Poetry + Music
Sunday, August 17, 2014 – 3:00 pm$10 in advance/ $12 at the doorTracey Schmidt recites poetry by memory to music, in the tradition of the middle eastern poets. She has performed and taught internationally, and most recently performed in Ireland, where she...MoMA Video of Dorothea Rockburne
Great MoMA video of Dorothea Rockburne, whose work, “Shadowed Perimeter” is featured in our current show. This exhibition also features a 2002 oral history interview with Rockburne! Link – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AN2DJxMLFOwThe Conference 2014 Deadline Approaches
June 30th is the deadline for proposals to present/perform at our annual conference ReVIEWING Black Mountain College scheduled for September 26-28, 2014 here in beautiful Asheville, NC. The theme is “The Writers of Black Mountain College” but any topics...Music Performance – Solo Cello with JARI PIPER
On Wednesday, June 25th at 7:30pm the Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center in downtown Asheville will present a solo recital of contemporary music for the cello with Jari Piper performing work by living composers. He will share stories and background...Presentation – Reflections on 9/11
Wednesday, June 18, 2014 – 7:30 pm Grace G. Campbell, Lecturer-UNCA Humanities Program $5 / Free for BMCM+AC members + students w/ID. This presentation considers how the 9/11 attacks have been represented and re-interpreted in the West. The world’s...MadHat’s Poetry, Prose & Anything Goes
Friday, June 20, 2014 8:00 pm Poetry Reading Featuring: Tina Barr, Matthew Olzmann, Melissa Crowe and Pasckie Pascua $8 / $5 for BMCM+AC members & students w/IDReVIEWING Black Mountain College 6
h2>Call for papers and proposals. All disciplines invited. September 26-28, 2014 Asheville, North Carolina Thematic Focus: The Writers of Black Mountain College Hosted and sponsored by Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center and the University of North Carolina...MadHat’s Poetry, Prose & Anything Goes: Spring Fever Celebration
Friday March 21, 2014 at 7:00pm Admission is $8 / $5 for BMCM+AC members & students w/ID. Dorianne Laux, Joseph Millar, Caleb Beissert, Vievee Francis, Matt Olzmann, Landon Godfrey, Barbie Angell, Jadwiga McKay, Lockie Hunter, Jeff Davis and a few other...Film Screening
Thursday, March 6, 2014 7:30 pm Merce Cunningham Dance Company: Robert Rauschenberg Collaborations. Three dances documented by filmmaker Charles Atlas (Suite for Five, Summerspace & Interscape) illuminate the fruitful collaborations between Merce Cunningham,...The 5th Annual {Re} Happening
April 5th, 2014 The {Re}HAPPENING honors the dynamic artistic energy of Black Mountain College and pays tribute to the groundbreaking innovations of that community of artists. Meanwhile, the event launches a contemporary platform for artists and patrons to experience...Bucky’s Dymaxion Deployment Units
In the 1940s, R. Buckminster Fuller converted grain bins into emergency housing. For a long time it seemed they had disappeared from the earth, but at least a dozen have survived in New Jersey. A very interesting article from the New York Times. Click Here...Bauhaus in America – Film Screening
Last night we had an event at the museum, a screening of the prize-winning film Bauhaus in America (1995), directed by Judith Pearlman. We just about had a full house, so we’re very thankful for everyone who came out on a rainy night for the film and the...New Mural Celebration
This Friday Nov. 8th, join us at 5 Walnut Wine Bar in downtown Asheville from 5-7pm to celebrate a new work by Jimmy O’Neal commissioned by 5 Walnut for the Carolina Lane alley wall. Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center worked with 5 Walnut Wine Bar to...Tour of BMC Campus
ReViewing Black Mountain College 5: Shaping Craft + Design was a great success last weekend! Thank you to everyone who made the conference possible! We had a wonderful time Sunday, October 13. We met at the museum in the morning for a wonderful brunch with coffee and...Welcome to Busytown: Or, What Ever Happened to Graphic Design?
Join us Friday, October 25 at noon for a public lecture at the museum, “Welcome to Busytown: Or, What Ever Happened to Graphic Design?” by Ellen Lupton on the current state of graphic design. The lecture is $7 for the general public and free to museum...Book Launch and Reading – Far from the Centers of Ambition
One of the many events taking place during our upcoming ReVIEWING BMC 5 conference weekend (Oct. 11-13) is a book launch of a two-volume set published by Lorimer Press and funded by Lenoir-Rhyne University. Far from the Centers of Ambition grew out of Lenoir-Rhyne...Asheville Newcomers Club at BMCM+AC
Today we received a morning visit from the Asheville Newcomers Club! Club members new to Asheville and those just looking to learn more about their hometown took in a short documentary about the history and philosophy of Black Mountain College. Afterwards, Program...The 2014 {Re}HAPPENING Artist Call
Applications available now through November 1, 2013 The call is now open for project proposals for the 2014 {Re}HAPPENING. Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center and The Media Arts Project hope that you’ll join us again this year to share art and...In Process: Shaping Craft + Design
This week we’re busy laying out our new show, Black Mountain College: Shaping Craft + Design. It has been so exciting to see the pieces come out of boxes, out of storage. Among many many other things (furniture, ceramics, textiles, paintings, prints,...
