Ackland Art Museum
Art & Lit: “Visions of Venice” and Italo Calvino’s “Invisible Cities”
Ackland Art Museum 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesThis program is now SOLD OUT. To be added to a waitlist, please email acklandRSVP@unc.edu. Thank you! -- Join us in reading (or rereading!) Italo Calvino’s 1972 classic novel Invisible Cities, which features a fictional Marco Polo describing fascinating vignettes of his travels to an aged Kublai Khan. After you’ve read it, spend time exploring…
Close Looks Conversational Tour: “10 Trashy Ideas about the Environment” by the Guerrilla Girls
Ackland Art Museum 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesJoin Erin Dickey, Ackland Graduate Teaching Fellow, for an informal conversation about the Guerrilla Girls's 10 Trashy Ideas about the Environment, a work featured in the Ackland’s Close Looks project. Plan to look closely and think collectively. Registration is limited. Sign up for free tickets to this in-person program below. -- All visitors to the…
Tar Heel Beginnings Presents: Student Night at the Museum
Ackland Art Museum 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesCarolina students: want to experience the Ackland Art Museum after hours? Join Tar Heel Beginnings for this Weeks of Welcome event at the Ackland for self-guided tours and open access to the galleries for UNC-Chapel Hill students. Refreshments and prizes provided to attendees. Plus find out how to join the Student Membership program (completely free)!…
Weeks of Welcome: Open House
Ackland Art Museum 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesCheck out the Ackland Art Museum, Carolina's local art museum with a global outlook. Explore the Ackland's free exhibitions, find out how to get involved as a student, and take a self-guided tour of the Museum designed especially for new students!
Museum Pictionary
Ackland Art Museum 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesThink you can draw a work of art from description alone? Join us for an afternoon of virtual drawing games based on works now on view in Drawing Attention. Test your drawing skills against two of the Ackland's curators, Dana Cowen and Lauren Turner, in our Zoom-based, museum version of Pictionary! We'll take turns drawing…
Family & Friends Sunday: Whistler’s World
Ackland Art Museum 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesVisit us virtually or find art activity kits to enjoy with your friends or family group in the galleries. This month, enjoy art-inspired activities inspired by James McNeill Whistler’s etchings in Visions of Venice including: FREE FAMILY ACTIVITY KIT | MUSEUM LOBBY Pick up our Visions of Venice Family Activity Art Kit and try your…
Family & Friends Sunday: Day of Drawing
Ackland Art Museum 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesVisit us virtually or find art activity kits to enjoy with your friends or family group in the galleries. This month, enjoy art-inspired activities exploring the wide-ranging themes and works in Drawing Attention including word art, watercolors, and landscapes. Zoom Storytime | 2:30 P.M. EDT Join the Ackland's Public Programs Coordinator as she reads "Cat…
Curator’s Tour of “Drawing Attention”
Ackland Art Museum 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesJoin Drawing Attention curator and Deputy Director for Curatorial Affairs Peter Nisbet for an in-person tour of the exhibition. Space is limited and registration is required below. Participants must adhere to the Ackland's current visitor policies, including wearing a mask while in the Museum and practicing social distancing. If this event reaches capacity and you'd…
Curator’s Tour of “Drawing Attention”
Ackland Art Museum 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesJoin Drawing Attention curator and Deputy Director for Curatorial Affairs Peter Nisbet for an in-person tour of the exhibition. Space is limited and registration is required below. Participants must adhere to the Ackland's current visitor policies, including wearing a mask while in the Museum and practicing social distancing. This tour will be offered a second…
Timed Ticketing – May 13, 2021
Ackland Art Museum 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesWhat to Expect · Ackland staff will regularly sanitize high touch surfaces, including the doors and restrooms. · Ackland staff will wear masks and perform transactions from behind a Plexiglas shield. · Using timed ticketing, visitation to the museum will be limited so that visitors have space to safely enjoy our exhibitions. · Tickets are…