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SUSPENDED: Guided Tour: Explore the Ackland’s Collection
Ackland Art Museum 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesThe Ackland Art Museum has suspended this program until further notice as part of our response to the spread of coronavirus COVID-19 and based on recommendations from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Any additional updates will be posted on the Museum’s website. Meet in the lobby for a 30-minute, guided tour of…
SUSPENDED: Guided Tour: Explore the Ackland’s Collection
Ackland Art Museum 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesThe Ackland Art Museum has suspended this program until further notice as part of our response to the spread of coronavirus COVID-19 and based on recommendations from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Any additional updates will be posted on the Museum’s website. Meet in the lobby for a 30-minute, guided tour of…
SUSPENDED: Guided Tour: Explore the Ackland’s Collection
Ackland Art Museum 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesThe Ackland Art Museum has suspended this program until further notice as part of our response to the spread of coronavirus COVID-19 and based on recommendations from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Any additional updates will be posted on the Museum’s website. Meet in the lobby for a 30-minute, guided tour of…
Exhibition Opening for “Myth & Memory: Selected Works by the MFA Class of 2022”
Ackland Art Museum 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesAll are invited to an exhibition opening celebration for Myth & Memory: Selected Works by the MFA Class of 2022. Join us from 7-8:30 p.m., with remarks by exhibition curator Laura Ritchie at 7:30 p.m. In Myth & Memory, five artists interrogate practices of history-making and history-keeping at the individual, institutional, and systemic level. Originating in personal narrative, each artist…
Ackland Film Forum: Andre DeToth, “House of Wax” (1953, US)
Varsity Theatre 123 E. Franklin Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesAndre DeToth, House Of Wax (1953, US) Although best known as one of the few films that successfully exploited the 3D fad of the 1950s, Andre DeToth’s film House of Wax begins as a sensitive portrait of a sculptor struggling to keep his small, dignified wax museum afloat. After experiencing what appears to be a…
Tour: Friday Favorites
Ackland Art Museum 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesParticipate 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 Drawn to Life: Master Drawings from the Age of Rembrandt in the Peck…
Free
SOLD OUT: The Soul of the Dutch Golden Age: Art and Literature at the Ackland
Ackland Art Museum 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesThis session is SOLD OUT. -- Carolina Public Humanities is teaming up with the Ackland Art Museum to explore the beauty of the natural world and the dynamic, multifaceted aspects of humanity during the Dutch Golden Age. Join Dana Cowen, Sheldon Peck Curator at the Ackland Art Museum, and Carolyn Allmendinger, Ackland’s Director of Education…
SOLD OUT: The Soul of the Dutch Golden Age: Art and Literature at the Ackland (REPEAT)
Ackland Art Museum 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesThis program is now SOLD OUT. -- Carolina Public Humanities is teaming up with the Ackland Art Museum to explore the beauty of the natural world and the dynamic, multifaceted aspects of humanity during the Dutch Golden Age. Join Dana Cowen, Sheldon Peck Curator at the Ackland Art Museum, and Carolyn Allmendinger, Ackland’s Director of…
Artist Talk: Amalia Pica
Ackland Art Museum 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesJoin 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
Semester Revue: Student Research & Responses to the Collection
Ackland Art Museum 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesEach 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; no registration required. The Ackland…