What is Modernism for our Mountains?
Thursday, June 16 – 5:45 p.m. @ BMCM+ACPresented by: Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center, AIA Asheville, and Modern AshevilleA community conversation between local architects on: What is Modernism at large and how did it first make itself known in Asheville?...Tribute to M.C. Poetry Reading
Friday, July 8 – 7:30 p.m. Poets Paulus Berensohn and Julia Connor honor their friend and mentor M.C. Richards. $5 for BMCM+AC members + students with ID // $8 for non-members Continue to M.C. Richards Exhibition Website...Roundtable Panel
Thursday, July 7 – 7:00 p.m.M.C. Richards’ influential work affected the course of the visual and performing arts and education. In this panel, we will hear from people who knew her both personally and professionally as they consider her life and legacy....Carl Sandburg and the American South
Poetry Reading – Saturday May 7, 8:00 pm$5 for BMCM+AC members // $8 for non-membersOrganized by poet and educator Eric Steineger and co-sponsored by the Carl Sandburg Home and Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center, this evening of poetry is themed around...Presentation + Discussion//Making and Meaning: Photobooks and the Social Fabric//4.2.16
Saturday, April 2, 10:00 – 11:30 am Black Mountain College Museum + Arts CenterIn conjunction with photo+craft, internationally recognized artists Clarissa Sligh and Alejandro Cartagena show and talk about their work with...Presentation + Discussion//Building a Collection: A Conversation with David Raymond, Hedy Fischer and Randy Shull//4.3.16
Sunday, April 3, 11:00-12:30 pmBlack Mountain College Museum + Arts Center As part of photo+craft, these prominent collectors – David Raymond, Hedy Fischer and Randy Shull – discuss how they identified, formed and developed their passion for contemporary...Frame + Form | Screen Dance Festival
Friday, February 24, 2017 – Screening, 7:00 p.m. {69 Broadway}Saturday, February 25, 2017 – Workshop, 1:00 – 5:00 p.m. {69 Broadway} Presented in collaboration with The Media Arts Project, this two-day festival and workshop features dance created...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.
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
Public Discussion
Saturday, January 23, 11:00 a.m.
Join us for a fascinating discussion between current exhibition, of RAY SPILLENGER: Rediscovery of a Black Mountain Painter, curator Dr. Theodore E. Stebbins Jr. and Paul Spillenger, the artist’s son.
Free BMCM+AC members + students w/ID / $5 non-members
Faust Foutu, Performance
April 15, 16, 22, 23, 30 + May 1
In collaboration with Anam Cara Theatre Company, we present Robert Duncan’s Faust Foutu, an experimental exploration of the artist’s dilemma, drawing upon the Faust legend and set in the milieu of the 1950s avant-garde.
Film Screening // Rarely Seen Films from BMC + the ID Design Workshop // 11.19.15
Thursday, November 19, 7:00 pm
The Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center in downtown Asheville presents an evening of short films that include rarely seen footage from Black Mountain College and the Institute of Design.
Poetry Reading // MadHat’s Poetry Prose & Anything Goes // 11.14.15
Saturday, November 14, 8:00 pm
MadHat Press seeks to foster the work of writers and poets: explosive, lyrical, passionate, deeply wrought voices that stretch the boundaries of language, narrative and image, vital and enduring literary voices that sing on the page as well as in the mind.
Workshop // Notan: Role Reversal in Design // 10.25.15
Notan: Role Reversal in DesignSunday, October 25, 10:00 – 4:00 p.m.Heather Allen Hietala will lead this workshop focusing on the power and magic of the Japanese design principal of Notan. We will explore the interaction between positive and negative space, between a...Ideas Without Walls/In-between the Spaces: Works in Progress with Arne Emerson
Friday October 23, 2015, 12:00 – 1:30pm
As part of the Ideas without Walls: In between the Spaces series, Arne Emerson of Morphosis Architects will focus on the interaction between design, technology, and fabrication, and outline how ‘process’ drives and catalyzes theory and contextual research into realized form.
Film Screening // How to Draw a Bunny // 08.20.15
Thursday, August 20, 7:30 p.m. John Walter and Andrew Moore’s award-winning documentary tells the story of collage artist Ray Johnson, whose death was cloaked in mystery and whose life and art remain enigmatic. A real-life art mystery tale. $5 BMCM+AC members...DOUBLETAKE: A look back at [Re]HAPPENING 2015
Part of Broadway Block Party. On Saturday August 29th, arts organizations and businesses in the Broadway Arts District (B.A.D.), Asheville’s newest downtown cultural hub, will be hosting a free block party featuring exhibitions, installations, performances, hands-on...Talk + Book Signing // Eva Diaz // 08.06.15
Thursday, August 6, 2015 at 7:00pmEva Diaz, Author of The Experimenters: Chance and Design at Black Mountain College. With The Experimenters, Díaz focuses on the significance of three key teachers: Josef Albers, John Cage, and R. Buckminster Fuller. Díaz’s focus is on...Workshop // Image Speak // 07.12.15
Sunday, July 12, 12:00 – 4:00 p.m.Image Speak taught by Lynn Underwood, expressive arts educator and coach. This workshop will focus on process as opposed to product, creating images (including collage and mandala) with a variety of media and then giving each image a...
