Window to the Humanities

How might an artist use the visual arts to suggest important qualities good leaders should possess -- things like duty, honor and service to country? How might images of leadership affect the ways that viewers understand leaders and leadership qualities?

This exhibition, which uses works from the Ackland's collection to pose questions such as these, was inspired by the Carolina Summer Reading Program's selection for 2004: David Lipsky's Absolutely American, Four Years at West Point. Lieutenant Colonel John Zornick of the UNC-Chapel Hill Army ROTC program offered his perspectives as an American military officer and a university professor to help plan this exhibition. Zornick, an alumnus of and former faculty member at West Point, teaches courses in leadership at UNC-Chapel Hill. The exhibition is organized in three themes that suggest for Museum visitors some ways to consider qualities that have become associated with great leaders: embodying ideals of leadership, narrating the challenges of leadership, and environments for teaching and testing ideal leadership.

This exhibition will be on view through October 17, 2004.