 events, | 0 events, | 0 events, | 0 events, | 2 events,  Carolyn Allmendinger (Director of Education and Interpretation, Ackland Art Museum) and Max Owre (Carolina Public Humanities Executive Director and French History scholar) will tour Reform to Restoration with attendees, highlighting select pieces from their different professional points of view. There will be insights, tidbits, and possible (friendly) debate. Space is limited; free ticket required. ABOUT… Free –  Curious about what your campus art museum offers? Join the Ackland for an evening highlighting the ways students at UNC-Chapel Hill can get involved at the Museum. The Ackland will be open until 9 p.m. for tonight's 2nd Friday ArtWalk. With information on the various resources available to students at the Ackland, an opportunity to… | 0 events, |
| 0 events, | 0 events, | 1 event,  Thelma & Louise Dir. Ridley Scott, 1991 Introduced by Kino Corner This gorgeously shot film is a rarity in Hollywood: a written-by-a-woman (Callie Khouri) action thriller/road movie with richly drawn female bonding at its center. Controversial in its day for its sensational depiction of violence, Thelma & Louise has become a cult classic with a… | 0 events, | 0 events, | 2 events, Please reserve your space at the event here. The symposium will be held in-person at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on Friday, September 15th at 5:30 - 7:30 PM and Saturday, September 16th from 9:00 AM- 4:00 PM. Presentations will be followed by a Q&A session and are open to a general… –  Join Ackland educators for a lively half-hour look at two works of art. These engaging conversational tours offer a closer look at and new perspectives on works on view in Reform to Restoration: French Drawings from Louis XVI to Louis XVIII (1770-1830). Free. No ticket needed! | 5 events, –  Join us for 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 they’ve noticed… –  In this art-inspired, hands-on art-making class for six- to nine-year-olds, participants will create their own masterpieces inspired by works of art at the Ackland. Classes are led by instructor Allison Tierney. Cost: $5; Free for Ackland Members at the Household Level and above. Register below. Each session limited to ten participants. Free – $5 –  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… Free – $5 |
| 2 events, –  Join Ackland educators for a lively half-hour look at two works of art. These engaging conversational tours offer a closer look at and new perspectives on works on view from the Ackland's collection.  This event is now SOLD OUT. To be added to a waitlist, please email acklandRSVP@unc.edu. Join members of the UNC Baroque Ensemble, under the direction of Brent Wissick, for an intimate art-inspired concert of French classical music by Joseph Boulogne, also known as the Chevalier de Saint-Georges. A tour for concert-goers led by Dana Cowen,… Free | 0 events, | 0 events, | 1 event, –  Internationally renowned artist Amalia Pica comes to Chapel Hill to celebrate the completion of a large-scale mixed media art installation, Drawn to Explain, on the exterior of Craige Parking Deck on the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's campus. The work uses powder-coated aluminum elements and paint on concrete to reflect diagrams from different… | 1 event, –  Join us for an artist talk with Amalia Pica, internationally renowned London-based Argentinian artist whose major commissioned installation Drawn to Explain has just been completed at the Craige Parking Deck on UNC's campus. Pica will discuss how this very large-scale, multifaceted work fits within her broader body of work, which often explores systems of communication… Free | 1 event, – Join Ackland educators for a lively half-hour look at two works of art. These engaging conversational tours offer a closer look at and new perspectives on works on view in Reform to Restoration: French Drawings from Louis XVI to Louis XVIII (1770-1830). Free. No ticket needed! | 0 events, |
| 1 event, –  Drawing activities for the whole family inspired by the Ackland’s current exhibition Reform to Restoration. No ticket needed; drop in all afternoon! ABOUT THE EXHIBITION Reform to Restoration: French Drawings from Louis XVI to Louis XVIII (1770-1830) presents over eighty master drawings from The Horvitz Collection, the preeminent private collection of French art in the… | 0 events, | 1 event, Magnolia Dir. Paul Thomas Anderson, 1999 Introduced by Aspect: Journal of Film & Screen Media Everything uncannily intersects in Magnolia: the past, the present, emotional traumas, diseases, network television, crimes, false representations, family disasters, geography of the San Fernando Valley, Biblical plagues, whirling camera movements, and more. P.T. Anderson’s operatic melodrama is one of the… Free | 0 events, | 0 events, | 1 event, – Join Ackland educators for a lively half-hour look at two works of art. These engaging conversational tours offer a closer look at and new perspectives on works on view in Reform to Restoration: French Drawings from Louis XVI to Louis XVIII (1770-1830). Free. No ticket needed! | 0 events, |