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2011

ONLINE REGISTRATION NOW AVAILABLE: http://cameronartmuseum.com/classregistration.php

Cameron Art Museum

3201 South 17th Street Wilmington, NC 28412

910-395-5999

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By dedicating more studio space within the museum complex, Cameron Art
Museum proudly announces the opening of THE MUSEUM SCHOOL. Following the success of the Clay Studio (now entering its fifth year of ceramic instruction under master artist Hiroshi Sueyoshi), THE MUSEUM SCHOOL will steadily expand course offerings to include beginning and master classes in drawing, painting, book arts, textiles, multimedia, photography and printmaking, all earning CEU credit through New Hanover County Schools. THE MUSEUM SCHOOL will provide not only new adult and youth art education but employment opportunity for area artists and instructors. Distinctions of THE MUSEUM SCHOOL programming include instructor-guided access to the museums exhibitions; instructor-guided access to select objects in the museums permanent collection not on view to the public, and access to the museums non-circulating art library numbering over 2000 publications and monographs. Additionally THE MUSEUM SCHOOL is offering team-taught instruction with at least 50% of the curriculum. Team instruction revolutionized art training when the innovative Bauhaus school opened in 1919. The Bauhaus style of teaching spread to institutions such as Harvard and Yale. In North Carolina, Black Mountain College also became a laboratory for artists working in different disciplines to find associations and relationships for collaboration within their respective art forms. In its teaching philosophy, THE MUSEUM SCHOOL encourages this same climate for research and collaboration among instructors, students and the community. Regionally, THE MUSEUM SCHOOL for southeastern North Carolina resumes what began in Wilmington over 70 years ago; it is a rebirth of a Museum School of Art which served this region from 1938-1941, and from 1962-2001. In Wilmington during 1938, grassroots activism and WPA funding led to the establishment of The Wilmington Museum of Art and The Wilmington Museum School of Art (1938-1941). In addition to changing temporary exhibitions, WMA offered an impressive curriculum of studio and art history courses under the direction of the late Henry MacMillan. Due to the escalation of WWII, The Wilmington Museum of Art and Museum School of Art were forced to close, both rising (again through grassroots effort) in what became St. Johns Museum of Art (1962-2001) and then Cameron Art Museum (2002-present). St. Johns Museum of Art followed the precedent set by the Wilmington Museum of Art and Museum School of Art by offering both changing exhibitions and art courses in studio and art history in service to educational needs of this region. St. Johns Museum also continued the tradition of employing artists and area educators in support of artists and community economy.

The course list, schedule detail and CEUs are listed below. Information on registering for the courses listed in this course book are on the last pages of this course book. If you would like additional information please call THE MUSEUM SCHOOL at the Cameron Art Museum at 910-395-5999.

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INSTRUCTOR ROSTER FOR THE MUSEUM SCHOOL 2011 Cameron Art Museum
Lisa Marie Albert
"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you." Maya Angelou Lisa Marie Albert is a photographer working globally to tell stories with a cause. In the vein of Lewis Hine's approach to using photography to promote social change, Lisa is motivated to support human rights and advancement in health access through her photography. As a photographer, She feels the best way to do this is through immersing herself in the community, building trust, and giving back. Lisa has a Master's in biomathematics, but influenced by her research in virus dynamics and her travels around the world she decided to obtain her Master's in Public Health at UNC. She also completed a certificate in documentary photography from Duke Center for Documentary Studies. In 2009 she held a one year fellowship through UNC and Family Health International (FHI) where she worked as a researcher and documentary photographer on a community based HIV prevention study in North Carolina. Recently she returned from Uganda where she lived for six months documenting global health issues and working on a child rights advocacy campaign.

Anne Brennan
Anne Brennan holds an MFA in Painting from East Carolina University and B.A. in Studio Art from Davidson College. She has taught studio foundation courses including Basic and Life Drawing at ECU and Cape Fear Community College. She has taught Museum Studies at UNCW and art history at Pitt Community College. She is currently Acting Director at Cameron Art Museum and is working with at-risk youth, the Kinston Police Department and the Kinston Community Council for the Arts on the completion of two public art murals for the City of Kinston, honoring the participants and Kinstons African American Music Heritage Trail with funding from the North Carolina Arts Council.

