Cameron Art Museum announces winter programs
Programming for children and adults through February
WILMINGTON, NC (WWAY) — The Cameron Art Museum in Wilmington is kicking off the new year with a huge list of programming for children and adults. The events include Martin Luther King holiday programming for kids, homeschooling help, painting classes, readings, yoga, and the return of Jazz@cam.
Here is the complete list:
January 2022
Saturday and Sunday January 15th and 16th
KIDS @ CAM – I Have A Dream Peace Flag weekend
In-Person: Saturday, January 15th or Sunday, January 16th
Cameron Art Museum 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 think deeply about our own hopes and dreams for ourselves, our city, our nation, and the world. These dreams will be written on squares of cloth, emblematic of the peace prayer flags created for centuries in Tibet. Your peace flag will be included in a community installation that will be displayed around the CAM pond. Together, these flags represent our collective desire for racial unity, community healing, and peace.
Packages for classes will be available. Please check our website for registration and participation details, or email education@cameronartmuseum.org to find out ways to involve your students!
Sunday, January 16
2 pm
Members: $16 Nonmembers: $20 Students: $12
USCT Public Programs Series: Mary D. Williams
Join us as musician, educator, and historian Mary D. Williams explores the legacy of the USCT through song. Williams has performed and provided her voice to the soundtrack of Blood Done Sign My Name (February 2010). She has also performed at the North Carolina State Capitol and has been featured on Dick Gordon’s The Story, as well as on National Public Radio. Williams is both a scholar and a musician, whose breathtaking voice takes listeners on a journey through time.
Tuesdays, January 18 – February 8
10am – 12pm
Homeschool Tuesdays
Instructor: Renato Abbate
CAM member price: $108; non-member: $120
This clay class will cover all the basic hand building techniques: pinch, coil, and slab. Students will also discuss 3-D design elements as well as bisque and glaze firing.
Tuesdays, January 18 – February 22
10am – 1pm
Principles of Drawing
Instructor: Todd Carignan
CAM member price: $234; non-member price: $260
The foundation of all representational art is drawing. This class covers how to start a drawing, measuring, mark-making, arranging your subject and lighting, creating texture and depth.
Tuesday, January 18 – February 8
4pm – 5:30pm
Create a Story
Instructor: Carolyn Faulkner
CAM member price: $85.50; non-member: $95
Draw an outline using your favorite bird, insect, animal or whatever you choose. Even an anime character that you create! Then draw a story inside using designs and/or memories. This can be make believe or something personal you wish to express. You will then color with markers or colored pencil. Your story can be hidden, by attaching another cutout layer (such as a wing on the bird). It will be like opening a book! We will continue to explore more pieces and movement on your art as time permits.
Wednesday, January 19
9 – 10 am
Gentle Yoga with Steve Unger
Donation $5
Wednesday, January 19
1:30 pm
Public Tour
Free with admission
Wednesday, January 19
Capturing our Colorful Coastal Skies
Instructor: Carolyn Faulkner
CAM member price: $153; non-member: $170
Living in coastal Carolina you most likely have witnessed the variety of skies; from brilliant sunrises/sunsets to threatening thunder skies and everything in between. This course will provide you with the basic concepts of achieving some of those classic features found in our colorful skies. In this class you will learn the balance between soft and hard edges while creating beautiful multi-colored sunrises, sunsets, and storm clouds, using acrylic paints. This course will provide you with the confidence to be bold with your brush and colors as you softly blend colors to achieve that memorable look. Some key features of this course are understanding that nothing is truly white in the sky and the use of a variety of colors becomes an asset. Both sky and clouds have some of the softest edges found in nature. A balance between soft and hard edges are important to the painter to describe the volume of the clouds and their translucency.
Thursday, January 20
All Day
Member Preview of Confluence
Member tours at 11:00 am, 1:00 pm, 5:00 pm, and 7:00 pm
Friday, January 21
Public Opening of Confluence
11:00 am Gallery Talk with Artist Gene Felice
CAM Member $15/ NonMember $20
Thursday, January 20
10am – 4pm
Watercolor Fresh Market workshop
Instructor: Janice Castiglione
CAM member price: $171; non-member: $190
Spend two days painting still lives. There’s something to be said about painting from life and having it right in front of you. Each participant will be asked to bring in a fresh fruit or vegetable to add to existing backdrops. What fun! On Day Two, we will change places to work on new compositions, so bring a camera.
Educators Night
Thursday, January 20th
4pm to 7pm
FREE for teachers
Spend a fun and relaxing evening at CAM with free admission during an exclusive event for educators and view our new exhibitions. Docents in the galleries will answer your questions and provide information about the 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.
