December 8, 2018 {120 College Street} Join us for a fun, free day in the museum celebrating Jacob Lawrence’s art and life. Including tours of the exhibition, poetry, and hands-on art activities for all ages. Presented in partnership with the Easel Rider art crew and including teaching artist Cleaster Cotton and artist and poet DeWayne Barton. Community Day will feature an exhibition of artworks by 5th grade students at Vance Elementary, inspired by the art and life of Jacob Lawrence. Students have been studying Lawrence with TAPAS resident artist Cleaster Cotton.
October 25, 2018 {120 College Street} Julie Levin Caro, co-curator of Between Form + Content will discuss the fruits of her multi-year research process into Jacob Lawrence and the impact of BMC and Josef Albers on Lawrence’s painting and teaching.
September 28-30, 2018 (UNC Asheville’s Reuter Center) – ReVIEWING Black Mountain College 10. This annual conference explores the history and legacy of Black Mountain College through presentations, workshops, and performances. Keynote Speaker: art historian Dr. Leslie King Hammond and Keynote Panel: Tyondai Braxton, Grace Villamil, Martha Colburn, and Jace Clayton (DJ Rupture).
July 20 + 21, 2018 (56 Broadway) – Mend Piece for the World: A Participation Art Work by Yoko Ono. Sit at a table with others and mend broken ceramic cups and plates with glue, tape, and twine. Yoko Ono asks us to “Mend carefully. Think of mending the world at the same time.” This participatory work, first conceptualized in 1966 and recreated many times since (including here at BMCM+AC in 2002) is open to all with materials and supplies provided.
June 27, 2018 | BMCM+AC {56 Broadway} – Presented in collaboration with the Asheville Percussion Festival, 51’15.657″ for a Speaking Percussionist is Bonnie Whiting’s realization of a solo simultaneous performance of John Cage’s 45′ for a Speaker and 27’10.554″ for a Percussionist. These are vintage pieces: music from the mid-50’s and part of a series of timed works that Cage enjoyed mixing together and referred to in notes and letters as “the ten thousand things.” A culmination of 14 months of work and study, Whiting is the first performer to execute both pieces in their entirety.
June 15 + 16, 2018 – Make Noise 10th Anniversary. “Recursion Mechanism,” an installation by Richard Devine with visuals by Matt Kew. This machine/modular system generates an infinite number of sounds, that evolve, grow and multiply into new organic forms. The piece will utilize a 4 channel quad speaker configuration. Each speaker will represent one audio element that will focus on various captured field recordings, synthesis, and manipulated digital audio fragments to make up an ever-changing music composition.
June 6, 2018 | BMCM+AC {56 Broadway} – Conceived in 1969 as an audience participation work, John Cage’s original “score” simply stipulated that the gallery be filled with about a dozen record players and two- to three-hundred vinyl records. Museum visitors were encouraged to act as DJs and create a musical mix by playing records freely and thus performing the work. This realization was performed by María Chávez and an open audience, with 300 records compiled by curator Jade Dellinger, including records chosen by Yoko Ono, Iggy Pop, Graham Nash, David Byrne (Talking Heads), Bryan Ferry (Roxy Music), Jack White (The White Stripes), Lee Ranaldo (Sonic Youth), Richie Ramone (The Ramones), Jad Fair (Half-Japanese), Alex James (Blur), Meredith Monk, Terry Allen, Irwin Chusid, Arto Lindsay (DNA & Lounge Lizards), Blixa Bargeld (Einsturzende Neubauten), Mike Kelley (Destroy All Monsters), S.A. Martinez (311), David Harrington (Kronos Quartet), Emil Schult (Kraftwerk), Pauline Oliveros, The Residents, Vito Acconci, The Art Guys, Martin Atkins (Public Image Ltd.), John Baldessari, Matthew Barney, Christian Marclay Joan LaBarbara, Jim Rosenquist, Ed Ruscha and William Wegman.
June 5, 2018 (56 Broadway) – María Chávez, solo turntable performance and workshop. Born in Lima, Peru and based in NYC, María Chávez is best known as an abstract turntablist, sound artist, and DJ. Her work combines recorded sounds from vinyl records with the electroacoustic sounds of vinyl and needle in various deteriorating phases. Accidents, coincidence, and failures are themes that unite her sound sculptures, installations, and other works with her improvised solo turntable performance practice.
February 23, 2018 | BMCM+AC {56 Broadway} – The Tesla Quartet performed selections by composer Hugo Kauder. This special program is presented in collaboration with The Hugo Kauder Society. Kauder was a composer-in-residence at BMC in the summer of 1945. The program included Kauder’s String Quartet 4, a piece performed at BMC in 1945, as well as Bartok’s String Quartet 3 and transcriptions of works by Gesualdo and Ravel by Tesla violinist Ross Snyder. Praised for their “superb capacity to find the inner heart of everything they play, regardless of era, style, or technical demand” (The International Review of Music), the Tesla Quartet brings refinement and prowess to both new and established repertoire. The group was formed at The Juilliard School in 2008 and includes Ross Snyder (violin), Michelle Lie (violin), Edwin Kaplan (viola), and Serafim Smigelskiy (cello).
