ASHEVILLE FRINGE FESTIVAL
January 25, 2020 | {120 College Street} – In this Fringe Festival interactive performance, Derr casts the viewers as painters in a playful investigation of Kenneth Noland’s painting New Day, 1967. Viewers apply the 41 color stripes in New Day to a transparent canvas while Derr films from the other side.
OPENING RECEPTION
February 1, 2019 {120 College Street} The BMC community faced political differences, both internally and externally, throughout its 24-year history. The college was born in 1933 during the Great Depression, lived through WWII, was deeply affected by Hitler’s rise to power, and closed during the Cold War. Though often viewed today as an idyllic mountain refuge, isolated from tumultuous global politics, BMC took shape in the context of (and in response to) world events. Through a rich variety of media—artworks, images, texts, and audio—this exhibition will explore the various political dimensions of Black Mountain College, both internal and external, that shaped the trajectory of the college and its community of people.
PERSPECTIVES: DIANA C. STOLL
Wednesday, May 8 – 12-1pm PERSPECTIVES Lunchtime Conversations @ BMCM+AC. Explore our Aaron Siskind exhibition along with an artist, historian, or scholar who will give perspective and context to the work from their particular point of view. Guest Speaker: Diana C....MODULAR ON THE SPOT
Saturday, May 4 – 1-4pm {Pack Square Park} Modular On The Spot. Modular On The Spot is an outdoor modular synthesizer picnic founded in Los Angeles by Eric ‘Rodent’ Cheslak and Bana Haffar. The idea came about on a camping trip to Arizona in 2014 where the...PAPERMAKING WORKSHOP
Saturday, May 4 – 9-11:30am Papermaking Workshop with John Dancy Jones. Book artist and papermaker John Dancy Jones leads this hands-on workshop. Papermaking and printing have been substrates for cultural expression for all of history. Learn how paper is made, make a...AARON SISKIND IN RETROSPECT: A PRESENTATION BY JAMES BARRON
May 2, 2019 (120 College Street) – Aaron Siskind in Retrospect, a presentation by James Barron. James Barron is an art dealer based in Kent, CT. While still an art history student at Brown University, and working at a Providence photo gallery, he met photographer Aaron Siskind and sold 22 Siskind photographs to his parents. These vintage photographs form the core of this exhibition at BMCM+AC. James Barron will speak about Aaron Siskind’s photographs and his family’s friendship with Siskind through art and photography.
NEO PASTICHE: CHANGES IN AMERICAN MUSIC FESTIVAL
April 25 – April 28, 2019 {120 College Street} Neo Pastiche: Changes in American Music Festival with performers: Eugene Chadbourne, Anka (Carmelo Pampillonio + Marcyanne Hannemann), Petr Kotik (“There is Singularly Nothing”), Sarah Louise (Deep Listening inspired exercises), Deforrest Brown Jr. and Nick James Scavo (“Wrecked New American Music of a Cancelled Species”), Theodore Cale Schafer, Kimathi Moore and Elizabeth Lang, Jeff Witscher, Jaclyn Miller (aka Voice Training), S.E.M Ensemble (Julius Eastman’s “Macle” and John Cage’s Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, and Morton Feldman “For Philip Guston”)
ASHEVILLE WORDFEST 2019 POETRY READING
Saturday, April 13 – 5pm Asheville Wordfest 2019 Poetry Reading. Introducing writers from Mars Hill University and UNC-Asheville. Three creative writing students from each university will read original work, representing different genres. The evening will be...PERSPECTIVES: JON ELLISTON
April 10, 2019 (120 College Street) – Explore our Politics at BMC exhibition along with an artist, historian, or scholar who will give perspective and context to the work from their particular point of view. Guest Speaker: Jon Elliston, co-curator of the exhibition, writer, and Senior Editor of WNC Magazine.
{Re}HAPPENING 9
Saturday, March 30, 3-10pm {Re}HAPPENING AT LAKE EDEN. The {Re}HAPPENING is an annual afternoon and evening event at the historic campus of Black Mountain College – 15 minutes from Asheville. It is part art event, part fundraiser, and part community instigator,...FILMS@BMCM+AC: ONE FAST MOVE OR I’M GONE: KEROUAC’S BIG SUR
Thursday, March 21 – 7pm FILMS@BMCM+AC: One Fast Move or I’m Gone: Kerouac’s Big Sur. This 97-minute documentary takes the audience on a visceral ride of raw emotions and dramatic events based on Jack Kerouac’s brilliantly honest 1962 novel, Big Sur. The film is told...VanDerBeek + VanDerBeek
September 20, 2019 – January 4, 2020
Materials, Sounds + Black Mountain College
June 7 – August 31, 2019
Aaron Siskind: A Painter’s Photographer and Works on Paper by BMC Artists
February 1 – May 18, 2019
Politics at Black Mountain College
February 1 – May 18, 2019
CREATIVE CAPITAL WORKSHOP: STRATEGIC PLANNING + COMMUNICATIONS FOR ARTISTS
March 15, 2019 {120 College Street} Participants learn key business, management, and communications skills and hear first-hand from artists who have used these tools to achieve success—as they define it. Topics include business management, goal setting, writing and talking about your work, and negotiation. In addition to lecture presentations, participants engage in interactive exercises, have the opportunity to meet with leaders in small working groups, and are given a Strategic Planning workbook to help guide their process. Consultant and arts activist, Colleen Keegan and NC based artist, Beverly McIver will lead the workshop.
PERSPECTIVES: JAY MILLER
March 13, 2019 {120 College Street} Explore our Politics at BMC exhibition along with an artist, historian, or scholar who will give perspective and context to the work from their particular point of view. Guest Speaker: Jay Miller, co-curator of the exhibition, Professor of Philosophy, and Director of the Warren Wilson College Honors Program.
Abstracts (Draft) – ReVIEWING 10
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 28 1:00PM Registration opens – UNC Asheville’s Reuter Center Lobby 1:30PM – 3:00PM PANEL – ROOM# – MODERATOR: Thomas Frank – How to Start a College: Black Mountain Among the Experimental Colleges Black Mountain College was born in an era of...Participant Bios – ReVIEWING 10
Jason Andrew is the founding partner of Artist Estate Studio which manages the careers of Jack Tworkov (1900-1982) and Elizabeth Murray (1940-2007) among others. He has presented regularly at BMCM+AC Conferences including papers on Ruth Asawa, John Cage, Katherine...