Thursdays, January 20 – February 24
6 – 9pm
Thursday Night Clay
Instructor: Renato Abbate
CAM member price: $225; nonmember: $250
A fun class for all skill levels. Make your own custom plates or mugs. Work on some wild sculpture. Explore how clay can work for you and gain a new appreciation for handmade pottery.
Gallery Talk: Antoinette Vogt
Saturday, January 22
1pm-2pm
Artist Toni Vogt will discuss the prints by Willy Cole in the Shadow We Create exhibition. His printing process is akin to a collagraph, where found objects are used to create a printing plate. By using ironing boards, Cole finds a new means to explore a familiar motif.
Antoinette Angela Vogt received a B.F.A. with a concentration in Drawing from the State University of New York at Purchase and a Master of Architecture from New Jersey Institute of Technology. She worked in Architecture for several years while teaching drawing at night through Wake Technical Community College in Raleigh, NC. After moving to Norman, Oklahoma in 2011, she began volunteering at Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art assisting in the classroom for their educational programs. Antoinette also taught drawing at a small art school in Norman before moving on to teach Drawing and Art Appreciation at Oklahoma City Community College.
Sunday, January 23
2 pm
Reading: Jason Mott, Hell of a Book, winner of the 2021 National Book Award
CAM members $10/ Nonmembers: $15
Free for students
Admission includes entry to the galleries
***2021 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER***
Winner of the 2021 Sir Walter Raleigh Award for Fiction
Longlisted for the 2022 Carnegie Medal Fiction, the 2021 Joyce Carol Oates Prize and the 2021 Aspen Words Literary Prize
A Read With Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick!
One of Washington Post‘s 50 Notable Works of Fiction | One of Philadelphia Inquirer‘s Best Books of 2021 | One of Shelf Awareness’s Top Ten Fiction Titles of the Year | One of TIME Magazine’s 100 Must-Read Books | One of NPR.org’s “Books We Love” | EW’s “Guide to the Biggest and Buzziest Books of 2021” | One of the New York Public Library’s Best Books for Adults | One of Entertainment Weekly‘s 15 Books you Need to Read This June | On Entertainment Weekly’s “Must List” | One of The NY Post‘s Best Summer Reading books | One of GMA’s 27 Books for June | One of USA Today‘s 5 Books Not to Miss | One of Fortune‘s 21 Most Anticipated Books Coming out in the Second Half of 2021 | One of The Root‘s PageTurners: It’s Getting Hot in Here | One of Real Simple‘s Best New Books to Read in 2021 |One of The Philadelphia Inquirer‘s Best of 2021
Join National Book Award Winner Jason Mott for a reading from Hell of a Book. Hell of a Book is an astounding work of fiction from a New York Times bestselling author Jason Mott, always deeply honest, at times electrically funny, that goes to the heart of racism, police violence, and the hidden costs exacted upon Black Americans, and America as a whole. Jason Mott has published four novels. His first novel, The Returned, was a New York Times bestseller and was turned into a TV series that ran for two seasons. He has a BFA in Fiction and an MFA in Poetry, both from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. His poetry and fiction have appeared in various literary journals, and his most recent novel, Hell of a Book, was named the winner of the National Book Award for Fiction, 2021.
Wednesday, January 26
9 – 10 am
Gentle Yoga with Steve Unger
Donation $5
Wednesday, January 26
1:30 pm
Public Tour
Free with admission
Thursday, January 27
10 am – 11 am
Art Explorers with Airlie Gardens
Thursday, January 27
10am – 1pm
The Power of Pastels Returns to CAM!
Instructor: Jerri Greenberg
CAM member price: $171; non-member: $190
Come along and explore the sheer joy of painting in pastels, learn to use different brands, softness, papers, and lighting to make the “ordinary EXTRAordinary”. Each week we will work from a still life setup or a model, to expand your repertoire and your comfort zones, working with this wonderful, immediate medium.
Thursday, January 27
6pm – 8:30pm
Art Buzz- Mixed Media Fashion Illustration
Instructor: Jennifer Gironda
CAM member price: $45; non-member: $50
Join us for a fashion sketching session featuring mixed media collage materials. We will work from various images from fashion magazines (feel free to bring images from YOUR favorite runway looks!) and we will go over how to do a quick croquis and then add the garments using a variety of 2D collage materials. An assortment of papers and adhesives will be available, but please feel free to bring any scrap papers, magazine pages or other materials for your looks!
