Featured Programs

Music

Midday Music in the Galleries

Wednesday, April 12, 1-2 PM

Free with museum admission

Take a walk through the galleries and enjoy some midday music with students Susan Stupienski, flute, and Katherine Luke-Figuly, clarinet, with Ms. Mary Gheen.

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.

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Upcoming Programs

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 Interim Director Heather Wilson and learn about CAM's history. 

Tour of the galleries following the coffee is optional.

Mary's Art Explorers

Earth Day

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!

Performance

SOLSTICE CYCLES -

Traces of the Enmeshment:

The River Home

Saturday, April 22, 2-3:30 PM

Free with museum admission

SOLSTICE CYCLES is an experimental, collaborative Improv Project between Karola Luettringhaus with Alban Elved Dance Company and Carl Kruger with the Slow Ear Ensemble. The focus of the project is the contemplation and celebration of earthly phenomena, cycles, and seasons. “We are ultimately and unchangeably interconnected with what we call "the environment". That which we exhale the trees inhale, and that which the trees exhale, we in turn inhale. We are enmeshed. If it is on earth, it is somehow part of us, no matter what it looks like. The awareness of enmeshment begins within us.” Guests will experience a live performance of sound, dance, and projections. The audience is invited to sit and observe or move and create sound with the performers. This program supports our annual interdisciplinary understanding of earth and the environment through the arts.

Encore Creativity Performance

Encore Chorale and Sentimental Journey Singers

Sunday, April 23, 2023, 3 PM

Free; donations appreciated

Encore Creativity for Older Adults, the nation’s largest choral arts organization for adults 55 and older, ushers in the light of spring with the Encore Chorale of Cape Fear's free spring concert on Sunday, April 23, at 3 PM. The local group, conducted by Angela Burns, will sing a fun and uplifting mix of choral arrangements of popular songs centered around themes of light and love. The concert will also include a performance by the Sentimental Journey Singers of Cape Fear conducted by Michaela Wood, a therapeutic music program that connects those with cognitive change and their care partners through song.

Museum School Classes & Workshops

Printmaking Studies: Collagraph Collage Plates

Instructor: Antoinette Vogt

Learn the art of collagraph relief printmaking using plates created by collage. In this workshop students will create printing plates by gluing elements onto the printing surface to create an image. Students are asked to gather collage supplies ahead of time and bring them to the first class session. Students will create their plates during the first session and print them during the second session.

Adult: All Levels -

Sundays, April 30 & May 7,

1-4 pm

CAM member: $80

Not-yet-member: $100

+ $8 material fee

Street Photography: Portraiture

Instructor: Alan Cradick

Using your smart phone ordigital camera, we will delve into the art of street photography. Whether you are looking to sharpen your skills crafting images of the streets and alleys of Wilmington or want to try your hand at producing portraits of strangers you will enjoy this workshop. By working with strangers to create a photograph in half a minute, this workshop will hone the photographer's interpersonal and portrait skills.Grab your smart phone, tablet or camera and sign up now.

Adult: All Levels -

Saturday, April 22, 10-12pm & Sunday, April 23, 12-2pm

CAM member: $52

Not-yet-member: $65

Figure Sculpture

Instructor: Anne McCombie

Sculpt figures out of clay while observing the human form. All skill sets invited.

Adult: All Levels -

Thursday, April 27- June 1,

6-9 pm

CAM member: $224

Not-yet-member: $280

+ $20 material fee

$25 model fee paid to instructor

How to Compose a Painting

Instructor: Todd Carignan

This workshop will tackle the principles of design. Students will bring their own projects to work on during class. All mediums are welcome.

Adult: All Levels -

Saturday, April 29,

10:00am-4:00pm

CAM member: $100

Not-yet-member: $125

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.

In her debut novel, Herman introduces James T. Cullowee, the self-proclaimed "Kudzu King" who arrives in 15-year-old Mattie'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

Creating Stained Glass Art

Instructor:

Jane Del Rosso Freach

Immerse yourself in learning the ageless art of producing your very own stained glass art piece, be it a window, a door corner, a box, or a sun catcher. During this class as a beginning student, you'll be given instruction on how to make two-dimensional and/or three-dimensional stained glass art pieces. Adult: All Levels -

Thursdays, April 20- May 25,

10-1pm

CAM member: $232

Not-yet-member: $290