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Tuesday, November 1, 2022

CAM Donor Spotlight:

Glen and Florence Hardymon

GlenandFlorence Hardymon are long-time art collectors. Art hangs on their walls, adorns their shelves, and enhances their beautiful yard on Lake Norman. Collecting art and living with art is fundamental to who they are as individuals and how they see the world and their place in it. They live with art, they support artists, and they believe passionately in the importance of art museums, including Cameron Art Museum.

We are incredibly grateful to the Hardymons whose collection will be part of Promise which opens with our 60 Years Gala on November 12.

Here's an excerpt of a conversation with CAM's Deputy Director Heather Wilson in which Glen and Florence Hardymon discuss the importance of collecting.

Heather Wilson: When you talk about collecting, to me it sounds almost like it’s a way of life, it’s a way of living. You engage with artists and you have these relationships with artists. Can you talk to me a little bit about those relationships that you’ve developed and what they mean to you?

Glen Hardymon: The relationship with the artist, the living artist is extremely important and we have met, I think, every single living artist that we have in our collection, and we’ve become friends with a lot of them ... Artists are interesting people and they’re different and they can do things that just are astounding. And just to share it with us is really important.

Heather Wilson: Why is it important to support artists?

Glen Hardymon: Being an artist is one of the hardest ways in the world to make a living. It’s right up there with being a musician and there are so many talented artists that struggle, and we just feel it’s important to support those artists so that what they’re making can be available to other people and it can be something that impacts other people like it’s impacted us.

Florence Hardymon: With the Cameron we are enhancing that future, that it will grow and flourish and that lives will be touched because of it.

Promise highlights promised gifts from the collections of Glen and Florence Hardymon and Andrew and Hathia Hayes, as well as new acquisitions and other promised gifts to CAM’s collection.

Artists featured in this exhibition include Rick Beck, Lisa Clague, Christina Cordova, Jim Dine, Maud Gatewood, Susan Taylor Glasgow, Sol Lewitt, Juan Logan, Beverly McIver, Joan Miro, Robert Motherwell, Robert Rauschenberg, Frank Stella, Hiroshi Sueyoshi, and Steffan Thomas.

It’s Fall Y’all!

Get ready to be incredibly cozy this Fall in an adorable Powder UK shawl ($49 – members $44.10) or pair of super snuggly bamboo socks ($12.95/$15.50 – members $11.65/$13.95)

Illumination 2022

Exhibition Opening Party

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Featured Programs

Jazz at CAM with

Shana Tucker

Thurs Nov 3, 2022 7PM

Join us as we welcome performer Shana Tucker to Jazz at CAM.

Cellist. Singer-Songwriter. Arts Advocate. Teaching Artist. Collaborator. Cultural Conduit. Shana's unique genre of ChamberSoul weaves jazz, roots, folk, acoustic pop, and a touch of R&B into melodies that echo in your head for days, engaging audiences of all ages through candid song-storytelling in performance.

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Screening

Resilience

Community Screening and Boundless

Public Tour

Friday, November 4, 2022

12-1 PM Film Screening

1-1:30 PM Boundless Tour

Free; No pre-registration necessary

View the award winning documentary Resilience: The Biology of Stress and the Science of Hope. The film screens in our spacious reception hall from 12-1 PM, followed by an optional brief discussion with other community members. Learn about the New Hanover County Resiliency Task Force.

After the screening at 1 PM, join our Cultural Curator Daniel Jones for a tour of Boundless with a focus on resiliency themes.

CAM offers free screenings of Resilience on the first Friday of each month. Feel free to grab lunch at the CAM café, or bring your own lunch!

Upcoming Programs

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Artist Conversation Series

In Conversation with Alonzo V. Wilson and

Dr. Tamara Brothers

Thurs, Nov 10, 2022, 6-7 PM

CAM Members: $15;

Not-yet-Members: $20

Join Dr. Tamara Brothers, Deputy Director of the North Carolina Arts Council, for an insightful conversation with Alonzo V. Wilson, costume designer for HBO’s series Treme, whose works are currently on display in 60+.

