| CAM CAFÃ: Come and enjoy the Café's new March menus for Lunch Tuesday - Saturday 11:00 am - 3:00 pm, and Sunday Brunch 10:00 am - 3:00 pm. Wind down on Wednesday evenings with small plate meals and refreshments,Thursdays offer a full dinner menu 5:00 pm - 9:00 pm. Reservations are suggested and always appreciated. RESERVE NOW FOR: Easter Brunch with music by Al DiMarco on accordion and  keyboard and Low Country Boil with Wine Tasting before oyster season wraps. For details and to make reservations call 910.777.2363. "Young Musical Stars" - UNCW Community Music Academy Students  Wednesday March 16 7:00 pm CAM Members and Students with valid college ID: $5.00, Non-Members: $8.00 Weyerhaeuser Reception Hall In their first outreach performance UNC Wilmington's Community Music Academy (CMA) students, ages 5 -18, present a varied repertoire om violin, piano, viola and cello. Inspired and led by Dr. Danijela Zezelj-Gualdi, Artistic Director of CMA, join in supporting Wilmington's young musical talent. Purchase seats by phone and at the door.
LUNCH & LEARN ILLUSTRATED LECTURE: Jan Davidson, Historian "Claude Howell's 1940s: Wilmington, New York, Europe" Thursday March 17 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm Program Only: CAM/CFM Members and Students with valid college ID: $5.00, Non-Members: $8.00  CAM Café Box Lunch: $15.00 (drink, tax & tip included) Weyerhaeuser Reception Hall It's Claude Howell's birthday, come experience the 1940s through his eyes and lunch while you learn! By the end of his life, Claude Howell (March 17, 1915 - February 3, 1997) was an artist, a raconteur, and a fixture in the Wilmington cultural scene. What was his life like before he had a national reputation? Join Cape Fear Museum Historian Jan Davidson as she explores Claude Howell's life and experiences in the late 1940s, a pivotal time in his artistic and professional life. See Wilmington, New York and Europe through Howell's diaries and scrapbooks. Held in conjunction with the exhibition Reflections in Black and White on view at the Cape Fear Museum. Call CAM Café for box lunch order by 3:00 pm Wednesday Mar. 16: 910.777.2363, no outside food allowed. Purchase program seats by phone and at the door. TWO NEW EXHIBITIONS/ONE MEMBER OPENING RECEPTION: She Tells a Story (On view March 19 - September 11 2016) AND 
Patchwork North America Paintings by Virginia Wright-Frierson (On view March 19 - July 17, 2016) Friday March 18 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm 6:30 pm: Remarks CAM Members and Guests: $10 per person Brown Wing Be among the first to experience two new exhibitions while enjoying light refreshments, cash bar and music by Jude Eden, cello.
DANCE: Works-in-Progress Showcase Sunday March 20 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm Free and open to the public Weyerhaeuser Reception Hall The Dance Cooperative, in association with Cameron Art Museum, provides informal showings to afford working choreographers and dancers a place to present works in progress to be reviewed and critiqued in a nurturing environment. The public is invited to witness the creative process through its many stages and provide assistance to help the creator grow and manipulate the works to realize their concepts to the fullest potential. |
CURRENT AND UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS:
She Tells a Story Brown Wing On view March 19 - September 11, 2016 From Mary Cassatt and Minnie Evans to Barbara Chase-Riboud and Shahzia Sikander, She Tells a Story celebrates the work of women artists from CAM's permanent collection and connects the art forms of visual and literary arts. Highlighting this long historical relationship, CAM has invited fifteen Wilmington-area women writers to contribute text (of their chosen format) on select works from the exhibition. The juxtaposition of the artwork with the written word will illuminate how these artists and writers explore their experiences, perspectives and world views through their chosen medium. Writers participating in this exhibition include: Anna Lena Phillips Bell; Karen E. Bender; Wendy Brenner; Maylee Chai; Cara Cilano; Amrita Das; Nina de Gramont; Dina Greenberg; Malena Mörling; Khalisa Kelly Rae; Celia Rivenbark; Gwenyfar Rohler; Emily Smith; Bertha Todd and Margo Williams. CAM organized with exhibition brochure. Sponsored by Corning.
Patchwork North America Paintings by Virginia Wright-Frierson Brown Wing Film Room On view March 19 - July 17, 2016  From extensive travel by road and by air, Wright-Frierson has created over one hundred paintings framing scenes, as if looking through a window, across the United States and Canada. She describes her intent, "We do see pollution and trash, factories, car accidents and roadwork, graffiti even on cactus and near petroglyphs, and much of North America is prairie that seems empty and vastness and endless unchanging for miles on end. But what I want to paint is the power of nature evidenced in storms, erosion, rock formations, and water; the adaptation of plants and animals to any environment, from the high mountains and glacial lakes of Banff, Ontario to the deserts of Arizona, the unspoiled variation, and the spirit and celebration of survival." Wright-Frierson's broad- ranging career is distinguished as painter, award-winning children's book author, illustrator, and large-scale public installation artist to include her celebrated bottle house inspired by artist Minnie Evans at Airlie Gardens, Wilmington, NC, and her extraordinary ceiling mural of evergreens and aspens reaching for the sunlight, installed at Columbine High School, Littleton, Colorado. CAM organized with exhibition brochure.
The Bones Of Sculpture by Dustin Farnsworth Hughes Wing  On view through June 5, 2016 CAM debuts its new acquisition to the permanent collection in context of seven other works by this rising artist. Inspired by 19th century architecture of the theatre, Farnsworth reflects, "I create a lush, emotionally-charged rabbit hole to fall into and explore. These sculptures act as anthropological studies of cultural, familial and social heredity of a culture in the interim of post-industry and the coming age." Farnsworth, a recent resident artist at Penland School of Craft (2012-2015) is now continuing his studio practice as a Windgate resident and Honorary Fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (2015-2016).
Hughes Wing  On view through July 10, 2016 Considered to be the oldest front curtain for a theatre in the Americas, the original 1858 curtain from historic Thalian Hall Center for the Performing Arts, Wilmington, NC, travels to CAM for conservation. Painted by Hudson River inspired artist, Russell Smith (Glasgow, Scotland 1812 - Glenside, PA, 1896), the 14 x 32 foot curtain features a scene from ancient Greece: A bustling harbor at the foot of Apollo's temple where stripe-sailed galleys dock to hear oracles read on the eve of the Olympic games. Visitors can compare old and new in witnessing local artists paint a new full scale replica of Thalian's original curtain in the exhibition galleries. 
This project was supported by the NC Arts Council, a division of the Department of Cultural Resources |
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