Write to Imagine with Lily Crowder: Fiction & Feel

Saturday, 4/23/2022
1:00AM-5:00PM  
Write to Imagine with Lily Crowder: Fiction & Feelings: A Creative Writing Workshop
Spend an afternoon in the galleries and find the voices and feelings inside the works of art. This workshop is suggested for middle school students

ART Buzz: Bonsai pot

Saturday, 4/23/2022
11:00AM-1:30PM  
Instructor: Renato Abbate
CAM members: $45; Non-members $50
Bring positive energy into your home with a handmade Bonsai pot. Learn basic handbuilding skills, make a home for a miniature landscape, and bring harmony to your environment. Art Buzz is a fun art class that combines art-making and eating and drinking. Each class comes with a complimentary beverage and the option to order from our studio menu.

Mythical Dragons

Saturday, 4/23/2022
11:00AM-2:00PM  
Instructor: Carolyn Faulkner
CAM Member: $40.50: Non-Member: $45
Will your dragon soar through the clouds or perhaps a ball of fire? Starting with a basic dragon picture and then using your imagination your very own dragon will appear. It might walk the earth or be in its den. Is it a girl or does it look more like a robot? Have fun creating! Basic drawing skills will be taught along with coloring with pencils or markers depending on the design.

Plein Air Painting

Monday, 4/25/2022
9:00AM-12:00PM  
Mondays, April 11-May 2
Instructor: Todd Carignan
CAM members: $171; Non-members $190
Discover the joy and adventure of painting on location in the great outdoors.

Beginning Drawing

Tuesday, 4/26/2022
9:00AM-12:00PM  
Tuesdays, April 5-May 10
CAM members: $234; Non-members $260
Beginning Drawing
Learn how to draw what you see. This class tackles everything from where to start a drawing, to measuring, to deciding values, to creating depth and form.

Painting Seashells in Unusual Environments

Tuesday, 4/26/2022
1:30PM-3:30PM  
Tuesdays, April 5-May 10
Instructor: Carolyn Faulkner
CAM members: $153; Non-members $170
Learn to paint a seashell in a sky of your choice. It can be a calm sky, a cloudy sky, or a brilliantly colored sky. Your seashell can hover over the ocean, where it once lived, or be in another venue that is important to you. You should keep your sky simple so that the shell is the dominant focal point. The purpose of this painting exercise is to explore what comes from your inner self. Everything that we choose to create has a deeper meaning than we realize once we allow ourselves that freedom.

Saltwater Creatures on Black Paper

Tuesday, 4/26/2022
4:30PM-6:00PM  
Tuesdays, April 5- 26
Instructor: Carolyn Faulkner
CAM member: $85.50; Non-member: $95
Draw a jellyfish or your favorite ocean creature using colored pencils on black paper. This creates a dramatic effect. The student will learn to use negative space as part of their drawing. Blending and shading will be utilized to create a 3-D effect.

Still Lifes and Figures in Pastels!

Wednesday, 4/27/2022
10:00AM-1:00PM  
Wednesdays, April 6-May 4
Instructor: Jeri Greenberg
CAM members: $193.50; Non-members $215
Come and paint beautiful still lifes as well as working with beautiful models! Learn the wonderful medium of pastel and explore different mixed media surfaces as well. Have Fun and Paint with the Power of Pastels!

The Power of Pastels Continues

Wednesday, 4/27/2022
10:00AM-1:00PM  
Wednesdays, April 6-May 4
Instructor: Jeri Greenberg
CAM members: $171 ; Non-members $190
Come and paint beautiful still lifes as well as working with beautiful models! Learn the wonderful medium of pastel and explore different mixed media surfaces as well. Have Fun and Paint with the Power of Pastels!

The Natural Way To Draw - Measuring Techniques

Wednesday, 4/27/2022
2:00PM-5:00PM  
Wednesdays, April 6-April 27
Instructor: Donna Moore
CAM members: $171; Non-members $190
Practice classic techniques of measuring relationships to better achieve believable proportions within the figure. Return and new students encouraged.