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Mary's Art Explorers

Birds of a Feather

Thursday, November 10, 2022,

10-11 AM

CAM Members:

$3 per child/adult;

Not-yet-Members:

$6 per child/adult

Children 2 and under: free

Inspired by the beautiful costumes of Alonso V. Wilson, we will read Birds of a feather, then explore the colorful, feather-filled costumes in our galleries. We will create feathery accessories using craft 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!

Community Day

PNC Bank USCT Park Unveiling

Sunday, November 13, 2022,

10 AM-5 PM

Event and museum admission FREE

Community Day with live performances by Carolyn Evans, Johnny Lee Chapman, and Mouths of Babes Theater. Family activities and living history on the grounds.

1:00 PM Land Acknowledgment

1:30 PM Johnny Lee Chapman III

2:00 PM Williston Alumni Choir

3:00 PM Carolyn Evans

4:00 PM Mouths of Babes Theater: Staged Reading from Wilmington Reconstructed

1:00-4:00 PM Community Lantern with Fritzi Huber

Gala Tickets

The odds are in your favor.

Only 150 raffle tickets available!

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Winner's Choice Raffle ticket today!

One lucky winner receives tickets to an incredible destination of their choice!

Deadline to purchase is Thursday, November 10

Winner Announced Live on Facebook

Friday, November 11 at Noon!

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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

Nick Black

Thursday, November 3, 6-8 PM

Double Cherry Pie

Sat, November 5, 11:30 AM-1:30 PM

Gentle Yoga

with Steve Unger

Tuesdays from 9-10 AM

Donation: $10

Museum School

Classes & Workshops

Natural Way To Draw - With Color!

Instructor: Donna Moore

Add dynamic intensity to figure drawings with the impact of color. Emphasis on value study and structural color fields, not realistic rendering. Experiment with paper prep, creating a variety of surfaces and palettes.

Wednesdays, Nov 2- 30

2pm-5pm*

CAM member: $172;

Not-yet-member: $215

$30 model fee paid to instructor

Discover The Color Purple!

Instructor: Carolyn Faulkner

Learn to use the color purple in multiple ways. Purple is a magical color: use it as a background to make other colors stand out or use it in cool shadows to deepen the mood of your painting. It's a mystical color! Work with paint and pastel for a striking mixed media composition that pushes purple into the heart of your palette. Professional tempera paint will be supplied.

Adult: All Levels -

Wednesdays, Nov 9 - Dec 7* 10am-12pm

CAM member: $116;

Not-yet-member: $145

+ $10 material fee

I Am

Instructor: Alan Cradick

Hone your portrait skills: In this workshop participants will offer a white board with "I Am" written on the top to people on the street and invite them to complete the thought by writing down their feelings. We will then make a portrait with the person and the board. On Saturday, we will meet at the corner of Market and Front streets downtown. Sunday we will gather for a conversation about the work.

Adult: All Levels -

Saturday, Nov 5, 10am-12pm, & Sunday Nov 6, 1-3pm

CAM member: $52;

Not-yet-member: $65

Fall Journals - Assemblage and Bookbinding

Instructor:

Catherine Cross Tsintzos

Bind journals all kinds of ways with different style bindings and shapes lovingly constructed with all kinds of materials for the pages and covers.

Adult: All Levels -

Friday, November 4, 10am-4pm Pancoe

CAM member: $100; Non-member: $125

+ $20 material fee

Pottery Date Night

Instructor: Renato Abbate

Two 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.

Wednesday, Nov 9, 7-9pm

CAM member: $60;

Not-yet-member: $75

Functional Coil Pot Planter or Bowl

Instructor: Shannon Gehen

Coiling is one of the primary building methods for working in clay. Your form will develop inch by inch with each coil added. Construct a coil bowl or planter and leave the surface in rhythmic layers or paddle the form to a smooth, flat finish.

Adult: All Levels -

Thursday, Dec 1, 6-9pm

CAM member: $64;

Not-yet-member: $80

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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