Thursday, January 27
7 pm
Exhibitions After Dark: Gallery Talk with Zedrick Applin
Learn about Stephen Hayes’s exhibition Voices of Future’s Past from the unique perspective of community member Zedrick Applin, Program Manager, Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Community Involvement at nCino. Join Zedrick for this interaction conversation and grab dinner and a cocktail from CAM Café before or after. Free with admission.
Fridays, January 28 – March 4
10am – 12pm
Interactive color
Instructor: Lois DeWitt
CAM member price: $153; non-member: $170
Interaction of Color by Josef Albers was published by Yale University in 1963. A seminal study, it provided new perspectives on color and how it is perceived visually. Through a series of visual projects using Color-aid papers, students develop new cognitive and visual skills towards seeing and analyzing the perception of color. These skills can transfer easily to other artistic skills like painting, drawing and printmaking. Keeping close to Alber’s instruction and projects, this six-week course leads students through a series of fascinating, unique and informative color theory using Color-aid and found papers.
Saturday, January 29
11– 4pm
Memory Jar – Capturing Your Past through Narrative and Assemblage
Instructor: Fritzi Huber and Dina Greenberg
CAM member price: $72; non-member: $80
Why is it so difficult to throw away all the “stuff” we accumulate? Perhaps these objects carry meaning beyond simple explanation. In this five-hour workshop: (1) We’ll first use (your chosen) objects to spark a brief work of creative writing: poetry, prose, or hybrid (2) create a three-dimensional “memory jar” to capture the meaning of your treasures.
February 2022
Wednesday, February 2 – 23
6pm – 8pm
VIRTUAL- Winter Words on Paper – Telling our Stories in Memoir
Instructor: Dina Greenberg
CAM member price: $108; non-member price: $120
You, dear writer, are uniquely qualified to tell the stories of your past, present, and perhaps even an imagined future. This creative writing workshop in memoir for adult writers is open to community participants with varying degrees of writing expertise. The workshop follows a traditional format where group members critique one another’s work with the instructor’s guidance. Literature and craft articles will also be presented for discussion. The goal is to instill respect and compassion in the critique process while helping participants improve their writing and literary analysis.
Thursdays, February 3 – March 10
4:30 – 6:30pm
Foundations of Drawing: Teen and Young Adult
Instructor: Antoinette Vogt
CAM member price: $148.50; non-member: $165
Learn how to draw realistically through the study of still life. Students will develop drawing skills by understanding and improving ability to see objects in space to better represent them on the page. Learn how to see and draw objects in proportion and understand perspective. Topics covered will include working with line; blind and modified contour drawing; seeing and drawing negative space (the space around objects); visual perspective (perceiving angles using sighting technique); proportion (objects in relations to one another).
Friday, February 4th
12pm
‘Resilience’ Community Screening
View the award-winning documentary ‘Resilience: The Biology of Stress and the Science of Hope’. The film screens in our spacious reception hall from 12 PM to 1 PM, followed by an optional brief discussion with other community members. Learn about the New Hanover County Resiliency Task Force. https://www.nhcbouncesback.org/
The CAM offers free screenings of ‘Resilience’ on the first Friday of each month (unless there is a holiday and then it moves to the second Friday). Feel free to grab lunch at the CAM café, or bring your own lunch!
No fee and no registration necessary.
Fridays, February 4 – 25
1pm – 3pm
Introduction to Ikebana
Instructor: Karen Chevrotee
CAM member price: $117; non-member: $130
IKEBANA, the Art of Japanese Flower Arranging. Originally used in Temples, simple, elegant, at once meditative. Following prescribed rules to create Beauty for your home or office with natural flowers, leaves and branches.
Friday, February 4
8-9am
All Levels Flow Yoga with Kim Gargiulo
Saturday & Sunday, February 5 – 6
10am – 4pm & noon – 4pm
Rock, Paper Stitches – Joomchi & Embroidery – Virtual
CAM member price: $144; non-member: $160
‘Rock’ two slow-process crafts in one unique class! Day 1 will concentrate on learning an ancient Korean paper craft to create a ‘felted’ paper called joomchi. Joomchi utilizes layers of thin hanji papers that, through agitation and manipulation, create a sturdy piece that can be used alone or in other artistic endeavors. One such endeavor will be achieved on Day 2. Taking the previous day’s joomchi pieces, you’ll use simple hand stitches for mark making, to add found objects, or to stitch several joomchi together for a larger, dramatic piece of finished paper art. (This is not a paper making class.)
Thursday, February 10
7pm-8pm
Exhibitions After Dark: Gallery Talk with Cedric Harrison
Cedric Harrison, a Wilmington native, is the founder of both Support the Port and wilmingtoNColor. Harrison has dedicated his professional career to supporting and creating opportunities for economic growth and advancement for African Americans in the Wilmington area. He is a local historian (in his own right) and passionate about the rich history of African Americans in Wilmington, NC.
