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.

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...

Performance // In the Arm of Flowers // 07.03.15

Friday, July 3, 8:00 p.m.Informed by a three year correspondence, in the arm of flowers, is an interdisciplinary performance by Megan Ransmeier and Julia Rich. Two women inhabit a mythic landscape of sand and ice, inviting inclusive spectrums of connection through...

Poetry Reading June 2015

Thursday, June 11, 7:30 p.m.Poets Katherine Soniat and Kathryn Stripling Byer will read from their latest book projects, The GoodBye Animals and The Vishnu Bird. $5 BMCM+AC members & students w/ID / $8 for non-members.

The Founding of the Farm at Black Mountain College

Wednesday, June 10, 7:30 p.m.Presentation by David Silver, associate professor of media studies, environmental studies, and urban agriculture at the University of San Francisco, will present a definitive history of the founding of the farm at Black Mountain College....

Presentation – Snakes Escape

Saturday, June 6, 2:00 p.m.Snakes Escape – with Michael von Uchtrup + Julie J. Thomson, moderated by Brian E. Butler A conversation between two Ray Johnson scholars looking at this enigmatic artist’s career with a particular emphasis on the evolution and making...

Odeya Nini + Archie Carrey + æsc CPI

Saturday, March 21 at 8:00pm  $12 /$10 for BMC + AC members Odeya Nini is a Los Angeles based experimental vocalist and contemporary composer. At the locus of her interests are textural harmony, gesture, tonal animation, and the illumination of minute sounds, in works...

Workshop – Word and Image

Sunday, March 15, 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. $50 for BMCM+AC members + students w/ID / $60 non-members. Call 828-350-8484 to register. Word and Image, taught by book artist and calligrapher Annie Cicale. In this workshop we will explore the complementary nature of...

IMAGES of Black Mountain College

Thursday, March 5, 7:30 p.m.  Heather South, Archivist at the Western Regional Archives, will discuss and show images and collection items from the Black Mountain College holdings owned by the State Archives and sign copies of the new photographic publication of Black...

Artist Talk & {Pre}HAPPENING

Artists – McLean Fahnestock w/ Michael DickinsTuesday, March 3rd @ 7:30 p.m.Window (re/production | re/presentation) is pleased to partner with The Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center in presenting an artist talk and {Pre}HAPPENING with McLean...

R. Buckminster Fuller: The History (and Mystery) of the Universe

Saturday, February 21, 7:30 p.m. + Sunday, February 22, 3:00 p.m. Play/Performance – R. Buckminster Fuller: The History (and Mystery) of the Universe, two encore performances of this one-man play written by D.W. Jacobs from the life, work, and writings of...