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...

How to Draw a Bunny

by John Walter and Andrew Moore The Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center and the Fine Arts Theatre present the award-winning documentary How to Draw a Bunny as part of the exhibition From BMC to NYC: The Tutelary Years of Ray Johnson (1943-1967) Thursday, April...

The Poetry Bomb – Tour of Words 2010

  May 23, 3:00 p.m. This is a free event, donations appreciated.   "I'm taking one of the most iconic images of destruction of the 20th century and turning it into something positive." S.A. Griffin The Poetry Bomb is a former Vietnam era...

Write Soon Goon

  CLOSING NIGHT POETRY READING & PERFORMANCE for From BMC to NYC: The Tutelary Years of Ray Johnson (1943-1967) Saturday, June 12, 7:00 p.m. $7 / $5 BMCM+AC members + students w/ID {mosimage} In celebration of the recent four-month run of the Ray Johnson...

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

Episode 2 Thursday, January 13th, 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...

M.C. Richards: The Fire Within

Film Screening: M.C. Richards:  The Fire Within Thursday, April 29th 7:00pm Fine Arts Theatre, 36 Biltmore Ave.  $12 per person, advance tickets available   Followed by a Celebration of M.C. Richards' Life and Work at  56 Broadway, home of the...

Art Without the Isms

  An evening lecture/dialogue with Suzi Gablik, the acclaimed author, environmental theorist, social activist and Black Mountain College alumna. Thursday, November 13, 7:30 p.m. Co-sponsored by the UNC Asheville Humanities Program UNCA Humanities Lecture Hall...

An Uneasy Relationship:

  The Leach School, Black Mountain, and Traditional North Carolina Pottery Broadway Arts Building, 49 Broadway in downtown Asheville. Admission: $18 / $15 students w/ID 6:00 p.m., Silent Auction (to benefit BMCM+AC), Live Music with Bandana Klezmer Band, Buffet,...

What the (bleep) is Performance Art???

  A variety show with local performance artists Julie Becton Gillum, John Crutchfield, Jim Julien, Claire Elizabeth Barratt, Elisa Faires, Alexander Jacobs, Julia DeVita, Qi Shen & Natalie Arosemema-Achi Admission: $5, $3 BMCM+AC members/students w/ID...

Freedom of Information 2008

Artists across the nation performFreedom of Information 2008: a performance /protest/ritual in response to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq December 31, 2008 Asheville, NC and throughout the country In response to the continuing U.S. led wars in Afghanistan and Iraq,...

Black Mountain Days / Reading and Discussion

Reading: Michael Rumaker, alumnus of Black Mountain College and author of the new memoir Black Mountain Days, will read from and discuss his book on five occasions in October. All events are free and open to the public.     Mon., Oct. 20th, 7:00p.m. at The...

Mind Vs. Target

  Saturday, September 6, 9:00 p.m. Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center 56 Broadway, downtown Asheville Admission: $5 for BMCM+AC members + students with ID/ $7 non-members Praise for Mind Vs. Target The (group) is compact but powerful, displaying an...