Tift Merritt and Thomas Sayre: Four Walls and Four Songs

Thursday, September 12 at 7 PM

Tickets On Sale

We are absolutely thrilled to welcome singer-songwriter

Tift Merritt and artist Thomas Sayre to CAM for an intimate evening of song, reflection, and discussion within the gallery space.

Join us on Thursday, September 12 at 7 PM for this one-of-a-kind performance.

Purchase tickets today, space is limited.

This event is expected to sell out.

Four Walls, Four Songs

is a sound response to

Thomas Sayre’s visual work within Thomas Sayre:  Four Walls,

a reflective hymn exploring the burned, brushed, rusted and razed layers of Sayre’s Four Walls. 

Merritt draws directly from the artists’ friendship and their conversations to make a plainspoken sound exploration with the materials, the visuals, the spaces between and the questions they pose.

If you need assistance or have questions about accessibility, please email our Deputy Director of Operations,

Georgia Mastroieni, georgia@cameronartmuseum.org.

Featured Programs

MARY'S ART EXPLORERS:

THE KINDNESS QUILT

THURS, JULY 25 @ 10:00-11:00 AM

CAM Members: $5 per adult/child

Not-Yet Members: $10 per adult/child

Children Ages 2 and Under: Free

This week we will read The Kindness Quilt by author and illustrator

Nancy Elizabeth Wallace.

Mary's Art Explorers is geared towards infants, toddlers, and preschoolers, but big brothers and sisters are welcome to join and create art with us. Your registration includes admission to the museum for the whole day. Space is limited so preregister to guarantee your spot!

FILM SCREENING & PANEL DISCUSSION:

RAISING RENEE

THURS, JULY 25 @ 7:00 - 9:00 PM

$5 CAM MEMBERS/

$10 NOT-YET MEMBERS

Artist Beverly McIver, featured in the upcoming Close to Homeexhibition, is the subject of a documentary on the struggles she met between her family and her career just as her work was gaining national recognition. Emmy-nominated Raising Renee is about artist Beverly McIver when a promise she made to her mother – that she would take care of her mentally-disabled older sister, Renee – comes due.

Learn More

We are thrilled to announce the 2024-2025 season of

Jazz at CAM showcasing the best of local and regional jazz.

The series, focusing on this uniquely American art form, takes place the first Thursday evening at 7 PM of each month beginning in September and continuing through April 2025.

Learn more.

Schlep your stuff, support artists & hug a tree with a reusable Art Sack!

Featured: Art Sack - $14.50 ea. (CAM Member $13.05 ea.)

ON VIEW

Thomas Sayre: Four Walls

Thomas Sayre: Four Walls features new and never exhibited works by American artist Thomas Sayre (American, b. 1950). Each of the four large-scale pieces installed in Cameron Art Museum’s Hughes Wing engage the belief systems and symbols that underpin the ideals of church, nation, and creation.

Made of materials that include tar, smoke, fabric gowns, gunshots, welding material, earth and fire, these works invite visitors to draw close and experience the messiness of making, and by analogy, to bear witness to the ways that life invades, entangles, and tarnishes us. LearnMore

The Work of Their Hands: American Quiltmaking

The Work of Their Hands explores the continuing legacy of quilt-making and the evolution of textile art, starting with traditional quilts made for bedcoverings to contemporary fabric artworks by artists including Brittney Boyd Bullock, Celeste Butler, Robin Cowley, Michael James, Precious Lovell, Katie Pasquini Masopust, Carolyn Mazloomi, Mary Pal, Hattie Schmidt,

Beverly Smith, The Advocacy Project, and others. 

LearnMore

5: Five Years of Acquisitions

5: Five Years of Acquisitions features Cameron Art Museum’s new acquisitions

from over the past five years. Artists featured include Rick Beck, AlexanderCalder,

Marc Chagall, Judy Chicago, Willie Cole, Karen Paden Crouch, Salvador Dali,

Phil Freelon, Clarence Heyward, Henri Matisse, Robert Motherwell,

Ben Owens,

Pablo Picasso, Alison Saar, Rosalia Torres-Weiner, Burk Uzzle,

and Andy Warhol, among

others.

Sponsored in part by Lucrecia A. Schneider

Learn More

MUSEUM SCHOOL CLASSES & WORKSHOPS

WET FELTING WORKSHOP – SPHERE RESIST METHOD

Instructor: Tina Maloch

Wet felting is a time-honored art process for turning wool into beautiful art, both 2D and 3D. Your creation will be 100% unique and can be used as a utilitarian piece or as a decorative piece for display. The sphere resist technique can be applied to many types of wet felting projects. The process requires only soap, water, and wool.

Adult: All Levels

Saturday, Aug 10, 10 AM -12:30 PM

CAM Members: $52

Not-yet Members: $65

+ $20 Supply Fee

Kids@CAMp

PRINT, STAMP, REPEAT

Instructor: Donna Moore

A fusion of traditional printmaking and found object stamping. Practically anything can be inked and printed to create dynamic designs and patterns – from the garden to the toolbox. Introduction to design through pattern printing on paper and fabrics – decorating functional clothing, small folded books, and wall art. Campers will experiment and collaborate with cyanotype, monoprinting,

gyotaku, and more!

Youth: Ages 9-12

Monday-Friday, July 29 - Aug 2, 2-5 PM

CAM Members: $145

Not-Yet Members: $175

CAM CAFE

Illustration by Maria Liberto Bessette from Urban Sketchers Wilmington NC

Lunch:

Tues-Fri 11 AM-2 PM

Dinner:

Thurs 5-8 PM

Live music by Justin Lacy



Enjoy FREE gallery admission Thursday evenings when you join us for drinks or dinner.

Brunch:

Sat & Sun 10 AM-2 PM

No museum admission is ever needed to enjoy CAM Café.

Join us today!  

Call (910) 777-2363 for reservations

CameronArtMuseum.org

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.