CURATOR TALK: JADE DELLINGER

CURATOR TALK: JADE DELLINGER Jade Dellinger, Curator of “Don’t Blame it on ZEN: The Way of John Cage & Friends” Thursday, January 13th, 2022 at 7PM Zoom | Registration Required | Suggested Donation REGISTER TO JOIN DONATE TO BMCM+AC “He...

PERSPECTIVES: JADE DELLINGER

December 15, 2021 at 1 PM | Live on Zoom – Jade Dellinger is Director of the Bob Rauschenberg Gallery at FSW and curator of our current exhibition Don’t Blame It on ZEN: The Way of John Cage & Friends. He has served for eight years now as Director of Exhibitions & Collections at Florida SouthWestern State College.

BROADCAST: BMC RADIO ARTIST MICHAEL HATCH

December 13, 2021 | 103.3 Asheville FM – BMC Radio Artists’ work will be featured in various programs on Asheville FM with an exclusive interview kicking off their featured month. At the completion of the broadcasts, a culminating listening session will be held at Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center to celebrate the work of the five radio artists: Mike Holmes (Nostalgianoid), Thom Nguyen, Cilla Vee, Zazie Productions, and Michael Hatch. Presented in collaboration with Asheville FM and Make Noise.

BROADCAST: BMC RADIO ARTIST CILLA VEE

December 6, 2021 | 103.3 Asheville FM – BMC Radio Artists’ work will be featured in various programs on Asheville FM with an exclusive interview kicking off their featured month. At the completion of the broadcasts, a culminating listening session will be held at Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center to celebrate the work of the five radio artists: Mike Holmes (Nostalgianoid), Thom Nguyen, Cilla Vee, Zazie Productions, and Michael Hatch. Presented in collaboration with Asheville FM and Make Noise.

BROADCAST: BMC RADIO ARTIST ZAZIE PRODUCTIONS

December 17, 2021 | 103.3 Asheville FM – BMC Radio Artists’ work will be featured in various programs on Asheville FM with an exclusive interview kicking off their featured month. At the completion of the broadcasts, a culminating listening session will be held at Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center to celebrate the work of the five radio artists: Mike Holmes (Nostalgianoid), Thom Nguyen, Cilla Vee, Zazie Productions, and Michael Hatch. Presented in collaboration with Asheville FM and Make Noise.

BROADCAST: BMC RADIO ARTIST THOM NGUYEN

November 19, 2021 | 103.3 Asheville FM – BMC Radio Artists’ work will be featured in various programs on Asheville FM with an exclusive interview kicking off their featured month. At the completion of the broadcasts, a culminating listening session will be held at Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center to celebrate the work of the five radio artists: Mike Holmes (Nostalgianoid), Thom Nguyen, Cilla Vee, Zazie Productions, and Michael Hatch. Presented in collaboration with Asheville FM and Make Noise.

CARL BOLLEIA + THOMAS MOORE – WORKS OF JOHN CAGE

November 13, 2021 | BMCM+AC {120 College Street} – Presented in conjunction with the 12th annual ReVIEWING conference. Two performances present the wide-ranging works of John Cage: Carl Patrick Bolleia, John Cage Piano/Toy Piano Retrospective: Black Mountain Keyboard | Thomas Moore, solo piano works by John Cage, with a focus on compositions written around 1952 and 1953.

JACK QUARTET – WAVES AND PARTICLES, JOHN LUTHER ADAMS

Commission | November 12th, 2021 | BMCM+AC {120 College Street} + Streaming | The world premiere of John Luther Adams’ new composition “Waves and Particles,” performed by JACK Quartet. Presented on the opening night of the 12th annual ReVIEWING Black Mountain College Conference (November 12 – 14, 2021) and co-commissioned as part of the inaugural Faith in Arts Institute, a partnership between BMCM+AC and UNC Asheville.

