CAM COMMUNITY DAY

RESILIENCY@CAM

THIS SATURDAY, MARCH 16, from 10 AM-12 PM

Join us for a CAM Community Day! All programs and exhibitions are FREE all day 10 AM – 5 PM.

Celebrate the different ways the arts can support resiliency in children and families!

Enjoy a morning of arts and resiliency with your family. The Cameron Art Museum, New Hanover County Resiliency Task Force and other area organizations come together to offer a wide variety of art projects, performances, and interactive collaborations to learn about the resiliency of individuals and our community. We will also host community tables that will provide information about community organizations and the resources they offer.

Dance, make music, and create art to build resilience. All ages welcome.

Ongoing Activities from 10 AM-12 PM:

Art stations: Greyson Davis and GLOW Academy Students

Paper Bag Lanterns: Dreams Center for Art Education Apprentices

3D mask building and torn paper collage: Turning the Wheel

Musical Instrument Sharing: Brooklyn Arts Music Academy

Tactile Fabric Collages: Hoggard High School’s EC Students

Basketball Activity: Smart Start of New Hanover County

Community tables providing information about local organizations and resources

Pop-up Interactive Events:

10:30-11 AM Community game with live music: Turning the Wheel

11-11:30 AM Mini Music Class – Brooklyn Arts Music Academy

12 PM Family friendly tour of exhibitions (English and Spanish)

1-2:30 PM Screening of The Right to Read presented by Blank Canvas Awareness

The Right to Read shares the stories of an NAACP activist, a teacher, and two American families who fight to provide our youngest generation with the most foundational indicator of life-long success: the ability to read.

A discussion after the film will be led by Donna Gargett, Executive Drector of Blank Canvas Awareness Art. All educators are invited to participate in a raffle for gift cards to say thank you from BCAA!

Film screening sponsored by the NHC-NAACP

Sponsored in part by

FEATURED PROGRAMS

VIRTUAL CONVERSATION: INCLUSIVE PUBLIC ART IN NC

WED, MAR 13 @ 6:00 - 7:30 PM

Free

Pre-Registration Required

Join Executive Director Heather Wilson for a facilitated conversation about the power of art to open the door to conversation. In 2018, the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation launched an Inclusive Public Art Initiative that funded an initial group of 10 grantees, of which Cameron Art Museum’s Boundless project was one.



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MARY'S ART EXPLORERS: CAROLINE, THE PAINTED TURTLE: 

THE JOURNEY BEGINS

THURS, MAR 14 @ 10:00 - 11:00 PM

CAM Members: 

$5 per adult/child

Not-Yet Members: 

$10 per adult/child

Children 2 and under: Free

Join us as Jeanne McIntosh Rietzke reads her book Caroline, The Painted Turtle: The Journey Begins. Jeanne McIntosh Rietzke is an accomplished local artist, author, and illustrator. She is also a current instructor with CAM at the Museum School. The book is sold at the gift shop. 

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ARTIST TALK IN THE WORK OF THEIR HANDS WITH BEVERLY SMITH

THURS, MAR 14 @ 6:00 - 7:00 PM

CAM Members: $15

Not-Yet Members: $20

Students: $12

Join us for a conversation in The Work of Their Hands with artist Beverly Smith. Beverly’s large-scale quilts combine a variety of drawing and surface design techniques to bring to life the stories of individuals connected to her ancestry and Southern roots.

Beverly Smith is a mixed media fiber artist...

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SHOW YOUR LOVE FOR CAM EVERYWHERE YOU GO!

Featured: CAM Tote Bag $14.99  (CAM Members: $13.49 )

ON VIEW

Monument

Monument 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 Radcliffe Bailey, 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.

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Stay in the Light:

Works by Charles Edward Williams

In Stay in the Light, South Carolina artist Charles Edward Williams draws inspiration from historical photography of the Civil Rights movement, offering a contemporary response to social and political issues of the past and present. His paintings and focus on human emotion and our connectedness and commonality. Stay in the Light includes new work created for this exhibition, as well as work from Williams's Sun and Light series.

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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 Cummings, Gee’s Bend quilters, Michael James, Precious Lovell, Katie Pasquini Masopust, Carolyn Mazloomi, Mary Pal, Hattie Schmidt, Beverly Smith, The Advocacy Project, and others.

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MUSEUM SCHOOL CLASSES & WORKSHOPS

CREATING STAINED GLASS ART

Instructor: Jane Del Rosso Freach

Learn the ageless art of making a stained-glass art piece, be it a window, a door corner, a box, or a sun catcher.



Adult: All Levels

Thurs, Apr 4-May 9, 

11:00 AM-2:00 PM 

CAM Member $208

Not-yet Member $260

Supplies: See Supply List Here

Supplies: N/A

THE PATH TO CASSATT LECTURE 1: OBSTACLES FACED BY WOMEN ARTISTS - PREHISTORIC TO MEDIEVAL ART

Instructor: Ben Billingsley

A series of three lectures tracing the history of women in the visual arts from the Prehistoric Era to Impressionism. We’ll explore the accomplishments of women in the arts as well as the barriers women artists have faced for centuries. The series culminates with an in-depth look at the life and career of Mary Cassatt.



Adult: All Levels

Sun, Mar 17, 2:00-3:30 PM

CAM Member $15

Not-yet Member $20

CAM CAFE

Lunch:

Tues-Fri 11 AM-2 PM

Dinner:

Thurs 5-8 PM



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 Cafe.

Join us today!  Call (910) 777-2363 for reservations

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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.