Category: Arts

Photogrammar is a web-based platform for organizing, searching, and visualizing the 170,000 photographs from 1935 to 1945 created by the United States Farm Security Administration and Office of War Information (FSA-OWI) created by Yale University. In order to place the … Read more

A Medieval ‘First in Flight’ is an interdisciplinary project at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. It focuses on ‘Abbas Ibn Firnas (d. 887 CE), a celebrated polymath of Córdoba, the capital of early Islamic Spain. ‘Abbas Ibn … Read more

What forms of scholarship become possible when we reconceive of the spaces between readers, writers, and texts as thresholds rather than boundaries? as dynamic zones of embroilment rather than definitive limit-points? In an effort to answer this question, this project … Read more

Media and the Movement: Journalism, Civil Rights, and Black Power in the American South is directed by Joshua Clark Davis, Assistant Professor at the University of Baltimore and Seth Kotch, Assistant Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel … Read more

The Black Lunch Table (BLT) is an ongoing collaboration between artist and UNC Assistant Professor of Art Jina Valentine and New York-based, media and social-practice artist, Heather Hart. First staged in 2005 at the preeminent artist residency Skowhegan School of … Read more

In 1625, Nicholas Ferrar and his mother Mary left London to found the Anglican community of Little Gidding. There, the extended Ferrar family practiced a rigorous schedule of communal devotion: they prayed and sang together at appointed hours; children read … Read more

The Digital Humanities Project “GWonline, the Bibliography, Filmography and Webography on Gender and War since 1600” : http://gwc.unc.edu/welcome  GWonline collects and organizes secondary literature, women’s autobiographies, films and informative websites on this subject to make them available to the public … Read more

IDEA Music | Musica IDEA explores what it means to read the arcane notation and page designs of 16th-century music. With an initial focus on the frottola (song) books of the first music printer, Ottaviano Petrucci, IDEA Music illustrates applications … Read more

In 2011, with generous support from the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, the Ackland began a series of projects that engage graduate students at UNC-Chapel Hill in interpreting works of art in our collection. In each of the project years, teams … Read more

Psychasthenia 2 is the latest work by Psychasthenia Studio.Psychasthenia 2 is an interactive artwork that explores the culture of psychological diagnosis and treatment within the context of a highly mediated consumer culture that often produces the ills it purports to … Read more

The Consolidated Clothing and Costumes Archives provides web support for several collections of garments associated, primarily, with university and professional theatrical costume programs. It is an extension of the Costar web archive that was used for several years by the … Read more

The African American Performance Art Archive makes crucial documentation of historically significant performances by African American artists available on-line to artists, scholars, and students in the spirit of intellectual exchange. This is also a preservation project. Data for the archive … Read more