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Join Ackland educators for a lively half-hour look at a small handful of artworks in the collection. These engaging conversational tours offer a closer look at and new perspectives on works on view at the Museum. Free, but space is limited to 20 participants; first come, first served. This event is part of UNC–Chapel Hill’s…
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Artist and conservator Stacey L. Kirby discusses her work with textiles and costume and the treatments she completed on textiles on view in Continental Shift: Recent Acquisitions of African Art. Free, but space is limited; registration required below. This event is part of UNC–Chapel Hill’s Campus Life Experience (CLE) program. Students who attend can scan…
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A talk by Dr. Ian Shin (Department of American Culture, University of Michigan), co-sponsored with the Department of History. How can we understand the relationship between art collecting and Western imperialism as more than simply a story of victim and aggressor, of the plundered and the plunderer? From the Gilded Age to World War II,…
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Join Ackland educators for a lively half-hour look at a small handful of artworks in Continental Shift: Recent Acquisitions of African Art. These engaging conversational tours offer a closer look at and new perspectives on works on view at the Museum. Free, but space is limited to 20 participants; first come, first served. This event… |
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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…
Join Ackland educators for a lively half-hour look at a small handful of artworks in the collection. These engaging conversational tours offer a closer look at and new perspectives on works on view at the Museum. Free, but space is limited to 20 participants; first come, first served. This event is part of UNC–Chapel Hill’s… |
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Join Ackland educators for a lively half-hour look at a small handful of artworks in the collection. These engaging conversational tours offer a closer look at and new perspectives on works on view at the Museum. Free, but space is limited to 20 participants; first come, first served. This event is part of UNC–Chapel Hill’s… |
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Jake Gyllenhaal delivers a career-defining performance as an ambitious freelancer who prowls Los Angeles after dark in search of footage for local television news. The city's nocturnal landscape of police sirens, flashing lights, and breaking stories becomes the backdrop for a mordant examination of ambition, competition, and media culture in the twenty-first century. This film… |
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Join us for extended hours at the Ackland Art Museum during the Carrboro-Chapel Hill 2nd Friday ArtWalk! Each month, we stay open from 5:00 – 9:00 p.m. to give visitors more time to explore. Stroll through our galleries featuring highlights from a collection of over 21,000 works of art and sketch in the galleries using…
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A guided look at art by Native American artists in Care and Concern: Recent Acquisitions of Modern and Contemporary Art with exhibition curator Lauren Turner, associate curator for contemporary art. Free, but space is limited; registration required below. This event is part of UNC–Chapel Hill’s Campus Life Experience (CLE) program. Students who attend can scan…
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Join Ackland educators for a lively half-hour look at a small handful of artworks in the collection. These engaging conversational tours offer a closer look at and new perspectives on works on view at the Museum. Free, but space is limited to 20 participants; first come, first served. This event is part of UNC–Chapel Hill’s… |
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Join Ackland educators for a lively half-hour look at a small handful of artworks in the collection. These engaging conversational tours offer a closer look at and new perspectives on works on view at the Museum. Free, but space is limited to 20 participants; first come, first served. This event is part of UNC–Chapel Hill’s…
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Ackland Director Shalini Le Gall moderates a discussion with specialists in African, Ancient Mediterranean, and Native American art: Dr. Victoria Rovine of UNC-Chapel Hill’s Department of Art and Art History, Dr. Jennifer Gates-Foster of UNC-Chapel Hill’s Department of Classics, and Nancy Chavis, director and curator of the Museum of the Southeast American Indian at UNC-Pembroke.…
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Join us for an hour-long conversation about the connections between Asian art at the Ackland and scholarly research in Asian and Middle Eastern History, featuring Dr. Morgan Pitelka (Asian Studies and History), and Dr. Elizabeth Manekin, head of university programs and academic projects at the Ackland. Free, but space is limited; registration required below. This…
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How have artists represented the characters from Homer’s Odyssey through the centuries? How do images translate and adapt the words from this epic poem for new, diverse audiences? Professors Timothy Shea and Hérica Valladares, both from UNC-Chapel Hill’s Department of Classics with adjunct appointments in the Department of Art and Art History, will lead a seminar-style discussion focusing…
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Join Ackland educators for a lively half-hour look at a small handful of artworks in the collection. These engaging conversational tours offer a closer look at and new perspectives on works on view at the Museum. Free, but space is limited to 20 participants; first come, first served. This event is part of UNC–Chapel Hill’s… |
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Join Ackland educators for a lively half-hour look at a small handful of artworks in the collection. These engaging conversational tours offer a closer look at and new perspectives on works on view at the Museum. Free, but space is limited to 20 participants; first come, first served. This event is part of UNC–Chapel Hill’s… |
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Look closely and carefully at a single work of art, guided by Carolyn Allmendinger, director of education and interpretation. Today’s tour will focus on Balustrade with Arabesque and Animal Decorations (98.11ab). Free, but space is limited to 20 participants; first come, first served. This event is part of UNC–Chapel Hill’s Campus Life Experience (CLE) program.… |
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Each semester, the Ackland Art Museum works with thousands of UNC-Chapel Hill students through courses and internships. The Semester Revue offers a glimpse into the quality and variety of the students’ research, projects, and performances. Come learn about the collection and see it anew through their short, dynamic presentations. Free public program; no registration required.… |
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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… |