TALK: DISPLAYING THE DHARMA, BUDDHIST “ART” AND THE MODERN MUSEUM

October 16, 2021 | BMCM+AC {120 College Street} + Zoom – Presented as part of the Faith in Arts Institute. This talk by Pamela D. Winfield examined the tensions and tactics involved in exhibiting Buddhist visual culture in modern museum spaces. It first critically examined the ideological divide between sacred and secular that reduced powerful Buddhist icons into aesthetic objects within 19th century Euro-American collections of Asian “art.” If the 19th century transferred the temple out to the museum, then the 20th century transferred the museum back into the temple grounds. The result is that both American and Japanese museums need to be understood as hybrid spaces, where the supposed boundaries between sacred and secular are porous and continually negotiated by diverse audiences.

FILM SCREENING: A KADDISH FOR BERNIE MADDOF

October 16, 2021 | BMCM+AC {120 College Street} – Presented as part of the Faith in Arts Institute. A hybrid of musical memoir and narrative fantasy, “A Kaddish For Bernie Madoff” tells the story of Madoff and the system that allowed him to function for decades through the eyes of musician/poet Alicia Jo Rabins, who watches the financial crash from her 9th-floor studio in an abandoned office building on Wall Street.

KAY LARSON: JOHN CAGE’S LECTURE ON NOTHING

October 16, 2021 | BMCM+AC {120 College Street} + Zoom – Presented as part of the Faith in Arts Institute. Published in 1961, in John Cage’s first book Silence, “Lecture on Nothing” has much to say to creative artists. In this presentation, Kay Larsen expounds on the lasting impact of this lecture on the landscape of art and performance. In all his work, Cage sought to “get himself out of the way” so that vivid encounters with the world could “make their own art.” These methods are still useful and timely.

PERFORMANCE: THOMAS MOORE – THE MUSIC OF JOHN CAGE

October 16, 2021 | BMCM+AC {120 College Street} – Presented as part of the Faith in Arts Institute. Thomas Moore’s performance of solo piano works by John Cage featured compositions from the 1950s through the 1990s, including the often discussed but infrequently performed 4’33” — Cage’s “silent” piece of 1952 — as well as Water Music (1952), selections from the Etudes Australes (1974–75), and One5 (1990).

VIDEO + CONVERSATION: KIMBERLY BARTOSIK + CHRISTOPHER-RASHEEM MCMILLAN

October 15, 2021 | UNC Asheville + Zoom | Presented as part of the Faith in Arts Institute. Guggenheim Fellow and Bessie Award recipient Kimberly Bartosik guides us through clips and discusses the process around the creation of I hunger for you, her choreographic work focusing on the need for faith and the collective desire for transformation. Following the screening and discussion, Dance Scholar/Choreographer Christopher Rasheem Macmillan joined Kimberly in a rich conversation around their shared passion for questioning, through artistic practice, embodied pathways towards faith within a critical and compassionate understanding of our contemporary moment.

FILM SCREENING: TESTIFY, BEYOND PLACE

October 14, 2021 | BMCM+AC {120 College Street} – Presented as part of the Faith in Arts Institute. Film screening and talk with Director Marie Cochran. “Testify, Beyond Place” pays homage to the Mount Zion African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church as well as its relationship to Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC. The year the film was produced in 2021, marked the 85th anniversary of the church demolition and gravesite removal to make way for the expansion of the campus.

FILM SCREENING: THEIRS IS THE KINGDOM: A DOCUMENTARY ABOUT POVERTY AND PORTRAITURE

October 14, 2021 | Haywood Street Congregation – Presented as part of the Faith in Arts Institute. At the intersection of poverty and portraiture, Theirs is the Kingdom follows the rare creation of a contemporary fresco mural inside the sanctuary of a small church in Asheville, NC. This is a painting not of the rich and powerful, but of people battling homelessness, addiction, and mental illness. From first sketch to final unveiling, the viewer witnesses the difficulties of this ancient artistic technique while also meeting an ensemble cast of complex characters.