Event update: FlowILM Postponed

The evening event FlowILM is postponed due to inclement weather.

A rescheduled date will be announced soon.

Join us inside during the day 2-3:30 pm for Solstice Cycles

Traces of the Enmeshment: The River Home

Performance

SOLSTICE CYCLES - Traces of the Enmeshment: The River Home

Saturday, April 22, 2023, 2-3:30 PM

Free with museum admission

SOLSTICE CYCLES is an experimental, collaborative Improv Project between

Karola Luettringhaus with Alban Elved Dance Company and Carl Kruger with the

Slow Ear Ensemble.

The focus of the project is the contemplation and celebration of earthly phenomena, cycles, and seasons. “We are ultimately and unchangeably interconnected with what we call "the environment". That which we exhale the trees inhale, and that which the trees exhale, we in turn inhale. We are enmeshed. If it is on earth, it is somehow part of us, no matter what it looks like. The awareness of enmeshment begins within us.” Guests will experience a live performance of sound, dance, and projections.

The audience is invited to sit and observe or move and create sound with the performers. This program supports our annual interdisciplinary understanding of earth and the environment through the arts.

Upcoming program:

The Kudzu Queen with Mimi Herman

Sunday April 30, 2023

Book Buzz

The Kudzu Queen with Mimi Herman

Sunday, April 30, 2023, 1-2 PM

CAM Members: $20; Not-Yet Members: $25

Join author Mimi Herman for a discussion on her latest novel about Mattie Lee Watson, a sharp, spunky, and courageous heroine.

Mimi is a Kennedy Center teaching artist, director of the United Arts Council Arts Integration Institute and co-director of Writeaways writing workshops in France, Italy, and New Mexico. She has taught in the Masters of Education programs at Lesley University, served as the 2017 North Carolina Piedmont Laureate, and been an associate editor for Teaching Artist Journal. She is the author of A Field Guide to Human Emotions, Logophilia, and The Art of Learning. Mimi has performed her poetry and fiction at venues ranging from Why There Are Words in Sausalito to

Symphony Space in New York City.

Mattie Lee Watson’s story and character developed as Herman learned about the kudzu bonanza that permeated the Southern U.S. in the 1930s and 40s. In The Kudzu Queen, Herman introduces James T. Cullowee, the self-proclaimed “Kudzu King” who arrives in 15-year-old Mattie’s hometown in Cooper County, North Carolina in 1941 to spread the gospel of kudzu—claiming that it will improve the soil, feed cattle at almost no cost, and even cure headaches. As Cullowee sets out to sell Cooper County on the future of kudzu, organizing a countywide festival capped off by the crowning of the Kudzu Queen, Mattie sets her sights on winning both the crown and Cullowee.