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People contemplate a piece by Maria Gaspar, one of the three artists who spoke at “Sousveillance and How to Think Like a Forest” lecture hosted by the Ackland Art Museum and UNC Department of Art and Art History. Photo courtesy of Maria Gaspar.
The Ackland Art Museum and the UNC Department of Art and Art History hosted a lecture titled “Sousveillance and How to Think Like a Forest” Monday night as part of the Hanes Visiting Artist Series.
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After 10 months of closure, the Ackland Art Museum will reopen on Jan. 27 with newly implemented safety precautions.
The Director of Education and Interpretation at the Ackland Art Museum, Carolyn Allmendinger, poses for a FaceTime portrait from outside her home on Nov. 30, 2020.
Despite the challenges of 2020, many members of the UNC and Chapel Hill arts community felt the changes imposed by the pandemic increased connectivity and meaning in the art world.
One of the murals at the Ackland Art Museum honoring Breonna Taylor. Photo courtesy of Ackland Art Museum.
Breonna Taylor is being memorialized in a new commission at the Ackland Art Museum that opened last week.
After receiving a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts Big Read initiative, the Ackland Art Museum will host a virtual community reading program this month.
Administrators at UNC have told employees to brace themselves for large budget cuts. Given their numbers and high salaries, the cutting should begin, and perhaps end, with the administrators. Chancellors' salaries tend to get all the attention, and Kevin Guskiewicz's $620,000 per year is indeed impressive. His immediate subordinate, the provost, doesn't do too badly either, at $493,182. Still, the University also has 28 vice chancellors of different ranks, with an average salary of $253,393. They include a vice chancellor and associate vice chancellor for "University communications." Together, they bring in over $549,000 per year. Their offices did not exist before 2013. Yet, the University's ability to communicate to the public has hardly improved since 2013. Recall: the academic-athletic scandal; the sexual assault scandal, including the coverup of the U.S. Department of Education's report on UNC's multiple Clery Act violations; the illegal $2.5 million payoff to the Sons of Confederate Veterans; the campus reopening disaster. The millions of dollars in salaries paid to these two experts since 2013 yielded little. Let's not forget the 12 sub-provosts. Average salary? $231,591. Some of them perform vital services. But what does the associate provost for "strategy and special projects" do for nearly $200,000? Or the official who is now being paid $270,000 to establish "the University's vision and unified strategy for a future-directed, sustainable digital learning institutional environment?" To provide perspective, I reviewed the salaries of endowed professors (highly accomplished and highly paid) in three departments in the College of Arts and Sciences. The average annual salary for the 11 physics and astronomy superstars? $166,657. The four distinguished professors in philosophy? $200,412. Their peers in religious studies? $163,497. (The non-chaired faculty in these and other departments make far less.) Faculty with named professorships have decades of experience, copious publication records, book prizes, research grants and many graduate students. They symbolize what higher education is supposed to be about. Yet their salaries, on average, are not quite on par with those in the Office of the Provost. UNC has 127 deans of various ranks, many with salaries in the $200,000 to $500,000 range. And how about the 811 directors, associate directors and assistant directors? Some of their salaries are modest, and others perform "director" services as part of their faculty appointments.
With lectures, discussions and office hours conducted virtually this semester, UNC professors have found alternative ways to form relationships and promote engagement with their students.
Carrie Young, Ackland Art Museum's public programs intern, reads aloud during a live Zoom "Storytime" that was inspired by the Ackland’s current exhibition, "Yayoi Kusama: Open the Shape Called Love" on Sunday, May 31, 2020.
The Ackland Art Museum’s first Virtual Friends and Family Sunday program, held on May 31, explored the work of Yayoi Kusama, the artist behind the Ackland’s current exhibition.
Dancers will perform in the new exhibition at The Ackland Art Museum on March 15 from 2-5 p.m. The Ackland has an exhibit on display titled "Yayoi Kusama: Open the Shape Called Love." The exhibit opened on Jan. 31 and will close on April 12. Photo courtesy of Ricky Garni.
The Ackland Art Museum will serve as a forum where one form of art will interact with another this month.
I will never forget stumbling upon the infinite.
Brantly Moore, an object-based teaching fellow, poses in front of the Ackland Art Museum on Monday, Feb. 10, 2020. "I work with faculty all over campus to connect the museum's collections to their course content for graduates and undergrads," Moore said.
No matter whether UNC students are majoring in art history, chemistry or journalism, there’s a chance they have taken classes with the graduate teaching fellows at the Ackland Art Museum. These are the graduate students who take students around the museum, helping them to learn from the art on display. But not only are their students learning — they are too.
From the silent gaze of a gallery portrait to the electric movements of festival dancers, the Town of Chapel Hill is now offering experiences that highlight different walks of life.
In 2019, Emil Kang steppeddown as the special assistant to the chancellor for the arts, leaving behind a legacy of creative innovation within performance and visual arts programs like Arts Everywhere.
