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Tuesday, April 4, 2023

CAM Exhibition Spotlight:

Final Week to See 60+

Like all good things, 60+ must come to an end. Sunday is the last day to see this very popular exhibition that explores the love of community and art that is Cameron Art Museum's legacy.

Beginning in 1962 with St. John’s Museum of Art through the CAM’s expansion and growth of its collection thanks to gifts of patrons, 60+ has been a chance to look at the past as well as forward to a bold future.

This is your last chance to walk within the recreation of Claude Howell's Carolina Towers apartment alongside Howell works from CAM's permanent collection.

Visit the postwar modernist and postmodernist prints from the Belden collection juxtaposed with the collection of prints by American Impressionist Mary Cassatt.

Cameron Art Museum has the largest museum collection of works by Minnie Evans many of which are on display alongside ephemera like this Airlie Gardens gatehouse admission sign in a dedicated gallery to the artist as part of 60+.

This is your last chance to see the costumes from HBO's Treme designed by Alonzo V. Wilson. These works with their plethora of feathers and amazing embroidery fill the gallery space.

This is also your last chance to see Flying School by Canadian artist Diane Landry. This work fills has transformed the gallery into a beautiful mediative space.

Visit 60+ this week to see all these incredible works before they go!

Art Enhances Health at CAM

Registration now open!

CAM invites the community to explore the way art helps healing by improving mental health and emotional well-being.

Art Enhances Health at CAM provides a relaxing and creative outlet to express emotions and be heard. The hope is to provide a distraction from pain and to control anxiety, depression and low self esteem in patients.

To learn more and to register, please email lifelonglearning@cameronartmuseum.org

or call 910-726-9486.

Own a Limited Edition Signed Claude Howell Serigraph of Your Own!

While CAM’s 60+ Years exhibition featuring works by Claude Howell is closing this week, you can buy a piece of his work to appreciate for years to come. The CAM Shop has three limited edition Claude Howell serigraphs available.

Waiting for the Shrimp Boat - $750

Numbered and signed by Claude Howell

Three Men on a Shrimper - $750

Numbered and signed by Claude Howell

October Sunlight - $550

Numbered but not signed

Each one is shrink-wrapped and backed with foamcore. As always 10% off for CAM members!

DesignNC Classicism Reimagined

May 4 & 5, 2023 at CAM

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FREE CAM Community Days and more

making art more accessible to everyone!

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Featured Programs

Mary's Art Explorers

Let's Learn About Colors!

Thursday, April 6, 2023, 10-11 AM

CAM Members: $3 per child/adult

Non-Members: $6 per child/adult

Children 2 and under: free

Let’s learn about colors! We will celebrate the last week of our exhibition 60+ by exploring the colors we find in the art and making masterpieces of our own.

Art Explorers is geared towards infants, toddler and preschoolers, but big brothers and sisters are welcome to join and create art with us. Space is limited so preregister to guarantee your spot!

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Jazz@CAM

Skip Walker feat. Travis Shook

Thursday, April 6, 2023, 7 PM

CAM Members: $35; Not Yet Members: $55

Skip Walker is a drummer, composer, producer, educator, and Episcopal Priest. He is a graduate of Boston’s prestigious Berklee College of Music (the world’s foremost institution for the study of Jazz and modern American music) where he studied with renown drummers John Ramsay, Skip Hadden, and Ed Uribe.

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American Sign Language Tour

Saturday, April 8, 2023, 11 AM

Free; pre-registration required

Join us for an inclusive tour interpreted in ASL. Two interpreters will be provided.

Upcoming Programs

In Conversation Series

Stephen Hayes with Daniel Jones

Thursday, April 13, 2023, 6 PM

CAM Members: $15;

Not-Yet Members: $20

Stephen L. Hayes, Jr. has just returned from Kehinde Wiley's Black Rock Artist Residency in Senegal. Come hear from this art world rising star about his work on Boundless as well as future project as he sits with CAM's cultural curator Daniel Jones.

Tour

Connections Monday

Monday, April 17, 2023

10:30 AM-12:30 PM

Free; pre-registration required

Sold Out

Enjoy a morning of music in the galleries, adapted exhibition exploration, as well as optional hands-on activities and the choice to bring a boxed lunch to enjoy in our café or courtyard area. Geared towards individuals in the earlier stages of Alzheimers and dementia, this program is offered on Mondays when we are otherwise closed to the public to ensure a quiet and calm environment. Groups or individuals with their loved ones are welcome.

Membership

New Member Coffee

Wednesday, April 19, 10-11 AM

Free; CAM members only

New CAM Members are invited

to a Member Coffee to meet Executive Director Anne Brennan and learn about CAM's history.

Tour of the galleries following the coffee is optional.

Mary's Art Explorers

Earthday

Thursday, April 20, 2023, 10-11 AM

CAM Members: $3 per child/adult Non-Members: $6 per child/adult

Children 2 and under: free

In celebration of Earth Day, we will talk about ways we can take care of our environment and create art out of recycled materials.

