Lake Eden

a MountainsPlain document premiering March 16, 2012 from 7:30-9:00 $5-15 suggested donation Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center 56 Broadway Street, Asheville, NC 28801 (828) 350-8484 featuring: Amelia Burns, Megan Ransmeier, Julia Taylor, and Mariana Templin...

“{Pre}HAPPENING’s 2012”

Two preview events for the upcoming {Re}HAPPENING on April 7th Media Arts Project and Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center Celebrate Innovation & Collaboration in the Arts The Media Arts Project (MAP) and the Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center...

Eleanor Heartney Presentation

Out of the Shadows: the Changing Place of Women Artists in Our Times Award-winning Arts Writer Eleanor Heartney to Speak in Cullowhee and Asheville about Contemporary Art and Women Artists Monday, March 5th (Cullowhee) and Tuesday, March 6th (Asheville) Eleanor...

Women in the Arts Movie Marathon!

Presented in collaboration with the City of Asheville Cultural Arts Division and Lark Books. Don’t miss our Women in the Arts Movie Marathon featuring some of the best films about women artists of our time. Kick things off Friday night at the BMC Museum + Arts...

Reading March 2012

An evening with writers Brenda Flanagan and Joseph Bathanti Friday, March 23, 7:30 p.m. $7 / $5 for BMCM+AC members + students w/ID Known internationally for her dramatic presentations of her stories and poems, Brenda Flanagan teaches Creative Writing, Caribbean and...

NEH Project

NEH Landmarks of American History and Culture one-week residence-based workshops for a national audience of community college educators Black Mountain College: An Artistic and Educational Legacy When: July 10-16, 2011 and July 17-23, 2011 
Where: Asheville, North...

Variations on the Long Note

  A musical performance Saturday, December 3, 2011 8:00 p.m. $7 / $5 for BMCM + AC members and students w/ID Limited seating The Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center in downtown Asheville is pleased to present Variations on the Long Note on Saturday, Dec....

John’s friend Lou

  A musical performance with Kate Steinbeck & Byron Hedgepeth Sunday, Nov. 6, 2011 – 3:00 pm $12 / $10 for BMC Museum + Arts Center members / Students FREE Limited seating The Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center in downtown Asheville is pleased...

Related Programing – John Cage: A Circle of Influences

  PERFORMANCE John's friend Lou Sunday, Nov. 6, 2011 – 3:00 pm John Cage recommended Lou Harrison to Black Mountain College to help his friend recover from the stress of living in NYC. The idyllic setting inspired Lou's interest in Asian music and...

JACK TWORKOV: The Accident of Choice – Opening

JACK TWORKOV: The Accident of Choice The Artist at Black Mountain College 1952 June 17 – September 17, 2011 Opening reception: Friday, June 17, 5:30 – 7:30 p.m. Free for BMCM+AC members and students w/ID / $3 non-members Special Lecture by Exhibition Curator...

The Great Smokies Writing Program: Summer 2011

The Community Writing Program of the University of North Carolina Asheville Getting the Muse Back into Gear: A Poetry Workshop Jeff Davis (Lang 371, 1 credit hour) Having one of those months when the Muse isn’t returning your phone calls? Let’s look at how...

Spring Reading

Friday, May 6, 2011, 8:00 pm This event is presented in conjunction with the exhibition In Site: Late Works by Irwin Kremen on view until June 4, 2011. The Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center in downtown Asheville is pleased to welcome North Carolina Poet...

Don’t Know We’ll See: The Work of Karen Karnes

Wednesday, April 6, 2011 7:00 pm   Don’t Know We’ll See: The Work of Karen Karnes A film by Lucy Massie Phenix   Director’s Statement In a sense, I have been making this film, Don’t Know We’ll See, over the course of the 40 years I have been a filmmaker,...

MadHat’s Poetry, Prose & Anything Goes: Episode III

Announcing Episode III of MadHat’s Poetry, Prose & Anything Goes Reading Series Lori Horvitz’s short stories, poetry, and personal essays have appeared in a variety of literary journals and anthologies including The Southeast Review, The Salt River Review, Hotel...

Writing About Art: A Panel Discussion

Writing About Art: A Panel Discussion Regional arts writers discuss art journalism on March 20th The Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center (BMCM+AC) welcomes five arts writers to talk about the state of the field and the issues of the day on Sunday, March 20th...

Anni Albers + Ruth Asawa: Two Lives in Art

Wednesday, April 1, 7:30 p.m. Anni Albers + Ruth Asawa: Two Lives in Art – Brenda Danilowitz, chief curator of The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation will speak about Anni Albers and Ruth Asawa, two artists with extraordinary lives as innovative artists and...

UNC Asheville Hosts Exhibit

Photos from the Historic Black Mountain College Reception on Thursday, April 15, 4:30 – 6:00 p.m. UNC Asheville’s Ramsey Library and Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center will host an exhibition of photographs from the historic Black Mountain College. The...

Collage Mind: A Collage Workshop

for Rising 8th graders thru Rising10th graders What happens when you take two things that seem unrelated—llke, say, visual art and writing, collage art and poetry, non-fiction and creativity, Black Mountain College Museum and Arts Center and the Thomas Wolfe Memorial...

On Time and Place

Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center Saturday July 31, 2010 8:00 p.m. Jason Scott Furr and Vincent Wrenn present a collaborative performance based and constructed on the time and location of the performance itself, utilizing emerging data streams as well as...

MadHat’s Poetry, Prose & Anything Goes

Saturday, November 20th, 7:00 – 9:00pm Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center 56 Broadway, downtown Asheville $7 / $5 BMCM+AC members + students w/ID The Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center (BMCM+AC) at 56 Broadway in downtown Asheville is pleased...