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2nd Friday ArtWalk: Stacey L. Kirby and Lonnie Holley
Ackland Art Museum 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United States2nd Friday ArtWalk: An Eclectic and Unusual Double Bill Friday, 12 April | 6-10 PM. Free. 6-8 PM: ART& artist Stacey L. Kirby and her team conduct civil presence assessments within her new installation, The Department of Reflection. 8:30-10 PM: Concert and talk with Lonnie Holley. Part of the 50th anniversary celebrations for the Department…
2nd Friday ArtWalk – 2019 MFA Exhibition
Ackland Art Museum 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesExplore Sacred Wasteland: Selected Works by the MFA Class of 2019 during the Ackland's extended 2nd Friday ArtWalk hours (10 AM - 9 PM). 6:30 PM | Performance: when they become us. when they become us. is a collaborative, socially-engaged performance event co-organized by Jonh Blanco, ShaLeigh Dance Works, and the Ackland Art Museum as part…
“The Way Out West: Desert Landscapes” Artist Talk by Michelle Van Parys
Ackland Art Museum 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United States1 August 2019 | 6 PM "The Way Out West: Desert Landscapes" An Artist Talk by Michelle Van Parys Free and open to the public, RSVP requested below. Presented in connection with Way Out West: Celebrating the Gift of the Hugh A. McAllister, Jr. Collection (on view 14 June - 25 Aug 2019). …
Lecture-Demo with Artist Elizabeth Alexander
Ackland Art Museum 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesJoin 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…
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Artist Conversation: Art / Science / Music / Math
Ackland Art Museum 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesJoin us for a lively conversation between visiting artist Kelsey Brookes and composer Allen Anderson about the intersections of art, science, music, and math. Brookes is a former scientist whose work One Pointed Attention 2 (2014), a large-scale painting based on the Fibonacci sequence, is on loan to the Ackland through the Art Bridges Collection…
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Virtual Conversation: Mapping Joe Minter’s African Village in America
Zoom , United StatesWith Eric Courchesne, Rachel Stephens, and Emily Bibb (University of Alabama) Moderated by Lauren Turner, Ackland Art Museum Join the Ackland for a lively virtual program featuring three scholars at the University of Alabama who have been collaborating across disciplines to create a dynamic website that maps and preserves artist Joe Minter's African Village in…
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…
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Artist Talk: Alison Elizabeth Taylor
Ackland Art Museum 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesJoin us as we welcome Outwin first-prize-winning artist Alison Elizabeth Taylor to the Ackland for an artist talk about her fascinating body of work, which uses a technique she describes as “marquetry hybrid” and can be seen in her prize-winning portrait titled Anthony Cuts under the Williamsburg Bridge, Morning (2020) (right). Alison Elizabeth Taylor depicted…
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Artist Conversation: Radical Ceramicists in North Carolina
Ackland Art Museum 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesThis program is now FULL. To be added to our WAITLIST, please email acklandRSVP@unc.edu. Join us for a lively artist conversation exploring themes of experimentation, materiality, and process in the work of North Carolina-based ceramic artists Jessica Dupuis (UNC-Pembroke; MFA ’10), Hitomi Shibata (Studio Touya, Seagrove, NC), and Isys Hennigar (BFA ’17) in…
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