Plan Your Weekend: July 26-29
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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
Bayard Wootten exhibit reminds viewers about the flow to living
“Bayard Wootten: Then and Now,” a new exhibit in Wilson Library, commemorates the library's collection of photographs by Bayard Wooten, who is considered by some to be North Carolina's greatest photographer.
Art and flowers come together this weekend with Art in Bloom
Spring has sprung — and so has the North Carolina Museum of Art. But this isn't your average enchanted garden. This weekend from Thursday through Sunday, the Art in Bloom festival will be held at the NCMA. Bringing color and beauty to the triangle are 50 floral arrangements from different designers and public exhibits.
UNC artists whittle, sew and print talent into profit
Studio art is not what comes to mind when thinking of money-making majors, but some UNC student artists are using their creativity to turn a profit by selling commissioned art.
Peter Marin brings abstract style to Horace Williams House
One could call Peter Marin’s art many things, such as colorful, robust or abstract. Quite often it is many things. Most of his paintings are made entirely of geometric shapes overlapping and interacting with each other.
New Ackland exhibit explores the "Woman Question"
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.
DREAMers paint the stories of undocumented immigrants in Durham exhibit
The Statue of Liberty has welcomed thousands of immigrants into the U.S. for over a century. Now, it also stands in works of art featured in Pleiades Arts that speak to the struggle immigrants to this country still face today. “DREAMers: DACA, Deportation Defense, and the American Dream” is a visual art exhibit currently on display at Pleiades Arts. It is a collaboration between the studio, Alerta Migratoria NC and the NC Dream Coalition.
NCMA's "Matrons of the Arts" initiative highlights female artists
According to the North Carolina Museum of Art, the word “matron” is no longer a derogatory term, but an elevating one.
Renzo Ortega's art brings influences from Peru to Chapel Hill
A gallery featuring artwork by Renzo Ortega will be on display at the John and June Allcott Gallery from Jan. 17 to Feb. 16, with an opening reception and artist talk on Jan. 25.
Asian Exchanges connects artwork from the East and West
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.
UNC photography class puts on 'Graphein' exhibition at FRANK Gallery
FRANK Gallery will be hosting "Graphein," an art photography exhibition put on by the ARTS 305 class at UNC-Chapel Hill from Dec. 5 to 22. The exhibition will feature the work of 10 students as they share their achievements from the semester.
Review: University Chamber Players bring the house down
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Department of Music presented the public with a free concert Monday night from University Chamber Players that filled Person Hall with sweet, sweet sounds.
Q&A with Director of Jazz Studies Jim Ketch
It's time to get jazzy — the UNC Jazz Band will be holding a scholarship benefit concert this Saturday, Dec. 2 in the James and Susan Moeser Auditorium in Hill Hall. Staff writer Krupa Kaneria spoke with Jim Ketch, a professor of Music and director of Jazz Studies, about his passion for jazz and about the concert.
The Kenan Theatre Company examines the purpose of art through 'The Kritik'
This Thursday, the Kenan Theatre Company will start a five-day run of The Kritik, a play set in a 19th century Russian bar about artists’ ceaseless quest for approval.
Irene Tison tells Gullah stories through her colorful paintings
The Alliance for Historic Hillsborough is collaborating with Mike’s Art Truck to display Irene Tison’s newest collection “Low Country Life.” The 22-painting collection will be on display in the Alexander Dickson house, the building that houses the Hillsborough Visitor Center, from Nov. 10, 2017 through Jan. 4, 2018.
Addled Muse Fire Theater plays with fire in 'Purgatoire'
Addled Muse Fire Theater put on their original show called “Purgatoire” on Saturday, Nov. 11, restaging it for another year due the success that it had last year. Through dance, music and fire, a French baroque-styled love story set in Purgatory was told.
Asian-American art and culture will be highlighted at film festival
UNC Mixed AAPI Student's Heritage (MASH), in its efforts to promote Asian-American and Pacific Islander culture, will host its first ever UNC CineMASH event on Friday from 6:00 to 9:30 p.m. The Asian-American film festival will be complete with dumplings and a discussion panel to talk about the issues brought up in the films after the event.
UNC Opera presents 'Cinderella'
This weekend, UNC Opera will be performing their version of Jules Émile Fréderic Massenet’s “Cendrillon,” translated to “Cinderella” in English, in the James and Susan Moeser Auditorium in Hill Hall. The Saturday performance will start at 8 p.m., and the Sunday performance will start at 7:30 p.m.
Hark the sound of new Tar Heel voices
If you haven’t heard at least one group singing in the Pit to promote their upcoming concerts this month, you're either enrolled in Kenan-Flagler Business School or you don’t go to UNC.
'Footnotes (revisions)' tells the story of student activists and Saunders Hall
Allcott Gallery in Hanes Art Building will host "Footnotes (revisions)" from Nov. 9 to Dec. 5. The exhibition will display materials from the Wilson Library and student activist groups that narrate the history of Carolina Hall.
