Film Screening

Mission Montford Point: Film Screening and Panel Discussion

Thursday, June 1, 2023, 6-7:30 PM

Free; pre-registration encouraged

Cameron Art Museum is partnering with Fox Wilmington to screen the Disney produced short film, Our America: Mission Montford Point, which chronicles the story of the first African Americans to serve in the United States Marine Corp at Camp Lejeune, Jacksonville, NC. After the film screening, we will host a cross generational panel discussion featuring marine veterans, including an original Montford Point Marine, Vietnam and Gulf War vets, and more.

Featured Panelists:

Gunnery Sergeant F.M. Hooper - Montford Point Marine

Sergeant Curtis Carlton – Gulf War

Staff Sergeant Larry Farrior – Lebanon/Beirut

Corporal Hubert Reaves – Vietnam

Sergeant Cary Godwin - Vietnam

Lt Col Dianne Jinwright - United States Air Force (Ret.)

Mary's Art Explorers

Murals

Thursday, June 8, 2023, 10-11 AM

CAM Members: $5 per adult/child; Not-Yet Members: $10 per adilt/child

Children 2 and under: free

We will read Hey Wall: A Story of Art and Community and then explore the murals found in our new exhibition Place of Encounters. We will create our own mini-murals on recycled cardboard, and work both individually and collaboratively!

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!

It is with great honor that Cameron Art Museum pays tribute to Mary Cameron Hoey by naming its most popular and long standing family program after her. Mary’s Art Explorers is a story time, art making, and museum exploration program.

Sponsored in part by

Concert

15th Annual Port City Music Festival

Thursday, June 8, 2023, 7-8 PM

Free; Donations Appreciated

Pre-registration required

Founded in 2009 by cellist and conductor Stephen Framil and Wilmington artist Christine Farley, the 14th Annual Port City Music Festival 2022 is a summer concert series committed to the highest quality of performance and making the experience of great music accessible to all. There will be a Master Class prior to the performance at 4:30 PM.

Beethoven String Quartet No. 4 in C minor, Op. 18 No. 4

Florence Price Piano Quintet in A minor

Luigi Mazzocchi, Violinist

Gared Crawford, Violinist

Sarah Sutton, Violist

Stephen Framil, Cellist

Kyle Engler, Mezzo-Soprano

Aren Framil, Soprano

Daniel Lau, Pianist

Tour

Connections Monday

Monday, June 12, 2023, 10:30 AM-12:30 PM

Free; pre-registration required

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.

Membership

New Member Coffee

Wednesday, June 14, 2023, 10-11 AM

Free; CAM members only

New CAM Members are invited to a Member Coffee to meet Interim Director Heather Wilson and learn a little about CAM's history. Tour of the galleries following the coffee is optional.

CAM Museum Shop

Coffee with the Shop Artists

Wednesday, June 14, 2023, 11:30 AM-1:30 PM

Free

Meet one or more Museum Shop Artists and learn more about them and their work. Lemonade and nibbles make the conversation even better.

CAM Community Day

Juneteenth Celebration

Sunday, June 18, 2023, 10 AM-5 PM

Children's activities in the courtyard: 12-2 PM with stories and art making for ages 5 and up

Juneteenth Celebration: 2-5 PM

Museum Admission Free

Join the Juneteenth Committee of Wilmington Inc. and Speak Ya Peace NC live at CAM for music and poetry by SolTree Reign. We will convene our Celebration with a Panel discussion with local activists, professors and guest speakers. Be prepared for a panel discussion, "Live with Derrick Anderson". We will be live, honest, and transparent. Come prepared to leave CAM filled with knowledge, enlightenment, and Joy.

Guests: Derrick Anderson, Moderator

Panelists: Makeda Baker, RN MA, Poet; Dr. Breea C. Willingham Associate Professor of Criminology at UNCW; Lettie Gore, historian and racial justice educator, and JaQuan Bagley, Veteran

We will welcome Special Guest Poets, Jadon Kenion, Madelyn Athena Purdie, Ellie Lorenz and Zenith Ayodele Jarrett. Sonya Amen-Ra will have a table tribute to the USCT.

