Cameron Art Museum

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Tuesday, August 29, 2023

CAM's Fall Preview

Kara Walker (American, b. 1969)

Alabama Loyalists Greeting the Federal Gun-Boats from Harper’s Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated), 2005


Included in Monument opening November 10

It may be hot outside but fall is on the way!

Get ready for the a cool new season at CAM with musical performances, fun events, a new exhibition and more!

Jazz at CAM kicks off on Thursday, September 7 at 7 PM with Rahsaan Barber and Everyday Magic.


October 5 brings Lenora Zenzalai Helm and the Tribe Jazz Orchestra Nonet and on November 7 we welcome Rebecca Kleinmann Quintet to our Reception Hall for Jazz at CAM's thirteenth season.


CAM Members save $20 on individual tickets and $160 off series tickets.

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Join us Sunday, September 24 for a CAM Community Day with Danza Guerreros Quetzalcoatl as they celebrate the traditions and culture of Mexico through Aztec dance. Performing in full regalia, the dancers are a multi-generational ensemble dedicated to maintaining customs in their community. Join us for dancing outdoors in the Sculpture Park with this dynamic group of thirty dancers.!


The museum and events are FREE all day.

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Join us on Saturday, October 7 for "Untitled" (Generations) as we welcome various community partners to a safe space to share information, resources, and host fun family activities in CAM’s Reception Hall.


This event takes its inspiration from “Untitled” (L.A.), 1991 by ground-breaking conceptual artist Felix Gonzalez-Torres now on view in Love. Join us as we celebrate the joy, connections, and promise of love across time and generations.


At 2 PM we will welcome Techmoja for a moving performance of Loud As We Want followed by a thoughtful movement workshop.

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Join us on Saturday, October 21,

4:30 to 9 PM for the third annual FlowILM. The evening will feature an array of artists, scientists, local non-profits and UNCW labs / programs focused on local / global water issues. FlowILM is a free community art event committed to articulating the un/stable relationships between organisms, environments, creativity & technology.


Participating organizations and labs will share their research with a focus on educational and family-oriented activities, while the second half from 6:30 to 9pm will feature live performance, dance, sculpture, installation, light and sound work.

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Monument, a new exhibition funded in part by the National Endowment for the Arts opening November 9, takes inspiration from Boundless, the public sculpture on Cameron Art Museum’s grounds by Stephen Hayes honoring the United States Colored Troops (USCT) and their fight for freedom.


Through their work, artists Sonya Clark, Willie Cole,Stephen Hayes, Juan Logan, Alison Saar, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Kara Walker, and others create a dialogue acknowledging, questioning, and confronting the idea of commemoration in the built environment in the United States.


Exhibition includes loans from Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Saint-Gaudens National Historical Park and the collection of the Cameron Art Museum.

Stay up-to-date by visiting CAM's Program & Events pages to learn more about these events and more! Happy fall y'all!

Programs & Events
CAM Museum Shop

Revisit Past Jazz@CAM Performances


… by taking home a CD (or two!) from the CAM Shop. Shana Tucker – Shine $15 

(CAM members $13.50), Ernest Turner – My Americana $25 (CAM members $22.50), Skip Walker – Tina’s Contemplation $15 (CAM members $13.50), Al Strong – Love Stronger $20 (CAM members $18).

CAM Café Shares the

Love on Thursday Nights!

EAT. DRINK. ART.

Join us at the bar or have dinner on Thursdays and get FREE museum admission!


Image Credit: Painting by Sherri Basaldua, Wilmington NC Urban Sketchers

Meet us at the Bar @ CAM Cafe after the

9 to 5 for drink specials, assorted flatbreads and live music every

Thursday night beginning at 4 PM


Call (910) 777-2363 for reservations and

more information

Featured Programs

Tour

Public Tours

Wednesday, August 30 at 1:30 PM

Join us for a tour of our current exhibitions with a CAM staff member. Free with museum admission

Visit CAM

Bank of America Weekend

Sat & Sun, September 2 & 3

10 am - 5 pm

Bring your Bank of America card and receive FREE admission this Saturday & Sunday thanks to their Museums on Us program!