Due to his impactful efforts and work, Harrison has earned several accolades and much recognition in this space. Most recently, Harrison was a recipient of the 40 under 40 award presented by StarNews meds and Wilmington Chamber of Commerce – an award which recognizes professionals who are high performers in their field.
In 2019, Harrison was selected out of over 400 applicants to be part of the inaugural cohort of the All for NC Fellows. Since the fellowship, Harrison has seized the opportunity to continue his journey of bringing transformational change to his local community.
Cedric Harrison also had the opportunity to deliver his first TEDx talk in 2019 at the TEDx Airlie event in Wilmington, NC. His speech, Bridging the Racial Gap of Socio-Economics, provided viewers with a compelling history lesson on Wilmington in conversation with his personal experiences and journey.
Friday, February 11
8-9am
All Levels Flow Yoga with Kim Gargiulo
Saturday, February 12 & February 19
10 – 1pm
Collagraph Printmaking Workshop
Instructor: Antoinette Vogt
CAM member price: 81; non-member: $90
A two-day workshop to learn the art of collagraph printmaking using plates created by collage. In this workshop students will create printing plates by gluing elements onto the printing surface to create an image. Students are asked to gather collage supplies ahead of time and bring them to the first-class session. Collage items should not be more than 1/8″ thick and can include scraps of cardboard; textured item such as sandpaper, fabric, burlap or lace; string or twine, leaves. seeds, buttons, etc. Students will create their plates during the first session and print them during the second session.
Saturday, February 12
1pm – 2:30pm
CAM Members $20/ Nonmembers $25
Book Buzz- Women Who Misbehave
Instructor: Sayantani Dasgupta with Heather Wilson
Join author Sayantani Dasgupta for a discussion of her new novel, “Women Who Misbehave”. Dasgupta states, “Well-behaved or not, woman or not, each of our lives is made up of stories. How you tell it is where the art lies. Each of us lives through historic moments every day, and ends up with thousands of stories. Now who gets to tell stories, whose stories are valued and heard is another matter altogether.” Registration includes a glass of wine or sparkling water. Studio dinner and half-priced bottles of wine available from the CAM Cafe.
Sayantani Dasgupta has taught creative writing in the United States, India, Italy, and Mexico. She is an essayist, a short story writer, and the author of Fire Girl: Essays On India, America, & The In-Between- a finalist for the 2016 Foreword Indies Award for Essays- and the chapbook The House Of Nails: Memories Of A New Delhi Childhood. Born in Calcutta and raised in New Delhi, Sayantani received a BA in History from St. Stephen’s College, Delhi, an MA in Medieval History from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Idaho.
Saturday, February 12
11am – 2pm
Woven Hand built Ceramic Basket
Instructor: Shannon Gehen
CAM member price: $50; non-member: $55
Learn how to make a woven ceramic basket, combining the tradition of basket weaving with the ease of a glazed surface for your kitchen, coffee table, or special event.
Sunday, February 13
WSO Sunday Concert Series
2-3pm
Thursday, February 17
Jazz@ CAM
6:30-8:00pm
$25 for CAM and CFJS members, $30 for non-members, $15 for students and military
The John Brown Quintet
The multi-talented John Brown brings his quintet to the CAM on February 3. The performance is part of our ongoing concert series, which begins at 6:30 PM.
A successful bassist, composer, educator and actor, John currently serves as Vice Provost for the Arts at Duke University. He has a long history of performance excellence. At the age of 13, he began performing with the Fayetteville Symphony Orchestra. He was playing Principal Bass with that orchestra and performing with the Florence Symphony in South Carolina while still in high school.
John has performed in the United States and abroad with artists that include Wynton Marsalis, Ellis Marsalis, Delfeayo Marsalis, Elvin Jones, Nnenna Freelon, Diahann Carroll, Rosemary Clooney, Nell Carter, Lou Donaldson, Slide Hampton, Nicholas Payton, Frank Foster, Larry Coryell, Cedar Walton, Fred Wesley and Mark Whitfield. He also has a Grammy nomination for his performance and co-writing on Nnenna Freelon’s 1996 Concord release, Shaking Free. His extensive experience includes performances at notable venues like Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, the Blue Note, Blues Alley, and the Hollywood Bowl and at major jazz festivals like the Playboy Jazz Festival, the JVC Jazz Festival, the Montreal Jazz Festival, the Free Jazz Festival (Brazil) and Jazz e Vienne (France).
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