CAM Members: Free; Not-Yet Members: $15 Schedule of Events: 5-7:30 PM Wine Tasting in CAM Café 6-7 PM Conversation with Stephen Hayes and Dr. Valerie Johnson Dr. Johnson, the Dean of Arts, Sciences & Humanities at Shaw University, and currently Chair of the NC African American Heritage Commission. Dr. Johnson states that her mission...
Museum Admission Monument takes inspiration from Boundless, the new public sculpture on CAM's grounds by Stephen Hayes, and asks how contemporary artists engage with the Civil War and its immediate aftermath. This exhibition features the work of Hayes, Sonya Clark, Stephen Hayes, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Kara Walker and other contemporary artists and positions their work in dialogue...
Free with Museum Admission “The National Monument Audit, produced by Monument Lab in partnership with The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, assesses the current monument landscape across the United States.” – from monumentlab.com. This gallery talk will use those statistics to inform our walk through CAMs Monument exhibition. REGISTER For questions or concerns...
Free with Museum Admission Join us for a discussion in the Monument exhibition with art historian Ewa Matyczyk, PhD. Ewa's research and teaching explores the social and political context surrounding art, asking important questions around commemoration and sometimes omission of histories. Ewa Matyczyk is Assistant Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art History at the...
Free; Pre-registration Required This talk will be led by VCU professor Ana Edwards who will be using Sonya Clark’s Monumental Cloth, amongst other works, to address how we collectively memorialize ideas and locations, especially in regard to public spaces. Ana Edwards is a public historian with research interests in the history and significance of...
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...