The Salon Salon: Floor to Ceiling Art at the Ackland

Join Carolina Public Humanities and the Ackland Art Museum for a gathering that will foster deep thinking and conversation – a salon – through a guided viewing of Color Concentrated: A Salon-Style Show from the Robertson Collection. Color Concentrated displays paintings......More

Join Carolina Public Humanities and the Ackland Art Museum for a gathering that will foster deep thinking and conversation – a salon – through a guided viewing of Color Concentrated: A Salon-Style Show from the Robertson Collection. Color Concentrated displays paintings in the salon style, hanging in rows that extend from eye level upward, nearly to the ceiling of the gallery. We’ll learn how the salon hanging tells the story of changing museum trends, from the seventeenth century to the present. Featured presenters include Ackland director Shalini Le Gall, deputy director for curatorial affairs Peter Nisbet, head of university programs and academic projects Elizabeth Manekin, and Nathan Marzen, head of exhibition design and installation. Space is limited tickets are required. The $65 ticket includes admission to the program, wine, and hors d’oeuvres. Click here to purchase your ticket today!  

Ackland Art Museum, 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States

Tour: A Closer Look at "Color Concentrated"

Join Ackland educators for a lively half-hour look at a small handful of artworks. These engaging conversational tours offer a closer look at and new perspectives on works on view at the Museum. Today’s tour looks at Color Concentrated: A Salon-Style Show from the Rober......More

Join Ackland educators for a lively half-hour look at a small handful of artworks. These engaging conversational tours offer a closer look at and new perspectives on works on view at the Museum. Today’s tour looks at Color Concentrated: A Salon-Style Show from the Robertson Collection. This is a free, walk-in event – no RSVP required. This event is part of UNC–Chapel Hill’s Campus Life Experience (CLE) program. Students who attend can scan the QR code provided at the event to receive CLE credit.  

Ackland Art Museum, 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States

Tour: A Closer Look at "Bill Bamberger: Boys Will Be Men"

Join Ackland educators for a lively half-hour look at a small handful of artworks. These engaging conversational tours offer a closer look at and new perspectives on works on view at the Museum. Today’s tour looks at Bill Bamberger: Boys Will Be Men. This is a free, wal......More

Join Ackland educators for a lively half-hour look at a small handful of artworks. These engaging conversational tours offer a closer look at and new perspectives on works on view at the Museum. Today’s tour looks at Bill Bamberger: Boys Will Be Men. This is a free, walk-in event – no RSVP required. This event is part of UNC–Chapel Hill’s Campus Life Experience (CLE) program. Students who attend can scan the QR code provided at the event to receive CLE credit.

Ackland Art Museum, 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States

Tour: A Closer Look at "Bill Bamberger: Boys Will Be Men"

Join Ackland educators for a lively half-hour look at a small handful of artworks. These engaging conversational tours offer a closer look at and new perspectives on works on view at the Museum. Today’s tour looks at Bill Bamberger: Boys Will Be Men. This is a free, wal......More

Join Ackland educators for a lively half-hour look at a small handful of artworks. These engaging conversational tours offer a closer look at and new perspectives on works on view at the Museum. Today’s tour looks at Bill Bamberger: Boys Will Be Men. This is a free, walk-in event – no RSVP required. This event is part of UNC–Chapel Hill’s Campus Life Experience (CLE) program. Students who attend can scan the QR code provided at the event to receive CLE credit.

Ackland Art Museum, 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States

Ackland F.A.M. Day: Growing Up

Activities for the whole family inspired by the Ackland’s current exhibition Bill Bamberger: Boys Will Be Men. F.A.M. (Families at the Museum) Day is a free, walk-in program for all ages drop in all afternoon!

Ackland Art Museum, 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States

Ackland Film Forum: "Crooklyn" (Spike Lee, 1994)

Set in 1970s Brooklyn, Crooklyn recounts childhood from the perspective of nine-year-old Troy Carmichael (Zelda Harris), whose coming of age unfolds within the rhythms of Black family life, neighborhood culture, and social constraint. The film balances warmth and humor ......More

