| CAM Spotlight: Warm Up this Winter at CAM! |
| CAM's Reflecting Pond during the 2022 Floating Lantern Ceremony |
| It's going to be a very busy winter season at Cameron Art Museum.
We kick off 2023 with our Floating Lanterns Ceremony this Sunday, January 8. This annual event is a wonderful way to honor a loved one or to set an intention for the year ahead. This is a CAM Community Day with FREE admission to the museum and event! |
The following Saturday & Sunday January 14 & 15 we honor Dr. Martin Luther King's iconic "I Have a Dream" speech with our annual Peace Flag Weekend. The community is invited to take inspiration from the speech and create a Peace Flag that will be installed around CAM's Reflection Pond. |
| Saturday, January 14 is also the opening of Black Lives Do Matter at CAM. Cameron Art Museum has partnered with the arts collective Eighteen Forward to present an eighteen-letter installation displayed on the museum grounds. The public is encouraged to view these eight-foot-high letters as they meander through CAM’s outdoor space.
Black Lives Do Matter at CAM joins the museum’s other outdoor works, including the recently opened PNC USCT Park featuring the Stephen Hayes designed sculpture Boundless, activating the museum's 9.4-acre grounds.
Saturday, January 14 is another CAM Community Day. Museum admission is FREE all day! |
The DesignNC Book Seriespresented by Protocol launches at CAM on Friday, January 27 with interior designer and cookbook author Karen Allen. This new lecture series is an opportunity to hear directly from significant figures in the field of interior design and beyond in an intimate and relaxed setting. |
Join us February 18 & 19 for Battle of Forks Road Commemoration a Living History Weekend at CAM. Learn about the lives of the United States Colored Troops with reenactors from the 35th USCT and Battery B on CAM's historic grounds. There will be family activities, film screenings, lectures, tours and more. |
Interested in volunteering at CAM? Join us Thursday, February 21 at 2 PM for our Volunteer Open House. Learn all about upcoming opportunities, meet CAM staff and more. Small bites and beverages will be served. |
| Cameron Art Museum's galleries will be busy all winter long as well.
Illumination 2022, our artist-made lantern exhibition, will be on view through January 15.
AIDS Quilts at CAM featuring four large panels from the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt plus a panel from the Cape Fear community will be on view through January 28. |
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| 60+, ourexhibition that explores the love of community and art that is our legacy will be on view through April 9. Works featured include art by Mary Cassatt, Minnie Evans, Claude Howell and more.
Promise is on view through May 21 and 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, LisaClague, Christina Cordova, Jim Dine, MaudGatewood, Susan Taylor Glasgow, Sol Lewitt, Juan Logan, Beverly McIver, Joan Miro, RobertMotherwell, Robert Rauschenberg, Frank Stella, Hiroshi Sueyoshi, and Steffan Thomas.
Visit CAM this winter and get inspired for the year to come! Happy New Year! |
| A Minnie A Month All 2023!
Celebrate this amazing artist all year long with a 2023 Minnie Evans Wall Calendar.
Now available for $25.99 ($23.39 for CAM Members) exclusively in CAM's Museum Shop. |
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| Book Panel Discussion Art of the State: Celebrating the Visual Art of North Carolina with Author Liza Roberts Saturday, January 28, 2023, 1 PM Free with museum admission
Author Liza Roberts presents a panel discussion on the launch of her new book: Art of the State: Celebrating the Visual Art of North Carolina. Artists Christina Lorena Weisner of Kitty Hawk and Ben Knight of Kinston will join the author for a discussion on current trends on our state. Roberts’ book showcases the creation, collection, and celebration of art in all its richness and diversity. Roberts provides fascinating historical context, such as the influence of Black Mountain College, while weaving together the profiles of individual artists, compelling interviews, and beautiful full-color photography to tell the story of the state's evolution through the lens of its art world and some of its most compelling figures.
