{Re}HAPPENING Archive

{Re}HAPPENING Archive In 2009, Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center board member Jolene Mechanic developed a fundraising idea that grew into the {Re}HAPPENING, a dinner and performance event inspired by John Cage’s 1952 Theatre Piece No. 1, considered by many...

Volume 17 Contributor Bios

Volume 17 Contributor Bios Time Cycles (Fall 2026) Meredith Bove is a dancer and dramaturg based in western Massachusetts. Her practices move between and across performance, writing, dance, and audio. Through each of these mediums, she is devoted to engaging the...

Volume 16 Contributor Bios

Volume 16 Contributor Bios Living with the Land (Fall 2025) Meredith Ahmed is an artist, researcher, and emerging archivist whose work bridges storytelling, material culture, and collective memory. Rooted in archival practices and community histories, they explore how...

Volume 15 Contributor Bios

Volume 15 Contributor Bios RE/WEAVING (Fall 2024) Joseph Bathanti is the former North Carolina Poet Laureate (2012-14) and recipient of the North Carolina Award in Literature, the state’s highest civilian honor. The author of over twenty books, Bathanti is McFarlane...

Volume 14 Contributor Bios

Volume 14 Contributor Bios Queer Life at Black Mountain College (Fall 2023) Kyle Canter is a master’s student at Hunter College, where he is finishing his thesis on photography at Black Mountain College. He currently lives in Brooklyn, NY. Stella Douglass...