Reception and Reading to Celebrate North Carolina’s New Poet Laureate Cathy Smith Bowers Friday, April 30, 2010 – 7:00 PM BMC Museum + Arts Center, 56 Broadway, Downtown Asheville Free The Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center and The Captain’s...
A fundraiser for the Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center YMI Cultural Center – 39 S. Market Street, downtown Asheville Saturday, July 10, 2010 8:00 p.m. Food for Thought is a champagne and dessert party and live auction at the YMI Cultural Center in...
{mosimage}September 21, 2007 – January 19, 2008Opening reception: Friday, September 21, 6:00-8:00 p.m. Free to BMCM+AC members, $3 all others An exhibition exploring functional work by potters who were at Black Mountain College in the 1950s including Shoji Hamada,...
The Shape of Imagination: Women of Black Mountain College {mosimage} SPHERE: Oct. 3, 2008 – Feb. 14, 2009 A Group exhibition {mosimage} TRIANGLE: February 27 – June 27, 2009 Anni Albers, Ruth Asawa + M.C. Richards {mosimage} POINT: July 10 – November...

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In Site: Late Works by Irwin Kremen February 18 – June 4, 2011 Irwin Kremen mememormee, No.4, 1995 paper and acrylic 7 5/16 x 4 3/8 in. (18.6 x 11.1 cm.) Courtesy of the artist. “I do not think of myself simply as a collagist, but as a painter who...
The board and staff of the Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center mourn the passing of board member and BMC alumna Sue Spayth Riley. Sue died on May 25th in Charlotte, NC at the age of 85. An advocate of creative, experience-based learning, Riley was also a...
Friday, Nov. 21, 2008 at Mobilia, 43 Haywood Street in downtown Asheville {mosimage} 6:30 pm – Artist’s Reception with live music, food prepared by Zambra, Mela, The Corner Kitchen, Filo Pastries and Coffee, fine local beer crafted by...
A Fundraiser for the Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center September 13 8:30PM YMI Cultural Center The Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center will sponsor Food for Thought, a champagne and dessert party and live auction at the YMI Cultural Center. This...
Fifty years ago, Black Mountain College was closing its doors after some of the most innovative and influential artists, designers, architects, poets, dancers and craftspeople of the 20th century had passed through them. Most could not help but be influenced by the...
Exhibit: Starting at Zero: Black Mountain College 1933-57 January 28 – April 2, 2006 Kettle’s Yard Cambridge, England See http://www.kettlesyard.co.uk/exhibitions/bmc.html for full details Black Mountain College began as a utopian dream, born out of the...
Radio interview on WUNC's The State of Things October 11th, 2005 Buckminster Fuller: In 1948, Buckminster Fuller, then a visiting teacher at Black Mountain College in Western North Carolina, built his first geodesic dome. It collapsed. The next summer he returned...