The Cameron Museum of Art

Tuesday - Sunday: 11am - 5pm (11am - 9pm )
Thursdays: 11am - 9pm

Admission:
$5 Museum members
$8 Non-members
$5 Students (with valid student ID)
$3 Children (ages 2-12)

In 2002, the Cameron Art Museum opened its new museum facility designed by the renowned architectural firm of Gwathmey Siegel & Associates (NYC). Formerly located in downtown Wilmington, N.C. as St. John's Museum of Art, the new Cameron Art Museum is sited on a 9 acre woodland park (Pyramid Park) featuring outdoor sculptures, nature trails, pond, historic Civil War site and a second facility--the Clay Studio at the Pancoe Art Education Center. The main museum building is a 42,000 square foot facility with three areas of galleries, the Weyerhaueser lecture and reception hall, a museum gift shop and parking.

The Cameron Art Museum presents 6-8 changing exhibitions annually; ongoing family and children's programs (Kids @ CAM); a unique program of tours for Alzheimers patients and their caretakers; interdisciplinary programs (lectures, music, films, literature, dance); and ongoing workshops and classes in ceramics at the Clay Studio with resident master artist Hiroshi Sueyoshi.

The Museum's permanent collection of fine arts, crafts and design includes work of both historical and contemporary significance, and a growing collection of work by North Carolina artists. Specific works in the permanent collection are shown in selected exhibitions at the Museum.

Exhibitions:

Murrinis Within a Crystal Matrix: The Poetic Glassworks of Richard Ritter

Mark Peiser: Reflections on the Palomar Mirror

Penland School of Crafts: Evolution and Imagination

Events

William McNeill: My Life as a Handheld Church Fan - A Rhapsody on Sweat, Sweet Tea and Salvation
October 22, 2011 through January 15, 2012

This exhibition features hundreds of church fans with images religious and secular, collected over 40 years by musician and performative assemblage artist William McNeill. McNeill emphasizes their cultural importance, "This collection is really about a vanishing Americana and a way of life that we won't ever have again."

Crowns: Portraits of Black Women in Church Hats
October 22, 2011 through January 15, 2012

Twenty-five black and white photographs by Michael Cunningham featured in his book, Crowns: Portraits of Black Women in Church Hats (2000: Doubleday) are highlighted in this exhibition.

Hattitude: A Convergence of Fashion and Faith
On view October 22, 2011 through January 15, 2012

Hats from public and private collections, hats of our own and our mothers', hats by leading and unknown designers comprise this bountiful exhibition, including generous loans from Dr. Yvonne Watson, Rep. Alma Adams, Guilford County and the Gregg Museum of Art and Design, NC State University.

Murrinis Within a Crystal Matrix: The Poetic Glassworks of Richard Ritter
November 30, 2011 – April 1, 2012
Hughes Wing

Honored as a 2011 North Carolina Living Treasure, glass artist Richard Ritter is celebrated in this exhibition revealing his complex “murrini” process; a technically intensive development of complex patterns and decorations. Murrinis first reached a high level of sophistication in ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt and are still seen in the millefiori glass of Italy today.

Mark Peiser: Reflections on the Palomar Mirror
November 30, 2011 – April 1, 2012
Hughes Wing

Honored as a 2011 North Carolina Living Treasure, glass artist Mark Peiser reinterprets the 1934 world event: the historic 20-ton glass casting of the 200-inch Hale Telescope mirror. In a second casting, this largest single piece of glass ever made is now a component of the Palomar Observatory in California. Peiser’s contemporary glass sculptures quote the scale and honeycomb pattern of the legendary mirror; an advancement leading astronomers to the first direct evidence of stars in distant galaxies.

Penland School of Crafts: Evolution and Imagination
November 30, 2011 – April 1, 2012
Hughes Wing

Craft is rooted in the fundamental human impulse to use mind and hands to transform basic materials into objects of beauty and utility. Penland School of Crafts located in western NC is an international leader in the evolution of craft education. Beginning in 1920 with the work of Lucy Morgan, one woman of great vision, Penland began as an educational experiment which continues today. This exhibition explores Penland then and now, featuring examples of some of the finest work in glass, ceramic, textiles, jewelry and other mediums in two- and three-dimension.

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