Mary's Art Explorers

I Need a Hug / Necesito un Abrazo

Thursday, June 22, 2023, 10-11 AM

CAM Members: $5 per adult/child; Not-Yet Members: $10 per adult/child

Children 2 and under: free

Come take part in a bilingual Art Explorers! We will read I Need a Hug / Necesito un Abrazo, then explore our new exhibitions Love and together. We will create artwork inspired by our book and our two exhibitions. Our book will be read in both English and Spanish, and a Spanish-speaking staff member will offer translation of the gallery exploration and art project instructions.

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!

It is with great honor that Cameron Art Museum pays tribute to Mary Cameron Hoey by naming its most popular and long standing family program after her. Mary’s Art Explorers is a story time, art making, and museum exploration program.

Sponsored in part by

Exhibition

Opening for Love

Thursday, June 22, 2023

Members Only Tours at 11 AM, 1 PM, and 5 PM

Love (June 22-October 8) examines this sometimes intense, often elusive emotion. True love, familial love, romantic love, self-love, platonic love, forbidden love, and lost love are all aspects of this universal emotion.

Through contemporary art, Love explores, celebrates, and looks deeply at these various aspects of love and connects us with our shared humanity. Love is an adaptation of the 2022 exhibition, What Is Left Unspoken, Love at the High Museum of Art, Atlanta.

Love includes work by Ghada Amer, Thomas Barger, Susanna Coffey, Alanna Fields, Andrea Galvani, Jeffrey Gibson, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Fritzi Huber, Rashid Johnson, Jana Vander Lee, Felicita Felli Maynard, William Selig, Dixon Stetler, Lien Truong, Michele Tejuola Turner, and Akram Zaatari. Loans for this exhibition are from Art Bridges and Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, the High Museum of Art, and private collections.

Love is an adaptation of the 2022 exhibition What is Left Unspoken, Love at the High Museum of Art, Atlanta.

Love

Artists Talk with Lien Truong and jina valentine

Thursday, June 22, 2023, 6 PM

CAM Members: $15; Not-Yet Members: $20

oin artists Lien Truong and jina valentine for a conversation in the gallery as Cameron Art Museum opens Love. They'll explore how family relationships can inform art, how family and community love have driven certain series of their work, and how family love informs their artistic practice in general.

jina valentine is a mother, visual artist, and educator. Her practice is informed by traditional craft techniques and interweaves histories latent within found texts, objects, narratives, and spaces. jina’s work involves language translation, mining content from material and digital archives, and experimental strategies for humanizing data-visualization. She is also co-founder (with artist Heather Hart) of Black Lunch Table, an oral-history archiving project. Her work has received recognition and support from the Graham Foundation, Joan Mitchell Foundation, and Art Matters among others. jina received her BFA from Carnegie Mellon and her MFA from Stanford University, and an Associate Professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Truong's art practice examines cultural and material ideologies and notions of heritage. Her work blends painting techniques, materials and philosophies, and military, textile and art histories; creating hybrid forms interrogating the relationship between aesthetics and doctrine. Her paintings have been presented in numerous exhibitions, which include the venues of the National Portrait Gallery, Nasher Museum of Art, North Carolina Museum of Art, Station Museum of Contemporary Art, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Oakland Museum of California, Art Hong Kong, Sea Focus in Singapore, Southern Exposure. Truong is the recipient of a Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant, fellowships from the Institute of the Arts and Humanities, the North Carolina Arts Council, the Jack and Gertrude Murphy Fine Arts Fellowships; and residencies at the Oakland Museum of California and the Marble House Project.

Love Exhibition

Love Dance

Sunday, June 25, 2023, 2-5 PM

CAM Members: $10; Not-Yet Members: $15; Students: $5

DJ Set by Louis

We're Going to dance

We're Going to dance

We're Going to dance and have some fun

-Dee Lite

Join us for a Sunday afternoon tea dance in the CAM Courtyard as we celebrate the opening of Love, Gay Pride and all the wonderful things summer brings!

Tour

Connections Monday

Monday, July 10, 2023, 10:30 AM-12:30 PM

Free; pre-registration required

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.

English | Spanish Art Explorers

A Color of His Own / Su Proprio Color

Thursday, July 27, 2023, 10-11 AM

CAM Members: $5 per adult/child; Not-Yet Members: $10 per adult/child

Children 2 and under: free

Come take part in a bilingual Art Explorers! We will read A Color of His Own / Su Proprio Color and explore our exhibitions looking for different colors. We will create artwork inspired by what we find. Our book will be read in both English and Spanish, and a Spanish-speaking staff member will offer translation of the gallery exploration and art project instructions.

