Promoting and strengthening the artistic and cultural development of Orange County, North Carolina
Hear from artist Kiara Sanders about her new mural African American Trailblazers, which was inspired by the work of Aaron Douglas. We’ll meet at the Ackland to see Modern Black Culture: The Art of Aaron Douglas then embark on our mural walk, stopping at various murals on the way to see African American Trailblazers, which... Read More →
Join Raj Bunnag, 2022 MFA candidate whose work is featured in Myth & Memory: Selected Works by the MFA Class of 2022, for a special hands-on printmaking workshop during the 2nd Friday ArtWalk! In this drop-in workshop, visitors will be able to make their own tiny stamps using hand-carved blocks made by Bunnag. Watch as... Read More →
Join the Ackland as Ackland F.A.M. (Families at the Museum) focus on Clare Leighton, an American who was known for her engravings, and her piece, Whaling, seen on the right. We will be considering the variety of ways that humans depict and interact with their environments by looking closely at Leighton’s Whaling, featured in the... Read More →
Join the 2022 Master of Fine Arts students for a special walk-through! This tour will be led by all five MFA candidates and introduced by exhibition curator Laura Ritchie. Through the work of five artists, Myth & Memory imagines a future in which the margins become the center. Drawing from personal narrative, each of the... Read More →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
Join us as the Ackland resumes our popular Art Adventures class in person with instructor Allison Tierney! We will be inspired by Christopher Myers' Fish Pieta (2020). Art Adventures sessions provide kids with a guided view of art in the Ackland’s galleries, followed by the opportunity to create take-home treasures in an adjacent art studio... Read More →
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