A fundraiser for the Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center
YMI Cultural Center – 39 S. Market Street, downtown Asheville
Saturday, July 10, 2010
8:00 p.m.

Food for Thought is a champagne and dessert party and live auction at the YMI Cultural Center in downtown Asheville. This exciting event will raise money for programming at the museum/arts center. A wide variety of desserts will be served with champagne and coffee along with a lively auction conducted by professional auctioneer John Hill of Weaverville who is well known for his humor.

Items to be auctioned are unique plates, platters, and bowls designed and decorated by some of the area’s most talented artists such as Alli Good, Taiyo la Paix, Linda Larsen, Kevin Hogan and many others including a very well-known New York-based artist. These works of art all feature a thought from a student or teacher from the legendary Black Mountain College. Quotes inscribed on each piece of dinnerware are from Black Mountain College poets, painters, philosophers, architects, and scientists. The finished works can be previewed upstairs at Blue Spiral 1 during their regular business hours.

Food for Thought will be held at the historic YMI Cultural Center, 39 S. Market St., beginning at 8:00 PM on Saturday night, July 10. Tickets are $20.00 for members or $25.00 for non-members at the door. For further information call Alice Sebrell at 828 350-8484.

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Hertha O. Horwitz

Explore your own possibility!” – Ilya Bolotowsky

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Nava Lubelski

” I can’t understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I’m frightened of the old ones. ” – John Cage

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Margaret Curtis

“These days, whatever you have to say, leave the roots on, let them dangle and the dirt, just to make clear, where they come from.” – Charles Olson

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Kevin Hogan

Josef! Shut up and eat.” – Anni Albers

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Billy Bernstein

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Kate Bernstein

“Dog with daisies for eyes/who flashes forth/flame of is very self at every bark”

– The Dog of Art, Denise Levertov

 

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Connie Bostic

Blackbird hangs low in the sky

Sun and moon gone south until solstice” – CK Holmire



 

 


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Christopher French

“Art, like life, is all about location.”

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Donald Sultan

HOT DOG HOT DOG

Alchemist’s Rock

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Tony Bradley

“the artist begins with art, and through it arrives at reality.”

– Robert Motherwell

 

 

 

 




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Terry Taylor

Follow Ray’s Instructions

1. Draw Circle

2. Add Ear

3. Add Another Ear

4. Add Eye

5. Add Another Eye

6. Add Nose

7. Add Mouth

8. Moustache Optional

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Phil DeAngelo

” I’ve been looking at this landscape for twenty years, and I’ve come to the conclusion that there’s only one tree out of place.” – Nell Rice

 

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Kristy Urquhart

” Imagine inventing yellow or moving for the first time in a cherry curve.”

– MC Richards

 


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Jeff Kinzel

“Young people don’t know when to stop.” – Fannie Hillsmith

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Dana Irwin

” abstract expressionism was the first American art that was filled with anger as well as beauty.” – Robert Motherwell

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Brigid Burns

“the Dog / of Art turns to the world / the quietness of his eyes”

– Denise Levertov

 


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Michael Hofman
“ There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly”
– Buckminster Fuller

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Alli Good
“ But I found a lot of the artists at the Cedar Bar difficult for me to talk to.”
– Robert Rauschenberg

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Taiyo la Paix
“ The naked musculature of the Rockies was overpowering and my painting responded.”
– Elaine DeKooning

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Marcia Cohen
“Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature.”
-Josef Albers

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Aimee Ellingsen
“ Love is form and cannot be without important substance.”
– Charles Olson

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Karen Weihs
“If I plant a tomato seed I will get a tomato plant out of it. Then I will get tomatoes from that. I LIKE THAT.”
– Ruth Asawa

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Sally Bryenton
“ There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly”
– Buckminster Fuller

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Linda Larsen
“Art is always a personal moral adventure.”
– Josef Albers

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Charles Krekelberg
“ When I spoke of flowers I was a flower, with all the prerogatives of flowers, especially the right to come alive in the spring.”
– William Carlos Williams

Absentee bids will be accepted, please contact us for further information.