Summer at CAM Community Day
Schedule
Sat Jun 20 2026 at 10:00 am to 05:00 pm
UTC-04:00Location
3201 S 17th St, Wilmington, NC, United States, North Carolina 28412 | Wilmington, NC
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Summer at CAM Community DaySaturday, June 20 | 10 AM–5 PM
FREE admission to all programs and exhibitions
Spend the day creating, exploring, and getting inspired together at CAM Community Day, a free celebration of hands-on artmaking and creative discovery for all ages. Inspired by Fresh Air: Inflatable Sculptures, this interactive day invites visitors to enter a world of color, texture, movement, and community through artist-led workshops and activities across the museum.
From inflatable sculpture building and indigo dyeing to weaving and Adinkra stamping, guests are invited to engage directly with contemporary art and artistic traditions through immersive experiences designed for all ages and experience levels.
Activities & Highlights
🎈 10 AM–1 PM | | Inflatable Sculpture Workshop with Tamar Ettun
Reception Hall & Courtyard
Join Fresh Air: Inflatable Sculptures exhibition artist Tamar Ettun for a collaborative workshop exploring motion, shape, and three-dimensional forms through inflatable sculpture making. No experience needed.
🧵 10 AM–1 PM | Community Weaving with Tina Maloch
Reception Hall
Learn more about the tradition of weaving through this collaborative community weaving activity. Visitors are invited to contribute to a shared artwork by bringing a small item to weave in or selecting from materials provided, including yarn and fabric scraps. Participants can also create a small cardboard weaving to take home while supplies last.
💙 11 AM–2 PM | Indigo Dyeing with Catherine Cross-Tsintzos
Pancoe – Museum School
Experience hands-on indigo dyeing processes, including cultivation, vat preparation, and surface design techniques that connect historical practices to contemporary artmaking. Participants will explore batik resist methods and learn how pigments, inks, and paints can be created using indigo.
🖐🏾 11 AM–2 PM | Adinkra Stamping with Benjamin Billingsley
Pancoe – Museum School
Enjoy Adinkra stamping in Pancoe with CAM Associate Curator Benjamin Billingsley. Adinkra is a traditional Ghanaian art form that uses symbolic stamps on fabric to represent emotions, events, places, and ideas.
🤟 11:30AM: Family-friendly ASL Guided Tour
About the Artists:
Tamar Ettun
Tamar Ettun is a multidisciplinary artist working across sculpture, video, and performance. They are a 2025–2026 Smithsonian Artist Research Fellow at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, and their work has been exhibited at major institutions, including the Walker Art Center and The Jewish Museum. Tamar is the founder of The Moving Company, an artist collective creating performance art with sculpture in public spaces, and leads a social engagement project with Brooklyn teens hosted by the Brooklyn Museum.
Catherine Cross-Tsintzos
Catherine Cross-Tsintzos is an artist whose interdisciplinary practice focuses on environmental and social issues, traditional fine craft, sustainability, and community participation. Throughout her career, she has developed arts curriculum and educational opportunities for individuals of all ages and backgrounds across the Southeast United States. Her work often explores processes connected to nature, including ceramics, papermaking, printmaking, and fiber arts. Catherine is a practicing and exhibiting artist from North Carolina.
Tina Maloch
Tina Maloch has dedicated more than 30 years to teaching art across all educational levels, from elementary school through college and older adult education. Working across both 2D and 3D mediums, her current artistic focus centers on fiber arts and mixed-media fiber work. Her artwork is held in private collections nationwide, and she has also worked professionally as a photographer for more than 20 years.
Benjamin Billingsley
Benjamin Billingsley is Associate Curator at CAM and holds an MFA from UNC Greensboro. His work has been exhibited throughout the United States as well as internationally in Latvia, Estonia, Russia, and Japan. Billingsley is recognized regionally for his large-scale steamroller printing events and recent curatorial projects including The Game Changers: Diebenkorn, Frankenthaler, Rauschenberg and Close to Home.
About the Exhibition:
Fresh Air: Inflatable Sculptures
Fresh Air is a bold exploration of inflatable sculpture, showcasing innovative approaches to soft materials and form. Through playful and experimental works, the exhibition invites visitors to consider how sculpture can transform spatial experience, challenge artistic expectations, and tell new stories through movement, scale, and interaction.
For questions regarding accessibility, please contact Georgia Mastroieni, Deputy Director of Operations, at 910-726-9492 or [email protected].
Image credits: Nick Cave (American, b. 1959) Augment (detail), 2019. Repurposed hand-stitched inflatable lawn ornaments. On loan from the artist. ©Nick Cave. Photo Credit: James Prinz, Courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY (Produced by Boston Public Art Triennial)
After Andy Warhol. Facsimile of Silver Clouds created by Andy Warhol in 1966. Mylar filled with helium. Refabricated by The Andy Warhol Museum. ©2026 The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc./Licensed by Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Silver Clouds, installation view at the Andy Warhol Museum. Photo: Bryan Conley.
Jonathan Green (American, b. 1955) Time to Rejoice, 2005 (detail). Oil on canvas. On loan from an anonymous collector ©Jonathan Green
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