CAM Raleigh is open on Easter Sunday from 12:00 to 5:00 p.m. Join us at 2:00 p.m. for a guided tour of our current exhibitions Born Digital, Chris Bradley–Close One and Dara Friedman–Dancer.
$5 general admission
Free for members, children 10 and under, NC State students, faculty, and staff.
Rebecca Necessary will be team-teaching the upcoming Architecture Skills workshop with Paul Hobgood. Participants will learn some of the tricks of the trade, and best methods for drawing and building models. Rebecca is a graduate of NC State University College of Design, where she received a Masters of Architecture. She stays busy working as a project designer and teaches a sophomore studio at NCSU. Rebecca also taught last summer's Spaces and Places week-long Studio.
Get the workshop details, and download the registration form here.
What do you do?
I am a project designer for a local architecture firm (working towards becoming a licensed architect) and I teach undergraduate architecture studios at NC State. I also take a lot of photographs.
How did you get to where you are today (in three sentences or less)?
I took the time to figure out what I really wanted to do... what I was truly most passionate about. I then worked really hard, stayed focused, and kept my eyes open. I still have a lot to learn.
Why are you teaching this workshop?
Young minds are an amazing source of inspiration for me. The enthusiasm they bring to any subject is really refreshing. I also love to teach youth what architecture is all about and what we really do as architects.
What can participants expect to do, learn, or make in your workshop?
In this workshop, students can expect to learn more about architectural drawings and model making. They will learn what tools we use, the different types of drawings and models we make, and then learn some basic drawing skills, as well as build a model.
What's your favorite material?
Wood. I love its versatility, its texture, and the warmth it can provide a space.
Favorite color or color palette?
Gray.... and white.
Best thing you've ever made?
My house. My husband and I designed and built an addition and extensive renovation to our house here in Raleigh. It's far from perfect, and there are many things I want to change about it, but when I think of all I learned and how much I grew as a designer during the process, I am very proud. It's still in progress (and will likely be in progress forever), but it's definitely the best thing I've made... yet.
Favorite place?
Anywhere by the sea. The mountains of NC are a close second.
Favorite designer (and why)?
It might sound cheesy, but the classics are all hard to beat... Alvar Aalto, Charles and Ray Eames, George Nelson. They all designed objects and furniture that is so timeless and well designed that it is still copied and replicated today. Someone who is still practicing that I admire a lot is John Pawson. Of course then there is Steve Jobs. Plus all the designers behind MUJI. It's too hard to name to just one!
Favorite artist (and why)?
Also a tough question to name just one, but I tend to often land on Richard Diebenkorn. I love his choice of color in all his work. The ordered and linear nature of his abstract pieces really appeals to the architect in me, but I also love his landscape and figure pieces for the way they blur the line between abstract and real. His work never gets old to me.
Most important thing to remember when desiging/making?
Whatever you're making or designing is never really finished... or maybe that's just what I tell myself because I tend to have a hard time finishing anything.
Favorite object or tool (and why)?
My cameras...fancy, cheap, iphone, all of them. They help me define my view of the world and capture it as I see it. My photos are really an extension of who I am. I take A LOT of photos.
Anything else we should know?
I am a chronic procrastinator. One day I will overcome it...
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Stay tuned for an interview with Rebecca's co-teacher, Paul Hobgood, next week!
Workshop: TECH-TYPE-HIGH with Santiago Piedrafita
Saturday, May 5 • 10:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m. • $50
Open to grades 9–12
High school students will engage hands-on with computer technologies, to shape typography (fonts + language); graphics (visual content + form); and design overall (graphic design + communications). Computers, projectors, printers, digital cameras, and phones (why not?), will be used as a starting point to build and execute design experiments over the course of a productive day. Workshop content will be organized into 2 main categories; one to address “bitmaps” (digital photo imagery, pattern/ texture graphics, etc.), and a second to cover “vector” forms (digital postscript geometries and typography). Building-block files created under these two categories will then be used as key ingredients towards finished designs projects.
