Ackland Upstairs Spring 2025 Install 1

January 8, 2025 - March 9, 2025

Painting with vertical stripes in shades of blue, white, black, and yellow.

Located on the second floor, Ackland Upstairs is a dynamic space, with art changing every eight weeks during the academic year. The Ackland staff collaborates with UNC-Chapel Hill faculty to create installations that support their courses, drawing from the thousands of artworks stored in the Museum’s vaults. As a result, there is always something new on view Upstairs, and always a new context in which to consider it. For faculty and students, Ackland Upstairs is an extension of their classroom. For all Ackland visitors, it offers a glimpse into the courses taught on campus and a window into the Museum’s extensive holdings.

 

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Spring 2025 Install 1 Course Checklists

Surf and Turf: Seascapes and Landscapes in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Art
Professor Tatiana String
Rembrandt van Rijn, Dutch, 1606-1669, Landscape with a Cow Drinking, etching and drypoint, 4 1/8 x 5 1/8 in. (10.5 x 13 cm). Gift of W. P. Jacocks, 58.2.182. Click on image to see uncropped.
The Visual and Graphic Narrative
Instructor Jo Klevdal
Dorothea Lange, American, 1895-1965, Toward Los Angeles, California, 1937, printed 1975, gelatin silver print, image: 7 1/2 x 7 3/8 in. (19 x 18.8 cm), sheet: 8 x 9 7/8 in. (20.3 x 25.1 cm). Ackland Fund, 75.19.28. Click on image to see uncropped.
Picture That: History of Photography from Tintypes to Instagram
Professor Carol Magee
Unidentified artist, American, African American Kids with Photo in Hand, mid-1970s, Polacolor 88, 3 3/8 × 3 1/4 in. (8.6 × 8.3 cm). Ackland Fund, 2017.24.18. Click on image to see uncropped.
Intermediate Creative Nonfiction Writing: Encounters with Art and Objects
Professor Julia Ridley Smith
Brassaï, French, born in Hungary, 1899-1984, Kiki with her friends Thérèse Treize de Caro and Lily, c. 1932, gelatin silver print, image: 8 1/4 × 11 1/4 in. (21 × 28.6 cm), sheet: 10 1/4 × 11 7/8 in. (26 × 30.2 cm). Gift of Gene Thornton, 2007.15.1. © Estate of Brassaï - RMN-Grand Palais. Click to see image uncropped.
People and Environment in Southeast Asia
Professor Christian Lentz
Dinh Q. Lê, Vietnamese, 1968 - 2024, Untitled #9 from Cambodia: Splendor and Darkness, 1998, chromogenic print, frame: 33 x 84 1/2 in. (83.8 x 214.6 cm). Ackland Fund, 2002.5. © 1998 Dinh Q. Lê. Click on image to see uncropped.

Cornelia Thomsen, German, born 1970, Stripes 78, 2014, oil on canvas, 48 × 36 in. (121.9 × 91.4 cm). Gift of The Brodey Family, 2015.7. © 2015 Cornelia Thomsen.