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John Beerman
John Beerman is a native of North Carolina and has recently returned to resettle after thirty-five years in the Hudson River valley. Beerman studied art at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, Maine, and at Rhode Island School of Design, where he earned his BFA. John Beerman's primary focus is the landscape, John Coffey, Deputy Director for Art and Curator of American and Modern Art at the North Carolina Museum of Art stated, "John is clearly observing nature and translating it into a sort of hyper reality. Rather than simple reportage, John's landscapes communicate his response to the sensations he feels when he paints a scene." John Beermans works are meticulously crafted landscape visions that capture the essence of time, place and space. Beermans subtleness is reminiscent of the luminist painters of the 19th century, yet thoroughly contemporary in spirit and point of view. In a New York Times article published August 24, 2008, Beerman was quoted as seeing himself in the tradition of the Luminist offshoots of the Hudson River School. "They had a lot of sky, and subdued brushwork, so that the hand of the particular artist wasnt so obvious," said Beerman. "They had a quietude," he added. "Not so much drama." Beerman's work is part of numerous public and private collections, including the Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York; the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas; the North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, North Carolina; and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York. Beerman's paintings are also among the collection of the North Carolina Governor's mansion and the New York Governors mansion. Beerman has also been the recipient of many awards and commissions. He recently completed an eighty-five foot mural for the new Milsein Family Heart Center, New York Presbyterian Hospital in New York City.

Martha Burdette
Martha Burdette earned a BFA in Art Education from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro in 1988. Since that time she has taught art in public schools from kindergarten through high school and has taught adults and lifelong learners in museum, community settings and in her studio. Her preferred format and medium is large scale charcoal figures or landscapes.

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Ned Irvine
Ned Irvine received a BFA in Studio Art from UNCChapel Hill and a Masters in Graphic Design from the NCSU College of Design, where from 2000-2003 he served as visiting faculty. In 2003, he joined UNCW studio art faculty to found the graphic design program. Currently, Irvine teaches courses at UNCW in graphic design, typography and artists bookmaking. He is a practicing graphic designer, printmaker and book artist.

September Krueger
In 2010, September Krueger received an MFA in Textiles from East Carolina University and in 1994, a B.S. in Textile Design from Philadelphia University. With a range of instruction from studio foundation courses and textile survey to batik and quilt workshops, Krueger has taught at ECU, studio-assisted at Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts and conducted artist-teaching residencies in NC Public Schools. As former Studio Manager for Artworks Silkscreen Printers in Harrisburg, PA, her responsibilities included garment design, sample making, pattern making, sewing, dyeing and screenprinting.

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Donna Moore
Donna Moore joined Wilmingtons art community in 1977. As a Creative Arts major at UNCW, she studied and worked with Claude Howell. Moore has taught at Cape Fear Community College, St. Johns Museum of Art (now Cameron Art Museum) as well as facilitated after-school art classes in her Castle Creek Studios. Moore consistently works from observation of the human figure. Even though she has developed facility working in a variety of mediums such as wire, fiber and acrylic paint, Moore discovered drawing in charcoal, graphite and pastel best serves her intuitive expression.

Megan Piorko
In May 2011, Megan Piorko will earn a B.A. in both Studio Art and Art History from University of North Carolina Wilmington. While at UNCW, she was Art Editor and Editor in Chief of the Creative Magazine of UNCW, Atlantis. She has exhibited her work at UNCW and in area Wilmington galleries. Her passion is life drawing with mediums of charcoal and ink.

Chappy Valente
Chappy Valente relocated to Wilmington from San Francisco in 1990 to work as a scenic artist for the film industry. After several feature films and television shows Valente decided to work independently. He accepted a contract to paint a 2000 square foot mural at the Northeast branch of the New Hanover County Library. That opportunity led to several other mural projects in and around Wilmington and for the next ten years continued working on large format painting.

