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Featured Programs

Public Tour

60+ Public Tour

Wed, Oct 19 at 1:30PM

Free with museum admission

Join us for a tour of 60+ and learn all about this exhibition that explores the love of community and art.  

Boundless Public Tours

with Daniel Jones, CAM Cultural Curator

Friday October 21 at 1 PM

Free with museum admission

Learn more about Boundless, the public sculpture that commemorates the United States Colored Troops and their fight for freedom.

Upcoming Programs

Educator Resources

Closing the Gap with Arts Integration: Professional Development Workshop for Educators & Parents of Students in Grades K-8

Thurs, Oct 27, 2022, 4-7 PM

Free for educators Grades K-8

Offered to educators in Bladen, Brunswick, Columbus, Duplin, New Hanover, Onslow, Pender, and Sampson counties

Deepen your understanding of CAM’s USCT public sculpture Boundless through the lens of history, poetry, and movement. Learn what arts integration is and how you can employ it in your classroom. These workshops are designed to teach educators how to use the arts to teach core curriculum and help close the achievement gap through active learning strategies that engage all learners. Participating educators will receive a certificate of completion to submit to their respective counties for CEU credit consideration.

Mary's Art Explorers

Room on a Broom

Thursday, October 27, 2022, 10-11 AM

CAM Members: $3 per child/adult; Not-yet-Members: $6 per child/adult

Children 2 and under: free

Halloween is right around the corner – get into the spirit with our book Room on the Broom about a kind witch and her animal friends. We will make Halloween arts and crafts and of course, costumes are encouraged!

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!

New Hanover County Library Fiction to Fashion Runway Show

Friday, October 28, 2022,

7-9 PM

Free to participants

Fiction to Fashion is Mr. Scooter’s annual fashion design contest for teens in which young designers create an outfit using unconventional materials including discarded library books, cassette tapes, and CDs. This program connects participants through the New Hanover County Library with local fashion professionals and allows teens to explore future careers in fashion through a sequence of events which combines the practical with the whimsical.

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. 

Artist Conversation Series

In Conversation with Alonzo 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 Wilson, costume designer for HBO’s series Treme, whose works are currently on display in 60+.

Museum School

Classes & Workshops

Dreaming in Color:

Color Theory with a Twist

Instructor: Kirah Van Sickle

What are ways we can enhance our paintings' color story? Color theory and capturing bold, emotional color can be challenging. This course is a fun study in color fundamentals with a twist.

Adult: All Levels -

Tuesdays, October 25- November 15, 1pm-4pm Pancoe

CAM member: $288;

Not -yet-member: $360

Gel Plate Mono printing - Variations & Themes

Instructor: Donna Moore

Explore the endlessly unique printmaking technique - Mono printing - through popular and easy to wield gelli plates.

Adult: All Levels -

Thursdays, October 27-November 17, 10am -1pm

CAM member: $172;

Not-yet-member: $215

+ $15 material fee

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.

Adult: All Levels -

Wednesdays, November 2- 30 2pm-5pm

CAM member: $172;

Not-yet-member: $215

$30 model fee paid to instructor

Painting

Beginning Oil Painting

Instructor: Todd Carignan

Start on your adventure with oil painting. Learn how to organize your palette, mix colors and apply paint to the canvas. Previous knowledge of drawing is a must!

Adult: All Levels -

Tuesdays, Nov 1- Dec 6

9am-12pm

CAM member: $232;

Not-yet-member: $290

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.

Adult and Youth -

Sundays, October 30 & November 6, 1pm-4pm

CAM member: $80;

Not-yet-member: $100

+ $8 material fee

Nature's Sketchbook: En Plein Air

Instructor: KIRAH VAN SICKLE

Let's enjoy time in nature and all the inspiration for sketching and informal watercolor quick studies. This two-day intensive is a fun introduction to working en plein air as well as refresher for building a painting reference library. 

Adult: All Levels -

Saturday, October 29, 9am-4pm &Sunday, October 30, 11am-3pm

CAM member: $248; Non-member: $310

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