Set in 1970s Brooklyn, Crooklyn recounts childhood from the perspective of nine-year-old Troy Carmichael (Zelda Harris), whose coming of age unfolds within the rhythms of Black family life, neighborhood culture, and social constraint. The film balances warmth and humor with moments of rupture, revealing how maturity often arrives through confrontation with authority, injustice, and grief. Lee presents growing up as both deeply personal and inseparable from place, race, and community—an education shaped as much by environment as by experience.   The film will be introduced by Daelena Tinnin-Gadson, Assistant Professor of Black Film Studies and African American Literature. This film will be screened at 7:30 p.m. at the Varsity Theatre (123 East Franklin Street, Chapel Hill, NC 27514). Tickets are free, but must be reserved on the Ackland’s webpage. Register below. UNC-Chapel Hill students can receive CLE credit for attending by scanning the QR code at the event.   About the Series: Join the Ackland Film Forum this spring for Growing Up, Looking Back, a series that accompanies the Ackland exhibition Bill Bamberger: Boys Will Be Men. This semester’s series highlights the filmgoing experience by using three local movie theaters as its venues. This film series is dedicated to the memory of Allison Portnow Lathrop, former Head of Public Programs at the Ackland Art Museum. For more than a decade, Allison was an indispensable champion of film culture on campus and in Chapel Hill, most notably through her visionary stewardship of the Ackland Film Forum. She fostered a spirit of generous collaboration among faculty, students, and artists. Her belief in the power of cinema lives on in the conversations and shared experiences she helped create. The Ackland Film Forum is co-organized by the Ackland Art Museum and UNC Film Studies, housed in the UNC-Chapel Hill Department of English and Comparative Literature.

Varsity Theatre, 123 E. Franklin Street, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States

Tour: A Closer Look at "Color Concentrated"

Join Ackland educators for a lively half-hour look at a small handful of artworks. These engaging conversational tours offer a closer look at and new perspectives on works on view at the Museum. Today’s tour looks at Color Concentrated: A Salon-Style Show from the Rober......More

Join Ackland educators for a lively half-hour look at a small handful of artworks. These engaging conversational tours offer a closer look at and new perspectives on works on view at the Museum. Today’s tour looks at Color Concentrated: A Salon-Style Show from the Robertson Collection. This is a free, walk-in event – no RSVP required. This event is part of UNC–Chapel Hill’s Campus Life Experience (CLE) program. Students who attend can scan the QR code provided at the event to receive CLE credit.  

Ackland Art Museum, 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States

A Closer Look at “Color Concentrated” – Featuring Weixin Zhou

Join us at a special time for a conversational tour led by Weixin Zhou, UNC-Chapel Hill doctoral candidate in art history, specialist in European modernism, and researcher and co-author of exhibition texts for both Color Concentrated: A Salon-Style Show from the Roberts......More

Join us at a special time for a conversational tour led by Weixin Zhou, UNC-Chapel Hill doctoral candidate in art history, specialist in European modernism, and researcher and co-author of exhibition texts for both Color Concentrated: A Salon-Style Show from the Robertson Collection and last fall’s  Color Triumphant. Please register for a free ticket below as space is limited. This event is part of UNC–Chapel Hill’s Campus Life Experience (CLE) program. Students who attend can scan the QR code provided at the event to receive CLE credit.

Ackland Art Museum, 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States

Tour: A Closer Look at "Bill Bamberger: Boys Will Be Men"

Join Ackland educators for a lively half-hour look at a small handful of artworks. These engaging conversational tours offer a closer look at and new perspectives on works on view at the Museum. Today’s tour looks at Bill Bamberger: Boys Will Be Men. This is a free, wal......More

Join Ackland educators for a lively half-hour look at a small handful of artworks. These engaging conversational tours offer a closer look at and new perspectives on works on view at the Museum. Today’s tour looks at Bill Bamberger: Boys Will Be Men. This is a free, walk-in event – no RSVP required. This event is part of UNC–Chapel Hill’s Campus Life Experience (CLE) program. Students who attend can scan the QR code provided at the event to receive CLE credit.

Ackland Art Museum, 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States

Tour: A Closer Look at the Collection

Join Ackland educators for a lively half-hour look at a small handful of artworks. These engaging conversational tours offer a closer look at and new perspectives on works on view at the Museum. This is a free, walk-in event – no RSVP required. This event is part of UNC......More

Join Ackland educators for a lively half-hour look at a small handful of artworks. These engaging conversational tours offer a closer look at and new perspectives on works on view at the Museum. This is a free, walk-in event – no RSVP required. This event is part of UNC–Chapel Hill’s Campus Life Experience (CLE) program. Students who attend can scan the QR code provided at the event to receive CLE credit.

Ackland Art Museum, 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States

Tour: A Closer Look at the Collection

Join Ackland educators for a lively half-hour look at a small handful of artworks. These engaging conversational tours offer a closer look at and new perspectives on works on view at the Museum. This is a free, walk-in event – no RSVP required. This event is part of UNC......More

Join Ackland educators for a lively half-hour look at a small handful of artworks. These engaging conversational tours offer a closer look at and new perspectives on works on view at the Museum. This is a free, walk-in event – no RSVP required. This event is part of UNC–Chapel Hill’s Campus Life Experience (CLE) program. Students who attend can scan the QR code provided at the event to receive CLE credit.

Ackland Art Museum, 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States