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.
An Inevitability: Ray Spillenger, Abstract Expressionism + a snowy weekend opening
Ray Spillenger: Rediscovery of a Black Mountain Painter celebrates the work of a relatively unknown Abstract Expressinist painter, Ray Spillengert. Now, unearthed from his 10th Street apartment, cleaned and framed on the wall of our gallery at 56 Broadway, Ray Spillenger’s paintings are finally shining.
Bidding Convergence/Divergence Farewell + Welcoming Ray Spillenger
In the aptly named “Form and Function” section of Modern Magazine’s Winter 2016 issue, Margot Ammidown remarked that “of all the institutions with a Bauhaus legacy, Black Mountain retains the image of a creative arcadia that produced many of the great artists of the mid-twentieth century.”
Presentation and Book Launch
Thursday, March 3, 7:00 p.m.
It’s been over sixty-five years since Jerrold Levy and Richard Negro composed, circulated, and performed Poems by Gerard Legro on the campus of Black Mountain College. Dr. Alessandro Porco will discuss the history of Poems by Gerard Legro and read a short selection from the book. Free Admission
Travel Scholarship Supports Asheville Artist’s Trip to Russia
The Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center (BMCM+AC) announces that Design Apprentice and Museum Intern Carley Brandau will travel to Moscow, Russia this summer to take part in the exhibition Costume at the Turn of the Century 1990-2015 at the A.A. Bakhrushin State Central Theatre Museum as part of BMCM+AC’s new Research Travel Grant program. Brandau’s BMCM+AC-administered travel scholarship is generously funded by a donation from Randy Shull and Hedy Fischer.
We have been selected as a Critic’s Pick by ARTFORUM.
Our current exhibition has been selected as a Critic’s Pick by ARTFORUM.
SOMETHING ELSE ENTIRELY: Ray Johnson, Dick Higgins and the making of THE PAPER SNAKE is on display until August 22, 2015. The exhibition features the production materials from The Paper Snake, as well as collages by Ray Johnson, many of which have never before been exhibited.
BMCM+AC in The New York Times
From the article:
“We try to have one foot in the past, honoring what happened at the college,” said Alice Sebrell, the museum’s program director, who runs the institution with a staff of two and a few interns. “But we also keep one foot very much in the present, looking to the future and what ideas artists are investigating today.”
Grand {Re}OPENING : Phase 1 of our 3-year Expansion Plan
Our {Re}OPENING marks the completion of Phase 1 of our Windgate Charitable Foundation-funded expansion project. Our space has been redesigned and renovated by internationally-known artist and designer Randy Shull.
Shull has sculpted a more accessible museum, library, and study center with multiple ways to access the history and legacy of BMC, a more efficient workspace, and an immersive gallery that takes its aesthetic inspiration and orientation from Black Mountain College.
Last day of Dan Rice Exhibition
Today is the last day to view Dan Rice at Black Mountain College: Painter Among the Poets. The show is closing down early in preparation for the museum opening up at the end of January with a redesigned space and new exhibition Poemumbles – 30 years of Susan Weil’s poem/images.
DOUBLETAKE: A Look Back at the 2014 {Re}HAPPENING
Thursday, August 21 at 7:30pm Black Mountain College56 Broadway in downtown Asheville.Admission is free, though donations are welcome. All donations from this evening’s event will go to support the 2015 {Re}HAPPENING.The Black Mountain College Museum + Arts...Poetry + Music
Sunday, August 17, 2014 – 3:00 pm$10 in advance/ $12 at the doorTracey Schmidt recites poetry by memory to music, in the tradition of the middle eastern poets. She has performed and taught internationally, and most recently performed in Ireland, where she...MoMA Video of Dorothea Rockburne
Great MoMA video of Dorothea Rockburne, whose work, “Shadowed Perimeter” is featured in our current show. This exhibition also features a 2002 oral history interview with Rockburne! Link – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AN2DJxMLFOwThe Conference 2014 Deadline Approaches
June 30th is the deadline for proposals to present/perform at our annual conference ReVIEWING Black Mountain College scheduled for September 26-28, 2014 here in beautiful Asheville, NC. The theme is “The Writers of Black Mountain College” but any topics...Music Performance – Solo Cello with JARI PIPER
On Wednesday, June 25th at 7:30pm the Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center in downtown Asheville will present a solo recital of contemporary music for the cello with Jari Piper performing work by living composers. He will share stories and background...Presentation – Reflections on 9/11
Wednesday, June 18, 2014 – 7:30 pm Grace G. Campbell, Lecturer-UNCA Humanities Program $5 / Free for BMCM+AC members + students w/ID. This presentation considers how the 9/11 attacks have been represented and re-interpreted in the West. The world’s...MadHat’s Poetry, Prose & Anything Goes
Friday, June 20, 2014 8:00 pm Poetry Reading Featuring: Tina Barr, Matthew Olzmann, Melissa Crowe and Pasckie Pascua $8 / $5 for BMCM+AC members & students w/IDReVIEWING Black Mountain College 6
h2>Call for papers and proposals. All disciplines invited. September 26-28, 2014 Asheville, North Carolina Thematic Focus: The Writers of Black Mountain College Hosted and sponsored by Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center and the University of North Carolina...MadHat’s Poetry, Prose & Anything Goes: Spring Fever Celebration
Friday March 21, 2014 at 7:00pm Admission is $8 / $5 for BMCM+AC members & students w/ID. Dorianne Laux, Joseph Millar, Caleb Beissert, Vievee Francis, Matt Olzmann, Landon Godfrey, Barbie Angell, Jadwiga McKay, Lockie Hunter, Jeff Davis and a few other...Film Screening
Thursday, March 6, 2014 7:30 pm Merce Cunningham Dance Company: Robert Rauschenberg Collaborations. Three dances documented by filmmaker Charles Atlas (Suite for Five, Summerspace & Interscape) illuminate the fruitful collaborations between Merce Cunningham,...