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Having trained at Art Students League of New York in portraiture, Valente decided to redirect his efforts more specifically to that discipline. But after several years took the opportunity to study abroad at the International School of Painting, Drawing and Sculpture in Umbria, Italy, an experience that provided a richer understanding of and appreciation for painting the landscape en plein air. He has since divided his studio time between those two efforts determining that There is little difference between finding form in portraiture and finding it in the landscape. It all comes down to shape making.

In 2010 Chappy and his business partner were awarded the contract to do the decorative restoration of the main theater at Thalian Hall, including a ceiling mural piece above the main stage. I feel particularly honored to have been given that opportunity. The last person to do the restoration work at Thalian was Claude Howell, so I feel Im in pretty good company.

Dennis Walsak
In 1980, Dennis Walsak began making books that open in four directions, unfold like origami constructions and, with their unusual combinations of words and images, resemble sculpture more than conventional codex. A pioneer in what is now known as book arts, his work has been exhibited at the North Carolina Museum of Art, is in the permanent collection of Cameron Art Museum and has sold in art bookstores in Washington, Los Angeles and New York. Since 1976, Walsak has owned and operated the graphic design/multimedia production studio, Modular Graphics and Media which recently expanded to include 621N4TH Gallery.

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Margie Worthington
In 1984, with a B. A. in Psychology from UNC-Chapel Hill and an MFA in Ceramics from East Carolina University, Margie Worthington moved to Wilmington. She served as the first Curator of Education at St. Johns Museum of Art (now Cameron Art Museum) in Wilmington from 1985 to 1990. From 1990 to 2004 she was a member of the art faculty at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington where she taught studio courses in design, painting, and mixed mediums. Currently, Worthington is a full time studio artist working primarily in collage. Her works are included in numerous private collections and the permanent collections of the Randall Library on the campus of UNCW and Cameron Art Museum.

Virginia Wright-Frierson
Virginia Wright-Frierson earned her BFA degree in painting from the University of North Carolina, Greensboro, and furthered her studies in Cortona, Italy, New York and Arizona. She and her husband, Dargan, settled in Wilmington, NC in 1977. Her record includes over thirty exhibitions in the southeastern US as well as Italy. Her work is included in museum, private and corporate collections. In addition, she has written and illustrated children's books and has received numerous public art commissions.

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The Library at THE MUSEUM SCHOOL

The Cameron Art Museum's library is a study center encompassing a wide range of art historical subjects from Ancient Art to Post Modernism. This is a non-circulating collection that includes artist biographies, anthologies of museum collections from local, national, and international museums, and books on art theory, museum studies, and fine art. The library numbers over 2000 publications. Core collections include books on American, art from the Carolinas folk art, African American art, women artists, American photographers, architecture, the art of drawing, ceramics, and glass making.

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COURSE LISTINGS FOR THE MUSEUM SCHOOL 2011 Cameron Art Museum ONLINE REGISTRATION NOW AVAILABLE: http://cameronartmuseum.com/classregistration.php CEU Credit Available for The Museum School Courses
2024-01 Building a Blog Tuition: Members $145/ Non-members $175 Saturday MAY 21 [10:00am - 4:30pm] (6 hrs, 30 min lunch) Location: Studio 1 (located just inside museum entrance) Instructor: Lisa Marie Albert No need to be intimidated anymore about how to strut your stuff! In this workshop you will learn how to create a free Wordpress blog to promote your photography, video, audio, art, writing, or other endeavor. Artists and non-artists welcome. Wordpress, Blogger, and other blogging options will be discussed. Please bring the following pre-prepared electronic content: at least 5 low-resolution photos, a short bio, and at least one pre-written blog post. You will have a blog set up with content loaded by the end of the workshop, and you will know how to use the Wordpress dashboard! You will need to bring a laptop (yours or borrowed for the day), with wireless capabilities, to class. Dont forget your power cord! Bring a bag-lunch. CEU credit is available through NHCS.

