Homeschool Tuesdays

Tuesday, 2/8/2022
10:00AM-12:00PM  
Tuesdays, January 18 – February 8
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.

Principles of Drawing

Tuesday, 2/8/2022
10:00AM-1:00PM  
Tuesdays, January 18 – February 22
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.

Create a Story

Tuesday, 2/8/2022
4:00PM-5:30PM  
Tuesdays, January 18 – February 8
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.

The Natural Way to Draw

Wednesday, 2/9/2022
2:00PM-5:00PM  
Wednesdays, January 12 - February 16
Instructor: Donna Moore
CAM member price: $234; non-member: $260
Through gesture, contour drawing, and observation of both objects and live models, practice capturing form and character of a subject by activating your personal visual sense. Based on the classic method of study by Kimon Nicolaides, "The way to learn to draw is by drawing". (returning and new students encouraged!)

VIRTUAL- Winter Words on Paper

Wednesday, 2/9/2022
6:00PM-8:00PM  
Wednesday, February 2 – 23
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.

Art Explorers – The All-Together Quilt

Thursday, 2/10/2022
10:00AM-11:00AM  
Inspired by the beautiful quilts on display in the Reception Hall, Miss Bobbi will teach us about quilts she has made and show us how to make our own quilt craft! Our featured story will be 'The All-Together Quilt', for sale at the CAM gift shop. We will talk about quilts and create our own quilt squares using colored paper shapes.

Art Explorers is geared towards infants, toddler and preschoolers, but big brothers and sisters are welcome to join and create art with us

CAM Members: $3 per child; Non-Members: $6 Adults and children 2 and under: free

Space is limited so preregister here: Art Explorers: The All-Together Quilt to guarantee your spot

Art Explorer Thursdays

Thursday, 2/10/2022
10:00AM-11:00AM  
Registration: $3 for CAM Members; $6 for non-members (per child); Adults and children 2 and under are free.
Register here

Every Thursday at 10am, join us for story time, followed by an art activity using simple materials found around the house. Art Explorers is geared towards infants, toddler and preschoolers, but big brothers and sisters are welcome to join and create art with us!

Foundations of Drawing: Teen and Young Adult

Thursday, 2/10/2022
4:30PM-6:30PM  
Thursdays, February 3 – March 10
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).

Thursday Night Clay

Thursday, 2/10/2022
6:00PM-9:00PM  
Thursdays, January 20 – February 24
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.

Live@CAM Cafe: Roger Davis

Thursday, 2/10/2022
6:00PM-8:00PM  

Bioluminescence Thursday with Gene Felice

Thursday, 2/10/2022
6:00PM-9:00PM  
Free with admission
Join digital artist Gene Felice as he explores bioluminescence with projection-mapping and light on select Thursdays in Confluence.

All Levels Flow Yoga with Kim Gargiulo

Friday, 2/11/2022
8:30AM-9:30AM  
Fridays, 8:30AM - 9:30AM in the galleries.
Suggested donation: $10

Kim Gargiulo, RYT, has been teaching yoga classes for over 12 years. She enjoys teaching and practicing vinyasa yoga where each pose organically flows into the next, incorporating breath with movement. The overarching goal of yoga, to Kim, is to unite the body, mind and spirit.



Suggested donation: $10

Interactive color

Friday, 2/11/2022
10:00AM-12:00PM  
Fridays, January 28 – March 4
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.

Introduction to Ikebana

Friday, 2/11/2022
1:00PM-3:00PM  
Fridays, February 4 – 25
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.

Collagraph Printmaking Workshop

Saturday, 2/12/2022
10:00AM-1:00PM  
Saturday, February 12 & February 19
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.

Woven Hand built Ceramic Basket

Saturday, 2/12/2022
11:00AM-2:00PM  
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.

Principles of Drawing

Tuesday, 2/15/2022
10:00AM-1:00PM  
Tuesdays, January 18 – February 22
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.

