Panel – Mid-Century Modern: Design for Democracy

Wednesday, August 3 – 7:30 p.m. {69 Broadway}
Moderated by curator, lecturer, and essayist Andrew Glasgow.
Participants include: Charlton Bradsher, of Charlton Bradsher Art + Design; Tamara Reid, Textiles Manager at Knoll Textiles; and Troy Winterrowd…

M.C. Richards Centennial Birthday Party

Sunday, July 10 – 1:00-4:00 p.m. @ Lake Eden Campus Help celebrate M.C. Richards’ 100th birthday at the historic barns of Black Mountain College. Activities include pottery, poetry, refreshments, and the planting of a tree in honor of M.C. Richards. Free, but...

What is Modernism for our Mountains?

Thursday, June 16 – 5:45 p.m. @ BMCM+ACPresented by: Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center, AIA Asheville, and Modern AshevilleA community conversation between local architects on: What is Modernism at large and how did it first make itself known in Asheville?...

Tribute to M.C. Poetry Reading

Friday, July 8 – 7:30 p.m. Poets Paulus Berensohn and Julia Connor honor their friend and mentor M.C. Richards.  $5 for BMCM+AC members + students with ID // $8 for non-members Continue to M.C. Richards Exhibition Website...

Roundtable Panel

Thursday, July 7 – 7:00 p.m.M.C. Richards’ influential work affected the course of the visual and performing arts and education. In this panel, we will hear from people who knew her both personally and professionally as they consider her life and legacy....

Carl Sandburg and the American South

Poetry Reading – Saturday May 7, 8:00 pm$5 for BMCM+AC members // $8 for non-membersOrganized by poet and educator Eric Steineger and co-sponsored by the Carl Sandburg Home and Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center, this evening of poetry is themed around...

Frame + Form | Screen Dance Festival

Friday, February 24, 2017 – Screening, 7:00 p.m. {69 Broadway}Saturday, February 25, 2017 – Workshop, 1:00 – 5:00 p.m. {69 Broadway} Presented in collaboration with The Media Arts Project, this two-day festival and workshop features dance created...

Bidding Convergence/Divergence Farewell + Welcoming Ray Spillenger

In the aptly named “Form and Function” section of Modern Magazine’s Winter 2016 issue, Margot Ammidown remarked that “of all the institutions with a Bauhaus legacy, Black Mountain retains the image of a creative arcadia that produced many of the great artists of the mid-twentieth century.”

Black Mountain College Studies: Call for Papers

Call for Papers: Black Mountain College Studies special volume on Hilda Morley (online peer-reviewed journal; deadline 8/15/2015). Blake Hobby, Executive Editor; Chris Wilson Simpkins, Guest Editor.
Slated for publication in late fall of 2015, this volume of BMCS will contain scholarly essays, poems, artworks, and other forms of media that explore Hilda Morley’s relationship to Black Mountain College.

Grand {Re}OPENING : Phase 1 of our 3-year Expansion Plan

Our {Re}OPENING marks the completion of Phase 1 of our Windgate Charitable Foundation-funded expansion project. Our space has been redesigned and renovated by internationally-known artist and designer Randy Shull.
Shull has sculpted a more accessible museum, library, and study center with multiple ways to access the history and legacy of BMC, a more efficient workspace, and an immersive gallery that takes its aesthetic inspiration and orientation from Black Mountain College.

Last day of Dan Rice Exhibition

Today is the last day to view Dan Rice at Black Mountain College: Painter Among the Poets. The show is closing down early in preparation for the museum opening up at the end of January with a redesigned space and new exhibition Poemumbles – 30 years of Susan Weil’s poem/images.