This Week at CAM: Rissi Palmer in Concert, Art Explorers and Celebrate Mother's Day at CAM Café!

CONCERT@CAM WITH RISSI PALMER AND CHARLES NEWKIRK

THURSDAY, MAY 9, 7 PM

Join us Thursday evening as we welcome one of NC’s Southern Songbirds, Rissi Palmer in concert with guitarist Charles Newkirk for an intimate evening of song and storytelling.

Just as history and storytelling are an essential part of The Work of Their Hands: American Quiltmaking, performer Palmer uses her voice to shine a light on the history of Country music while being an incredible storyteller for our time.

While she made her mark in Country Music, Palmer’s gift lies in reaching across all musical boundaries. Rissi is equally at home in R&B music, bringing the entire spectrum of popular music to bear on music she calls “Southern Soul.”

Grab drink or dine at CAM Café before the show featuring a special menu.

CAM Members: $25

Not-Yet Members: $30

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Featured Programs

MARY'S ART EXPLORERS: THE TALES OF TIGGY AND TOBIAS: NEON JIGGLES

THURS, MAY 9 @ 10:00-11:00 AM

CAM Members: $5 per adult/child

Not-Yet Members: $10 per adult/child

Children Ages 2 and Under: Free

This week we will read the book The Tales of Tiggy and Tobias: Neon Jiggles by Shanthi Thiruppathi. This is a local artist and author. The book is sold in the gift shop.

Art Explorers is geared towards infants, toddlers, and preschoolers, but big brothers and sisters are welcome to join and create art with us. Your registration includes admission to the museum for the whole day. Space is limited so preregister to guarantee your spot!

It is with great honor that Cameron Art Museum pays tribute to Mary Cameron Hoey by naming its most popular and long-standing family program after her. Mary’s Art Explorers is a story time, art making, and museum exploration program.

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SUNSET PERFORMANCE SERIES: LOUIS. THE RAPPER

THURS, MAY 16 @ 7:00 PM

Free; $5 Suggested Donation

Join us for the final Sunset Performance of the spring season as we welcome Louis. The Rapper to the PNC USCT Park.

Come enjoy an evening of energetic live Hip-Hop as Louis is joined by a backing band of incredibly talented local musicians. Coming off the release of his new album Indigo Child, Louis. The Rapper explores themes of Afro-futurism through personal reflection and storytelling.

Picnic in the park with CAM Café ! Enjoy a special menu along with wine, specialty cocktails and beers.Learn More

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TREAT MOM WITH HER OWN VASE FOR THOSE SPECIAL LITTLE FLOWERS!

Featured: Mom Vase - $22.00 ea. (CAM Members $19.80 ea.)

ON VIEW

Thomas Sayre: Four Walls

Four Walls features new and never exhibited works by American artist Thomas Sayre. Each of the four large-scale pieces in the installation questions the belief systems and symbols that underpin the ideals of church, nation and creation. Made of materials that include tar, smoke, fabric gowns, gunshots, welding material, earth and fire, these works invite visitors to draw close and experience the messiness of making, and by analogy, to bear witness to the ways that life invades, entangles, and tarnishes us.

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Stay in the Light:

Works by Charles Edward Williams

In Stay in the Light, South Carolina artist Charles Edward Williams draws inspiration from historical photography of the Civil Rights movement, offering a contemporary response to social and political issues of the past and present. His paintings and focus on human emotion and our connectedness and commonality. Stay in the Light includes new work created for this exhibition, as well as work from Williams's Sun and Light series.

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The Work of Their Hands: American Quiltmaking

The Work of Their Hands explores the continuing legacy of quilt-making and the evolution of textile art, starting with traditional quilts made for bedcoverings to contemporary fabric artworks by artists including Brittney Boyd Bullock, Celeste Butler, Robin Cowley, Michael Cummings, Gee’s Bend quilters, Michael James, Precious Lovell, Katie Pasquini Masopust, Carolyn Mazloomi, Mary Pal, Hattie Schmidt, Beverly Smith, The Advocacy Project, and others.

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MUSEUM SCHOOL CLASSES & WORKSHOPS

NATURAL WAY TO DRAW - VALUE STUDY

Instructor: Donna Moore

No matter your medium, value range plays an enormous role in describing form. Give your erasers a work out pushing darkest dark to lightest light and everything in between - using charcoal, ink, and color.



Adults: All Levels

Wed, May 15-29, 1:30-4:30 PM

CAM Members: $132

Not-Yet Members: $165

+ $25 Model Fee

Supplies: See Supply List Here

BERRY BOWL AND COLANDER

Instructor: Shannon Gehen

Create a slab built berry bowl or small colander.



Adult: All Levels

Thurs, May 16, 6-9 PM

CAM Members: $64

Not-yet Members: $80



Supplies: See Supply List Here

CAM CAFE

Lunch:

Tues-Fri 11 AM-2 PM

Dinner:

Thurs 5-8 PM



Enjoy FREE gallery admission Thursday evenings when you join us for drinks or dinner.

Brunch:

Sat & Sun 10 AM-2 PM

No museum admission is ever needed to enjoy CAM Café.

Join us today! Call (910) 777-2363 for reservations

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