November 19, 2024-March 23, 2025
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A celebration of CAM’s collection featuring works by artists with a connection to our state, our region, our home. Opens with a gala celebration on November 16.
Learn MoreAt Cameron Art Museum we present a diverse and dynamic range of exhibitions that showcase the works of both established and emerging artists from around the world.
CAM, like many museums, includes its collection in rotating thematic exhibitions. The collection is not permanently on view. Please call ahead if you are traveling to see a specific work of art.
October 19, 2024- January 12, 2025
Diane Landry: Flying School
Welcome the return of Diane Landry’s (Canadian, b. 1958) iconic work Flying School (Ecole d’aviation)! The installation features multi-colored umbrellas attached to rods at varying heights, which fold and unfold intermittently, creating a breathing-like motion.
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April 26, 2024-February 16, 2025
Thomas Sayre: Four Walls
This exhibition features new and never-before exhibited by American sculptor and painter Thomas Sayre.
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March 20, 2025-October 5, 2025
The Game-Changers: Diebenkorn, Frankenthaler, and Rauschenberg
The Game-Changers exhibition expands viewers’ appreciation of prints in the permanent collection with the generous inclusion of works by Frankenthaler, Diebenkorn, Rauschenberg and their contemporaries from renowned American museum collections. Join us as we celebrate the works of remarkable artists from a pivotal period in our shared cultural history.
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January 21 – March 3, 2024
3 Artists: Work of Elizabeth Darrow, Gayle Tustin, and Karen Paden Crouch
March 1, 2023 – April 2, 2023
Preview: March 4, 2023 11 am
Teaching Creating: Work by CAM Museum School Instructors
December 2, 2022 – January 15, 2023
Preview/Opening Party December 2, 2022
Illumination 2022 – Let Your Light Shine
March 25-August 1, 2021
Another Look The Eye Learns: Modernist Prints from the Louis Belden Collection
While You’re Here
Explore Cameron Art Museum’s beautiful 9.3 acre museum campus. Discover Caroline, our whirlygig sculpture, spend time in the PNC USCT Park, walk the nature trails, and enjoy our picnic tables, and more.
In addition to Boundless in the PNC USCT Park, you can stroll the museum grounds and encounter sculptures by Mel Chin, the Minnie Evans Gatehouse Replica, Dana Gingras, Clyde Jones, Vollis Simpson, and Hiroshi Sueyoshi. Enjoy the Artist-Made Seating by Tom Spleth just outside the front entrance.
Caroline by North Carolina folk artist Vollis Simpson (American, 1919-2013), a monumental “whirligig”, was created to honor Caroline Butts (1946-2010) who was a strong supporter of the arts and artists, including Simpson.
Visit the PNC USCT Park, within the historic Forks Road Civil War Site. View Stephen Hayes’s sculpture, Boundless, commemorating the soldiers of the United States Colored Troops who fought on the site for their freedom.
Enjoy a stroll along the pond and through the trails located throughout the 9.3 acres of the museum campus. On the trails you will observe native plants and animal life.
There are a few picnic tables located throughout the museum grounds. Pick up lunch at CAM Cafe or bring your own and enjoy the day outside.
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