The Natural Way to Draw - Relationships

Wednesday, 4/27/2022
2:00PM-5:00PM  
Wednesdays, April 6-April 27
Instructor: Donna Moore
CAM members: $171; Non-members $190
Practice classic techniques of measuring relationships to better achieve believable proportions within the figure. Return and new students encouraged.

Teen Pottery

Wednesday, 4/27/2022
4:30PM-6:30PM  
Wednesdays, April 6-27
Instructor: Renato Abbate
CAM member: $108; Non-member: $120
Potters wheel for teens and tweens. Learn how to use the wheel, wedge clay, and glaze. Make cups, bowls, plates, pitchers and other functional wares.

Drawing Inspired by Nature - Spring Botanicals

Thursday, 4/28/2022
9:00AM-11:30AM  
Thursdays, April 7-April 28
Instructor: Antoinette Vogt
CAM members: $135; Non-members $150
his course will use the natural areas around the museum as inspiration to study the details in nature. Improve your drawing ability through close observation of spring botanicals. Learn techniques to enhance drawings and add color. Class time will be spent drawing outside, focusing on the unique visual characteristics of individual plants. After returning to the studio, students will enhance and refine their drawings using pencil, pen and adding color. Experimentation is encouraged. Some previous drawing experience suggested.

Art Explorer Thursdays

Thursday, 4/28/2022
10:00AM-11:00AM  
Art Explorers is going on a field trip! For this very special Art Explorers, we will meet at Airlie Gardens.
It's turtley spring and the animals are on the move! NHC Parks and Gardens educators will teach us all about our shelled friends that call the garden home and take a nature walk to see who we find! Our featured story will be "Franklin in the Dark". Ms. Georgia will teach us how to create our very own crafty turtles using paint, paper plates, and colorful paper!

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

Garden admission included with this program. Children under 2 are free. Space is limited and pre-registration is required. PLEASE NOTE: Registration for this event is handled through Airlie Gardens and takes place at Airlie Gardens.

Exploring Watercolor Colors and Effects

Thursday, 4/28/2022
12:30PM-3:30PM  
Thursdays, April 7- May 5
Instructor: Janice Castiglione
CAM members: $193.50; Non-members $215
Continue to develop your watercolor skills. Master additional techniques to enliven your paintings as you develop greater understanding of the behavior of watercolor and when to use wet in wet or wet on dry applications.

Foundations of Drawing 2 - Light and Shadow

Thursday, 4/28/2022
4:30PM-6:30PM  
Thursdays, April 7- May 5
Instructor: Antoinette Vogt
CAM member: $126; Non-member: $140
Drawing from still life, students will practice realistic drawing to develop their technique rendering form. This 5 week class will focus on developing technical skills rendering value to represent light and shadow in drawings. Students will experiment with a variety of materials. Different techniques will be demonstrated. This course is designed as a follow up to Foundations of Drawing and is appropriate for students with previous drawing coursework or experience.

Michele Tejuola Turner- Illustrated Lecture

Thursday, 4/28/2022
6:00PM-7:00PM  
$15 CAM Member; $20 Non-members
Turner was born and raised in Detroit Michigan, the child of two Southern emigres. After graduating from the renowned Cass Technical High School (Detroit) in 1974 and the Columbus College of Art and Design (Columbus, Ohio) in 1978, she worked in retail advertising and designed catalogs and other collateral for department stores. Retail advertising took her to Atlanta, Georgia. There, Turner became intrigued by West African culture and stories and the connections she saw to her own story as a descendent of enslaved West Africans. In the 1990s, Turner moved to North Carolina, where she established herself as a gourd artist. Even after a midlife career change to teaching middle school art, Tejuola continued her craft. She moved to Fort Worth after retiring from teaching in 2020 to be closer to family.

