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...

Exhibiting Ray

GUEST LECTURE by Dr. Frances Beatty for the exhibition From BMC to NYC: The Tutelary Years of Ray Johnson (1943-1967) Friday, May 21, 7:00 p.m. $7 / $5 BMCM+AC members + students w/ID Dr. Frances F. L. Beatty, Ph.D., Columbia University, Vice President of Richard L....

Women of Black Mountain College Film Screenings

3 documentary films in 1 evening at the Fine Arts Theatre Thursday, June 11, 7:00 p.m. M.C. Richards: The Fire Within by Richard Kane + Melody Lewis-Kane Ruth Asawa: Of Forms and Growth by Robert Snyder Josef and Anni Albers: Art is Everywhere by Sedat Pakay Fine Arts...

HAPPENING

Kicking-Off Saturday Nights at Black Mountain College September 26, 8:00-12:00PM $7 for students + BMCM+AC members; $10 for everyone elsePhil Mechanic Building, 109 Roberts Street, River Arts District A dance party explosion and fundraiser for the Black Mountain...

Stan Vanderbeek: Avant-garde Filmmaker + Teacher

Thursday, December 3, 7:30 pm Johanna Vanderbeek will present and discuss the underappreciated films of her late husband Stan. Combining animation, painting and collage with a Dadaist sensibility, Vanderbeek made films in the 1950s and 60s that were beautifully...

Double Blind (Love)

Telepresence performance Annie Abrahams. Living Room, Montpellier, France. Sunday November 29, from 6PM until the end of the performance (Living Room will remain open until 23:30PM). Curt Cloninger. Black Mountain College Museum and Arts Center, Asheville, North...

Poet/Activist Andrea Gibson

Yellowbird – CD Release Tour Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center Friday, January 29th, 8:00 p.m. 56 Broadway, Downtown Asheville Admission: $10 Andrea Gibson (http://www.andreagibson.org) is not gentle with her truths. It is this raw fearlessness that...

Asheville Fringe Arts Festival – Fringe Audio

Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center 56 Broadway, Downtown Asheville Friday and Saturday, January 22 and 23, 2010 – 8:00 pm $10 for BMCM+AC members, seniors and students w/ID / $12 for all others Free with Fringe Freak all-access Pass The Asheville Fringe...