Free; pre-registration required Artist and educator Benjamin Billingsley leads a lecture-style presentation centered on the work of Felix González-Torres, allowing time for Q&A in the gallery, with a focus on the theme of love in the broader context of art examining LGBTQ+ experiences. With González-Torres as the starting point, Billingsley will explore related works...
5:30-6:45 PM Cocktail Hour 6:45 PM Annual Lecture followed by Annual Design Awards Vershaé Hite AIA, NOMA, LEED GA, SEED Senior Architect at EVOKE Studio Architecture Vershaé's academic and professional career have exposed her to a range of unique experiences throughout the United States, United Kingdom, China, Israel and Palestine that have carefully...
Free with Museum Admission Joel Cook is an archaeologist and historian as well as the host of the award-winning PBS NC series, Rogue History. He has experience as a historical researcher in topics ranging from the American Revolution to the Second World War, but his research focuses primarily on the Reconstruction era. He holds...
Free with Museum Admission Curating Ghosts: Abolition, US Colored Troops, and the Future of Haunted Memory examines the rich legacy of the US Colored Troop embodied commitment to, and bodily risk for, the cause of revolutionary abolitionism. Through a photographer's lens, revolutionary theorist Steve Núñez reflects on Stephen Hayes’ Boundless installation at CAM as...
Free; Pre-registration Required In 2019, the New Hanover County Community Remembrance Project (NHCCRP) was formed with the goal of conducting a Soil Collection Ceremony under the guidance of the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI), headquartered in Montgomery, Alabama. The program, which honored the victims of the 1898 Coup & Massacre, was successfully conducted in...
Free; Registration Required Cameron Art Museum hosts historian and consultant Philip J. Merrill for an Artifactual Journey of Black North Carolina, a presentation of specially curated NC artifacts followed by evaluations of select objects and artifacts from the community, and the opportunity to elect to have newly discovered artifacts published in Merrill's forthcoming...
Healing Backwards: The Journey of Tracing My Roots Free with Museum Admission NC State PhD. Candidate, Tyanna West work centers around Gullah culture in the southeastern region of NC, specifically the Brunswick County area. Tyanna Parker-West is a public historian, performance artist, and proud Gullah Geechee woman whose Brunswick County roots go back...
