Presentation + Discussion//Making and Meaning: Photobooks and the Social Fabric//4.2.16
Saturday, April 2, 10:00 – 11:30 am Black Mountain College Museum + Arts CenterIn conjunction with photo+craft, internationally recognized artists Clarissa Sligh and Alejandro Cartagena show and talk about their work with...Presentation + Discussion//Building a Collection: A Conversation with David Raymond, Hedy Fischer and Randy Shull//4.3.16
Sunday, April 3, 11:00-12:30 pmBlack Mountain College Museum + Arts Center As part of photo+craft, these prominent collectors – David Raymond, Hedy Fischer and Randy Shull – discuss how they identified, formed and developed their passion for contemporary...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...An Inevitability: Ray Spillenger, Abstract Expressionism + a snowy weekend opening
Ray Spillenger: Rediscovery of a Black Mountain Painter celebrates the work of a relatively unknown Abstract Expressinist painter, Ray Spillengert. Now, unearthed from his 10th Street apartment, cleaned and framed on the wall of our gallery at 56 Broadway, Ray Spillenger’s paintings are finally shining.
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.”
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Thematic Focus the Summer Art Institutes
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Thematic Focus on the Bauhaus + USA
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Featuring keynote speaker Helen Molesworth
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.
DOUBLETAKE: A Look Back at the 2014 {Re}HAPPENING
Thursday, August 21 at 7:30pm Black Mountain College56 Broadway in downtown Asheville.Admission is free, though donations are welcome. All donations from this evening’s event will go to support the 2015 {Re}HAPPENING.The Black Mountain College Museum + Arts...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...
