Thursday, September 2 at 7 PM Eastern | Streaming – Chicago-based percussionist Tim Daisy and bassoonist, improviser, and composer Katherine Young (a recent Atlanta, GA transplant) bring their two-decades-long collaborative experience to the Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center for a live recording of improvised duets. Investigating a wide array of sonic territory from laser-focused pointillism to extremes in density and texture, Katherine and Tim aim to use the art of listening combined with their shared performative experience to create a unique blend of sound-making, taking full advantage of the unique instrumentation involved.
Thursday, September 2 at 7 PM Eastern | Streaming – Chicago-based percussionist Tim Daisy and bassoonist, improviser, and composer Katherine Young (a recent Atlanta, GA transplant) bring their two-decades-long collaborative experience to the Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center for a live recording of improvised duets. Investigating a wide array of sonic territory from laser-focused pointillism to extremes in density and texture, Katherine and Tim aim to use the art of listening combined with their shared performative experience to create a unique blend of sound-making, taking full advantage of the unique instrumentation involved.
October 15 at 7 PM Eastern | Live | Ticketed – Kittredge Theater (Warren Wilson College) – Presented as part of the Faith in Arts Institute. Created on the heels of “I hunger for you” (BAM 2018), Kimberly Bartosik’s “through the mirror of their eyes” brims with compassion and violence.
October 13-16, 2021 | BMCM+AC {120 College Street} + Zoom – This four-day event brought together acclaimed artists and scholars to explore the intersections of art, faith, and spirit. Public events included performances, film screenings, community workshops, lectures, and more.
June 21 – June 27, 2021 | The Hop Ice Cream mixes up a new batch of Dymaxion Chocolate Ephemeralization, a celebration of Black Mountain College’s very own Buckminster Fuller! Sales benefitted BMCM+AC.
103.3 Asheville FM, Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center, and Make Noise announce an opportunity for artists living in Western North Carolina (WNC) to create new short works for broadcast on the radio. We invite artists in WNC to propose projects that reflect the experimental and innovative spirit of Black Mountain College. Artists are encouraged to take risks. Projects should be between 3-5 minutes long and no more than 12 months old. New work is strongly encouraged. The work does not have to be music. Projects can include any sound recording, cellphone recording, field recording, meditation, movement score, text score, sound collage, spoken word, audio art, experimental DJ work, etc.. The LOI deadline is July 20, 2022.
Back to I AM A CITIZEN OF THE WORLD Masato Nakagawa, students with first large-scale Geodesic Dome, built under the instruction of R. Buckminster Fuller. BMC Summer Session 1949. Western Regional Archives, State Archives of North Carolina. Spaceship Earth: A Global...
Back to I AM A CITIZEN OF THE WORLD Helen M. Post (b. 1907 Bloomfiend, NJ; d. 1978), Xanti Schawinsky’s Spectodrama (digital print). Western Regional Archives, State Archives of NC. Figurative Abstraction: Constructing Identity The language of abstraction expanded...
Back to I AM A CITIZEN OF THE WORLD Ingeborg Lauterstein (b. 1923 Vienna, Austria; d. 2012 Rockport, MA), Portrait of Sewell Sillman, c. 1948-49. Oil on masonite. Courtesy of The Johnson Collection. New Citizens: Exchanging Oppression for Freedom Much of Black...
103.3 Asheville FM, Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center, and Make Noise announce an opportunity for artists living in Western North Carolina (WNC) to create new short works for broadcast on the radio. We invite artists in WNC to propose projects that reflect the experimental and innovative spirit of Black Mountain College. Artists are encouraged to take risks. Projects should be between 3-5 minutes long and no more than 12 months old. New work is strongly encouraged. The work does not have to be music. Projects can include any sound recording, cellphone recording, field recording, meditation, movement score, text score, sound collage, spoken word, audio art, experimental DJ work, etc.. The LOI deadline is June 21, 2021.
BMCM+AC Performance Initiative Performances on Vimeo 2021 Performances BMC-TV: A MULTIDISCIPLINARY COMMUNITY ART EVENT Thursday, August 5th at 7 PM Eastern | In-person and Streaming – A Happening meets variety show, this premiere episode of BMC-TV connects a...
POSTPONED – New date to be announced | Streaming – A new film by multidisciplinary artist Coco Villa. Presented by BMCM+AC as part of the exhibition I AM A CITIZEN OF THE WORLD.
Leap Then Look Active Archive Digital Residency BIBLIOGRAPHY Here are some of the brilliant books we read and flicked through in preparation for this project. Most are available from the BMCM+AC bookshop! Back Home BMC...
Leap Then Look Active Archive Digital Residency OUR FINGERS ARE OUR TOOLS “Our fingers are our tools” was an instruction Josef Albers gave to students before inviting them to explore simple materials like straw, corrugated cardboard, and newspaper. You might imagine...
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Hazel Larsen Archer, Janet Heling Roberts at Black Mountain College, 1945. Silver gelatin print. BMCM+AC permanent collection. Gift of Janet Heling Roberts. Janet Chloe Heling Roberts (Student 1943 – 1947, b. 1925 d. 2020) Born in 1925 in Lindenhurst, New York,...
May 18 Animal Crossing: New Horizons Museum Day Celebration Virtual “Gallery” tour and QR code sharing Want to bring a little bit of Black Mountain College into your world on Animal Crossing: New Horizons? We are celebrating the in-game Museum Week with...
May 2, 2020 | Streaming – Grammy Award-winning quartet Third Coast Percussion performs a live stream concert featuring John Cage’s iconic masterpiece “Third Construction,” a new work composed for TCP by composer and modular synth practitioner Bana Haffar entitled “Shed,” and an early work by TCP ensemble member David Skidmore, “Ritual Music.”