The Natural Way to Draw

Wednesday, 2/16/2022
2:00PM-5:00PM  
Wednesdays, January 12 - February 16
Instructor: Donna Moore
CAM member price: $234; non-member: $260
Through gesture, contour drawing, and observation of both objects and live models, practice capturing form and character of a subject by activating your personal visual sense. Based on the classic method of study by Kimon Nicolaides, "The way to learn to draw is by drawing". (returning and new students encouraged!)

VIRTUAL- Winter Words on Paper

Wednesday, 2/16/2022
6:00PM-8:00PM  
Wednesday, February 2 – 23
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.

Potters Wheel for Teens

Thursday, 2/17/2022
10:00AM-12:00PM  
Wednesday, February 17 – March 24
Instructor: Renato Abbate
CAM member price: $148.50; non-member: $165
Potters wheel for teens and tweens. Learn how to use the wheel, wedge clay and glaze. Make cups, bowls, plates, pitchers, planters and other functional wares.

Continuing Flowing Watercolors

Thursday, 2/17/2022
12:00PM-3:00PM  
Wednesday, February 17 – March 24
Instuctor: Janice Castiglione
CAM member price: $234; non-member: $260
This course will take you through the fundaments of preparation, composition, design and color mixing with watercolors. Each class will begin with a demonstration. One on one personal instruction will be available.

Thursday Night Clay

Thursday, 2/17/2022
6:00PM-9:00PM  
Thursdays, January 20 – February 24
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.

Live@CAM Cafe: Bill Alston

Thursday, 2/17/2022
6:00PM-8:00PM  

Bioluminescence Thursday with Gene Felice

Thursday, 2/17/2022
6:00PM-9:00PM  
Free with admission
Join digital artist Gene Felice as he explores bioluminescence with projection-mapping and light on select Thursdays in Confluence.

Jazz@CAM: John Brown Quintet

Thursday, 2/17/2022
6:30PM-8:00PM  
CFJS/CAM Members: $25; Non-Members: $30; Students: $15; Military: $15

The multi-talented John Brown brings his quintet to the CAM. 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.

Register: https://52374.blackbaudhosting.com/52374/Jazzthe-CAM-202122-February-03

All Levels Flow Yoga with Kim Gargiulo

Friday, 2/18/2022
8:30AM-9:30AM  
Fridays, 8:30AM - 9:30AM in the galleries.
Suggested donation: $10

Kim Gargiulo, RYT, has been teaching yoga classes for over 12 years. She enjoys teaching and practicing vinyasa yoga where each pose organically flows into the next, incorporating breath with movement. The overarching goal of yoga, to Kim, is to unite the body, mind and spirit.

Interactive color

Friday, 2/18/2022
10:00AM-12:00PM  
Fridays, January 28 – March 4
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.

Introduction to Ikebana

Friday, 2/18/2022
1:00PM-3:00PM  
Fridays, February 4 – 25
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.

Collagraph Printmaking Workshop

Saturday, 2/19/2022
10:00AM-1:00PM  
Saturday, February 12 & February 19
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.

USCT Living History Weekend

Saturday, 2/19/2022
10:00AM-5:00PM  
Join us for living history and family activities on CAM’s grounds

Living History 10:00 am – 3:00 pm

Williston Choir 11:00 am

Storytelling 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm

Kids@CAM 10:00 am – 3:00 pm

Panel Discussion - 2 pm

Dinner and socializing for the reenactors at 5 pm

Art Buzz – Perfect Pine Cones

Saturday, 2/19/2022
11:00AM-1:30PM  
Instructor: Amy Gibson
CAM member price: $45; non-member: $50
Pinecones are a symbol of enlightenment and regeneration. Spend a fun and relaxation afternoon painting one of the oldest forms of plant life on earth. I will take you through an easy to follow process that will bring your paintings to a higher level. Each painting step will help you create the perfect painting illusion of a 3D object on the canvas surface. Every Art Buzz come with a complimentary beverage from CAM Cafe.

