Figurative Abstraction: Constructing Identity
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...New Citizens: Exchanging Oppression for Freedom
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...CALL FOR ARTISTS: BLACK MOUNTAIN COLLEGE RADIO ART
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.
Performances at BMCM+AC
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...PERFORMANCE: COCO VILLA
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.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
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...Our Fingers Are Our Tools
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...A Message to BMCM+AC Supporters
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Janet Heling Roberts
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,...Animal Crossing: New Horizons Museum Day
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...PERFORMANCE: THIRD COAST PERCUSSION
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.”
Carolyn Brown
Carolyn Brown, In the Summer of 1953… (detail). Ink on paper. Collection of Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center. Gift of the Artist. Carolyn Brown (Student 1953 Summer Session) (b.1927) Carolyn Brown was a founding member of the Cunningham Dance Company,...Johnny Gandelsman Live Performance
Thursday, March 26th at 6 PM via Facebook Live Grammy award-winning violinist and producer Johnny Gandelsman will perform Bach’s cello suite No. 4, live from his home to yours. Tune in at at 6PM! BMCM+AC is compiling independent performances and art events that...Marie Stilkind
Ray Johnson (b.1927-d.1995), Marie Tavroges Stilkind at the Museum of Modern Art, 1960s. Archival pigment prints. Collection of Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center. Gift of Marie Tavroges Stilkind. Installation photo by Michael Oppenheim. Marie...From BMC to the Cedar Tavern
“What illicit concoction – what matter of inebriation – what absinthe – lured these healthy young men (and more than a handful of women) who had survived the Depression and war to settle for an uncertain future of fly-by-night jobs and illegal living...Education
It was heady stuff for a girl of 18 to have her own study and to be listened to as an equal… I had a great need to share whatever I was learning with others, but I had no idea how that characteristic would be utilized later on in teaching… or that the...Everyday Life
At eighteen I nearly fainted with wonder at the ferns and moss thick on the paths outside the buildings that led up the mountain to Blue Ridge. I was a girl from rocky Utah. My ‘first love’ and I would climb this trail late at night. I have forgotten him but not the...
