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Featured Programs

Public Tour

Wednesdays at 1:30 PM

Free with museum admission

Join CAM's Deputy Director Heather Wilson on Wednesday

for a fun and information tour of CAM's current exhibitions.

Live Music at CAM Café

Champ Saint Ahmand

Thursday, 12/22/2022

6:00PM-8:00PM  

Join us for dinner in CAM Cafe this Thursday and enjoy music from musician Champ Saint Ahmand.

Upcoming Programs

Jazz@CAM

Mangroove

Thursday, January 5, 2023, 7 PM

CAM Members: $35;

Not Yet Members: $55

Manny Santos is a jazz percussionist, bandleader, and vocalist who hails from New Bedford, Massachusetts and is of Cape Verdean decent. He became interested in jazz percussion at an early age and began performing professionally at the age of 15. His future would become one of polyrhythmic expressionism, inclusive of the jazz and Latin experience.

Manny appears on a number of recordings, including with flutist Treg Monty and pianist Yasko Kubota, No Place To Hide, (available on CDFreedom.com), with The Geoffrey Hicks Quartet, entitled Cartagena, (available on Amazon.com), with Willie Sordillo, Echoing (available on Amazon.com), and with World Music KabuJazz vocalist Candida Rose, The Sum of Me.

Community Day

Floating Lantern Ceremony

Sunday, January 8, 2023, 4-7 PM

Event and museum admission FREE all day

Lantern Sleeves: $12 at CAM Visitor Services

($15 on Sunday, January 8 at Visitor Services and Pancoe)

We all have individual reasons to create our own Floating Lantern . . . to honor someone who is dear, to memorialize a cherished family member or to treasure a special moment. CAM’s Floating Lantern Ceremony is an expression of Remembrance, Reflection and Gratitude. No charge to attend Floating Lantern Ceremony held at CAM’s Reflection Pond. Lantern decorating supplies available in Pancoe. Live music near pond and hot chocolate, beverages, and light bites available from CAM Café. FREE Admission to museum galleries 10 am-7 pm.

Tour

Connections Monday

Monday, January 9, 2023,

10:30 AM-12:30 PM

Free admission with pre-registration

Enjoy a morning of music in the galleries, adapted exhibition exploration, as well as optional hands-on activities and the choice to bring a boxed lunch to enjoy in our café or courtyard area. Geared towards individuals in the earlier stages of Alzheimers and dementia, this program is offered on Mondays when we are otherwise closed to the public to ensure a quiet and calm environment. Groups or individuals with their loved ones are welcome. Email [email protected] for more information and to register.

Museum School Classes & Workshops

Correct Your Values & Color Theory in

Still Life Painting

Instructor: Jeri Greenberg

With weekly still life set ups, learn how to use correct values in your painting, BEFORE you add your color. Starting with black, white and shades of grey, we will learn to see in monotones and then how to translate that to a full color painting.

Tuesday, January 10- 31,

1pm-4pm

CAM member: $172;

Not-yet-member: $215

Women in the Arts - A Handmade Journal Series

Instructor:

Catherine Cross Tsintzos

Whether you need a journal for writing, sketching, stitching, mixed media or gifting, create beautiful Japanese Side/Stab Bind journals. Immerse yourself with colorful and inspiring art history of women artists who have left lasting impressions on the art world.

Thursday Jan12 & 26,

Feb 9 & 23, 10am-12pm

CAM member: $156;

Not-yet-member: $195

Healthy Living

The Artists Way

Instructor: Donna Moore

What holds you back? Become willing to get past "trying" to spend more time making art and commit to affirming motivation and discipline, following Julia Cameron's bestselling 12-week course text, "The Artist's Way"

Thurs, Jan 12- March 30,

2pm-3:30pm

CAM member: $208;

Not-yet-member: $260

Morning Pottery

Instructor: Renato Abbate

The focus of this class will be on hand building 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.

Mondays, Jan 23- Feb 27,

9am-12pm

CAM member: $228;

Not-yet-member: $285

Magical Mixed Media Weekend Workshop

Instructor: Anne McCombie

What is an art supply? Everything can be an art supply! Bring in some of your favorite images and materials and let us create some magical mixed media art in this 2-day workshop. We will be inspired by artists from the past and the materials we have gathered, and we will make one-of-a-kind creations.

Saturday and Sunday,

January 21-22, 10am-4pm

CAM member: $172;

Not-yet-member: $215

Surface design on Clay: Silkscreen

Instructor: Shannon Gehen

Silk-screening is an excellent creative process to add flare and design to ceramic wares. Choose between several premade bisque products mug, tumbler, plate, or dish available to create on. An assortment of silkscreen to choose from in a variety of styles and themes.

Adult: All Levels -

Thursday, January 19, 6-9pm

CAM member: $64;

Not-yet-member: $80