Safe Places: Robert Johnson Gallery Tour with Botanist Ken Moore Wednesday, March 31, 11 AM Free with museum admission
Botanist Ken Moore will lead an intimate gallery tour of Safe Places: Robert Johnson. Moore served for 33 years as Assistant Director managing the North Carolina Botanical Garden, UNC-CH. Following retirement he has remained quite active as teacher and camp counselor for K-5 at School House of Wonder, an all-outdoor experiential nature school located along the Eno River in Durham, NC. With founding director of the NC Botanical Garden, Moore co-edited the successful Growing and Propagating North Carolina Wildflowers. Most recently he co-edited Paul Green’s Plant Book: An Alphabet of Flowers and Folklore. In 2005, Moore was the awarded the Tom Dodd, Jr. Plantsman Award of the annual Landscaping with Native Plants Conference for his many years of service promoting native plant conservation and education.
Moore worked closely with Robert Johnson from 2001-2016 leading workshops at Penland School of Craft in meditative observation, sketching and painting from nature. Moore will share Johnson’s technique from beginning sketches in the field to selected finished paintings included in Safe Places with examples of Johnson’s class sketching notebooks and color charts. |
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Safe Places: Robert Johnson Gallery Talk with Chris Helms Thursday, April 1, 7-8 PM Free with museum admission
Tour the Safe Places exhibition by NC artist Robert Johnson with the Superintendent of Carolina Beach State Park, Chris Helms. Chris has spent over 29 years immersed in the natural and cultural history of North Carolina. As a park ranger, he is dedicated to land conservation, park interpretation, and education of our critical watersheds and habitats. |
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Exhibition Just Us Art Show On view Thursday, April 1-Sunday, April 18
Enjoy an installation of art works by students who participated in the Just Us program, a partnership between Cameron Art Museum, New Hanover County Schools, University of North Carolina at Wilmington, the Resiliency Task Force of New Hanover County, the Harrelson Center, Dreams Center for Arts Education, and Brigade Boys and Girls Club, Thursday, April 1 – Sunday, April 18 in the reception hall. The Just Us program teaches resiliency to middle school students through art. This spring’s students worked with artist Dare Coulter. |
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Spring Classes & Summer Kids@CAMp Registration Now Open
Image by teaching artist Janice Castiglione, In-Person Painting Workshop - Still Life Watercolor |
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| In-Person Painting Class Plein Air in Spring with Todd Carignan Tuesdays, April 6-27, 9 AM-12 PM CAM Members: $152 Non-Members: $190 |
| Travel to select sites in Wilmington to paint the new color and light of the season. Follow in the footsteps of the Impressionists as you take your paints and easel to locations in the great outdoors. |
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| In-Person Drawing Class Fractured with Carolyn Faulkner Wednesdays, April 7 & 14 10 AM-12 PM CAM Members: $52 Non-Members: $65 |
| Select an element from one of Robert Johnson's pieces in the museum to draw. Using graphite pencil and colored pencil to divide the drawing into sections to create a stained glass effect. This may be interpreted on a philosophical or emotional level including everything from the state of our world as you see it to something that brings you pure joy! |
| | Robert Johnson (American, b. 1944), Piedmont Parks [detail], acrylic and oil on canvas. On loan from Blue Spiral 1, Asheville, NC. |
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| In-Person Drawing Class Expressive Drawing with September Krueger Fridays, April 9-23, 10 AM-12:30 PM CAM Members: $96 Non-Members: $120 |
| Has drawing been a refuge for you in the past months? Let's reconnect in the studio and draw together. While we are small in number, let's work large in scale. Compose an expressive, large scale self-portrait in a collaborative environment. |
| | Jose Bernal,(Cuban 1925-2010), Untitled, ink on paper |
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| In-Person Sculpture Class Kids Metal with Renato Abbate Wednesdays, April 7-May 12 4:30-6:30 PM CAM Members: $152 Non-Members: $190 |
| Afterschool introduction to working with metal. Try a variety of techniques and tools, including wire mobiles, relief copper, steel figures and blacksmithing. |
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| Bill Alston Thursday, April 1, 6-8 PM |
| | Josh Youse Saturday, April 3, 11:30 AM-1:30 PM |
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Virtual Design NC 2021 Modernism to Maximalism: Form and Function Reimagined Thursday, April 29 and Friday, April 30
Inspiration comes in all forms: modernist and maximalist, interiors and exteriors, in person and virtually! Join Design NC and the Cameron Art Museum on April 29th and April 30th as we live stream presentations from influential and renowned interior designers Thom Filicia and Celerie Kemble along with modernist architect Robert Gurney and ornamental and architectural plaster craftsman Foster Reeve. This year’s conversations will be set in a virtual forum where participants will enjoy live discussions on these varying design aesthetics as we explore how they differ and how they might be the same. |
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| This project was supported by the N.C. Arts Council, a division of the Department of Natural & Cultural Resources. |
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