Jonathan Williams and the Jargon Society
September 16, 2020 – August 14, 2021
From the Vault: Recent Gifts to the Collection
September, 2020 – March 20, 2021
PERSPECTIVES – JOHN CAGE: A MYCOLOGICAL FORAY
November 18, 2020 | Streaming – A conversation with Atelier Éditions’ collaborative team and Laura Kuhn, Director of the John Cage Trust, about the newly published “John Cage: A Mycological Foray”
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TAYO: VIDEO + CONVERSATION WITH GRACE VILLAMIL
November 11, 2020 | Streaming – Tune in for a look at TAYO, a new installation from Grace Villamil, in collaboration with IONE and Lisa Kelley of the Ministry of Maåt. A new film about the October 24th activation of TAYO from cinematographer Sam Falconi and filmmaker Marina Katz will be followed by a discussion with Villamil.
PERSPECTIVES: DR. RUSSELL WILLIAMS, JR + JOSEPH BATHANTI – A CONVERSATION ABOUT ALMA STONE WILLIAMS
October 22, 2020 | Streaming – In the summer of 1944, a brave young woman from Athens, Georgia became the first African-American student to attend an all-white college in the Jim Crow South. Professors Russell Williams Jr., son of BMC alumna Alma Stone Williams, and Joseph Bathanti will discuss her extraordinary life and her place in the history of our country’s struggle for civil rights.
PERSPECTIVES: STEPH RICHARDS + ANDREW MUNSEY
October 14, 2020 | Streaming – Experimental trumpeter/composer Steph Richards and drummer/producer Andrew Munsey perform “homeostasis,” a new piece for sonic conversations with difficult objects.
PERFORMANCE: KIMATHI MOORE
October 8, 2020 | Streaming – Electronic composer Kimathi Moore performs “Oliver’s Tail [We The Fish]” a new piece that attempts to illustrate a town underwater inspired by the Polish surrealist painter Jacek Yerka.
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Janet Heling Roberts
Hazel Larsen Archer, Janet Heling Roberts at Black Mountain College, 1945. Silver gelatin print. BMCM+AC permanent collection. Gift of Janet Heling Roberts. Janet Chloe Heling Roberts (Student 1943 – 1947, b. 1925 d. 2020) Born in 1925 in Lindenhurst, New York,...RUTH ASAWA’S RADICAL UNIVERSALISM
September 23, 2020 | Zoom – Jason Vartiker asks, “How are Ruth Asawa’s hanging wire sculptures a form of activism for racial justice?”
Black Lives Matter
BMCM+AC believes that Black Lives Matter. We are committed to critically evaluating how our organization can confront implicit biases and are looking ahead to long term changes to ensure equity within our museum, community collaborations, exhibitions, curation, and...PERFORMANCE: TURNING JEWELS INTO WATER
September 10th, 2020 | Streaming – Turning Jewels Into Water exclusively premiere songs from their newly released album, Our Reflection Adorned by Newly Formed Stars, including ‘Flower In Flames,’ ‘Our Reflection Adorned by Newly Formed Stars’ and ‘Crushed Petals.’ Presented in partnership with Asheville Rhythm.
Animal Crossing: New Horizons Museum Day
May 18 Animal Crossing: New Horizons Museum Day Celebration Virtual “Gallery” tour and QR code sharing Want to bring a little bit of Black Mountain College into your world on Animal Crossing: New Horizons? We are celebrating the in-game Museum Week with...BMCM+AC FILMS @ HOME – DON’T KNOW, WE’LL SEE: THE WORK OF KAREN KARNES
September 8 – 15, 2020 | Limited time Vimeo screening – Don’t Know We’ll See: The Work of Karen Karnes (directed by Lucy Massie Phenix) | Featuring an introduction by artist and curator Anna Helgeson
AN INVISIBLE REVOLUTION
August 27, 2020 | Zoom – Join David McConville and Glenn English for an in-depth conversation on the life and work of R. Buckminster Fuller.
Leap Then Look
Winter 2020 {Digital Exhibition}
PERSPECTIVES: Steve Locke with Ben Hall
August 12, 2020 | Streaming – Artists Steve Locke and Ben Hall will discuss Locke’s current work, Homage to the Auction Block, a series informed by Josef Albers’ Homage to the Square.
