SPEND SUMMER AT CAM

Cameron Art Museum is the place to be this summer!

All our exhibition spaces are open all summer with incredible works of art.

Thomas Sayre: Four Walls is a powerful new exhibit featuring new and never exhibited works by American artist Thomas Sayre. Inspired by the artist’s own personal spiritual journey, Thomas Sayre: Four Walls invites visitors to contemplate their own place in the world. The Work of Their Hands: American Quiltmaking explores the continuing legacy of quilt-making and the evolution of textile art, starting with traditional quilts made for bedcoverings to contemporary fabric artworks by artists like Celeste Butler, Michael Cummings, Gee’s Bend quilters, Michael James, Beverly Smith and others. 5: Five Years of Acquisitions is a brand new exhibition opening June 21 featuring new acquisitions from over the past five years. Artists featured include Rick Beck, Alexander Calder, Marc Chagall, Judy Chicago, Willie Cole, Karen Paden Crouch, Salvador Dali, Phil Freelon, Clarence Heyward, Henri Matisse, Robert Motherwell, Ben Owens, Pablo Picasso, Alison Saar, Rosalia Torres-Weiner, Burk Uzzle, and Andy Warhol, among others.

Learn something new and get creative. Spend the summer making art in our Pancoe Education Building. Browse our Summer Museum School catalog and explore classes and workshops in painting, drawing, clay and more. Also, explore Summer CAMps for children of all ages. There is still time to register!

Our Museum Shopfeatures the best in unique one-of-a-kind items, many created by local artists.CAM Caféis open for lunch, weekend brunch, and Thursday night dinner with an eclectic menu and incredible craft cocktails and drink specials. Whether you are joining us for lunch, sitting at the bar or enjoying the evening outdoors in the CAM Café courtyard listening to live music, CAM Café is always a great place to be especially in the summer. Museum admission is never required to enjoy the Museum Shop or CAM Café.

In addition to inside CAM, summer visitors can enjoy our beautiful museum grounds featuring Boundlesssituated in the PNC USCT Park.

See you this summer at CAM!

Featured Programs

MARY'S ART EXPLORERS: THE MUSEUM

THURS, MAY 23 @ 10:00-11:00 AM

CAM Members: $5 per adult/child

Not-Yet Members: $10 per adult/child

Children Ages 2 and Under: Free

This week we will read The Museum by Susan Verde, art by Peter H. Reynolds, and followed by an art activity!

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VIRTUAL TALK ABOUT ART:PRECIOUS LOVELL

THURS, MAY 23 @ 6:00 PM

Free; Pre-registration Required

Join us for a virtual conversation with Precious Lovell around her inspiration and artistic practice. Intrigued by clothing since her childhood, Lovell uses textiles to illustrate how the past is influencing the present.

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THESE BEAUTIFUL BLOOMS WILL GROW ON YOU!

Featured: Sunflower - $139 (CAM Members $125.10) Medium Button - $142 (CAM Members $127.80)

Take New York by Design!

Enter for a chance to win a getaway to New York's Plaza Hotel!

Including opportunities for studio tours with interior designers Corey Damen Jenkins, Foster Reeve, and Christopher Spitzmiller.

Tickets: $100

Only 200 tickets will be sold

ON VIEW

Thomas Sayre: Four Walls

Four Walls features new and never exhibited works by American artist Thomas Sayre. Each of the four large-scale pieces in the installation questions the belief systems and symbols that underpin the ideals of church, nation and creation. Made of materials that include tar, smoke, fabric gowns, gunshots, welding material, earth and fire, these works invite visitors to draw close and experience the messiness of making, and by analogy, to bear witness to the ways that life invades, entangles, and tarnishes us.

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Stay in the Light:

Works by Charles Edward Williams

In Stay in the Light, South Carolina artist Charles Edward Williams draws inspiration from historical photography of the Civil Rights movement, offering a contemporary response to social and political issues of the past and present. His paintings and focus on human emotion and our connectedness and commonality. Stay in the Light includes new work created for this exhibition, as well as work from Williams's Sun and Light series.

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The Work of Their Hands: American Quiltmaking

The Work of Their Hands explores the continuing legacy of quilt-making and the evolution of textile art, starting with traditional quilts made for bedcoverings to contemporary fabric artworks by artists including Brittney Boyd Bullock, Celeste Butler, Robin Cowley, Michael Cummings, Gee’s Bend quilters, Michael James, Precious Lovell, Katie Pasquini Masopust, Carolyn Mazloomi, Mary Pal, Hattie Schmidt, Beverly Smith, The Advocacy Project, and others.

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MUSEUM SCHOOL CLASSES & WORKSHOPS

BREAKFAST WITH THE BIRDS

Instructor: Alan Cradick

Gathering at 7 AM on Saturday morning, participants will have a front row seat to observe the black skimmer colony catching fish and feeding their young.



Adults: All Levels

Sat, June 1, 7-9 AM & Sun, June 2, 12-2 PM

CAM Members: $52

Not-Yet Members: $65

Supplies: See Supply List Here

SLAB BUILT BUTTER DISH

Instructor: Shannon Gehen

Create a hand build butter dish using slab technique.



Adult: All Levels

Thurs, May 30, 6-9 PM

CAM Members: $64

Not-yet Members: $80



Supplies: See Supply List Here

Illustration by Maria Liberto Bessette from Urban Sketchers Wilmington NC

CAM CAFE

Lunch:

Tues-Fri 11 AM-2 PM

Dinner:

Thurs 5-8 PM



Enjoy FREE gallery admission Thursday evenings when you join us for drinks or dinner.

Brunch:

Sat & Sun 10 AM-2 PM

No museum admission is ever needed to enjoy CAM Café.

Join us today!  Call (910) 777-2363 for reservations

LIVE! AT CAM CAFÉ

WARREN DARRELL

THURS, MAY 23, 6-8 PM

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