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Michele Tejuola Turner

(American, b. 1956)

Michele Tejuola Turner was born and raised in Detroit Michigan, the child of two Southern emigres. After graduating from the 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. In the 1990s, she moved to North Carolina, where she established herself as a gourd artist. Michele Tejuola Turner: In Praise of Our Mothers was one of the opening exhibitions in 2002.

See Grandma Nettie along with five other works from Michele Tejuola Turner as part of 20 Years now on view at CAM.

Michele Tejuola Turner (American, b. 1956)

Grandma Nettie, 1999, Water-based paint, leather dye, relief-carving.

Purchased with the funds from the Claude Howell Endowment for the Purchase of NC Art. Collection of Cameron Art Museum, 2002.2

Celebrate 20 Years at CAM Museum Shop

Catalogues from previous exhibitions currently featured in 20 Years are available at CAM Museum Shop. Experience artwork by José Bernal, Mark Hewitt, Diane Landry, Ben Owen, and Alonzo V. Wilson.

Kids@CAM

Resilience Day

at CAM

Saturday, March 12, 10 AM-2 PM

10 AM-12 PM Resiliency Kids@CAM

12-2 PM Black Resilience:

Film, Tour, & Discussion

A free day of fun activities to help build and understand resilience.

There will be a display of collaborative art made by the participants of the Art Enhances Health program, a new partnership with the Zimmer Cancer Center made possible by the New Hanover Regional Medical Center Foundation.

Resiliency Kids@CAM

10 AM-12 PM

Enjoy a morning of arts and resiliency with your family. Join Turning the Wheel for music, movement and crafts, explore different instruments with the Brooklyn Arts Music Academy, take a tour of Confluence led by the Young Scientists Academy, and create art inspired by CAM’s 20 Years exhibition.

No pre-registration necessary for this Kids@CAM event.

Black Resilience:

Film, Tour, & Discussion

12-2 PM

The New Hanover County Resiliency Task Force is partnering with Cameron Art Museum and the New Hanover County Commission on African American Heritage History and Culture to bring our community a unique educational film screening experience. Resilience: the Biology of Stress and the Science of Hope reveals how toxic stress can trigger hormones that wreak havoc on the brains and bodies of children, putting them at a greater risk for disease as adults.

After the one hour film, stay for a tour and panel discussion. As we explore the themes of the film, we will highlight the work of Stephen Hayes as we tour Voices of Futures Past and Boundless while engaging in facilitated discussion. In honor of Women’s History month, we will also explore the work of important female artists in Twenty Years including Faith Ringgold, Beverly Buchanan and others.

Pre-registration recommended for the film screening and discussion.