| CAM CAFÃ: Come try the Café's new menu for Lunch Tuesday - Saturday 11:00 am - 3:00 pm, and this Wednesday wind down with classical guitar music with Rob Nathanson, 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm while enjoying tapas and refreshments. There's still time to make a reservation for this Thursday's Low Country Boil with Wine Tasting in the Courtyard, 5:00 pm - 9:00 pm. Reservations are suggested and always appreciated. RESERVE NOW FOR: Easter Brunch with music by Al DiMarco on accordion, vocals and  keyboard . Call now, there are still a few seats left for the 10:00 am and 2:00 pm seatings. For details and to make reservations call: 910.777.2363. THEATER: Page to Stage Unlimited: "Women in History, Past and Present" Wednesday March 23 6:30 pm Free and open to the public, donations appreciated Weyerhaeuser Reception Hall Page to Stage Unlimited presents a series of staged readings of original, locally-written works offering a mix of comedy and drama with a different theme the fourth Wednesday of each month. FOR MARCH: Thought-provoking and lively one-acts and monologues will be presented in honor of Women's History Month and CAM's new exhibition She Tells a Story. On the theme of "Women in History, Past and Present" the group pays homage to the everyday women who make history in their own businesses and homes, as well as paying tribute to a few of the well-known, famous women from the past and present. Local actor/ playwrights Josh Bailey, Ron Hasson, Penny Kohut, Wesleigh Neville and Pam Smith will present their original works. Join us for this contemplative and entertaining night, and feel free to bring friends along! Give your reactions and feedback in a nurturing environment to Page to Stage's members.
CONCERTS @ CAM: "Beau Soir"
Paolo Gualdi, piano and Danijela Zezelj-Gualdi, violin Wednesday March 30 7:00 pm CAM Members and Students with valid college ID: $5.00,  Non-Members: $10.00 Come for an evening of French classical music by composers Claude Debussy, Francis Poulenc and Maurice Ravel, among others, performed by Paolo André Gualdi on piano and Danijela Zezelj-Gualdi on violin. Italian pianist Paolo Gualdi is the founder and artistic director of the South Carolina Chamber Music Festival and is currently Associate Professor of Music at Francis Marion University, SC. Born in  Croatia, Danijela Zezelj-Gualdi musical career is noted for collaborations with remarkable musicians, including Evgeny Rivkin, and contemporary composers Augusta Reed Thomas and James MacMillan, currently she is a Violin and Viola Instructor and Artistic Director of the Community Music Academy at UNC Wilmington. Click below to purchase seats, by phone and at the door.
Pro Musica - Contemporary classical concert series
Thursday March 31 7:00 pm CAM Members and Students with valid college ID: $5.00  Non-Members: $10.00 Weyerhaeuser Reception Hall Pro Musica Concert Series--in its fifth season--celebrating the works of living composers will present COLLAPSS (COLLective for hAPpy SoundS) a contemporary music and dance ensemble based in Greensboro, presenting unique experimental programs in non-traditional locations and venues. Collapss (Emily Aiken and Brianna Taylor, dance, Steve Stusek and Laurent Estoppey, saxophones) with Robert Nathanson, guitar, in this performance will present four pieces for saxophones and electronics, featuring video and dance, composed by Maurizio Guerandi, Nick Rich, Andrew Weathers and Wei Dai. Rob Nathanson will play as a duet with Laurent Estoppey, performing a piece by Chiel Meijering and a North Carolina Estoppey's premiere. Together they all perform a version of Christian Marclay's Shuffle. Click below to purchase seats , by phone and at the door.