Thursday Night Clay

Thursday, 4/28/2022
6:15PM-9:00PM  
Thursdays, March 31 - May 5
Instructor: Renato Abbate
CAM members: $225; Non-members $250
Make your own ceramic functional pottery from scratch. Learn basic handbuilding, wheel and glazing.

All Levels Flow Yoga with Kim Gargiulo

Friday, 4/29/2022
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.

Art of Assemblage

Friday, 4/29/2022
10:00AM-12:00PM  
Fridays, April 8- May 13
Instructor: Lois DeWitt
CAM members: $153; Non-members $170
The mindset of assemblage is essential to discovering the magic of combining the objects of our daily lives, working towards creating hybrid and unique environments that reflect our personal relationship with those objects and the world around us.

Michele Tejuola Turner- Illustrated Lecture

Friday, 4/29/2022
11:00AM  
$15 CAM Member; $20 Non-members
Turner was born and raised in Detroit Michigan, the child of two Southern emigres. After graduating from the renowned Cass Technical High School (Detroit) in 1974 and the Columbus College of Art and Design (Columbus, Ohio) in 1978, she worked in retail advertising and designed catalogs and other collateral for department stores. Retail advertising took her to Atlanta, Georgia. There, Turner became intrigued by West African culture and stories and the connections she saw to her own story as a descendent of enslaved West Africans. In the 1990s, Turner moved to North Carolina, where she established herself as a gourd artist. Even after a midlife career change to teaching middle school art, Tejuola continued her craft. She moved to Fort Worth after retiring from teaching in 2020 to be closer to family.

POWER- UP!!

Friday, 4/29/2022
1:00PM-4:00PM  
Fridays, April 22 & 29
Instructor: Judith Chandler
CAM members: $81; Non-members $90
Power-Up your creativity with Design Synectics. The 23 Design Synectics Triggers will help to move your creative energy from a slump to transformational thinking that can lead to new discoveries. Some examples of Synectics are to repeat, superimpose, isolate, fragmentize, plus many more directions. Work will consist of illustrating triggers with drawing, collage, and water-based paint.

Boundless Public Tour

Friday, 4/29/2022
1:00PM-1:30PM  
Free with admission

Humble Jumble Art Sale

Saturday, 4/30/2022
10:00AM-5:00PM  
CAM Reception Hall and Courtyard

It’s HUMBLE (modest prices) and a JUMBLE (over 30 artists + CAM items) all for sale at one location. A few collectible items have appropriate pricing, but most of CAM’s work is affordably priced for you to take home. Participating artists (Museum School instructors, Museum Shop artists, and more) have their work at market price. Meet the artists and start your collection right away!

Member Appreciation Month at Museum Shop

Sunday, 5/1/2022
10:00AM-5:00PM  
From May Day (May 1) to National Smile Day (May 31) and all of the celebrations in between: Mother’s Day and Graduation . . . visit the Museum Shop for different specials every week for CAM Members. Watch your inbox for details each Tuesday in May. Thank you, MEMBERS!

Plein Air Painting

Monday, 5/2/2022
9:00AM-12:00PM  
Mondays, April 11-May 2
Instructor: Todd Carignan
CAM members: $171; Non-members $190
Discover the joy and adventure of painting on location in the great outdoors.

Beginning Drawing

Tuesday, 5/3/2022
9:00AM-12:00PM  
Tuesdays, April 5-May 10
CAM members: $234; Non-members $260
Beginning Drawing
Learn how to draw what you see. This class tackles everything from where to start a drawing, to measuring, to deciding values, to creating depth and form.

Clay Bust

Tuesday, 5/3/2022
10:00AM-3:00PM  
Tuesdays, May 3 & 10

Instructor: Renato Abbate
CAM members: $144; Non-members $160
Come work on your 12" bust sculpture. Using the coil technique your vision will come to life in this two part workshop.

