CAM Compass, a giving society dedicated to building Cameron Art Museum’s collection, voted on June 24 to acquire three new works for the museum’s permanent collection: The Family by Romare Bearden, Conjunction by Romare Bearden, and In Casket, Memphis by Burk Uzzle.
Bearden, born in Charlotte in 1911, grew up in New York City, and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and graduated from New York University in 1935. He began his artistic career creating scenes of the American South. Later, he worked to express the humanity he felt was lacking in the world after his experience in the U.S. Army during World War II on the European front. He returned to Paris in 1950 and studied art history and philosophy at the Sorbonne.
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The seabins in the Cape Fear River have cleaned a lot of trash and seagrass, the latter of which often has micro bits of plastic in it. (Port City Daily/Courtesy of Keep New Hanover Beautiful)
WILMINGTON In a little over a month, 132.3 pounds of trash and seagrass have been removed from the Cape Fear River. Local environmental organization Keep New Hanover Beautiful (KNHB) installed two seabins at the end of November at Port City Marina at Pier 33 in downtown Wilmington.
Essentially floating trash receptacles, the seabins created over the last three years by two water lovers in Australia were awarded by the nonprofit’s parent organization Keep America Beautiful. Three affiliates, including ones in Ohio and Tennessee, are among some of the first to try out the environmental technology that aims to rid oceans of plastics worldwide.