Promoting and strengthening the artistic and cultural development of Orange County, North Carolina
The Suffragist Project is a limited audio drama series about the suffrage movement in America. Each episode will cover different time periods and suffrage leaders in the fight to win the vote for women. Spanning the 70+ years from the first organizing meeting in 1848 in Seneca Falls, NY to the dramatic last minute change... Read More →
Jane Austen & Co. presents our fourth event in our "Race and the Regency" series. In this talk by Professor Robert Morrison (Queen's University), we will explore some of the most important Black women and men of the Regency era, including Mary Prince, Robert Wedderburn, Paul Cuffe, and Thomas Molyneaux. It will examine their role... Read More →
A free webinar hosted by Jane Austen & Co., featuring a wonderful discussion with Professor Patricia A. Matthew from Monclair State University! As part of Jane Austen & Co.'s Race and the Regency series, this talk will delve into the element of race during Jane Austen's Regency Era!
Join Piedmont Laureate Kelly Starling Lyons on Wednesday, February 3rd, in celebration of World Read Aloud Day. Kelly will, through video, share her easy readers, Ty's Travels: All Aboard, and Geisel Honor-winning, Ty's Travels: Zip Zoom, and offer recommendations of readalouds by North Carolina children's book creators. The video will appear on the Piedmont Laureate... Read More →
HANES VISITING ARTIST LECTURE Maria Gaspar, Hương Ngô (UNC BFA Alumna), and Anna Martine Whitehead “Sousveillance and How to Think Like a Forest” Register to attend here: https://go.unc.edu/o9CJk Registration will end at 5 pm on February 7. A zoom link will be emailed to registrants 24 hours in advance of the lecture. Sousveillance – watching... Read More →
Join Ackland Graduate Intern Sarah Farkas and Object Based Teaching Fellow Erin Dickey for a guided look at artwork from opposite corners of the Ackland’s collection. See how unexpected pairings can lead to exciting new insights! We will be looking at Ken Price’s The Squeeze and Eugène Emmanuel Viollet-Le-Duc’s Ciborium. This program will be held... Read More →
This spring, in collaboration with the Film Studies Programs in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at UNC-Chapel Hill, the Ackland Film Forum continues its all virtual series on Queer Cinema, now expanding to a selection of four international films for a look at Global Queer Cinema. View the selected films on your own... Read More →
Join us as the Ackland takes our popular Art Adventures class online with instructor Allison Tierney! We will be making paper relief sculptures inspired by Gaston Chaissac’s work on view in Object Lessons. As of January 27, the Ackland will be open to the public. Should your family feel comfortable viewing the piece in person,... Read More →
Join us as the Ackland takes our popular Art Adventures class online with instructor Allison Tierney! We will be making paper relief sculptures inspired by Gaston Chaissac’s work on view in Object Lessons. As of January 27, the Ackland will be open to the public. Should your family feel comfortable viewing the piece in person,... Read More →
Join the Ackland’s Object Based Teaching Fellow, Erin Dickey, for an informal conversation focused on one work of art from the Ackland’s new Close Looks digital feature. Plan to look closely and think collectively—and bring a drink of your choosing. On February 17, we’ll look at acclaimed playwright Tennessee William’s artwork, Midnite Show. Registration is... Read More →
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