Painting Seashells in Unusual Environments

Tuesday, 5/3/2022
1:30PM-3:30PM  
Tuesdays, April 5-May 10
Instructor: Carolyn Faulkner
CAM members: $153; Non-members $170
Learn to paint a seashell in a sky of your choice. It can be a calm sky, a cloudy sky, or a brilliantly colored sky. Your seashell can hover over the ocean, where it once lived, or be in another venue that is important to you. You should keep your sky simple so that the shell is the dominant focal point. The purpose of this painting exercise is to explore what comes from your inner self. Everything that we choose to create has a deeper meaning than we realize once we allow ourselves that freedom.

Docent Meeting

Wednesday, 5/4/2022
9:30AM-12:00PM  

Still Lifes and Figures in Pastels!

Wednesday, 5/4/2022
10:00AM-1:00PM  
Wednesdays, April 6-May 4
Instructor: Jeri Greenberg
CAM members: $193.50; Non-members $215
Come and paint beautiful still lifes as well as working with beautiful models! Learn the wonderful medium of pastel and explore different mixed media surfaces as well. Have Fun and Paint with the Power of Pastels!

Sculptural and Functional Pottery

Wednesday, 5/4/2022
10:00AM-1:00PM  
Wednesdays, May 4 – June 1
Instructor: Renato Abbate
CAM members: $189; Non-members $210
The focus of this class will be on handbuilding techniques, including pinch, coil, and slab building. An emphasis on design elements will be developed through each project so that students explore shape, form and volume.

The Power of Pastels Continues

Wednesday, 5/4/2022
10:00AM-1:00PM  
Wednesdays, April 6-May 4
Instructor: Jeri Greenberg
CAM members: $171 ; Non-members $190
Come and paint beautiful still lifes as well as working with beautiful models! Learn the wonderful medium of pastel and explore different mixed media surfaces as well. Have Fun and Paint with the Power of Pastels!

Public Tour

Wednesday, 5/4/2022
1:30PM-2:00PM  

The Natural Way to Draw - Bring On The Color!

Wednesday, 5/4/2022
2:00PM-5:00PM  
Wednesdays, May 4-May 25
Instructor: Donna Moore
CAM members: $171; Non-members $190
Add dynamic intensity to figure drawings with the impact of color. Emphasis on value study and structural color fields – not realistic rendering. Repeat and new students encouraged.

Design NC

Thursday, 5/5/2022
10:00AM-9:00PM  

Exploring Watercolor Colors and Effects

Thursday, 5/5/2022
12:30PM-3:30PM  
Thursdays, April 7- May 5
Instructor: Janice Castiglione
CAM members: $193.50; Non-members $215
Continue to develop your watercolor skills. Master additional techniques to enliven your paintings as you develop greater understanding of the behavior of watercolor and when to use wet in wet or wet on dry applications.

Foundations of Drawing 2 - Light and Shadow

Thursday, 5/5/2022
4:30PM-6:30PM  
Thursdays, April 7- May 5
Instructor: Antoinette Vogt
CAM member: $126; Non-member: $140
Drawing from still life, students will practice realistic drawing to develop their technique rendering form. This 5 week class will focus on developing technical skills rendering value to represent light and shadow in drawings. Students will experiment with a variety of materials. Different techniques will be demonstrated. This course is designed as a follow up to Foundations of Drawing and is appropriate for students with previous drawing coursework or experience.

Thursday Night Clay

Thursday, 5/5/2022
6:15PM-9:00PM  
Thursdays, March 31 - May 5
Instructor: Renato Abbate
CAM members: $225; Non-members $250
Make your own ceramic functional pottery from scratch. Learn basic handbuilding, wheel and glazing.

All Levels Flow Yoga with Kim Gargiulo

Friday, 5/6/2022
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.