Live@CAM Cafe: Raffa

Saturday, 2/19/2022
11:30AM-1:30PM  

USCT Public Programs Series: Boundless Panel

Saturday, 2/19/2022
2:00PM-3:00PM  
Join us for a lively discussion featuring art historians and local and state leaders, as well as artist Stephen Hayes about his new work Boundless.

Battle of Forks Road: Dr. Chris E. Fonvielle

Sunday, 2/20/2022
2:00PM-3:00PM  
Advance ticket purchase recommended
CAM Members: $10
Non-Members: $15
Students: $12

Join historian Dr. Chris E. Fonvielle, Jr. as he discusses the Battle of Forks Road and his research that ultimately led to the preservation of the battle site and museum’s efforts to interpret the story of the United States Colored Troops.

Dr. Chris E. Fonvielle, Jr. is Professor Emeritus, Department of History University of North Carolina Wilmington. He has published books and articles including The Wilmington Campaign: Last Rays of Departing Hope, Wilmington and the Lower Cape Fear: An Illustrated History, and Fort Fisher 1865: The Photographs of T.H. O’Sullivan. Upon his retirement from UNC Wilmington in 2018, Chris was presented with the Order of the Long Leaf Pine for distinguished service to the State of North Carolina, signed by incumbent Governor Roy Cooper.

Principles of Drawing

Tuesday, 2/22/2022
10:00AM-1:00PM  
Tuesdays, January 18 – February 22
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.

CAM Volunteer Open House

Tuesday, 2/22/2022
2:00PM-3:00PM  
Light refreshments served and questions answered
No pre-registration and free parking

The year is still young enough to sneak in one last resolution! Here’s your chance . . . everything you ever wanted to know about volunteering at CAM, but were afraid to ask. No registration required. We hope you can make it!

Knit, Purl - Toe and Heel: Sock Knitting 101

Wednesday, 2/23/2022
1:00PM-4:00PM  
Wednesdays, February 23 - March 9
Instructor: Nina Zonneyville
CAM member $108/ Nonmember $120
Do you knit, but have always been intimidated by making a pair of socks because you couldn't wrap your head around "turning the heel"? The instructor, Nina Zonnevylle, walks you through the knitting process from the ground up. In this class you will learn the most basic method of sock making, from the cuff to the toe, one at a time. Once you learn the basic method, you will have the skills to tackle the most intricate cable or lace sock patterns or progress to learning the "toe-up" and "two-at-a-time" methods. Spoiler alert: once you've worn handknit socks, you'll never be satisfied wearing anything else.

VIRTUAL- Winter Words on Paper

Wednesday, 2/23/2022
6:00PM-8:00PM  
Wednesday, February 2 – 23
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.

Potters Wheel for Teens

Thursday, 2/24/2022
10:00AM-12:00PM  
Wednesday, February 17 – March 24
Instructor: Renato Abbate
CAM member price: $148.50; non-member: $165
Potters wheel for teens and tweens. Learn how to use the wheel, wedge clay and glaze. Make cups, bowls, plates, pitchers, planters and other functional wares.

Art Explorer Thursdays

Thursday, 2/24/2022
10:00AM-11:00AM  
Registration: $3 for CAM Members; $6 for non-members (per child); Adults and children 2 and under are free.
Register here

Every Thursday at 10am, join us for story time, followed by an art activity using simple materials found around the house. Art Explorers is geared towards infants, toddler and preschoolers, but big brothers and sisters are welcome to join and create art with us!

Art Explorers – All About Umbrellas

Thursday, 2/24/2022
10:00AM-11:00AM  
We will enjoy a sneak peek of our brand new exhibition, 20 Years, and be inspired by Diane Landry’s beautiful installation ‘Flying School’. We will read ‘Ella’s Umbrellas’ and create our own colorful craft umbrellas!

