‘Identifying A Place’: Artist Behind New Mural at UNC Shares Inspiration, Installation Process
If you’ve driven by the Craige Parking Deck on Manning Drive recently, you might have noticed the...
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Ackland Art Museum
Ackland Art Museum Reopens, Showcases Breonna Taylor Exhibit
After 10 months of closed doors and strictly virtual programming, on Wednesday, the Ackland Art Museum reopened to the public with newly implemented safety measures.
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Paintings Worth $12.1 Million Donated to the Ackland Art Museum
Three paintings valued at $12.1 million dollars have been donated to the Ackland Art...
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The Ackland Film Forum Highlights Female Filmmakers from the 1990s to the Present
The Ackland Film Forum returned to the Varsity Theatre on September 25 with its fall 2018 series...
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Ackland Art Museum Celebrates 60th Birthday
The Ackland Art Museum is turning 60 years old Thursday. The museum is starting a yearlong...
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September 19, 2018: #RedBallProject
A traveling artistic installation called the “RedBall Project” is coming to Chapel Hill this week and next, part of the Ackland Art Museum’s 60th anniversary celebration. Artist Kurt Perschke joined Aaron on the air, along with the Ackland’s Lauren Turner and Chapel Hill Public Library director Susan Brown.
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One Week: Exploring Our ‘Hometowns’
Exploring our ‘hometowns’ is an activity that has been continually present in my life...
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The Ackland Art Museum on North Carolina’s campus will host “The Outwin: American Portraiture Today” on view from the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery starting on June 1. The selected finalists for the 2016...
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This is Tourism: Artistic Leader Katie
On March 29, Director at the Ackland Art Museum, Katie Ziglar talked to Ron Stutts about the increase in visitors to the Ackland as a result of the terrace gallery displaying Patrick Dougherty’s Step Right Up “stickwork”. They also discussed all of the opportunity for visitors that comes as a result of a generous gift, including northern European works on paper from Sheldon and Leena Peck.
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