Events
Stuff Your Fears with Artist Jen Clay
Ackland Art Museum 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesInspired by the themes in her installation Soft Night, Watching, artist Jen Clay is hosting a drop-in activity to create stuffie versions of your fears and anxieties. The Ackland will provide supplies to decorate your own stuffie. Clay will be available to answer questions about how she uses soft textures and also encourages touch in…
Tour: A Closer Look at the Collection
Ackland Art Museum 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesJoin Ackland educators for a lively half-hour look at a small handful of artworks. These engaging conversational tours offer a closer look at and new perspectives on works on view at the Museum. This is a free, walk-in event – no RSVP required. This event is part of UNC–Chapel Hill’s Campus Life Experience (CLE) program.…
Art Adventures (Afternoon Session)
Ackland Art Museum 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesIn this art-inspired, hands-on art-making class for six- to nine-year-olds, participants will create their own artwork inspired by the art on view in Color Concentrated: A Salon-Style Show from the Robertson Collection. Space is limited; registration required. Free for Ackland Members at the Household Level and above; $5 per child for all others.
Tour: A Closer Look at the Collection
Ackland Art Museum 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesJoin Ackland educators for a lively half-hour look at a small handful of artworks. These engaging conversational tours offer a closer look at and new perspectives on works on view at the Museum. This is a free, walk-in event – no RSVP required. This event is part of UNC–Chapel Hill’s Campus Life Experience (CLE) program.…
The Salon Salon: Floor to Ceiling Art at the Ackland
Ackland Art Museum 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesJoin Carolina Public Humanities and the Ackland Art Museum for a gathering that will foster deep thinking and conversation – a salon – through a guided viewing of Color Concentrated: A Salon-Style Show from the Robertson Collection. Color Concentrated displays paintings in the salon style, hanging in rows that extend from eye level upward, nearly…
Tour: A Closer Look at “Color Concentrated”
Ackland Art Museum 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesJoin Ackland educators for a lively half-hour look at a small handful of artworks. These engaging conversational tours offer a closer look at and new perspectives on works on view at the Museum. Today’s tour looks at Color Concentrated: A Salon-Style Show from the Robertson Collection. This is a free, walk-in event – no RSVP…
Tour: A Closer Look at “Bill Bamberger: Boys Will Be Men”
Ackland Art Museum 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesJoin Ackland educators for a lively half-hour look at a small handful of artworks. These engaging conversational tours offer a closer look at and new perspectives on works on view at the Museum. Today’s tour looks at Bill Bamberger: Boys Will Be Men. This is a free, walk-in event – no RSVP required. This event…
Tour: A Closer Look at “Bill Bamberger: Boys Will Be Men”
Ackland Art Museum 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesJoin Ackland educators for a lively half-hour look at a small handful of artworks. These engaging conversational tours offer a closer look at and new perspectives on works on view at the Museum. Today’s tour looks at Bill Bamberger: Boys Will Be Men. This is a free, walk-in event – no RSVP required. This event…
Ackland F.A.M. Day: Growing Up
Ackland Art Museum 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesActivities for the whole family inspired by the Ackland’s current exhibition Bill Bamberger: Boys Will Be Men. F.A.M. (Families at the Museum) Day is a free, walk-in program for all ages; drop in all afternoon!
Ackland Film Forum: “Crooklyn” (Spike Lee, 1994)
Varsity Theatre 123 E. Franklin Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesSet in 1970s Brooklyn, Crooklyn recounts childhood from the perspective of nine-year-old Troy Carmichael (Zelda Harris), whose coming of age unfolds within the rhythms of Black family life, neighborhood culture, and social constraint. The film balances warmth and humor with moments of rupture, revealing how maturity often arrives through confrontation with authority, injustice, and grief. Lee…