LEAP Middle School Initiative at work on Project Lost Island
LEAP Middle School Initiative at work on Project Lost Island

Project Lost Island

Cutting tools, rulers, pieces of cardboard, hot glue guns, duct tape—the CAM Education Studio is filled with art supplies of all sorts, laid out in different stations for each stage of the art-making process. Students crowd around long tables, enjoying their pizza and chattering excitedly in anticipation of…

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CAM VSA Autumn Wright
CAM VSA Autumn Wright

CAM Ambassadors

The first faces you see when you walk into CAM are those of the Visitor Service Associates. VSAs do more than safeguard the art—they are CAM ambassadors who are informed and willing to give you a ten-minute Spotlight Tour of one of the works on view. Far from…

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CAM VSA Gian Garma and Alice Nguyen on a Spotlight Tour.
CAM VSA Gian Garma and Alice Nguyen on a Spotlight Tour.

Shining a Spotlight

When you step into CAM, you often find yourself in the presence of the unfamiliar. This may induce wonder, mystification, a sense of the sublime, confusion, or all of the above. Even for the most sophisticated museumgoer, an encounter with contemporary art can be a disorienting experience. Sometimes…

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