Ackland Art Museum

What do a Civil War-era plantation owner and a modern “girl boss” have in common? Adelicia Acklen and Dorothy Thomas were two of the most powerful plantation-owning women—one in the US South and the other in South America—but both wielded the power of ownership by deploying and playing on particular ideas of femininity.

Join Ackland educators for a lively half-hour look at a small handful of artworks in Care and Concern: Recent Acquisitions of Modern and Contemporary Art. These engaging conversational tours offer a closer look at and new perspectives on works on view at the Museum.

Join Peter Nisbet, deputy director for curatorial affairs, and Lauren Turner, associate curator for contemporary art for this tour of both exhibitions. In this tour, the curators of both Continental Shift: Recent Acquisitions of African Art and Care and Concern: Recent Acquisitions of Modern and Contemporary Art discuss the ways that the recently-acquired works of...