Copies of Art of the State: Celebrating the Visual Art of North Carolinaavailable in CAM's Museum Shop. |
| | Jazz@CAM Mangroove Thursday, January 5, 2023, 7 PM CAM Members: $35; Not Yet Members: $55
Manny Santos is a jazz percussionist, bandleader, and vocalist who hails from New Bedford, Massachusetts and is of Cape Verdean decent. He became interested in jazz percussion at an early age and began performing professionally at the age of 15. His future would become one of polyrhythmic expressionism, inclusive of the jazz and Latin experience.
Manny appears on a number of recordings, including with flutist Treg Monty and pianist Yasko Kubota, No Place To Hide, (available on CDFreedom.com), with The Geoffrey Hicks Quartet, entitled Cartagena, (available on Amazon.com), with Willie Sordillo, Echoing (available on Amazon.com), and with World Music KabuJazz vocalist Candida Rose, The Sum of Me. |
| Community Day Floating Lantern Ceremony Sunday, January 8, 2023, 4-7 PM Event and museum admission FREE all day Lantern Sleeves: $12 at CAM Visitor Services ($15 on Sunday, January 8 at Visitor Services and Pancoe) We all have individual reasons to create our own Floating Lantern . . . to honor someone who is dear, to memorialize a cherished family member or to treasure a special moment. CAM’s Floating Lantern Ceremony is an expression of Remembrance, Reflection and Gratitude. No charge to attend Floating Lantern Ceremony held at CAM’s Reflection Pond. Lantern decorating supplies available in Pancoe. Live music near pond and hot chocolate, beverages, and light bites available from CAM Café. FREE Admission to museum galleries 10 am-7 pm. |
| Tour Connections Monday Monday, January 9, 2023, 10:30 AM-12:30 PM Sold Out 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 Alzheimers 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. |
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| Mary's Art Explorers Who Was Martin Luther King Jr. Thursday, Jan 12, 2023, 10-11 AM CAM Members: $3 per child/adult; Not-yet-Members: $6 per child/adult Children 2 and under: free
Let’s learn about Martin Luther King Jr! We will read Who was Martin Luther King Jr and talk about ways we can make a difference in our community and share kindness. We will create peace flags that will become a part of our community Peace Flag installation around the CAM pond.
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! |
| Educator Resources Educators Night Thursday, Jan 12, 2023, 4-7 PM Free for educators
Spend a fun and relaxing evening at CAM with free admission during an exclusive event for educators and view our exhibitions. Our Educators Night will provide information and materials about tours, workshops, and other free resources for area educators. All educators and administrators - from Pre-K to College - welcome and encouraged to attend and explore fun ways to bring art into your classroom and spark creativity in your students. |
| Closing the Gap with Arts Integration Documentary Theater Training for Educators with Mike Wiley Thursday, January 19, 2023, 4-6 PM Free; pre-registration required
Join us for a masterclass with celebrated actor and playwright, Mike Wiley! All educators are welcome. Discover how to inspire students, arouse curiosity, and employ 21st Century skills to investigate historically under-told stories.
This workshop is in collaboration with UNCW Office of the Arts and 2022-23 NEA Big Read events. |
| Promise Galleries After Dark with Bobbi Fitzsimmons Thursday, January 19, 2023, 7 PM Free with museum admission
Join Bobbi Fitzsimmons for a conversation around the art that she and her husband collected over 44 years. Her passion for art began as a child in Southport and traveled with her through a career as an educator and quilting artist. Bobbi says, "Great wealth is not necessary to build an admirable art collection. Sometimes, time and place are just as important – as well as appreciation, education, passion, luck, and persistence play a role." Bobbi will share stories about several of the artists, their styles, and what makes them so appealing. |
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Classroom Kits are currently sold out! |
| | Kids@CAM "I Have a Dream" Peace Flag Weekend Sat & Sun, January 14-15, 2023 10 AM-2 PM CAM Members: $5; Not-yet-Members: $10 CAM honors the life and work of civil rights activist Martin Luther King with the "I Have a Dream" Peace Flag Project.
We invite the community to take inspiration from King’s iconic speech from 1963 and create a Tibetan prayer flags.Your flag will be included in a community installation that will be displayed around the CAM pond. |
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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 |
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