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Ackland Art Museum

Phone 919-966-5736
Email ackland@email.unc.edu
Website https://ackland.org/

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  • Guided Tour: Explore the Ackland’s Collection

    Ackland Art Museum 101 South Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

    Meet in the lobby for a 30-minute, guided tour of the Ackland Art Museum’s collection. Advance registration required; space is limited. This program is supported by the Orange County Arts Commission.

  • Guided Tour: Buddha and Shiva, Lotus and Dragon

    Ackland Art Museum 101 South Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

    Meet in the lobby for a 30-minute, guided tour exploring highlights of our current special exhibition Buddha and Shiva, Lotus and Dragon: Masterworks from the Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3rd Collection at Asia Society. Advance registration required; space is limited.

  • Art & Lit at the Ackland: “The Hare with Amber Eyes” by Edmund de Waal

    Ackland Art Museum 101 South Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

    Join us in reading artist and author Edmund de Waal’s captivating family memoir The Hare with Amber Eyes, which traces the story of his family through a collection of hand-carved Japanese netsuke as the objects traveled across time, space, and generations. After you’ve read it, spend time exploring the Ackland’s exhibition Buddha and Shiva, Lotus... Read More →

  • Ackland F.A.M: Sights and Sounds of Southeast Asia

    Ackland Art Museum 101 South Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

    The Ackland’s current special exhibition Buddha and Shiva, Lotus and Dragon: Masterworks from the Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3rd Collection at Asia Society highlights works from Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam, India, and China – just to name a few! Join the Ackland at 2:00 p.m. for a masked, space-limited viewing of Disney’s “Raya and... Read More →

  • Yoga in the Galleries

    Recurring
    Ackland Art Museum 101 South Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

    This month, our Yoga in the Galleries practice will be inspired by art from the Ackland's exhibition Clouding: Shape and Sign in Asian Art (on view through February 13, 2022). The hour-long session is taught by registered yoga teacher Joanne Marshall. Take a break from your day and explore the world of yoga in the... Read More →

    $5.00

  • Art for Lunch: Antonia Randolph

    Zoom , United States

    Join us for a virtual Art for Lunch, our interview-style talk with the Ackland’s Elizabeth Manekin, to discuss how Dr. Antonia Randolph’s class “Black Feminist Thought” utilize selected works of portraiture and self-portraiture by Black artists from the Ackland’s collection to explore the construction of Black feminist identities. The installation features works by Kara Walker,... Read More →

  • Collectors’ Seminar: Building an Art Collection

    Ackland Art Museum 101 South Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

    With Drs. John and Nicole Dintenfass, Moderated by Peter Nisbet Join us for an intimate conversation with Drs. John and Nicole Dintenfass about their lifelong passion for collecting art, the latest in a series of talks with collectors whose works have been on view at the Ackland. The Dintenfasses have collected art for an astonishing... Read More →

  • Guided Tour: Modern Black Culture: The Art of Aaron Douglas

    Recurring
    Ackland Art Museum 101 South Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

    Meet in the Ackland's lobby for a 30-minute, guided tour exploring highlights of our current special exhibition Modern Black Culture: The Art of Aaron Douglas. Advance registration required; space is limited. The Ackland Art Museum is operating under the guidelines of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. As of March 7, 2022, masks... Read More →

  • MYTH & MEMORY: SELECTED WORKS BY THE MFA CLASS OF 2022

    Ackland Art Museum 101 South Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

    In Myth & Memory, five artists interrogate practices of history-making and history-keeping at the individual, institutional, and systemic level. Beginning with personal narrative, each artist engages a vocabulary of fantasy to make visible that which has been forgotten, obscured, or erased by white heteropatriarchal modes of dominance. Through intimate gestures and acts of subversion, they... Read More →

  • MODERN BLACK CULTURE: THE ART OF AARON DOUGLAS

    Ackland Art Museum 101 South Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

    This exhibition explores how Aaron Douglas (1899-1979), one of the most important modernist artists of the Harlem Renaissance, gave visual form to the idea that Black American culture is a modern culture of diaspora. Douglas created figures that embody Pan-African ideas of Black achievement and creativity. He traced twentieth-century Black American culture and cultivated the... Read More →

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