Cameron Art Museum

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Plan your visit today: https://cameronartmuseum.org/plan-your-visit/ Cameron Art Museum provides a cultural gathering place that enriches the lives of museum visitors and our community through high quality exhibitions, lifelong learning in the arts, dynamic public programs, and stewardship and interpretation of the permanent collection. CAM is also the steward of an important African American heri

tage site, the Battle of Forks Road. CAM is dedicated to interpreting the contribution of the USCT through art, living history, and educational opportunities. Cameron Art Museum believes that art can open the door to conversation. We use art as a means of sparking dialogue and creating community conversations that create a fuller understanding of our common history and our shared humanity.

History has often placed Anna Murray Douglass in the shadow of her husband. This September, we’re bringing her remarkabl...
09/06/2026

History has often placed Anna Murray Douglass in the shadow of her husband. This September, we’re bringing her remarkable life and legacy to the forefront.

Join scholars Dr. Celeste M. Bernier and Dr. Bill E. Lawson for a special Lunchtime Lecture exploring Anna Murray Douglass as a freedom fighter, educator, activist, intellectual, artist, strategist, and co-revolutionary in the struggle for liberation and equality.

Drawing from more than one hundred surviving letters, essays, speeches, biographies, and memorials, Bernier and Lawson will offer a deeper look at Anna’s life and the extraordinary legacy of the Douglass family.

📅 Wednesday, September 9
🕚 11 AM–12:30 PM
📍 CAM Reception Hall
🎟️ CAM Members $35 | Not-Yet Members $45

Admission includes lunch from CAM Café, featuring handcrafted sandwiches, house chips, fresh fruit, and warm cookies.

Space is limited. Register through the link in bio.

09/05/2026

Rain? Shine? Either way, we’ve got plans. ☔️☀️🎈

It’s the LAST WEEKEND of Fresh Air: Inflatable Sculptures at CAM.

One final chance to wander through a gallery filled with art that inflates, floats, shifts, and surprises. Don’t let this one deflate before you make it in.

Closing Sunday, September 6.

Brunch tastes better with live music. 🥂🎶Join us for Music & Mimosas at CAM Café on the first Saturday of the month. Enjo...
09/04/2026

Brunch tastes better with live music. 🥂🎶

Join us for Music & Mimosas at CAM Café on the first Saturday of the month. Enjoy brunch from 10 AM to 2 PM, seasonal specialty mimosas, and live acoustic music by Anna Kareiva from 11 AM to 1 PM.

Your CAM Café purchase also includes complimentary access to the galleries, so make a full Saturday of it with brunch, music, and art.

📍 CAM Café
🥂 Brunch: 10 AM–2 PM
🎶 Anna Kareiva: 11 AM–1 PM
🖼 Museum open: 10 AM–5 PM

No museum membership or admission is required to enjoy CAM Café.

Reservations: (910) 777-2363

What can art reveal about the world around us?Join conceptual artist Mel Chin at CAM on Thursday, September 10 for an il...
09/04/2026

What can art reveal about the world around us?

Join conceptual artist Mel Chin at CAM on Thursday, September 10 for an illustrated lecture exploring a career built around ambitious ideas, experimentation, and collaboration.

Known for works that engage environmental, political, and social issues, Chin has spent decades pushing beyond traditional boundaries through sculpture, installation, technology, and large-scale public projects.

Thursday, September 10 | 6:30–7:30 PM
CAM Members $10 | Not-Yet Members $15 | Students Free

Presented in partnership with UNCW Art & Art History Department and the Office of High Impact Practices.

Register through the link in bio.

09/03/2026

Experience the work of Claire Helen Ashley, Nicole Banowetz, Nancy Davidson, Tamar Ettun, and Momoyo Torimitsu one last time before Fresh Air: Inflatable Sculptures closes September 6.

And don’t miss Nick Cave’s larger-than-life work while you’re here.

Come take it all in before it’s gone. 🎈

Art Heals. Research continues to reveal the powerful ways art can engage the brain and support our well-being 🧑‍🔬In part...
09/02/2026

Art Heals. Research continues to reveal the powerful ways art can engage the brain and support our well-being 🧑‍🔬

In partnership with Novant Health Zimmer Cancer Institute, CAM is offering a FREE six-week Museum School class for cancer patients and survivors.

