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Spend a summer evening making art at the Ackland’s 2nd Friday ArtWalk: Twilights on the Terrace. Relax on the Ackland’s front Terrace with a drop-in project inspired by Philip Taaffe’s painting Granada, making geometric wax-resist watercolors – free, all ages, and all materials provided. Taaffe’s painting is featured in our current exhibition Arranged: Recent Acquisitions... Read More →
Spend a summer evening making art at the Ackland’s 2nd Friday ArtWalk: Twilights on the Terrace. Charlotte-based artist Georgie Nakima will be back at the Ackland to lead pop-up art-making sessions inspired by her pen and watercolor portraits, as well as her installation Pantheress, on view through July in the Ackland’s ART& space. At 6,... Read More →
Join Ackland educators for a lively half-hour look at two works of art. These engaging conversational tours offer a closer look at and new perspectives on works on view in A Product of Its Environment: Selected Works by the MFA Class of 2024. Free, no RSVP required. Image: Molly English, American, born 1993, Bluebell Lovespell,... Read More →
Join us for a lively conversation about contemporary Native American Art with artists Teri Greeves (Kiowa) and Keri Ataumbi (Kiowa), moderated by Jami Powell (Osage), Curator of Indigenous Art at Dartmouth’s Hood Museum. The talk begins at 6 p.m. and a reception for participants will follow. Registration is required — reserved your free ticket at... 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 →
The UNC Undergraduate Student Government’s Department of Environmental Affairs is bringing the Sustainable Strut to the Ackland Art Museum this year! The Sustainable Strut is a student-based fashion show that showcases clothing that has been cultivated sustainably and ethically. The show will feature a large group of student fashion organizations and designers. The mission is... Read More →
Join 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). Alison Elizabeth Taylor depicted hair... Read More →
Visitors of all ages are invited to explore The Outwin: American Portraiture Today through a variety of hands-on portrait-making activities and a scavenger hunt in the galleries. The Outwin: American Portraiture Today has been organized by the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery. The competition and exhibition are made possible by the Virginia Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition... Read More →
Join choreographer/dancer Maura Garcia and composer/musician Mark Gabriel Little for an interactive lecture-demonstration that extends the creative experience of their commissioned immersive performance Step This Way, which will be performed on Friday, November 10, 2023 from 7-9 p.m. during the 2nd Friday ArtWalk. On Sunday, November 12, Dancer-musician duo Garcia and Little will return to... Read More →
"Step This Way" is a site-specific performance featuring live music and dance by Mark Gabriel Little and Maura García. The performance takes place on and around the pARC, an interactive playful installation designed and created by The Urban Conga on the Ackland’s Terrace. Throughout the performance, elements of the composition and choreography will shift based... Read More →
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