Summer at CAM Community Day

Summer at CAM Community Day
Saturday, June 20 | 10 AM–5 PMFREE 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
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
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
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
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.

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 proces...