Virtual Art Conversations

Robert Johnson

Wednesday, February 10, 10 AM via Zoom

CAM Members: $3; Non-Members: $8; Students and Teachers: Free

Join us for a conversation with Robert Johnson, whose major body of work is exhibited in Safe Places, now on view at CAM. This visual storyteller has chronicled the natural world on three continents in pencil, acrylic, watercolor, oil, and gouache on paper and canvas for over 40 years. His work echoes influences from late medieval Italian, American Folk, Indian Miniature, Tibetan Thangka, and Balinese painting traditions. Besides large-scale paintings, Safe Places includes his journal and notebook pages: intimate, annotated field observations of plants, birds, along with notes to himself.

Image Credit: Matt Peiken, BPR News, Robert Johnson and one of the family cats, Rose, outside his home in Celo, in mid-November 2020.

In-Person Workshop

Have Your Heart's Desire with Renato Abbate

Saturday, February 13, 11 AM-2 PM

CAM Members: $32; Non-Members: $40

Make and take the perfect gift for your sweetheart this Valentine's Day: a handmade hammered heart-shaped dish with your loving message stamped inside. This copper valentine comes with a delicious red velvet treat from CAM Café for you to share with your sweetheart, too! Your dessert will be boxed and ready to take with you for a sweet treat on the 14th.

Wilmington Symphony Orchestra

Second Sundays at CAM

Sunday, February 14, 2-3 PM

Adults: $10; Students and children under 19: Free

Step into the galleries on Sunday afternoons this winter and surround yourself with art and music at CAM. Members of the Wilmington Youth Symphony Orchestra will present an hour of music in the Hughes Wing. A limited number of seats will be available, socially distanced in the gallery. Preregistration suggested, limited seating.

Our Place in This World - International Landscape Artists - Hokusai

Virtual Class

Our Place in This World: International Landscape Artists with Luc Travers (Hokusai, Japanese 1760-1849)

Sunday, February 14, 2:30-4 PM

CAM Members: $12; Non-Members: $15

The goal of this series is to immerse ourselves into the worlds created by these artists, sensually, emotionally, and intellectually. We'll learn techniques for getting the most out of enjoying landscape paintings (including the use of music to enhance the mood of the landscape). We'll look deeply into each artist's world and examine what they had to say about our relationship with nature and our relationship with the universe. And we'll explore how the ideas in their landscapes reflected their personal lives and philosophies.