Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center announces an opportunity for artists to participate in the 2026 {Re}HAPPENING on Saturday, April 25th at Camp Rockmont in Black Mountain, NC, the former Lake Eden campus of Black Mountain College.
Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center announces an opportunity for artists to participate in the 2025 {Re}HAPPENING on Saturday, May 3rd at Camp Rockmont in Black Mountain, NC, the former Lake Eden campus of Black Mountain College.
Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center announces an opportunity for artists to participate in the 2024 {Re}HAPPENING on Saturday, April 20 at Camp Rockmont in Black Mountain, NC, the former Lake Eden campus of Black Mountain College.
In this guest blog post by Olivia Crosbie, summer 2023 intern, we are featuring Ruth Asawa as one BMC student profoundly influenced by her travels to Mexico. Read more to learn about Asawa’s sculpture and its technical roots in Mexican craft.
BMCM+AC has been awarded $50,000 as a Core Grant recipient from the The Ruth Foundation for the Arts! This month, The Ruth Foundation announced 140 arts organizations have been recognized by two new grants inspired by how artists live, make, and are remembered.
Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center announces an opportunity for artists to participate in the 2023 {Re}HAPPENING on Saturday, April 8 at Camp Rockmont in Black Mountain, NC, the former Lake Eden campus of Black Mountain College.
BMCM+AC is happy to announce our Winter Membership Raffle sponsored by East Fork Pottery. Any qualifying membership purchased through December 18th at 5:00 PM is eligible to win a five piece dinner set in the “Black Mountain” glaze.
Journal of Black Mountain College Studies Volume 14 invites abstract submissions for a special topics issue on the history and legacy of Queer life at Black Mountain College | Abstracts due November 30, 2022
We are delighted to announce the selected artists for our 2022 BMC Radio Art program! This second cohort of BMC Radio Artists will create new works to be broadcast on the radio. We are proud to present these projects that reflect the experimental and innovative spirit of Black Mountain College. Stay tuned for broadcast dates and an upcoming listening party!
BMCM+AC has been awarded $60,000 from the The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts to support the creation and presentation of work centered on social justice and sustained community engagement with artists who are passionate about the history and legacy of Black Mountain College.
Patsy Lynch Wood celebrates her 99th birthday on June 13, 2022. This occasion marks another milestone: it was exactly 80 years ago this month that she made her way to Black Mountain College’s Lake Eden campus (at the age of nineteen) to attend the 1942 summer session, making her the sole living BMC alum to attend the college during the war years.
Various Dates Feb – May 2026 | Lake Eden
Jonathan Williams was a master of translating sound onto the page. In many of his poems, he inspires the question, “What do the sounds of a place look like?”
103.3 Asheville FM, Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center, and Make Noise announce an opportunity for artists living in Western North Carolina (WNC) to create new short works for broadcast on the radio. We invite artists in WNC to propose projects that reflect the experimental and innovative spirit of Black Mountain College. Artists are encouraged to take risks. Projects should be between 3-5 minutes long and no more than 12 months old. New work is strongly encouraged. The work does not have to be music. Projects can include any sound recording, cellphone recording, field recording, meditation, movement score, text score, sound collage, spoken word, audio art, experimental DJ work, etc.. The LOI deadline is July 20, 2022.
103.3 Asheville FM, Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center, and Make Noise announce an opportunity for artists living in Western North Carolina (WNC) to create new short works for broadcast on the radio. We invite artists in WNC to propose projects that reflect the experimental and innovative spirit of Black Mountain College. Artists are encouraged to take risks. Projects should be between 3-5 minutes long and no more than 12 months old. New work is strongly encouraged. The work does not have to be music. Projects can include any sound recording, cellphone recording, field recording, meditation, movement score, text score, sound collage, spoken word, audio art, experimental DJ work, etc.. The LOI deadline is June 21, 2021.
Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center has been awarded $50,000 from the National Endowment for the Humanities to develop a pilot project creating online access to the museum’s Permanent Collection of over 4,000 artworks and ephemera from the famed liberal arts college and experimental community.
Our world, just as yours, has changed dramatically in the last year. We have been forced to adapt and have taken the opportunity to look at our mission with new eyes. This has been a year where business as usual gave way to the unexpected, where we were called to be flexible while still holding steadfast in our commitment to the BMC legacy and our extended community.
