/tags/ackland-art-museum Ackland Art Museum en-US Copyright Thu, 22 Aug 2024 13:12:42 GMT /news/2024-08-22/unc-chapel-hill-ackland-art-museum-glasses-color-blind The museum is providing glasses for people who are color blind through a partnership with California-based company EnChroma. Thu, 22 Aug 2024 13:12:42 GMT /news/2024-08-22/unc-chapel-hill-ackland-art-museum-glasses-color-blind Sharryse Piggott /arts-culture/2024-02-15/nc-ackland-art-museum-native-american-indian-exhibition-past-forward-gilcrease A traveling exhibition debuts Friday at UNC-Chapel Hill's Ackland Art Museum, consisting of artwork from what's considered one of the nation's best collections of American Indian art. Thu, 15 Feb 2024 22:57:02 GMT /arts-culture/2024-02-15/nc-ackland-art-museum-native-american-indian-exhibition-past-forward-gilcrease Sophie Mallinson /arts-culture/2024-01-17/ackland-art-museum-jewish-restitution-armand-dorville-thomas-couture-world-war-two Chapel Hill's Ackland Art Museum returned a painting Tuesday that Nazi collaborators took from a Jewish family during World War II. Wed, 17 Jan 2024 17:56:12 GMT /arts-culture/2024-01-17/ackland-art-museum-jewish-restitution-armand-dorville-thomas-couture-world-war-two Sophie Mallinson /show/the-state-of-things/2020-11-06/artist-shanequa-gay-creates-space-for-honoring-breonna-taylor-with-acrylics-and-oils When a Kentucky grand jury failed to indict police officers responsible for killing 26-year-old Breonna Taylor, multidisciplinary artist Shanequa Gay… Fri, 06 Nov 2020 17:17:49 GMT /show/the-state-of-things/2020-11-06/artist-shanequa-gay-creates-space-for-honoring-breonna-taylor-with-acrylics-and-oils Kaia Findlay, Frank Stasio /arts-culture/2020-11-06/artist-shanequa-gay-creates-space-for-honoring-breonna-taylor-with-acrylics-and-oils When a Kentucky grand jury failed to indict police officers responsible for killing 26-year-old Breonna Taylor, multidisciplinary artist Shanequa Gay… Fri, 06 Nov 2020 17:17:49 GMT /arts-culture/2020-11-06/artist-shanequa-gay-creates-space-for-honoring-breonna-taylor-with-acrylics-and-oils Kaia Findlay, Frank Stasio /show/the-state-of-things/2019-04-03/the-beautiful-brain-in-science-and-art Santiago Ramón y Cajal had dreams of becoming an artist, not a doctor. But he followed his father’s urging and went to medical school, later earning a… Wed, 03 Apr 2019 15:58:10 GMT /show/the-state-of-things/2019-04-03/the-beautiful-brain-in-science-and-art Frank Stasio /science-technology/2019-04-03/the-beautiful-brain-in-science-and-art Santiago Ramón y Cajal had dreams of becoming an artist, not a doctor. But he followed his father’s urging and went to medical school, later earning a… Wed, 03 Apr 2019 15:58:10 GMT /science-technology/2019-04-03/the-beautiful-brain-in-science-and-art Jennifer Brookland /show/the-state-of-things/2016-06-14/burk-uzzle-life-behind-the-lens Burk Uzzle remembers taking pictures at the bus station when he was just a teenager living in eastern North Carolina. In high school, he worked part-time… Tue, 14 Jun 2016 16:15:42 GMT /show/the-state-of-things/2016-06-14/burk-uzzle-life-behind-the-lens Charlie Shelton-Ormond, Phoebe Judge /arts-culture/2016-06-14/burk-uzzle-life-behind-the-lens Burk Uzzle remembers taking pictures at the bus station when he was just a teenager living in eastern North Carolina. In high school, he worked part-time… Tue, 14 Jun 2016 16:15:42 GMT /arts-culture/2016-06-14/burk-uzzle-life-behind-the-lens Charlie Shelton-Ormond, Phoebe Judge /show/the-state-of-things/2015-05-13/the-land-of-no-things For some artists, making art is about creating something distinct from everything else that came before it. But in a new exhibit on view at The Ackland… Wed, 13 May 2015 16:34:27 GMT /show/the-state-of-things/2015-05-13/the-land-of-no-things Anita Rao, Frank Stasio