PAST & PROPOSED COURSES at THE MUSEUM SCHOOL

2022-01 Discovering Form in the Landscape (Beginning and Intermediate Level) Instructor: Chappy Valente This course serves as part of a series begun with Discovering Form in Portraiture (however not a prerequisite for this course). Valente emphasizes, Discovering the similarities that portraiture and landscape share, is often surprising to beginning students and an ever useful investigation for any painter, regardless of level of experience. Students will be guided through each phase of the process including understanding use of value, color, scale, and figure/ground relationships within a twodimensional field. The intent of the course is to equip beginning and intermediate level students with a sufficient understanding of the compositional and painting processes, enabling them to paint on their own with an enhanced sense of confidence and enjoyment. CEU credit is available through NHCS. 9|TH E MUS EU M SCH OOL a t Cam ero n A rt M use um

COURSE LISTINGS FOR THE MUSEUM SCHOOL 2011 Cameron Art Museum
PAST & PROPOSED COURSES at THE MUSEUM SCHOOL
2023-01 John Beerman: Painting From Observation This class is a representational painting class. The primary task is use of the power of observation. Students will work primarily in the studio, dealing with issues of form, color and light using the still life as subject matter. The class may also work outdoors, weather permitting. The class will foster and celebrate each student's unique approach. Peer critique will be an integral part of the learning process. Students will be working in oils or water-soluble oils. CEU credit is available through NHCS. 2025-01 Intro to Digital Photography Instructor: Lisa Marie Albert Learn basic digital camera functions and core photographic concepts such as depth of field, shutter speed, exposure, and composition. Using a hands-on approach, we will explore different photographic styles and creative expression. The course will incorporate demonstrations, slide shows, photo assignments, discussions and critiques, all of which will encourage students to explore the full potential of the medium. Students must have a digital SLR camera that allows manual control, including a range of shutter speeds and aperture settings. Please bring your SLR camera and manual to class. This is a great class if youre wanting to brush up on photography concepts, get input on your work, or if you want a general introduction to photography before taking more advanced photography courses. CEU credit is available through NHCS. 2026-01 Documentary Photography This course will be a time to come together to understand basic concepts of using photographs to tell stories in a visual approach. We will also define what documentary photography means to you and others. You will be able to share your documentary project ideas, set new goals, edit your work, and to receive and give constructive feedback. Discussions will include techniques on lighting (natural vs. flash), the photographer-subject relationship, photo releases, and legal/ethical issues that may arise. You may continue with your current documentary photography project, or begin a new one for this course. Digital and film photographers are welcome. Photo assignments and reading material will be given. During editing sessions, you will bring in contact sheets, prints or a selection of digital photos to class. Some manual camera basics will be reviewed. A projector is available. CEU credit is available through NHCS.

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2027-01 Post Impressionism: Drawing and Painting (Ages 15-18) Instructor: Megan Piorko Learn the art historical background of the Post-Impressionist movement while creating artwork in the style of artists from the period. This course explores drawing and painting techniques of artists such as Toulouse Lautrec and Vincent Van Gogh while focusing on aspects of history and day to day life that reflected in Post-Impressionism style. This is a great opportunity for young adults to experience an indepth study of art and art history to prepare them for a college level art course. Portfolio critiques will be available for students considering post-high school art programs. CEU credit is available through NHCS.

2019-01, 02, 03 Drawing from the Middle of the Brain (Beginning and Intermediate Level) Instructors: Martha Burdette and Donna Moore Learn the basics of how to draw from observation! Drawing from the Middle of the Brain explores both analytical and intuitive approaches to drawing. Burdette and Moore offer the opportunity for students to work from still life, nature and the figure. To a certain extent, they will shape course content following the students areas of interest. Investigations include structural design elements of value, space, scale, line quality, composition, and visual texture. Students will learn time-honored drawing techniques, both additive and subtractive, by working with charcoal, graphite, eraser, conte, ink and ink wash. CEU credit is available through NHCS.

2020-01 Introduction to Book Arts Instructors: Ned Irvine and Dennis Walsak Course Description: This intensive team-taught course will present an historical survey of the artists book, and introduce basic bookbinding techniques including pamphlet stitch, accordion, coptic and case binding. Students will investigate book structure, the relationship of narrative and explore concepts of the book as art medium and craft. CEU credit is available through NHCS.

