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Andrew Ellis Johnson, ‘Somewhere Over the Border’

Hanes Art Center, John and June Alcott Gallery University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

Through image and form across a variety of media, tactics and disciplines, Andrew Ellis Johnson explores social and political issues and injustices, wrestling with boundaries between aesthetic, political and moral orders. He treats representation — not as a hermetic mimetic pictorial … Read more

‘Nuclear Visions: The Atomic Photographers Guild,’ Exhibition

Hanes Art Center, John and June Alcott Gallery University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

The Atomic Photographers Guild (APG) is an international collective of artists dedicated to making visible all facets of the nuclear age. APG was created in 1987 by Robert Del Tredici, with founding members Carole Gallagher, Kenji Higuchi and Harris Fogel. APG documents the history, impact … Read more

Hanes Visiting Artist Lecture Series: Yong Soon Min

Hanes Art Center, Room 121 115 South Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

Born in a village near Seoul the year the Korean War ended with an armistice without peace and the continued division of the country, Yong Soon Min calls herself a Cold War baby. At age seven, she immigrated with her … Read more

Hanes Visiting Artist Lecture Series: Robert Jacobs, Hiroshima City University

Hanes Art Center, Room 121 115 South Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

Robert (Bo) Jacobs is a nuclear historian at Hiroshima City University. This lecture is part of the John and June Allcott Gallery exhibition, “Nuclear Visions: The Atomic Photographers Guild.” The Atomic Photographers Guild (APG) is an international collective of artists … Read more

Sonja Drimmer, ‘As if: Scopic Regime Change and the Wars of the Roses’

Hanes Art Center, Room 218 121 E Cameron Ave, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States

What does it mean to “see politically”? Is there a distinct form of visuality that is solicited by images and objects relating to governance and its proper realm of action? This presentation will focus on rare survivals of ephemera produced … Read more