Art Explorers is geared towards infants, toddler and preschoolers, but big brothers and sisters are welcome to join and create art with us.

CAM Members: $3 per child; Non-Members: $6

Twenty Years Member Preview Tours

Thursday, 2/24/2022
11:00AM-8:00PM  
Click a time to register:
11AM, 1PM, 5PM, 7PM
Member Tours are free of charge, but require registration.

Twenty Years showcases a selection of Cameron Art Museum’s most memorable exhibitions since its inaugural opening in 2001. Among other leading contemporary artists, this exhibition presents the work of Tony award-winning costume designer William Ivey Long; American robotic and new technologies sculptor Eric Rudd; Canadian kinetic sculptor Diane Landry and acclaimed American painter Donald Sultan.

Continuing Flowing Watercolors

Thursday, 2/24/2022
12:00PM-3:00PM  
Wednesday, February 17 – March 24
Instuctor: Janice Castiglione
CAM member price: $234; non-member: $260
This course will take you through the fundaments of preparation, composition, design and color mixing with watercolors. Each class will begin with a demonstration. One on one personal instruction will be available.

Foundations of Drawing: Teen and Young Adult

Thursday, 2/24/2022
4:30PM-6:30PM  
Thursdays, February 3 – March 10
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).

Thursday Night Clay

Thursday, 2/24/2022
6:00PM-9:00PM  
Thursdays, January 20 – February 24
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.

All Levels Flow Yoga with Kim Gargiulo

Friday, 2/25/2022
8:30AM-9:30AM  
Fridays, 8:30AM - 9:30AM in the galleries.
Suggested donation: $10

Kim Gargiulo, RYT, has been teaching yoga classes for over 12 years. She enjoys teaching and practicing vinyasa yoga where each pose organically flows into the next, incorporating breath with movement. The overarching goal of yoga, to Kim, is to unite the body, mind and spirit.

20 Years

Friday, 2/25/2022
10:00AM-5:00PM  
Public Opening

Public Tours at 1 PM

February 25-October 16, 2022

20 Years showcases a selection of Cameron Art Museum’s most memorable exhibitions since its inaugural opening in 2001. Among other leading contemporary artists, this exhibition presents the work of Tony award-winning costume designer William Ivey Long; Canadian kinetic sculptor Diane Landry, sculptor Bob Trotman and acclaimed American painter Donald Sultan.

Interactive color

Friday, 2/25/2022
10:00AM-12:00PM  
Fridays, January 28 – March 4
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.

Introduction to Ikebana

Friday, 2/25/2022
1:00PM-3:00PM  
Fridays, February 4 – 25
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.

Paintings, Papers, Prints, Cloth, Threads, & More

Saturday, 2/26/2022
10:00AM-4:00PM  
Saturday & Sunday, February 26 – 27
Instructor: Catherine Tsintzos
CAM member price: $171; non-member price: $190
A Surface Design Journey for Assembling Handmade Artist Books - Spend the day with a NC Interdisciplinary Artist learning about how she creates while she shares demos and provides touching examples. Find and create papers for collage works.

Colander or Berry Bowls

Saturday, 2/26/2022
11:00AM-2:00PM  
Instructor: Shannon Gehen
CAM member price: $54; non-member: $60
Clay marries beautiful forms with function! Create slab built berry bowls or colander that can help keep your berries fresher longer and look great at the table.

Live@CAM Cafe: Roger Davis

Saturday, 2/26/2022
11:30AM-1:30PM  

Paintings, Papers, Prints, Cloth, Threads, & More

Sunday, 2/27/2022
10:00AM-4:00PM  
Saturday & Sunday, February 26 – 27
Instructor: Catherine Tsintzos
CAM member price: $171; non-member price: $190
A Surface Design Journey for Assembling Handmade Artist Books - Spend the day with a NC Interdisciplinary Artist learning about how she creates while she shares demos and provides touching examples. Find and create papers for collage works.