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UNC centers respond to spending review

By Tat'yana Berdan | October 31

The Morehead Planetarium, the Ackland Art Museum and the Carolina Women’s Center are among 26 UNC-CH centers and institutes under a UNC Board of Governors ...

Walk Chapel Hill sign in front of the Courthouse gives directions to pedestrians to different downtown and campus destinations.

Signs make walking Chapel Hill easier

By Shantan Krovvidi | October 8

Chapel Hill is looking to better market itself to visitors by touting its assets on signs downtown.

Ackland Art Museum, located on Franklin Street, opened its new exhibit "PhotoVision" on Thursday evening. The exhibit features around 150 photographs tracing the history of photography from the nineteenth century to the twenty-first century. The photographs were arranged in areas including "Photography and Multiplicity", "Sacred Spaces", "Process and Product", and "Staging the Image".

Ackland Art Museum braces for budget cuts

By Sarah Vassello | September 19

During the course of the semester, UNC students and Chapel Hill residents will visit the Ackland Art Museum to see the fall exhibitions: “PhotoVision: ...

On view near you for Sept. 10, 2014

By Gabriella Cirelli and Erin Wygant | September 10

Students and community members have until Nov. 30 to see the Ackland Art Museum’s exhibit of contemporary Japanese ceramics from the collection of Carol ...

Ackland shares its art during lunch

By Everett Handy | August 26

Bagged lunches and art analysis will bring together students and community members today at the Ackland Art Museum

Ackland Art Museum to complete digitization of Asian collections due to recent grant

By Sarah Vassello | July 25

Unbeknownst to many, one of the southeast’s best Asian art collections lives at the Ackland, right at UNC’s doorstep.

Ackland given Award of Excellence for ‘More Love’ exhibit

By Sarah Vassello | May 19

Since being honored on May 5, the Ackland Art Museum may agree with the Beatles: love is all you need.

Leaving the Table, an exhibition of new woodwork by Bill Neville, is on display at the Ackland Museum Store from Feb. 14 until March 30. This Chapel Hill artist's exhibit includes four newly crafted tables, a series of mirrors and many turned vessels in a variety of woods. Leaving the Table also includes a large photo montage chronicling Bill Neville's career.

Bill Neville's exhibition 'Leaving the Table' on display at Ackland Museum Store

By clayton johnson | February 16

Bill Neville has been cutting, carving, smoothing and displaying wood for more than 35 years. Now, he’s ready to try something new.

Ackland unveils new spring exhibits

By Sarah Vassello | January 30

Throughout a span of 350 years, a lot can change. Great art, however, remains timeless.

Q&A with Ackland's Emily Kass

By Josephine Yurcaba | August 17

This year the Ackland Art Museum has major plans to get the community more involved in its work. Emily Kass, director of the Ackland, spoke to Josephine ...

Ackland Museum Store hosts garden-themed pottery exhibit

By Samantha Sabin | July 15

The Ackland Museum Store will bring the great outdoors inside in its new garden-themed pottery show opening Friday.

Ackland Art Museum unveils new exhibits

By McKenzie Coey | June 11

The Ackland Art Museum’s upcoming exhibitions feature two exhibits titled “Adding to the Mix” and “In Pursuit of Strangeness.”

Kidzu Children’s Museum is planning to open a new location in the Wallace Deck by 2016.

Parking deck undergoes structural evaluation

By Taylor Greene | June 4

As Kidzu Children’s Museum plans a move to the Wallace Parking Deck on East Rosemary Street, the site is undergoing a structural evaluation.

Q&A with Ackland Art Museum curator Timothy Riggs

By McKenzie Coey | June 4

Every other month, the Ackland Art Museum invites members of the community to bring works of art to have a curator evaluate the significance of the art ...

Thorps say goodbye to the small city

By Andy Willard | May 28

Chancellor Holden Thorp and his wife will leave behind more than just their beloved University when they move to St. Louis next month.

The opening of Steamworks: Art, Stories, & Adornments, an exploration of the thematic genre of Steampunk at The Ackland Museum Store

Steampunk show merges art, fantasy, steam technology

By James Butler | May 22

Steampunk has invaded the Ackland Museum Store. The artistic genre — which takes the lens of steam technology to traditional science fiction — now ...

UNC studio art, art departments collaborate for ‘Sincerely Yours’

By Breanna Kerr | April 24

UNC’s departments of studio art and art history don’t often work together. But for the first time at UNC, these two departments will display their ...

Plays to be performed in Ackland for 'Activated Art' series

By Samantha Sabin | April 4

To a group of playwrights, paintings and sculptures at the Ackland Art Museum are worth more than just a thousand words — they are worth a whole one-act ...

‘Water of Life’ exhibit expresses global issues

By Breanna Kerr | March 18

The water of life is not necessarily in liquid form. But Nigerian-born artist Bright Ugochukwu Eke uses water — in different forms — as an underlying ...

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At his gallery at the Hanes Art Center

Q&A with artist Damian Stamer

By Elizabeth Baker | February 27

As part of the UNC art department’s Master of Fine Arts exhibition series, “Your Turn to Burn,” graduate student Damian Stamer’s paintings are ...