Thanks for Another Great Year!

As we look forward to 2017, we want to take a moment to thank you for your support this year. Your contribution made it possible for us to present: the work of 302 artists and scholars, in 5 exhibitions, and 158 presentations, performances and workshops, that were seen by 20,000+ people who paid on average, $8 for per event and saw our exhibitions and gallery talks for free.

An Afternoon with the Asheville Singers

Friday, May 5, 2:00 p.m. {56 Broadway} Call it an early weekend and catch this Friday afternoon performance by UNC Asheville’s ensemble group, the Asheville Singers, led by Dr. Melodie Galloway, music department associate professor and chair. They’ll...

PERFORMANCE + ARTIST TALK: the undergird (action is primary #4)

Saturday, July 8, 7:00 pm {69 Broadway} Philadelphia-based choreographer Meg Foley will present the undergird (action is primary #4), a dance and spoken performance about mortality, birth, earth monuments, and the immediate, omnipresent body, alone and in congress,...

ROOMFUL OF TEETH – {Re}HAPPENING 8

Roomful of TeethFeatured performers, {Re}HAPPENING 8Historic Black Mountain College campus at Lake EdenMarch 31, 2018 Roomful of Teeth is a GRAMMY-winning vocal project dedicated to mining the expressive potential of the human voice. Through study with masters from...

THIRD COAST PERCUSSION – {Re}HAPPENING 7

Third Coast Percussion Featured performers, {Re}HAPPENING 7 Historic Black Mountain College campus at Lake Eden March 25, 2017 Founded in 2005, Third Coast Percussion has performed hundreds of concerts across the country, presents an annual concert season at home in...

A Living Museum With George Scheer

Thursday, May 4, 7:00 p.m. {56 Broadway} A conversation with George Scheer about hidden histories in art and his work fostering creative communities at the intersection of aesthetics and social change. Scheer is co-founder and director of Elsewhere, a living museum...

Odyssey High School Coffee Night

Friday, March 3, 6:30 – 8:30 p.m. {56 Broadway} Odyssey High School students will perform on a variety of instruments and do improv sets. Wonderful baked goods, coffee, tea, and hot cocoa will be for sale.  Free and open to the...

LISTENING SESSION: Williams Mix by John Cage

Thursday, March 9, 7:00 p.m. {56 Broadway} Introducing Listening Sessions at BMCM+AC! This is a new forum led by Executive Director Jeff Arnal created to examine the evolving culture of listening and to investigate the larger lineage of music and how a plethora of...

Nick Millevoi’s Desertion Trio

Saturday February 4, 8:00 p.m. {56 Broadway} This is the newest project from Philadelphia-based guitarist/composer Nick Millevoi, exploring the sonic space between Neil Young’s expansive work with Crazy Horse, late 60s free jazz, and the NY Downtown scene....

Poetry With Tracey Schmidt: An Asheville Wordfest Event

Tuesday, April 18, 7:30 p.m. {56 Broadway}Join us for an evening of poetry with Tracey Schmidt to kick off Asheville Wordfest (find a full schedule of performances at avlwordfest.com)! Schmidt will read her own work, as well as the work of Rumi and Hafiz, with...

Conversation: Zola Marcus

Saturday, January 14, 2:00 p.m. {56 Broadway} Join us for a discussion between Dr. Eva Bares, Lecturer of Art History at UNC Asheville, Julie Feinsilver, niece of painter Zola Marcus, and Garry L. Hagberg, James H. Ottaway Professor of Philosophy and Aesthetics, Bard...

{Re}Happening 2017 Call for Artists

CALL FOR ARTISTS Letter of Intent is due on December 21, 2016 Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center announces an opportunity for artists to participate in the 2017 {Re}HAPPENING on Saturday March 25 between 3pm-10pm at Camp Rockmont in Black Mountain, NC. We...

FBI Investigations at BMC

At the height of mid-20th Century communist paranoia, the FBI conducted a secret investigation into BMC.

The Elegant Mystery of Pinhole Photography

Saturday, April 8, 9:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. {69 Broadway} Presented in collaboration with The Asheville Darkroom and taught by Bridget Conn, former director of The Asheville Darkroom, this hands-on workshop will introduce participants to the lo-tech beauty of...

Ronald R. Janssen Library + Study Center Opens at BMCM+AC

We are thrilled to announce the opening of the Ronald R. Janssen Library + Study Center in the Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center (BMCM+AC) gallery at 69 Broadway St. in downtown Asheville, NC. Ron Janssen is Professor Emeritus at Hofstra University in New York, where he taught English for more than thirty years and served as the founding chair of the Department of Writing Studies. Read more…

Begin To See: The Photographers of Black Mountain College

January 20 – May 20, 2017 {69 Broadway} 

Curated by Julie J. Thomson

While thousands of photographs were taken at Black Mountain College there has not been a detailed examination of photography at the College. This exhibition will be the first in-depth exhibition and catalog devoted to this topic.

Film Screening

Thursday, April 6, 7:00 p.m. {69 Broadway} This evening of short films celebrates three well-known photographers who taught at BMC (Harry Callahan, Barbara Morgan, and Aaron Siskind) and one who visited (Rudy Burckhardt). The films and the photographers will be...

PERFORMANCE: 7th Annual {Re}Happening

Saturday, March 25, 3:00 – 10:00 p.m. {Lake Eden Campus} This annual, interdisciplinary performance event returns in 2017, at the Lake Eden campus of Black Mountain College. Join dozens of local artists alongside Chicago’s Third Coast Percussion and New York-based...