Art of Assemblage

Friday, 5/6/2022
10:00AM-12:00PM  
Fridays, April 8- May 13
Instructor: Lois DeWitt
CAM members: $153; Non-members $170
The mindset of assemblage is essential to discovering the magic of combining the objects of our daily lives, working towards creating hybrid and unique environments that reflect our personal relationship with those objects and the world around us.

Design NC

Friday, 5/6/2022
10:00AM-5:00PM  

Drawing in the Gallery

Friday, 5/6/2022
10:00AM-1:00PM  
Instructor: Antoinette Vogt
CAM members: $50; Non-members $55
Enjoy a morning drawing in the gallery. Improve your drawing skills and learn new techniques while studying the exhibits at CAM. Each session will focus on a drawing topic related to the exhibit. Session 2: “Design Through Time”: The focus of this drawing session will be on perspective and representation of 3-dimensional form using the furniture and objects from the exhibit as the subject matter.

‘Resilience’ Community Screening and Tour

Friday, 5/6/2022
12:00PM-1:30PM  
View the award winning documentary 'Resilience: The Biology of Stress and the Science of Hope'. The film screens in our spacious reception hall from 12 PM to 1 PM, followed by an optional brief discussion with other community members. Learn about the New Hanover County Resiliency Task Force. https://www.nhcbouncesback.org/. After the screening, join our Cultural Curator Daniel Jones for a gallery tour with a focus on resiliency themes.
The CAM offers free screenings of ‘Resilience’ on the first Friday of each month (unless there is a holiday and then it moves to the second Friday). Feel free to grab lunch at the CAM café, or bring your own lunch!
No fee and no registration necessary.

Introduction to Ikebana

Friday, 5/6/2022
1:00PM-3:00PM  
Fridays, May 6-27
Instructor: Karen Chevrotee
CAM members: $117; Non-members: $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.

Boundless Public Tour

Friday, 5/6/2022
1:00PM-1:30PM  
Free with admission

Art Buzz: Card Exchange

Saturday, 5/7/2022
11:00AM-1:30PM  
Instructor: Donna Moore
CAM members: $45; Non-members $50
Pull out the presses and ready the printing plates! Make a batch of gift-giving greetings or summer postcards in time for the holiday. Art Buzz is a fun art class that combines art-making and eating and drinking. Each class comes with a complimentary beverage and the option to order from our studio menu.

Beginning Drawing

Tuesday, 5/10/2022
9:00AM-12:00PM  
Tuesdays, April 5-May 10
CAM members: $234; Non-members $260
Beginning Drawing
Learn how to draw what you see. This class tackles everything from where to start a drawing, to measuring, to deciding values, to creating depth and form.

Clay Bust

Tuesday, 5/10/2022
10:00AM-3:00PM  
Tuesdays, May 3 & 10

Instructor: Renato Abbate
CAM members: $144; Non-members $160
Come work on your 12" bust sculpture. Using the coil technique your vision will come to life in this two part workshop.

Painting Seashells in Unusual Environments

Tuesday, 5/10/2022
1:30PM-3:30PM  
Tuesdays, April 5-May 10
Instructor: Carolyn Faulkner
CAM members: $153; Non-members $170
Learn to paint a seashell in a sky of your choice. It can be a calm sky, a cloudy sky, or a brilliantly colored sky. Your seashell can hover over the ocean, where it once lived, or be in another venue that is important to you. You should keep your sky simple so that the shell is the dominant focal point. The purpose of this painting exercise is to explore what comes from your inner self. Everything that we choose to create has a deeper meaning than we realize once we allow ourselves that freedom.

