PERFORMANCE + ARTIST TALK: Duets With Orchid
Thursday, June 8, 7 & 8 pm {56 Broadway} Caitlyn Swett (dancer/choreographer) and Zach Cooper (electric guitar/contrabass) invite audience members to experience a physical and audio installation. Using the MIDI Sprout, which employs biofeedback technology to turn...OPENING RECEPTION: Robert Motherwell: The Quiet + The Wild
Friday, June 2, 5:30-8 pm {56 Broadway} “Art is an experience, not an object.” – Robert Motherwell As a teacher at Black Mountain College in 1945 and 1951, Robert Motherwell provided a strong link to the emerging Abstract Expressionist movement in New York City....Book Launch + Reception: The Democratic Constitution
August 24, 7 pm {69 Broadway} Brian E. Butler, UNC Asheville professor of philosophy and author of The Democratic Constitution: Experimentalism and Interpretation (Chicago, 2017), will discuss his new book and its connection to BMC-infused ideas related to democratic...PERFORMANCE + ARTIST TALK: Make Noise
July 21, 2017 (69 Broadway) – Make Noise, an Asheville-based company that designs and builds analog modular musical synthesizers, will share their company philosophy and perform with their newest instruments. Come hear the notes between the notes and discover unfound sounds!
ARTIST TALK: Frank Hursh
Saturday, June 3, 2 pm {69 Broadway} Frank Hursh has led a fascinating life dedicated to the arts and arts education. His impressive resume includes animation for cartoon classics such as Rocky and Bullwinkle and Fractured Fairy Tales, innovative work as a...OPENING RECEPTION: Frank Hursh: Marking Space + Place
Friday, June 2, 5:30–8 pm {69 Broadway} Gallery Talk by Frank Hursh at 6:45 pm Frank Hursh attended Black Mountain College from 1949 until 1950 and has been a working artist and educator in Mexico since 1956. Painting, drawing, and art education have been constants in...An Afternoon with the Asheville Singers
Friday, May 5, 2:00 p.m. {56 Broadway} Call it an early weekend and catch this Friday afternoon performance by UNC Asheville’s ensemble group, the Asheville Singers, led by Dr. Melodie Galloway, music department associate professor and chair. They’ll...PERFORMANCE + ARTIST TALK: the undergird (action is primary #4)
Saturday, July 8, 7:00 pm {69 Broadway} Philadelphia-based choreographer Meg Foley will present the undergird (action is primary #4), a dance and spoken performance about mortality, birth, earth monuments, and the immediate, omnipresent body, alone and in congress,...ROOMFUL OF TEETH – {Re}HAPPENING 8
Roomful of TeethFeatured performers, {Re}HAPPENING 8Historic Black Mountain College campus at Lake EdenMarch 31, 2018 Roomful of Teeth is a GRAMMY-winning vocal project dedicated to mining the expressive potential of the human voice. Through study with masters from...THIRD COAST PERCUSSION – {Re}HAPPENING 7
Third Coast Percussion Featured performers, {Re}HAPPENING 7 Historic Black Mountain College campus at Lake Eden March 25, 2017 Founded in 2005, Third Coast Percussion has performed hundreds of concerts across the country, presents an annual concert season at home in...A Living Museum With George Scheer
Thursday, May 4, 7:00 p.m. {56 Broadway} A conversation with George Scheer about hidden histories in art and his work fostering creative communities at the intersection of aesthetics and social change. Scheer is co-founder and director of Elsewhere, a living museum...AnthroPolis: Black Mountain College and the Teaching of Culture, Citizenship, and Community
Thursday, April 20, 7:00 p.m. {56 Broadway} Dr. Renato Rosaldo, the second Black Mountain College Legacy Research Fellow at UNC Asheville, anthropologist, and practitioner of antropoesía (anthro-poetry), will discuss cultural citizenship and the possibilities for...LISTENING SESSION: Williams Mix by John Cage
Thursday, March 9, 7:00 p.m. {56 Broadway} Introducing Listening Sessions at BMCM+AC! This is a new forum led by Executive Director Jeff Arnal created to examine the evolving culture of listening and to investigate the larger lineage of music and how a plethora of...Nick Millevoi’s Desertion Trio
Saturday February 4, 8:00 p.m. {56 Broadway} This is the newest project from Philadelphia-based guitarist/composer Nick Millevoi, exploring the sonic space between Neil Young’s expansive work with Crazy Horse, late 60s free jazz, and the NY Downtown scene....Poetry With Tracey Schmidt: An Asheville Wordfest Event
Tuesday, April 18, 7:30 p.m. {56 Broadway}Join us for an evening of poetry with Tracey Schmidt to kick off Asheville Wordfest (find a full schedule of performances at avlwordfest.com)! Schmidt will read her own work, as well as the work of Rumi and Hafiz, with...Conversation: Zola Marcus
Saturday, January 14, 2:00 p.m. {56 Broadway} Join us for a discussion between Dr. Eva Bares, Lecturer of Art History at UNC Asheville, Julie Feinsilver, niece of painter Zola Marcus, and Garry L. Hagberg, James H. Ottaway Professor of Philosophy and Aesthetics, Bard...The Elegant Mystery of Pinhole Photography
Saturday, April 8, 9:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. {69 Broadway} Presented in collaboration with The Asheville Darkroom and taught by Bridget Conn, former director of The Asheville Darkroom, this hands-on workshop will introduce participants to the lo-tech beauty of...Film Screening
Thursday, April 6, 7:00 p.m. {69 Broadway} This evening of short films celebrates three well-known photographers who taught at BMC (Harry Callahan, Barbara Morgan, and Aaron Siskind) and one who visited (Rudy Burckhardt). The films and the photographers will be...PERFORMANCE: 7th Annual {Re}Happening
Saturday, March 25, 3:00 – 10:00 p.m. {Lake Eden Campus} This annual, interdisciplinary performance event returns in 2017, at the Lake Eden campus of Black Mountain College. Join dozens of local artists alongside Chicago’s Third Coast Percussion and New York-based...
