The Ackland Art Museum is located on the edge of the University of North Carolina at 101 S. Columbia St. The museum has more than 17,000 works of art in its collection from European masterworks to modern photography. All work is available for students and community members to view.
Other exhibits include European masterworks, twentieth-century and contemporary art, African art and North Carolina pottery. There are between 10 and 12 changing exhibits every year. Originally built in 1958, the building has undergone two major renovations but remains in its original building.
In addition to exhibits, the Ackland hosts some educational programs such as Art & Literature in the Galleries and drawing classes in the museum. Admission is free. Visit the museum website at ackland.org for more information.
The Ackland Art Museum is honored to be the final destination of a portraiture exhibition from the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery.
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The Ackland Art Museum is honored to be the final destination of a portraiture exhibition from the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery.
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In celebration of International Women's Day, the Ackland is inviting its visitors to take a walk through the French enlightenment - through women's perspectives, and is partnering with Carolina Public Humanities to lead a literary discussion on Friday, March 9th.
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At the Ackland Art Museum, a special exhibit celebrating womanhood and French culture brings the community together to honor a UNC professor after her death.
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In the current political climate of gender issues and cultural reflection across a diverse array of ideas, the Ackland Art Museum’s newest exhibition, "Becoming a Woman in the Age of Enlightenment: French Art from The Horvitz Collection," is uncommonly timely. "Becoming a Woman" explores the so-called “Woman's Question” that was pivotal to some of the most pressing debates of the French Enlightenment during the 18th century. It is a thematic exhibit with 130 pieces of artwork ranging from drawings, to paintings, to sculptures, to prints — with only 10 of these pieces created by women. It conveys various depictions of the societal role of women spanning across 150 years of French art and will be on display from Jan. 26 to April 8.
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The Arts Everywhere initiative has launched an eponymous app, which allows everyone to locate all University arts events in one place.
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Art&Life and the Phillips Ambassadors will be partnering with the Ackland Art Museum to put on Asian Exchanges this Thursday. The event will feature three objects from the Ackland’s collection that highlight the artistic exchange between East and West cultures.
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While Asian art has grown especially in strength and importance over the last 30 years, the Ackland Art Museum remains home to the only collection of Asian art in the state — and one of the major collections in the southeast. Now, a new exhibition titled Religion and Ritual, on display at the Ackland from Jan. 3 to May 13, presents the beauty of some of this wondrous collection.
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The Ackland Art Museum could grow closer to its goal of becoming the preeminent public university art museum through UNC’s five-year capital campaign, “For All Kind: The Campaign for Carolina.”
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The Orange County Arts Commission (OCAC) announced last week that the nonprofit arts and culture sector is a $130.3 million industry in Chapel Hill, Carrboro and Hillsborough.
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Patrick Dougherty is a UNC alum and stick sculptor based in Chapel Hill. His work has been displayed at notable venues including the North Carolina Botanical Garden and the North Carolina Museum of Art. This month, he will be building a new structure outside the Ackland Art Museum.
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Ackland Art Museum announced that they would be receiving 12 pieces from Souls Grown Deep Foundation.
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Mexican designers Hector Esrawe and Ignacio Cadena see themselves more as “problem solvers” than as designers.
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The current installation of the Focus on the Peck Collection at the Ackland Art Museum features three works: “Noli mi Tangere,” a Rembrandt drawing, a woodcut by Albrecht Dürer and a painting by Gerard Seghers.
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Pianos echoing in the quad, students spinning on contraptions in front of the Ackland Art Museum, muralists bringing life to the walls of the town. These were the sights and sounds of last school year's Arts Everywhere Day.
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In January of 2017 the Sheldon Peck Endowment was given to the Ackland Museum in Chapel Hill. This was the largest donation given to the Ackland Museum to date.
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A new exhibit at the Ackland Art Museum combines the works of seven master of fine arts students at UNC to explore the concept of time.
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The Focus on the Peck Collection at the Ackland Art Museum — on display from March 29 to June 4 — is the first public display of the Sheldon and Leena Peck collection donated in January.
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An exhibition of brightly colored kinetic sculptures have popped up around campus, giving students a new way to interact with art. The exhibition is called Los Trompos — Spanish for “the tops” — and is a collaboration between two Mexican designers, Héctor Esrawe and Ignacio Cadena.
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Construction occurring directly adjacent to the Ackland Art Museum will force the museum to close for two weeks starting Monday.
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As Chancellor Carol Folt announced that the Ackland Art Museum had received the largest donation ever, Leena Peck had tears rolling down her face.
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