Led by teaching artist Donna Moore and expressive arts therapist Lorraine Perry, participants will explore art making, expressive writing, gallery visits, and mindful meditation in a supportive, creative environment.

📅 Mondays, September 14–October 19
⏰ 1–3 PM
🎨 All levels welcome
🖌️ All supplies provided
💛 FREE, registration required

Join us for six weeks of creativity, reflection, and connection at CAM.

Art Enhances Health is made possible through the generosity of Novant Health Foundation and The Ministering Circle

09/01/2026

Spend an evening with acclaimed conceptual artist Mel Chin

You may already know his work from CAM’s grounds. Featured in this reel, "The Structure of Things Given and Held" is Chin’s monumental bronze sculpture installed at CAM, offering a striking introduction to an artist whose practice continually challenges us to think differently about art, place, and the world around us.

On Thursday, September 10, join Chin for a special CAM After Dark illustrated lecture exploring the groundbreaking projects, collaborations, and ideas that have shaped his influential career.

Working across sculpture, installation, technology, environmental intervention, and public art, Chin has spent decades engaging with complex social and environmental issues through his creative practice. From Revival Field to large-scale public installations, his work expands the possibilities of what art can do and where it can happen.

🎨 CAM After Dark: Illustrated Lecture with Mel Chin
📅 Thursday, September 10
⏰ 6:30–7:30 PM
📍 Reception Hall
🎟 CAM Members $10 | Not-Yet Members $15 | Students FREE

This event is in partnership with the UNCW Art & Art History Department and the Office of High Impact Practices.

See the work. Then hear directly from the artist behind it.

Reserve your spot at the link in bio.

Wilmington’s own Benny Hill Quartet kicks off a new season of Jazz at CAM. 🎷Join us Thursday, September 3, from 7–9 PM f...
08/31/2026

Wilmington’s own Benny Hill Quartet kicks off a new season of Jazz at CAM. 🎷

Join us Thursday, September 3, from 7–9 PM for the Benny Hill Quartet, led by one of Wilmington’s most celebrated jazz saxophonists.

For more than 30 years, Hill has performed across the country and abroad, developing a sound rooted in the traditions of jazz greats like Cannonball Adderley, Dexter Gordon, John Coltrane, and Charlie Parker, while bringing a style all his own.

🎷 Jazz at CAM: Benny Hill Quartet
📅 Thursday, September 3
⏰ 7–9 PM
🎟 CAM Members $40 | Not-Yet Members $60 | Students $15

Start the season with an evening of live jazz at CAM.

Register at the link in bio.

The Andys showed UP. 👏🎨Thank you to everyone who made Night of 1000 Andys such an incredible night at CAM. The looks. Th...
08/30/2026

The Andys showed UP. 👏🎨

Thank you to everyone who made Night of 1000 Andys such an incredible night at CAM. The looks. The art. The music. The energy. You made this one for the books.

We had a blast celebrating with you. 💫

Taking CAM’s collection beyond the museum walls.CAM Curator of Exhibitions and Collections Ben Billingsley recently led ...
08/29/2026

Taking CAM’s collection beyond the museum walls.

CAM Curator of Exhibitions and Collections Ben Billingsley recently led visitors through Sense of Place at the Wilma W. Daniels Gallery at Cape Fear Community College.

Curated by Ben from CAM’s permanent collection, the exhibition explores the artists, landscapes, and perspectives that have shaped the visual identity of southeastern North Carolina. From Elisabeth Chant and Claude Howell to Pam Toll and Dick Roberts, *Sense of Place* traces generations of creativity rooted right here in the Cape Fear region.

📍 Wilma W. Daniels Gallery at CFCC
🗓 On view through October 9

Join us for the **Fourth Friday Gallery Night reception on August 28, 6–9 PM.** Free and open to the public.

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3201 S 17th Street
Wilmington, NC
28412

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Wednesday 10am - 5pm
Thursday 10am - 9pm
Friday 10am - 5pm
Saturday 10am - 5pm
Sunday 10am - 5pm

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