Santiago Piedrafita is Head of the Department of Graphic Design and Industrial Design at North Carolina State University. Previously, Piedrafita chaired the Design Department at Minneapolis College of Art and Design (MCAD). Piedrafita served as senior designer in the Walker Art Center’s design department. At the Walker, he designed and maintained a diverse array of communications materials, publications and exhibitions for the museum’s multidisciplinary departments. In New York, Piedrafita worked in studios such as the Museum of Modern Art’s in-house design department, J. Abbott Miller’s Design/ Writing/Research (then becoming part of Pentagram) and Chermayeff & Geismar, Inc. (now C&G Partners and Chermayeff & Geismar Studio). Piedrafita’s work has been featured in numerous publications including Eye, Graphis, Metropolis and I.D. magazines. He holds a master’s degree in communications design from Pratt Institute in New York and a bachelor’s degree in industrial design from ESDI, College of Industrial Design, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Saturday, May 5 • 10:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m. • $50
Open to grades 9–12.
Limited space is available.
Advanced registration is required. Please download and complete the registration form and return to CAM Raleigh along with the registration fee of $50 (checks only, payable to “NC State University"). You may mail it to ATTN: Workshops / CAM Raleigh / 409 West Martin Street, Raleigh NC 27603 or drop it off at the front desk of the museum.
Workshops are filled on a first come, first served basis.
For questions about registration, please email sarah_blackmon@camraleigh.ncsu.edu or call 919.513.8153.
Download Registration Form/Info Sheet (PDF)
View more educational programs here.
*Note: On the difference between BITMAP and VECTOR (the two main types of computer graphic elements): BITMAPS, for short, are typically Photoshop images. This means that a bitmap image is made up of a grid of small squares called pixels, lego-like. VECTORS, on the other hand, are precise lines and curves that are mathematically created. Drawing software programs such as Illustrator are vector-based programs.
Learn a selection of basic embroidery stitches to create an embroidered composition including pictures, pattern and more!
Katherine Diuguid is an artist/designer and teacher. She recently graduated with her Master of Art and Design from NC State University concentrating in Fibers and Textiles. She also earned a Bachelor of Industrial Design from North Carolina State University and an Associate of Applied Science in Fashion Design from Parsons in New York. She currently teaches in the Department of Art + Design at NC State University. She continues her exploration of hand dressmaking and metal thread hand embroidery history and technique as well as learning new embroidery techniques.
Saturday, April 14 • 10:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m. • $30
Open to ages 14+, including 8th graders, high school students, college students and adults.
Limited space is available.
Advanced registration is required. Please download and complete the registration form and return to CAM Raleigh along with the registration fee of $30 (checks only, payable to “NC State University"). You may mail it to ATTN: Workshops / CAM Raleigh / 409 West Martin Street, Raleigh NC 27603 or drop it off at the front desk of the museum.
Workshops are filled on a first come, first served basis.
For questions about registration, please email sarah_blackmon@camraleigh.ncsu.edu or call 919.513.8153.
Download Registration Form/Info Sheet (PDF)
View more educational programs here.
Relax after a long work week with your friends at CAM Raleigh. Enjoy beverages from our cash bar and experience cutting-edge work in the Born Digital and Chris Bradley–Close One exhibitions and the Dara Friedman—Dancer film.
March Third Friday's after hours program features a special Burning Coal Theatre Company performance of JUDE THE OBSCURE, THE MUSICAL! at 7:00 p.m., a wine tasting with the Raleigh Wine Shop at 7:30 p.m, and introduction of food truck service in the CAM Raleigh courtyard. Chirba Chirba food truck will be on-site with their delicious dumplings.
Admission is $5. CAM Raleigh members, children 10 and under, members of NARM and Mod/Co, and NC State students, staff, and faculty are admitted free.
About the Burning Coal Performance:
Josh Martin and Stephen LeTrent of Raleigh play Jude Fawley, a young man from a rural part of England determined to make a better life for himself and his beloved cousin, Sue. Alice Rothman-Hicks of New York, NY plays Sue. The cast of fifteen include Liz Beckham of Austin, Texas, Greg Paul of Raleigh, John Allore of Chapel Hill, NC and Jade Arnold of Durham.
JUDE THE OBSCURE, PARTS I & II
April 12 - May 5, 2012
Directed by Jerome Davis
Book by Ian Finley
Music by Bruce Benedict and Jonathan Fitts
Murphey School Auditorium, 224 Polk Street, Raleigh, NC
Tickets: 919-834-4001 or www.burningcoal.org