JAZZ @ THE CAM Series: Mangroove Jazz Quintet CAM/CFJS Members: $8.00, Non-members: $12.00, Students: $5.00 with valid college ID Weyerhaeuser Reception Hall The winter/spring azz @ The CAM series season concludes with the Mangroove Jazz Quintet, performing as part of the jazz series for the first time. Led by area musical favorite, drummer Manny "Mangroove" Santos originally from Boston now residing in Wilmington, with Teddy Burgh on flute and sax, Felicia "Fee" Jackson, vocals, Jack Krupicka on keyboard and Ryan Woodall on bass. Manny's music is heavily influenced by rhythm masters that include Elvin Jones, Horace Silver, his ethnic Cape Verdean roots and his multi-cultural musical projects with Afro-Cuban and Brazilian artists. Polyrhythms, syncopation and coordinated independence are mainstays of his style and inspiration. Click below to purchase seats and by phone. Many performances have sold out this season, don't wait to purchase at the door the night of and walk away disappointed!  |
CURRENT EXHIBITIONS:
She Tells a Story Brown Wing On view through September 11, 2016  From Mary Cassatt and Minnie Evans to Barbara Chase-Riboud and Shahzia Sikander, She Tells a Story celebrates the work of women artists from CAM's permanent collection and connects the art forms of visual and literary arts. Highlighting this long historical relationship, CAM has invited fifteen Wilmington-area women writers to contribute text (of their chosen format) on select works from the exhibition. The juxtaposition of the artwork with the written word will illuminate how these artists and writers explore their experiences, perspectives and world views through their chosen medium. Writers participating in this exhibition include: Anna Lena Phillips Bell; Karen E. Bender; Wendy Brenner; Maylee Chai; Cara Cilano; Amrita Das; Nina de Gramont; Dina Greenberg; Malena Mörling; Khalisa Kelly Rae; Celia Rivenbark; Gwenyfar Rohler; Emily Smith; Bertha Todd and Margo Williams. CAM organized with exhibition brochure. Sponsored by Corning.
Patchwork North America Paintings by Virginia Wright-Frierson Brown Wing Film Room On view through July 17, 2016  From extensive travel by road and by air, Wright-Frierson has created over one hundred paintings framing scenes, as if looking through a window, across the United States and Canada. She describes her intent, "We do see pollution and trash, factories, car accidents and roadwork, graffiti even on cactus and near petroglyphs, and much of North America is prairie that seems empty and vastness and endless unchanging for miles on end. But what I want to paint is the power of nature evidenced in storms, erosion, rock formations, and water; the adaptation of plants and animals to any environment, from the high mountains and glacial lakes of Banff, Ontario to the deserts of Arizona, the unspoiled variation, and the spirit and celebration of survival." Wright-Frierson's broad- ranging career is distinguished as painter, award-winning children's book author, illustrator, and large-scale public installation artist to include her celebrated bottle house inspired by artist Minnie Evans at Airlie Gardens, Wilmington, NC, and her extraordinary ceiling mural of evergreens and aspens reaching for the sunlight, installed at Columbine High School, Littleton, Colorado. CAM organized with exhibition brochure.
The Bones Of Sculpture by Dustin Farnsworth Hughes Wing  On view through June 5, 2016 CAM debuts its new acquisition to the permanent collection in context of seven other works by this rising artist. Inspired by 19th century architecture of the theatre, Farnsworth reflects, "I create a lush, emotionally-charged rabbit hole to fall into and explore. These sculptures act as anthropological studies of cultural, familial and social heredity of a culture in the interim of post-industry and the coming age." Farnsworth, a recent resident artist at Penland School of Craft (2012-2015) is now continuing his studio practice as a Windgate resident and Honorary Fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (2015-2016).
Hughes Wing  On view through July 10, 2016 Considered to be the oldest front curtain for a theatre in the Americas, the original 1858 curtain from historic Thalian Hall Center for the Performing Arts, Wilmington, NC, travels to CAM for conservation. Painted by Hudson River inspired artist, Russell Smith (Glasgow, Scotland 1812 - Glenside, PA, 1896), the 14 x 32 foot curtain features a scene from ancient Greece: A bustling harbor at the foot of Apollo's temple where stripe-sailed galleys dock to hear oracles read on the eve of the Olympic games. Visitors can compare old and new in witnessing local artists paint a new full scale replica of Thalian's original curtain in the exhibition galleries. 
This project was supported by the NC Arts Council, a division of the Department of Cultural Resources |
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