Laney Art Students to work with Cameron Art Museum Artist in Residence

WILMINGTON — Through a recent grant awarded by the North Carolina Arts Council, Laney High School ceramics program students will have the opportunity to work with the Cameron Art Museum’s artist-in-residence and master artist Hiroshi Sueyoshi at the Clay Studio.

Over the course of this one-year program, master artist Hiroshi Sueyoshi will work with the entire ceramics program at Laney High School through in-class lectures, demonstrations, and explication of his own work. Mr. Sueyoshi’s presence will touch the entire school community, through exhibitions of student work, student demonstrations, family nights at the Clay Studio, and a workshop at the Clay Studio for all art educators (grades 6-12) in New Hanover County. A core group of advanced students will work directly with Sueyoshi on-site at the Clay Studio in a series of master classes. The first session begins Tuesday, September 11 at 2:30 pm at the Clay Studio, housed in the Pancoe Center at the Cameron Art Museum.

It is the museum’s hope that students develop an awareness of art as an avocation and profession and discover art as an opportunity for lifelong learning, and that they enjoy themselves.

The Clay Studio is the only clay-specific artist-in-residence program at an art museum. This unique program fulfills the Cameron Art Museum’s vision to create a “laboratory” for experimentation and innovation in clay – while providing museum visitors and young people direct contact with a master artist and working studio.

Cameron Art Museum is located at the corner of South 17th Street and Independence Boulevard in Wilmington, NC. Hours of operation are Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday: 11:00 am- 5:00 pm, and Friday: 11:00 am – 9:00 pm. For more information, visit http://www.cameronartmuseum.com or call 910-395-5999.