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Tuesday, June 14, 2022

Exhibition Spotlight:

Design Through Time

A Continuing Dialogue

The true power in an object is its ability to tell a story.

Design Through Time: A Continuing Dialogue features 18th and 19th century North Carolina furniture from the collection of the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts (MESDA) and Old Salem, in vivid reinterpretation by three contemporary design teams working in North Carolina today. To further enliven their interior vignettes, the designers chose works of art from the collection of Cameron Art Museum.

The Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts (MESDA) is the preeminent center for the research and study of Southern decorative arts and material culture. MESDA is home to the most comprehensive collection of southern decorative arts and related research resources in the country. The museum is internationally recognized for its contributions to the study and understanding of the history, decorative arts, and material culture of the American South.

MESDA is part of Old Salem Museums & Gardens, Winston-Salem, NC; a unique living history site that shares the rich, authentic, and diverse cultural history of the early South—with special emphasis on the Moravians in North Carolina, enslaved and free people of African descent, and indigenous peoples of the Southern Woodlands—through the preservation and interpretation of material culture, architecture, and cultural landscapes.

Daniel Ackermann, Old Salem and MESDA Chief Curator and Director of Collections, Research and Archaeology is guest curator for the exhibition: “I think it is critical, as we look to the future, to consider ways that we can promote access, equity and community engagement with our collections in both traditional and new ways. In partnering with Cameron Art Museum, we are able to tell these objects’ stories in new ways through this innovative exhibition.”

Cameron Art Museum is honored to work with MESDA and the design teams on this collaborative exhibition, and warmly thanks Bessie Hanahan & Family for their generous support of this exhibition.

Hiroshi Sueyoshi Catalogue

Bring some of

Design Through Time

home with you!

Two works by Hiroshi Sueyoshi are featured in Design Through Time’s exhibition. Hiroshi is a much-beloved figure in our community. Many know him as artist and many have called him teacher. Learn more about Hiroshi in CAM’s publication Matter of Reverence from the exhibition of the same name. Catalogue is hard cover, perfect-bound with 112 pages in full cover. Available at CAM Museum Shop. Each copy is signed by Hiroshi in English, Japanese and stamp. $50 / $45 members

Attention Artists!

Illumination 2022

Call to Artists Opens

Be part of Cameron Art Museum’s 8th Annual Exhibition of Artist Made Lights

How does the light shine in your mind, your heart, your soul? How will your hands blend the light with sculptural components to create art?

Artists are encouraged to submit proposals that explore traditional and contemporary media utilizing elements of color, texture, light, and shadow.

All themes are welcome. Click below to learn more and submit proposals.

Deadline for submissions is Wednesday, August 3, 2022 at 11:59 PM EDT/Midnight.

Submit Proposals

Featured Programs

Illustrated Lecture

Daniel Ackermann, Curator from Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts

Thursday, June 16, 2022, 6 PM

CAM Members: $15; Non-Members: $20

Join us as curator Daniel Ackermann from the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts explores the work in Design Through Time: A Continuing Dialogue. This is sure to be a fascinating illustrated lecture combining history and interior design.

Ackermann is Chief Curator and Director of Collections, Research, and Archaeology at Old Salem Museums & Gardens and the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts (MESDA).

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FREE and Open to the Public All Day!

Speak Ya Peace: Juneteenth Celebration

Sunday, June 19, 2022, 2-5 PM

FREE community day: event and galleries FREE and open to the public all day 10 AM - 5 PM.

The Juneteenth Committee of Wilmington will host an afternoon of celebration with spoken word, music, a fashion show, and dance! We welcome the words of poets Mama Makeda, ScaleHamHawk da Poet, and Yolanda Hernandez. Hear music from Soltree Reign and take part in community conversations from local organizations.

Sample local flavors from food trucks, and come dressed in African inspired attire.

Juneteenth recognizes African American freedom and emphasizes education and achievement. It's a time for communities to come together for reflection and rejoicing.