Art Explorers is geared towards infants, toddler and preschoolers, but big brothers and sisters are welcome to join and create art with us. Space is limited so preregister to guarantee your spot!

Earth Day 2023

Earth Day Film Screenings

Thursday, April 20, 6:30-8 PM

6:30-7 PM Confluence (12 min) & FlowILM (13 min), presented by Gene Felice

7 PM Freedom Hill (28 min)

7:30 PM Discussion with Director Resita Fox

$10 suggested donation

Join us for screenings of short documentaries in honor of Earth Day 2023. Learn about FlowILM 2022 and the Confluence/Algae Society exhibition (2022) in two sort documentaries produced by the OUR team at UNCW. Confluence featured a multi-sensory art and science experience presenting the human+algal relationship and their complex roles in climate change.

Freedom Hill introduces the present day impact of climate change alongside environmental justice. Princeville, NC is the first town incorporated by freed, formerly enslaved Africans in America. This historical significance sits on a precipice: it is gradually being washed away. Freedom Hill is a short documentary exploring the environmental racism washing away the town of under 2,000.

Enjoy Easter Brunch at CAM Cafe!

CAM Café

Hours

Lunch: Tues-Fri 11 AM-2 PM

Dinner: Thurs 5-8 PM

Brunch: Sat & Sun 10 AM-2 PM

Call (910) 777-2363 for reservations

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Live Music

at CAM Café

Chris Castagno

Saturday, April 8, 11:30 AM - 1:30 PM

Tai Chi

with Jay Stempin

Fridays from 9-9:50 AM

Admission: $15

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2023 Spring Course Catalogue

Museum School Classes & Workshops

Colored Pencil Drawing

Instructor: Carolyn Faulkner

Colored pencils can create soft pastel effects or look like a painting! Learn layering techniques with different colors to create depth and 3-dimension. Values will be explored with the illusion of a painterly effect. Choose your own meaningful subject matter. Anything from frogs to fruit to flowers! Adult: All Levels -

Saturday, April 8, 10am -2pm

CAM member: $68

Not-yet-member: $85

Printmaking Studies: Linocut

Instructor: Antoinette Vogt

Explore the relief printmaking method of Linocut to create striking images. Students will learn the basics of planning and carving their design into the linoleum block, inking and printing. The class will explore printing in black ink to create bold images as well as multi color printing by using a blended roll to create a unique effect. Tap into your creativity and see what you can create! Please come to first class with an images or ideas you want to translate into a print. Adult: All Levels -

Thursdays, April 6-27, 6-8:30PM

CAM member: $136;

Not-yet-member: $170

+ $15 material fee

Prepare to Pastel!

Instructor: Jeri Greenberg

All levels of painters are welcome to this class. Use your pastels to expand your painting horizons and learn the POWER of pastels. The various brands, soft vs hard, mixing, blending, underpainting, making your own surfaces will be explored in this 6 week class. We will work with both still life and models if available. Adult: All Levels -

Tuesdays, April 11-May 16, 10am-1pm

CAM member: $232;

Not-yet-member: $290

Raku Workshop

Instructor: Brian Evans & Renato Abbate

Each student may bring up to 3 glazed pots, each no larger than 8" wide x 10" tall. No platters or large bowls. Please note that the raku process creates work that is not food safe. Pots should be bisqued and glazed prior to the workshop. Detailed information on proper attire and any student participation in the firing process will be provided with registration.

Adult: All Levels -

Saturday, April 15, 10am-3pm

CAM member: $40;

Not-yet-member: $45

Book Buzz: The Kudzu Queen

Instructor: Mimi Herman

Join writer and Kennedy Center teaching artist Mimi Herman for a conversation with her debut novel The Kudzu Queen.

Mimi Herman introduces James T. Cullowee, the self-proclaimed "Kudzu King" who arrives in 15-year-old Mattie Lee Watson'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.

Adult: All Levels -

Sunday, April 30, 1-2:30pm

CAM member: $20

Not-yet-member: $25

Afterschool Art Club!

Instructor: Happy Olmstead

We'll be creating with homemade paper and plaster for four weeks!

First, we'll mash up our own paper pulp from recycled materials and make lovely sheets of paper - art in themselves or a gorgeous surface for writing letters or creating drawings.

Next, we'll use the sheets of handmade paper to create bowls, cups, and such. Finally, we'll create sculptures out of the paper pulp as well. Once we finish two weeks of paper explorations we'll spend two weeks creating masks and sculptures with plaster.

Youth: Middle School -

Wednesdays, April 19- May 10, 4:30-6:30pm

CAM member: $108

Not-yet-member: $135

+ $5 material fee

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Cameron Art Museum (CAM) provides a cultural gathering place that enriches the lives of museum visitors and the community through high-quality exhibitions, lifelong learning in the arts, dynamic public programs, and stewardship and interpretation of the collection.

This project was supported by the NC Arts Council, a division of the Department of Natural and Cultural Resources