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...Performance
At 8:30 tonight John Cage mounted a stepladder and until 10:30 he talked about the relation of music to Zen Buddhism while a movie was shown, dogs ran across the stage barking,12 persons danced without any previous rehearsal, a prepared piano was played, whistles...Women in Craft
The person that had the strongest and most far-reaching effect on me was M.C. Richards. Albers opened my eyes. M.C. opened my mind and I will be forever grateful to her. — Carol Singer Kalbfeld (Student 1947-1948) Question Everything! The Women of Black Mountain...BMC and Beyond
It wasn’t stone, it wasn’t welded steel, it wasn’t traditional sculpture. They thought it was craft, or something else, but not art. They couldn’t define it in the early fifties when I was starting out. I’d get accepted [into a show] and then I’d get a call that I was...The Weaving Workshop
In a world as chaotic as the European world after World War I, any exploratory artistic work had to be experimental in a very comprehensive sense. What had existed had proved to be wrong; everything leading up to it seemed to be wrong, too… At the Bauhaus, those...ANNUAL REPORT 2019
ANNUAL REPORT 2019 FULL ANNUAL REPORT PDF DEAR FRIENDS, This has been another year of unparalleled exhibitions and performances, a celebration of what’s possible in our new home and with the support of our community. At the beginning of 2019, we were in the last few...ICE Ensemble and MUSIC on the REBOUND: Pauline Oliveros World Wide Tuning Meditation
Saturday, March 28 at 5 PM via Zoom Take part in a world-wide musical exchange! Join ICE for a Pauline Oliveros World Wide Tuning Meditation on Zoom this Saturday (5pm EDT), hosted by MUSIC on the Rebound and ICE Ensemble, and led by Claire Chase and Carole Ione. It...MUSEUM STORE SUNDAY
Sunday, December 1 – 1pm to 5pm Be a patron! Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center will be offering 10% off all merchandise and special discounts on select Jargon Society books on November 30 and December 1, the weekend of Museum Store Sunday. We will also...PERFORMANCE: FRESH CUT ORCHESTRA + MELANIE CHARLES – WE INSIST! MAX ROACH’S FREEDOM NOW SUITE
Commission | February 22 + 23, 2019 | BMCM+AC {120 College Street} – A timely restaging of We Insist! Max Roach’s Freedom Now Suite, a seminal recording from the civil rights era. The piece was performed on February 22 + 23, 2019 by the NYC / Philadelphia-based ensemble Fresh Cut Orchestra with vocalist Melanie Charles. Recorded in the fall of 1960, the Freedom Now Suite was the most openly political jazz recording ever made, combining musical prowess with political dialogue. Nearly 60 years later, the issues posed by We Insist! are still relevant to our current political moment.
Presented as a part of Come Hear North Carolina, in partnership with the North Carolina Department of Natural & Cultural Resources and the North Carolina Arts Council. Additional support provided by UNC Asheville.
PERFORMANCE: PAN HARMONIA
Saturday, November 2, 12:30 PM Peek behind-the-scenes of Asheville’s home-grown music collective celebrating its 20th season. Flutist Kate Steinbeck and guitarist Amy Brucksch will play music and speak about Pan Harmonia’s November concerts, “Women’s Work,” featuring...PERSPECTIVES: CURT CLONINGER
November 13, 2019 (120 College Street) – Explore our VanDerBeek + VanDerBeek exhibition along with an artist, historian, or scholar who will give perspective and context to the work from their particular point of view. Guest Speaker: Curt Cloninger, Associate Professor of New Media at UNC Asheville, and BMCM+AC board member.
Celebrating the Life of Michael Rumaker
We are sad to say that our friend and BMC alumnus Michael Rumaker has died on June 3rd, 2019. His obituary notice can be found here. Michael enrolled at BMC in fall of 1952 and graduated (one of the few!) in 1955. His journey to and through Black Mountain College is...Between Form and Content Digital Resources
Between Form and Content Digital Resources Dive deeper into Between Form Content: Perspectives on Jacob Lawrence + Black Mountain College Fall 2018), curated by Julie Levin Caro and Jeff Arnal, through oral histories, lectures, photographs and more. You can also...Abstracts (Draft) – ReVIEWING 10
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 28 1:00PM Registration opens – UNC Asheville’s Reuter Center Lobby 1:30PM – 3:00PM PANEL – ROOM# – MODERATOR: Thomas Frank – How to Start a College: Black Mountain Among the Experimental Colleges Black Mountain College was born in an era of...Participant Bios – ReVIEWING 10
Jason Andrew is the founding partner of Artist Estate Studio which manages the careers of Jack Tworkov (1900-1982) and Elizabeth Murray (1940-2007) among others. He has presented regularly at BMCM+AC Conferences including papers on Ruth Asawa, John Cage, Katherine...