Drawing Pets: Real or Imagined

Tuesday, 5/10/2022
4:30PM-6:00PM  
Tuesdays, May 10- 31
Instructor: Carolyn Faulkner
CAM Member: $85.50: Non-Member: $95
Bring in a photo of your pet whether it be a goldfish, iguana, or some exotic animal. Of course dogs and cats are welcome! If you don't have a pet but want one, if you draw it maybe your wish will come true. You will learn to put the eyes in the correct place, the correct way to determine the length of the body, and overall proportions. It will then be colored with pencils and you will learn blending, shading, and layering to bring your pet to life

Sculptural and Functional Pottery

Wednesday, 5/11/2022
10:00AM-1:00PM  
Wednesdays, May 4 – June 1
Instructor: Renato Abbate
CAM members: $189; Non-members $210
The focus of this class will be on handbuilding techniques, including pinch, coil, and slab building. An emphasis on design elements will be developed through each project so that students explore shape, form and volume.

Intuitive Painting II

Wednesday, 5/11/2022
10:00AM-12:00PM  
Wednesdays, May 11-June 1
Instructor: Carolyn Faulkner
CAM members: $117; Non members: $130
Absolutely no painting experience is necessary. This will be a continuation of Intuitive Painting I but new students are welcome to join in.
We will again be starting class with mediations or readings to calm our minds and let our subconscious take over. Calming music may be played at the beginning of class. Then the class will be silent. Paints and brushes will be in the center of the room and each student will choose the color and the brush they would like to begin with. No paints will leave the table in cups. The student will go back and forth and let their intuition choose the color and brush to be used each time. No preconceived ideas. No attachment, no judgment, play, and inner visions are an integral part of this creative process. $10/supply fee

Public Tour

Wednesday, 5/11/2022
1:30PM-2:00PM  

The Natural Way to Draw - Bring On The Color!

Wednesday, 5/11/2022
2:00PM-5:00PM  
Wednesdays, May 4-May 25
Instructor: Donna Moore
CAM members: $171; Non-members $190
Add dynamic intensity to figure drawings with the impact of color. Emphasis on value study and structural color fields – not realistic rendering. Repeat and new students encouraged.

Urban Sketching

Thursday, 5/12/2022
9:00AM-12:00PM  
Thursdays, May 12- June 2
Instructor: Todd Carignan
CAM members: $171; Non-members $190
This class is about drawing on location on streets, in restaurants, at the park, etc. It is about carrying a sketchbook and recording life around you.

Art Explorers – Minnie Evans Dreams

Thursday, 5/12/2022
10:00AM-11:00AM  
Learn about the art of life of local favorite Minnie Evans! We will read ‘Matthew’s Dream’, look at Minnie Evans art work inside our Twenty Years exhibition, and create our own Minnie Evans inspired works of art.
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 to guarantee your spot

Copper repousse

Thursday, 5/12/2022
10:00AM-12:00PM  
Thursdays, May 12-June 2
Instructor: Renato Abbate
CAM members: $117; Non-members: $130
In this four-week course you will learn the basic concepts for working with copper in two- and three-dimensional forms. Through each piece you will learn copper forming, annealing, etching and patinas.

All Levels Flow Yoga with Kim Gargiulo

Friday, 5/13/2022
8:00AM-9:00AM  
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.

Art of Assemblage

Friday, 5/13/2022
10:00AM-12:00PM  
Fridays, April 8- May 13
Instructor: Lois DeWitt
CAM members: $153; Non-members $170
The mindset of assemblage is essential to discovering the magic of combining the objects of our daily lives, working towards creating hybrid and unique environments that reflect our personal relationship with those objects and the world around us.

Coffee with the Shop Artists (er, Writers!)

Friday, 5/13/2022
11:00AM-2:00PM  
Writers are artists too! Meet some of our local writers whose publications are sold in CAM’s Museum Shop. Have a cuppa and hear these authors and artists stories. No charge, just a love of books.

Introduction to Ikebana

Friday, 5/13/2022
1:00PM-3:00PM  
Fridays, May 6-27
Instructor: Karen Chevrotee
CAM members: $117; Non-members: $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.

Boundless Public Tour

Friday, 5/13/2022
1:00PM-1:30PM  
Free with admission