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COURSE LISTINGS FOR THE MUSEUM SCHOOL 2011 Cameron Art Museum
2016-01 Exploring the Visual Language in Paint (Intermediate Level) Instructor: Margie Worthington This course is for the student who desires to get back into painting or to pursue greater freedom of expression. Worthington has designed course content to heighten visual awareness and sensibility regardless of painting style. Through a series of guided exercises, students will explore the elements and principles of the visual language - line, shape, color, texture, rhythm, balance, and harmony. For example, students will study the power of simple line to convey feeling and arrangements of shapes to suggest meaning. Participants will gain insight into the importance of composition and discover more effective ways to use it. This course focuses on abstraction, but no experience in abstract painting is necessary. Students need not favor abstract art to benefit from this class. Some painting experience is required. Students will work in water-based mediums, preferably acrylics. CEU credit is available through NHCS. 2017-01 Introduction to Silk Painting Instructor: September Krueger Silk painting is an ancient craft that uses dyes to create imagery on cloth. For contemporary artists, painting on cloth offers a new medium and support for the watercolorist. For the quilter or other textile artist, silk painting offers the freedom to create an original composition to stitch and embellish. In this introductory course, students will learn the basic techniques of silk painting using water soluble resists. Krueger will demonstrate painting techniques, drawing in the resist lines and finishing techniques; will show examples of work and instruct students in design development and in building their own frames. She will also demonstrate steaming painted fabrics and will steam all the students completed work. Ages 12 and up. CEU credit is available through NHCS. 2018-01 Introduction to Figure Drawing Instructors: Anne Brennan and Virginia Wright-Frierson This course focuses on analyzing and drawing the human form. Working from life models, topics covered include: gesture drawing, contour drawing, proportions, landmarks and scale, basic anatomy (skeletal and muscle groups), light, rendering and portraiture. The primary medium will be charcoal, but students will also be introduced to techniques and exercises in graphite, ink, conte, and wet mediums on various papers and surfaces. Students will benefit from individual attention as well as group discussion/critiques of work. Instructors will reference figurative work in art history and offer for study original selections of figuration from CAMs permanent collection 12 | T H E M U S E U M S C H O O L a t C a m e r o n A r t M u s e u m

of art. The last class will be a final crit/social with food and beverage. CEU credit is available through NHCS.

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2021-01 Discovering Form in Portraiture (Beginning and Intermediate Level) Instructor: Chappy Valente In six sessions, students will investigate how likeness is discovered in the process of painting the portrait. Using a live model, students will learn principles guiding understanding of what is necessary to create a successful portrait in oil paint. This course serves as a foundation to a subsequent six-week course, Discovering Form in the Landscape (Enrolling in Discovering Form in Portraiture is not a prerequisite for Discovering Form in Landscape). Valente emphasizes, Discovering the similarities that portraiture and landscape share, is often surprising to beginning students and an ever useful investigation for any painter, regardless of level of experience. Students will be guided through each phase of the process including understanding use of value, color, scale, rendering likeness and placement of the figure in a two-dimensional field. The intent of the course is to equip beginning and intermediate level students with a sufficient understanding of the compositional and painting process, enabling them to paint on their own with an enhanced sense of confidence and enjoyment.

This program is supported by the N.C. Arts Council, a division of the Department of Cultural Resources.

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IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT THE MUSEUM SCHOOL Cameron Art Museum ONLINE REGISTRATION NOW AVAILABLE: http://cameronartmuseum.com/classregistration.php 1) You may register online or complete the following mail-in registration form. Be sure to include your payment information. Then, mail or drop off the registration form and payment information at the Cameron Art Museum | The Museum School 3201 South 17th Street, Wilmington, NC 28412. Keep a copy for your records. 2) If a class is rescheduled due to instructor illness or inclement weather there will be a notification on the Cameron Art Museum web site www.cameronartmuseum.com. The class will subsequently be rescheduled to another time. 3) Refunds/cancellations: Refunds are only available if written notification is provided to THE MUSEUM SCHOOL 5 workdays prior to the first scheduled class. A processing fee of $10 is charged on cancellations. 4) Supply lists available at: http://www.cameronartmuseum.com/adult.php next to the course description as a printable PDF.

If you have questions please contact Christine Kilian at 910-395-5999 or ckilian@cameronartmuseum.com.

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