Cameron Art Museum
- 3201 South 17th Street
- Wilmington, NC 28412
- (910) 395-5999
- Wilmington
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Celebrating over 50 years of Arts Education through exhibits and community programs of historical and modern significance, this museum has six to eight annual rotating exhibitions in addition to outdoor works including the park property that is a historic Civil War Site. The Museum School offers ongoing classes for all ages including ceramic arts. Weekly exhibition tours on Wednesdays 1:30-2 PM. Special tours available when Museum is closed on Monday for special needs visitors so they may experience the museum in a supported environment designed to minimize stress and to provide a connection between each visitor and the art on view.
A full service café, located in the heart of the Museum, serves locally sourced, hand-crafted lunch Tuesday through Saturday with Sunday Brunch and dinner (often with live music) featured on Thursday night.
Be challenged by artist Willie Cole’s Blackronyms: blackboards with word prompts such as CIVIL, RIGHTS, WHITE, BLACK that encourage a response from the viewer. The artist… Read More
Known for her tremendous output of colorful, joyful sculptural art, Dorothy Gillespie was among those who blazed a path for women artists during the feminist art movement… Read More
Coinciding with the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution granting women the right to vote, the exhibit She Persists… Read More
View over 134 modernist prints that include original artworks from the leading artists, the change-makers, the radicals, the early modernist European expats seeking asylum… Read More
View the powerful bronze casting from the original work of sculptor Robert Merrell Gage, head of the Sculpture Department of USC. This casting is based on the 1860 plaster… Read More
Widely known for her Public Commissions (including the colorful Bottle Chapel at Airlie Gardens) Virginia Wright-Frierson, a versatile artist and author now living in… Read More
Enjoy an exhibition of NC state parks depicted in lush detail by visual storyteller Robert Johnson. This colorful exhibit is comprised of elaborate paintings of flora and… Read More
This exhibit’s title is drawn from a quote in John Muir’s unpublished 1938 journals: “We all dwell in a house of one room — the world with the firmament for its roof — and… Read More