UNC-CH Art and Art History

“Landfalls: Visual Politics of Place and Space in Aotearoa New Zealand” Zoom Register to attend here: https://unc.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwof-iurzMiH9O6LAVItUCY5s-gFuJQ-d0x While art-historical accounts of imperial landscapes have typically focused attention on the myriad ways that European traveler-artists projected domination, the first British landscape artists in Aotearoa New Zealand exhibited a precarious presence in Māori-shaped environments. Early nineteenth-century artists... Read More →

Taro Takizawa is an artist who focuses on printmaking, wall vinyl installations, drawings and 2D designs. He is fascinated with blending the boundaries of contemporary studio practice and traditional processes, printmaking and installations, influenced by traditional Japanese patterns from textile designs, architecture and crafts. Taro is currently visiting faculty in the Department of Art and... Read More →

121 Hanes Art Center Marianne Vitale (b. 1973) is an artist living and working in New York City. She graduated with a BFA from the School of Visual Arts, NY (1996). Her practice combines mediums with a focus on sculpture. She has been described as a surveyor, under-taker, and soothsayer of hard truths, conveyed poetically.... Read More →

“Indigenous Performance Politics: An Analysis of Works by Kent Monkman, Spiderwoman Theater Company, Rebecca Belmore and James Luna” ART&, Ackland Art Museum Because of space limitations, we request that attendees register in advance here: https://events.ackland.org/event/guest-lecture-dr-shanna-ketchum-heap-of-birds/ By internationalizing the debate concerning Indigeneity and decolonial thought, as well as examining the basis of North American multiculturalism in... Read More →

121 Hanes Art Center Stan Douglas is an artist whose work explores social histories played out through complex cinematic and televisual language. His interest in the social implementation of Western ideas of progress, particularly utopian philosophies, is located in their often divisive political and economic effects. His interrogation of the structural possibilities of film and... Read More →

“States of Emergency: Ephemera and Ephemerality in African American Art, 1965-2000” Zoom (Virtual) Register to attend here: https://unc.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJArdemsqzMoH91sPljGvCI9Nin1L82-x_ZY “Seize the Time!” urged Black Panther Party co-founder Bobby Searle, compelling Black activists to capture the politically and racially charged late 1960s and capitalize on its potential for radical revolution. The slogan insinuated that the moment could... Read More →