Tour

American Sign Language Tour

Saturday, September 2, 2023,

11 AM FREE

Two interpreters will be provided

Register

Upcoming Programs

Virtual Conversation

Talk About Art with Dayana Camposeco

Wednesday, September 6, 2023,

6 PM

FREE


Join us for a conversation with Dayana Camposeco and CAM's Executive Director Heather Wilson. Dayana's work is currently on view in Traer a Luz/Bring to Light, an exhibition featuring work with her brother Diego Camposeco. This exhibition of photography explores the bonds of trust – between sister and brother, photographer and subject, family and community as well as light and darkness, life and death, work, and culture within the context of southern Latinx identity.


Dayana Camposeco’s [b.1994, Mexican-American Visual Artist] artwork reflects an abstract perspective of everyday life. Dayana will be graduating from Cape Fear Community College this following year and intends to pursue a Digital Arts degree at UNC Wilmington. Dayana’s goal and vision is to celebrate diversity and highlight beauty while exploring themes of migration, systemic poverty, and queerness. As a current queer Latinx photographer based in Wilmington, NC, their current work focuses on intimate portraiture while exploring social, political, and cultural themes within traditionally underrepresented groups in the American South.

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Jazz at CAM

Rahsaan Barber and Everyday Magic

Thursday, September 7, 2023, 7 PM

CAM Members: $35;

Not Yet Members: $55

Rahsaan Barberhas set out on a singular path of musical excellence in performance, composition, education, and entrepreneurship. In addition to working as a professor at The University of North Carolina since 2020, Rahsaan enjoys a performance career that encompasses an ever-expanding range of musical styles, including jazz, blues, funk, classical, fusion, soul, Latin, and world music

Tickets

Design NC Book Series

Linda Jane Holden

Friday, September 8, 2023,

10:30 AM-12 PM

CAM Members: $20;

Not-Yet Members: $25


Linda is a garden historian and the author behind the book Presidents' Gardens and The Gardens of Bunny Mellon. Linda grew up in Northern Virginia spending happy youthful hours at the gardens in Mount Vernon, Colonial Williamsburg and Washington, DC.


A gardener in her own right, Linda enjoys any opportunity to create gardens that allow people to experience beauty effortlessly.


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Dance

Tracing Gesture with Karola Luttringhaus

Saturday, September 9, 2023,

2-4:30 PM

Free with museum admission


Tracing Gesture is a choreographic and academic project that investigates meaning in art, movement, and choreography. At 2 PM, Karola performs a new dance piece entitled Gestures of Love, a thought and movement experiment where gesture serves as the basis for dance, and dance is a form of language. Afterwards, gather in the Love exhibition to meet the artist and discuss her choreographic practice, how she creates movement, and her work with language, meaning, and storytelling. Karola states, " I examine how the body's movements speak to me and through me, and I am inviting an open discussion around how we assign and discover meaning in art in general, including the works of the current Love exhibit at CAM."


Following the performance and discussion the artist will offer an opportunity to deepen the conversation around gesture, meaning, and dance by inviting guests to explore their own unique gestures of love by creating a collection of movement sentences that assemble into a "multi-faceted story of love". No experience or dance background necessary. All ages. All abilities.


Tracing Gesture is a choreographic and academic project that investigates meaning in art, movement, and choreography.

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Tour

Connections Monday

Monday, September 11, 2023, 10:30 AM-12:30 PM

Free; pre-registration required


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 Alzheimer’s 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.


Email education @cameronartmuseum.org for more information and to register.

Cameron Art Museum has no umbrella institution. We exist through the generosity of our community of members and donors.


A CAM Membership allows us to create programming like CAM Community Days with FREE admission which brings people together from across our community.