Upcoming Programs

Art Explorers

Tar Beach

Thursday, June 23, 2022, 10-11 AM

CAM Members: $3 per child;

Non-Members: $6

Adults and children 2 and under: free

We will read the award-winning Faith Ringgold classic Tar Beach in front of the original art work! We create our own marker drawings on fabric to tell our own stories.

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!

A Little Night Music at CAM!

An Evening of Cabaret

featuring Tori Thomas

Thursday, June 23, 2022, 6:30-7:30 PM

CAM Members: $12;

Non-Members: $17

Join us for an evening of jazz standards and cabaret favorites fit to a voice and piano, including favorites such as: Funny Valentine, I Loves You Porgy, and

What a Little Moonlight Can Do.

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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

Thursdays 6-8 PM

& Saturdays 11:30 AM-1:30 PM

Josh Youse

Thurs, June 16, 6-8 PM

Front Porch Band

Sat, June 18, 11:30 AM-1:30 PM

Gentle Yoga

with Steve Unger

Tuesdays from 9-10 AM

Donation: $5

Flow Yoga

with Kim Gardiulo

Fridays from 8:30-9:30 AM

Donation: $10

Boundless Public Tours

with Daniel Jones, CAM Cultural Curator

Fridays at 1 PM

Free with museum admission

Photo Courtesy of Jeff Janowski/UNCW

Support the USCT Sculpture Park!

Purchase a Paver, Build a Park!

Join Cameron Art Museum’s campaign to commemorate the United States Colored Troops, and their historic efforts at the Battle of Forks Road, on the museum grounds.

Your purchase of a personalized paver will help us to realize a park, the first of its kind in North Carolina and in the nation, focused on the heroism of the United States Colored Troops during the Civil War.

Learn More

Click here to view our 2022 Summer Course Catalogue

Upcoming Classes & Workshops

Pottery Date Night

Instructor: Renato Abbate

2 hour crash course on the potters wheel. Have a date night you will never forget. We will provide everything necessary . Everyone will have one fired and glazed piece. Bring your lover, partner or friend and get down and dirty on the wheel.

Thursday June 23,

6:30- 8:30pm

CAM member: $54 per person; Non-member: $60

Structural Vase or Tea Pot

Instructor: Shannon Gehen

Construct an angular vase or teapot from a template. This construction method allows the novice to complete a well-designed piece using basic components that you can modify to find your personal flare!

Adult: All Levels -

Saturday, June 18, 11am- 2pm

CAM member: $63; Non-member: $70

Mixed Media Fashion Illustration

Instructor:

Jennifer Love Gironda

Create your own fashion illustration using mixed media techniques! We will work from various images from fashion magazines (feel free to bring images from YOUR favorite runway looks!) Can't draw? Don't worry, I will have croquis available for you to use so that you can get to creating your designs! An assortment of papers and adhesives will be available, but please feel free to bring any scrap papers, magazine pages or other materials for your looks!

Youth: ages 12-17.

Youth: High School -

Saturday, June 18, 11am- 2pm

CAM member: $45;

Non-member: $50

Introduction to Macro Photography

Instructor: Gary Allen

Discover some simple tools and techniques for capturing the fine details of the macro world. Discuss lenses, lighting, composition and how to approach and capture your subjects safely.

Adult: All Levels -

Saturday, June 25, 10am-4pm

CAM member: $99;

Non-member: $110

Cyanotype and Wet Cyanotype- Oxides, Tannins and Surface Design Techniques

Instructor:

Catherine Cross Tsintzos

If you love the element of surprise that printmaking, cyanotype and wet cyanotype processes provide you will be enjoying the hours during guided and open ended studio time enriching your skills and preparing a portfolio filled with papers you have created of different sizes and types during this workshop. Expect to engage with centers after demos and time for touching examples. Learn how to work with different applications, surfaces, history, tools, incorporating image transfer, resources, content, composition and preservation. Lumen, photogram, argyrotype and chlorophyll printing will be touched on with opportunity to experiment.

Adult: All Levels -

Saturday- Sunday, June 25-26,

10am -4pm, 10-4pm

CAM member: $171;

Non-member: $190

+ $10 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