Everyday Life
At eighteen I nearly fainted with wonder at the ferns and moss thick on the paths outside the buildings that led up the mountain to Blue Ridge. I was a girl from rocky Utah. My ‘first love’ and I would climb this trail late at night. I have forgotten him but not the...Performance
At 8:30 tonight John Cage mounted a stepladder and until 10:30 he talked about the relation of music to Zen Buddhism while a movie was shown, dogs ran across the stage barking,12 persons danced without any previous rehearsal, a prepared piano was played, whistles...Women in Craft
The person that had the strongest and most far-reaching effect on me was M.C. Richards. Albers opened my eyes. M.C. opened my mind and I will be forever grateful to her. — Carol Singer Kalbfeld (Student 1947-1948) Question Everything! The Women of Black Mountain...BMC and Beyond
It wasn’t stone, it wasn’t welded steel, it wasn’t traditional sculpture. They thought it was craft, or something else, but not art. They couldn’t define it in the early fifties when I was starting out. I’d get accepted [into a show] and then I’d get a call that I was...The Weaving Workshop
In a world as chaotic as the European world after World War I, any exploratory artistic work had to be experimental in a very comprehensive sense. What had existed had proved to be wrong; everything leading up to it seemed to be wrong, too… At the Bauhaus, those...Betty Brett
Wilfrid G. Hamlin, From the Black Mountain College Journal of Elizabeth B. Hamlin, 1999. Photocopies. Collection of Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center. Gift of the Artist. Will Hamlin and Betty Brett were BMC students in the early 1940s. Betty was a poet,...PERSPECTIVES+ : Julie Levin Caro
May 8, 2020 | Streaming – Julie Levin Caro discusses how her experience as a Black Mountain College scholar has served her as an educator during this crisis. She will share lessons she has learned through her research on such BMC educators as Josef and Anni Albers, Jacob Lawrence, Jean Varda, Leo Amino, and Jack Tworkov. Following the talk, we will transition over to a virtual happy hour for a moderated Q&A discussion.
ANNUAL REPORT 2019
ANNUAL REPORT 2019 FULL ANNUAL REPORT PDF DEAR FRIENDS, This has been another year of unparalleled exhibitions and performances, a celebration of what’s possible in our new home and with the support of our community. At the beginning of 2019, we were in the last few...Important Announcement: COVID-19
BMCM+AC shares continuing updates on the effects of COVID 19 on our exhibitions and programs.
REVOLVE: Home School
April 30, 2020 | Zoom – Hosted by Revolve Home School. Gain a new understanding of the legendary Black Mountain College from the perspective of the women who defined and championed the school and its community.
A Conversation with Jason Andrew and Julia K Gleich
April 8, 2020 | Streaming – Jason Andrew, independent curator and director of the Estate of Jack Tworkov, joins the roster of curators, scholars, and creatives invited to take over the BMCM+AC Instagram account. Julia K Gleich, choreographer and founder of Gleich Dances joins Jason Andrew to talk about the collaborative event they co-produced that took place on August 6, 2011 at the Masonic Temple in downtown Asheville.
A Conversation with Jason Andrew and Hermine Ford
April 8, 2020 | Streaming – Jason Andrew, independent curator and director of the Estate of Jack Tworkov, is joined by Hermine Ford, painter and daughter of Jack Tworkov for an informal chat about her family accompanying her father to Black Mountain College, July 1952.
Instagram Takeover Series
April 3, 2020 | Instagram @bmcmuseum – Join us for a week of Instagram takeovers, where we give the reigns to an incredible roster of scholars, curators and creatives, inviting them to reflect on what Black Mountain College has meant for their practice and to respond to its lasting legacy. Guests include Maria Chavez, Ant M. Lobo, Anna Helgeson and Lori Horvitz, Helen Molesworth, Jason Andrew, David Silver, John Heginbotham, and Sarah Urist Green.
WORKSHOP: CONNIE BOSTIC
February 29, 2020 | BMCM+AC {120 College Street} – Bits and Pieces: Collage Workshop with Connie Bostic. Working with images and text from magazines, photos, books, and other visual materials, spend a fun 3 hours making collages with artist Connie Bostic.
PERFORMANCE: DAMSELFLY TRIO
February 27, 2020 | BMCM+AC {120 College Street} – Damselfly Trio perform three works by BMC alumna Ursula Mamlok: the kaleidoscopic “Der Andreas Garten” for trio, “Haiku Settings” for soprano and flute, and “Variations” for solo flute as well as selections by composers George Crumb, Alfred Zimmerlin, and the world premiere of Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon’s complete “Songs from Comala.” With Liz Pearse, soprano, Chelsea Czuchra, flutes, and Lindsay Buffington, harp.
POETRY READING (POSTPONED)
Important Announcement regarding COVID-19 BMCM+AC is temporarily closed, with all programs postponed through the end of April. Please sign up for our e-newsletter to connect with us from home and consider supporting our museum through a donation or membership, if you...CULTURE CLUB (POSTPONED)
Important Announcement regarding COVID-19 BMCM+AC is temporarily closed, with all programs postponed through the end of April. Please sign up for our e-newsletter to connect with us from home and consider supporting our museum through a donation or membership, if you...ICE Ensemble and MUSIC on the REBOUND: Pauline Oliveros World Wide Tuning Meditation
Saturday, March 28 at 5 PM via Zoom Take part in a world-wide musical exchange! Join ICE for a Pauline Oliveros World Wide Tuning Meditation on Zoom this Saturday (5pm EDT), hosted by MUSIC on the Rebound and ICE Ensemble, and led by Claire Chase and Carole Ione. It...THIRD COAST PERCUSSION – SHED, BANA HAFFAR
Commission | February 13, 2020 | BMCM+AC {120 College Street} – Grammy-winning Chicago-based percussion ensemble Third Coast Percussion and composer Bana Haffar debuted the newly commissioned Shed for percussion and modular synthesizer. Drawing from the rich legacy of Anni Albers, Haffar engages with the materiality of sound, the essence of cloth, and the symbiosis of the machine and handmade by transposing standard weaving draft notation into musical scores.
Commisioned by BMCM+AC as part of Question Everything! The Women of Black Mountain College.
