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CAM Raleigh
Well the contemporary art museum project for the College of Design is a very important
one in terms of the way it allows us to extend the activities of this college out into the
community.
Along with that decision was the idea to take an existing building that may be in disrepair
and transform it into a very positive element of the city.
The building is exciting. I think the building is representation of exactly the message that
we want to send, in that we’ve come into an old building that had great value in terms
of the energy vital warehouse district in Raleigh that we can now transform into this
center of art and design, education.
This is a much more urban gritty kind of museum and it’s also this is really about tapping
into the artists who are really on the cutting edge who are forming sort of the art that
we will be acknowledging as sort of the masters of tomorrow. And so that’s pretty exciting.
The Contemporary Art Museum Raleigh gives us the opportunity to have the equivalent
of a teaching hospital for artists. Students will be able to act as dosants to have the
projects exhibited there. In fact they will be able to be involved both as artists and
as curators of shows.
And this is the art that you don’t see in the galleries and you don’t see in the museums.
So, it’s really about the moment and about kind of the state of art right now. So there’s
very few places where you can really see kind of the state of what’s going on at the moment
and I think CAM will do that.