Conversation: Zola Marcus
Saturday, January 14, 2:00 p.m. {56 Broadway} Join us for a discussion between Dr. Eva Bares, Lecturer of Art History at UNC Asheville, Julie Feinsilver, niece of painter Zola Marcus, and Garry L. Hagberg, James H. Ottaway Professor of Philosophy and Aesthetics, Bard...The Elegant Mystery of Pinhole Photography
Saturday, April 8, 9:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. {69 Broadway} Presented in collaboration with The Asheville Darkroom and taught by Bridget Conn, former director of The Asheville Darkroom, this hands-on workshop will introduce participants to the lo-tech beauty of...Film Screening
Thursday, April 6, 7:00 p.m. {69 Broadway} This evening of short films celebrates three well-known photographers who taught at BMC (Harry Callahan, Barbara Morgan, and Aaron Siskind) and one who visited (Rudy Burckhardt). The films and the photographers will be...PERFORMANCE: 7th Annual {Re}Happening
Saturday, March 25, 3:00 – 10:00 p.m. {Lake Eden Campus} This annual, interdisciplinary performance event returns in 2017, at the Lake Eden campus of Black Mountain College. Join dozens of local artists alongside Chicago’s Third Coast Percussion and New York-based...Odyssey High School Coffee Night!
Friday, December 9th – 6:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.{56 Broadway} Come join us for an open mic night with hot drinks and...Poetry Reading: MadHat’s Poetry, Prose & Anything Goes
Friday, November 4 – 7:30 p.m. {69 Broadway}
MadHat’s Poetry, Prose, & Anything Goes With poets Nathaniel Mackey and Lee Ann Brown.
Performance: Kimathi Moore and Carmelo Pampillonio
Saturday, November 12 – 7:00 p.m. {69 Broadway} Experimental compositions of Kimathi Moore and Carmelo Pampillonio New Work by: + Electronic composer Kimathi Moore devised lush acoustic environments with an ascetic and immersive palette. These delicately crafted...Roundtable Discussion: The Making of An Installation
Friday, October 28 – 7:00 p.m. {69 Broadway} The Making of An Installation: A Roundtable Discussion A panel of artists, educators, and curators discussed Leigh Ann Pahapill’s installation The Interaction of Color | The Dematerialization of Form on view at the...Performance: Tashi Dorji + Tyler Damon
Sunday, October 30 – 7:00 p.m. {56 Broadway} Suggested Donation $5 – $10 Tashi Dorji (electric guitar) & Tyler Damon (drums/percussion) have come together from a place of mutual admiration. Though the pair has scarcely spoken of a musical intention,...MadHat’s Poetry: New Voices
Friday, September 16th – 7:30 pm {56 Broadway}
$5 for BMCM+AC members + students with IDs / $8 general admission
Performance: Happenchance, An Exploration into Unknown Interiors
Saturday, December 3 – 7:30 p.m. {69 Broadway}
Choreographer Kathy Meyers Leiner + guest artists Sara Baird, Lindsey Kelley Brewer and Jenni Cockrell performed a work in progress that drew inspiration from the original Black Mountain College Happenings and explores the known and unknown interiors of person, place and thing.
Presentation: Susan S. Szenasy’s Ideas Without Walls / In-between the Spaces: Making Things in the Digital Age
Friday, October 28 – 12 p.m. {69 Broadway}
Susan S. Szenasy, Publisher and Editor in Chief at Metropolis Magazine, responds to questions about the tension between local and global, the resurgence of urban manufacturing, and how the new generation of designers fits into the growing culture of making.
Film Screening: The Painters of Black Mountain College
Thursday, December 8 – 7:00 p.m. {69 Broadway}
Please join us for an evening short films about Black Mountain College painters.
The Painters of Black Mountain College: Selections from Southern Collections Opening Reception
Friday, September 23rd – 7:00 – 9:00PM {69 Broadway}
Presentation: Ferment + Complications at BMC – Mary Emma Harris
Wednesday, November 16th – 7:00 p.m. {56 Broadway}
The final few years of BMC’s existence were full of new priorities and challenges. The creative ferment of the 1940s continued, but the leadership vacuum in the wake of the departures of Josef and Anni Albers, Ted Dreier, and others opened the door for Charles Olson to step in.
Workshop on Process
Sunday, September 4th – 10 AM – Noon {56 Broadway}
Black Mountain College alumni Basil and Martha King are both writers with an extensive publishing history who lead the workshop on Reading, Writing, and Editing.
Film Screening + Poetry Reading
Thursday, September 1st – 7:00 PM {56 Broadway}
Basil King: Mirage is a 2012 documentary (22 min) about BMC alumnus, painter, and writer Basil King by Nicole Peyrafitte and Miles Joris-Peyrafitte. The film depicted the intimacy between writing and painting in King’s work. This short film was followed by a poetry reading by Basil King.
BATTLE TRANCE – BLADE OF LOVE
September 9, 2016 | BMCM+AC {69 Broadway} – New York-based tenor saxophone quartet Battle Trance performed a benefit concert at the Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center, touring their sophomore album Blade of Love (New Amsterdam Records).
The follow-up to their widely acclaimed debut Palace of Wind (2014), Blade of Love is an elemental composition that aims to fulfill the tenor saxophone’s expansive potential as an ensemble instrument. Working within the intimate intersection of the human body/breath and the saxophone, Blade of Love is a spiritual and enigmatic work with a deep emotional resonance.
Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center Inaugurates New Gallery Space with Exhibition of Work by Randy Shull
Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center (BMCM+AC), in Asheville, NC, presents an inaugural exhibition celebrating the completion of a three-year, two-phase renovation and expansion project led by artist and designer Randy Shull and J. Richard Gruber, PhD, director of the newly launched Architecture + Design Institute (A+D@BMCM+AC).
Organized by Gruber, Randy Shull/Wide Open: Architecture and Design at Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center examines the enduring legacy of Black Mountain College (BMC, 1933‒57) through the lens of its architecture and design program and the influential innovators who taught there while contextualizing Shull’s design and construction process directly inspired by them. The exhibition is on view July 1‒September 3, 2016, and is accompanied by a publication.
