Bucky’s Dymaxion Deployment Units
In the 1940s, R. Buckminster Fuller converted grain bins into emergency housing. For a long time it seemed they had disappeared from the earth, but at least a dozen have survived in New Jersey. A very interesting article from the New York Times. Click Here...Bauhaus in America – Film Screening
Last night we had an event at the museum, a screening of the prize-winning film Bauhaus in America (1995), directed by Judith Pearlman. We just about had a full house, so we’re very thankful for everyone who came out on a rainy night for the film and the...New Mural Celebration
This Friday Nov. 8th, join us at 5 Walnut Wine Bar in downtown Asheville from 5-7pm to celebrate a new work by Jimmy O’Neal commissioned by 5 Walnut for the Carolina Lane alley wall. Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center worked with 5 Walnut Wine Bar to...Tour of BMC Campus
ReViewing Black Mountain College 5: Shaping Craft + Design was a great success last weekend! Thank you to everyone who made the conference possible! We had a wonderful time Sunday, October 13. We met at the museum in the morning for a wonderful brunch with coffee and...Welcome to Busytown: Or, What Ever Happened to Graphic Design?
Join us Friday, October 25 at noon for a public lecture at the museum, “Welcome to Busytown: Or, What Ever Happened to Graphic Design?” by Ellen Lupton on the current state of graphic design. The lecture is $7 for the general public and free to museum...Book Launch and Reading – Far from the Centers of Ambition
One of the many events taking place during our upcoming ReVIEWING BMC 5 conference weekend (Oct. 11-13) is a book launch of a two-volume set published by Lorimer Press and funded by Lenoir-Rhyne University. Far from the Centers of Ambition grew out of Lenoir-Rhyne...Asheville Newcomers Club at BMCM+AC
Today we received a morning visit from the Asheville Newcomers Club! Club members new to Asheville and those just looking to learn more about their hometown took in a short documentary about the history and philosophy of Black Mountain College. Afterwards, Program...The 2014 {Re}HAPPENING Artist Call
Applications available now through November 1, 2013 The call is now open for project proposals for the 2014 {Re}HAPPENING. Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center and The Media Arts Project hope that you’ll join us again this year to share art and...In Process: Shaping Craft + Design
This week we’re busy laying out our new show, Black Mountain College: Shaping Craft + Design. It has been so exciting to see the pieces come out of boxes, out of storage. Among many many other things (furniture, ceramics, textiles, paintings, prints,...Cutting Spaces
On Sunday, August 11, Nicole McConville and Travis Medford will team up in our space once again to lead a collage workshop that will examine architecture through the lens of collage. This past March, McConville and Medford provided an overview of the craft of collage...Sounds of BMC
PennSound, a project of the University of Pennsylvania’s Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing, is an excellent audio archive, with pages dedicated to BMC rector and instructor Charles Olson and BMC alumnus and poet Robert Creeley. Click here for the...Black Mountain Review 7
Our exhibition this summer is heavily geared towards architecture and design. With the video wall displays, and tables full of ephemera, it’s immersive. Next time you’re in the gallery though, take a peek at the small display near the books. It’ll...Designing summer…
It seems like this summer in Asheville is chock-full of craft-, design-, and architecture-centered programming. In addition to last night’s illuminating discussion on the influence of Modernist Architecture on Western NC, here are a few of the other exciting...Modernist Asheville?
As part of the programming for our new exhibition, Harry Seidler: Architecture, Art and Collaborative Design, we’re presenting a conversation with Jim Samsel and John Rogers. Jim Samsel, AIA, is founding principal of Samsel Architects, P.A., established in 1985....Color Catalogue Workshop with Marcia Cohen
On Sunday June 16, 2013 Black Mountain College Museum will be hosting a color worksop in conjunction with our new exhibition, Harry Seidler: Architecture, Art and Collaborative Design. Savannah College of Art and Design professor Marcia Cohen will be leading a...Unpacking Harry Seidler
In preparation for Friday’s opening, we’ve been unloading many large crates for our new exhibition, Harry Seidler: Art, Architecture, and Collaborative Design. This will be our first show featuring architecture as the main focus.Opening Reception and Lecture for Harry Seidler: Architecture, Art and Collaborative Design
Aside from the spanakopita from Filo, we’re expecting the highlight of Friday’s opening reception for our new exhibition, Harry Seidler: Architecture, Art, and Collaborative Design, to be curator Vladimir Belogolovsky’s gallery talk at 6:00pm. ...Woven Textures from BMC
Of the pieces on display in our current exhibition, Black Mountain College: Shaping Craft + Design, we have a special addition to our collection – a Shuttle-Craft Practical Loom that was used in the BMC Weaving Workshop. During the exhibition’s opening on...At the Opening Reception
We had an extra long and free opening reception for our new exhibition Shaping Craft & Design this past Friday. Among the pieces that captured attention: Leo Amino’s molded plastic piece Transfigured, Ruth Asawa’s copper wire sculptures, and the BMC...