CAM Members receive FREE admission, passes for friends and family, invitations to special members-only events and tours like member preview tours, and discounts in CAM Cafe, the Museum Shop, Museum School, and for public programs. Join CAM today!


And now, Household Membership include two FREE Guest Admission Passes per year! Just bring a guest to the Visitor Services Desk as you enter, flash your digital membership card, and share your favorite CAM experience with your friend (or family member).


CAM Community Corner

CAM Cafe now offers a variety of coffee drinks!

CAM Café

CAM Café


Hours

Lunch: Tues-Fri 11 AM-2 PM

Dinner: Thurs 5-8 PM

Brunch: Sat & Sun 10 AM-2 PM


No museum admission is ever needed

to enjoy CAM Cafe.


Join us today!


Call (910) 777-2363 for reservations

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Live Music

at CAM Café


Raphael Namé

Thursday, Aug 31 6-8 PM



Museum School Classes & Workshops

Back to After School for Kids at CAM!

Afterschool Art Club - Stained Glass

Instructor: Happy Olmstead

Students will develop knowledge & skills in general stained glass safety protocols, pattern selection, color & type of glass selection, paper pattern cutting, transferring a pattern onto glass, cutting & grinding glass, copper foiling, fluxing, soldering, glass cleaning, and displaying finished stained glass art.

Youth: Middle School -

Weds, Sept 20th - Oct 18th, 4:30-6:00PM

CAM member: $96;

Not-yet-member: $120

Register

Beginner Pottery Foundations

Instructor: Renato Abbate

Overview of hand building techniques in pottery Introduction to diverse types of clay suitable for hand building Demonstration and practice of basic hand-building techniques: pinch pots, coil pots, and slab construction

Adult: Beginning -

Thursdays, Sept 7th- Oct12th, 6:30PM-9:00PM

CAM member: $180;

Not-yet-member: $225

+ $25 material fee

Register

Long Pose with

Figure Models

Instructor: Jeri Greenberg

Enjoy longer poses with weekly models, nude and clothed. Give yourself time to really explore your subject, and build stronger paintings. All mediums are welcome. Demos will help strengthen your drawings. $15 model fee. Adult: All Levels -

Tuesdays, October 17-31st, 10:00AM-1:00PM

CAM member: $128;

Not-yet-member: $160

$15 model fee paid to instructor

Register

Digital Painting Workshop

Instructor: Ben Billingsley

Learn the basics of digital drawing/painting and image manipulation without the expense of software subscriptions. Students will work on their own laptops using the free, open-source GIMP (GNU Image). Students aged 16 and older with the appropriate software are welcome to enroll.

Adult: All Levels -

Sat & Sun, Sept 23rd &24th, 10:00-3:00PM & 12:00PM-4:00PM Conference Room

CAM member: $136;

Not-yet-member: $170

Register

3d Sculpture Studio

Instructor: Susan Nuttall

Learn how to sculpt using wire, wine corks, epoxy clay, and acrylic paint in this five-day workshop. Bring your inspiration or get ideas using our examples. This workshop is designed to introduce you to creating a 3D sculpture using epoxy clay. All levels are welcome. You will create 1 small sculpture and one large sculpture to bring home.

Adult: All Levels -

Thurs, Sept 7th-Oct 5th, 10:00AM-2:00PM

CAM member: $208;

Not-yet-member: $260

+ $65 material fee

Register

Celebrate World Cyanotype Day!

Instructor: Donna Moore

Designs in blue! Join in annual global celebration of show stopping alternative printing/photography process - Cyanotype. Results are unique and varied, while the process is simple and versatile. Explore delicate designs found in nature plus graphic experimentation using masking techniques. Count on spending the day basking in the creation of one-of-a-kind images on papers and fabrics. Adult: All Levels -

Saturday, September 30th, 10:00AM-4:00PM

CAM member: $100;

Not-yet-member: $125

+ $10 material fee

Register

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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.

North Carolina Arts Council

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