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!

It is with great honor that Cameron Art Museum pays tribute to Mary Cameron Hoey by naming its most popular and long standing family program after her. Mary’s Art Explorers is a story time, art making, and museum exploration program.

Sponsored in part by

Lugar de Encuentros | Place of Encounters

Artist Talk with Cornelio Campos

Thursday, August 17, 2023, 6 PM

CAM Members: $16; Not-Yet Members: $20

Cornelio Campos is a self-taught Mexican-American artist based in Durham, NC. Mr. Campos immigrated to the United States from Mexico as a teenager—a journey and process that now influence many of his paintings. Vibrant colors, iconic American symbols, and intricate geometric patterns define Mr. Campos’s work. Through his paintings, he illustrates some of the harsh realities of immigrating to America that immigrants often overlook. Moreover, he highlights deep-seated political issues that contribute to Mexican immigration, including the implementation of the North American Free Trade Agreement. As an artist with no formal training, Mr. Campos’s paintings exemplify techniques that he has learned through observation, and often defy traditional color schemes. His paintings contain therapeutic, controversial, and enlightening elements that make them both unique and unforgettable.

Lugar De Encuentros / Place of Encounters exhibition related programming is made possible in part by:

Design NC Book Series

Design NC Book Series with Garden Historian and Author Linda Jane Holden

Friday, September 8, 2023, 10:30 AM-12 PM

CAM Members: $20; Not-Yet Members: $25

Linda is a garden historian and the author behind the book >i>Presidents' Gardens and The Gardens of Bunny Mellon. Linda grew up in Northern Virginia spending happy youthful hours at the gardens in Mount Vernon, Colonial Williamsburg and Washington, DC.

A gardener in her own right, Linda enjoys any opportunity to create gardens that allow people to experience beauty effortlessly.

Presented by

Lugar de Encuentros | Place of Encounters

Artist Talk with Nico Amortegui

Thursday, October 26, 2023, 6 PM

CAM Members: $16; Not-Yet Members: $20

Nico Amortegui is a Charlotte-based artist that was born and raised in Bogotá, Colombia. He learned many artistic skills and trades growing up in a family filled with creative types from architects and carpenters to designers, photographers and artists. Known for large-scale paintings and installations, his mural and sculpture works can be found in numerous cities throughout NC as well as Atlanta, DC, and Tel Aviv. Nico has completed 11 solo shows in four states since 2012 and 50+ group shows throughout the East Coast. Most notably, you can find his work with the Smithsonian Latinx Gateways Collection and regionally, at the Charlotte Douglas International Airport, gates B7 & B10. Nico enjoys sculpting & wood-working with found objects, and spending time in his elaborate garden or ceramics studio.

Lugar De Encuentros / Place of Encounters exhibition related programming is made possible in part by:

Gentle Yoga with Steve Unger and Darren Shartle, RYT200

Tuesdays from 9-10 AM

Suggested Donation: $5

Come join us in an ever-changing gallery setting for a yoga practice designed for relaxation, rejuvenation and self-reflection. Come breathe with us as we restore the body and mind in a one hour session. Asanas are all-level and beginners are welcome. Participants can choose to use a mat or a chair. Donations support youth scholarships.

Public Tours

Wednesdays at 1:30 PM

Free with museum admission

Boundless Public Tours with Daniel Jones, CAM Cultural Curator

Fridays at 1 PM

Free with museum admission

Public tours of Boundless, a sculpture by NC artist Stephen Hayes commemorating the United States Colored Troops and their fight for freedom.

Photograph by Jeff Janowski/UNCW

Live Music at CAM Café

Thursdays from 6-8 PM & Saturdays from 11:30 AM-1:30 PM

June

1 Roger Davis

3 Ken Schnedetz

8 Bill Alston

10 Laura McLean

15 Philip Singleton

17 Ken Schnedetz

22 Laura McLean

24 Roger Davis

29 Jessica Wicken

July

1 Warren Darrell

6 Philip Singleton

8 Brian Gross

13 Roger Davis

15 Jessica Wicken

20 Warren Darrell

22 Roger Davis

27 Brian Gross

29 Laura McLean

Illustration of Michaela Haley by Haley Branner, 2022