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{Re}HAPPENING Archive
{Re}HAPPENING Archive In 2009, Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center board member Jolene Mechanic developed a fundraising idea that grew into the {Re}HAPPENING, a dinner and performance event inspired by John Cage’s 1952 Theatre Piece No. 1, considered by many...
I AM A CITIZEN OF THE WORLD
Journal of Black Mountain College Studies Volume 12 Selected works and commentary Homage to the Auction Block Steve Locke Black MountainOnicas Gaddis You’re Welcome and Building a Better TableSouthern Equality StudiosPublished May 2021In the Spring of 2021, BMCM+AC...
Volume 11 Contributor Bios
The Practice and Pedagogy of Writing at Black Mountain College (Fall 2020) N. S. Boone teaches American Literature at Harding University in Arkansas. He has been a member of the Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center since he finished his dissertation (Truth and...
Volume 5: Buckminster Fuller
Journal of Black Mountain College Studies Volume 5 Table of Contents BMCS, Black Mountain College StudiesBlake Hobby, Executive EditorAlessandro Porco, Associate Editor June 2014 Claude Stoller Interview by Connie Bostic Buckminsterfullerene by Melissa Gwyn...
Book Review: Dewey for Artists by Mary Jane Jacob
Journal of Black Mountain College Studies Volume 11Thomas Edward FrankPublished October 2020Mary Jane Jacob, Dewey for Artists. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018.When John Dewey presided over the Curriculum Conference at Rollins College in 1931, he was...
Black Mountain John Chamberlain: John Chamberlain’s Writings at Black Mountain College, 1955
Journal of Black Mountain College Studies Volume 11Edited by Julie SylvesterPublished October 2020I met John Chamberlain in November of 1977. It was the first exhibition in the expansive new space in Soho, Heiner Friedrich Inc., which quietly and unquestionably became...
Face Changer
Journal of Black Mountain College Studies Volume 11Ben HallPublished October 2020Ekphrastic response as a practice of writing has long held an important role: interposing the boundaries between creative disciplines, allowing one form of expression to speak through...
After the Wake Up
Journal of Black Mountain College Studies Volume 11Sherrill RolandPublished October 2020Sherrill Roland, After the Wake Up, installed in “Walls Turned Sideways: Artists Confront the American Justice System,” CAM Houston, Houston, TX, 2018. Photo credit: Terre...
Beautiful Situations? James Leo Herlihy’s Adventures at Black Mountain College and After
Journal of Black Mountain College Studies Volume 11Robert WardPublished October 2020According to Anni Albers, the arts at Black Mountain College, where she taught weaving and textile design between the time of its opening in 1933 and 1949, were based on the growth of...
Lucy and Surely
Journal of Black Mountain College Studies Volume 11Ronaldo V. WilsonPublished October 2020Spoken text: But why do the children want to go home in the first place? What porch, like this, leads back to their very safe lives?—A life both there, and unattached to...
“Surrounded by Cellophane”: Histcollages and Memories of Black Mountain College
Journal of Black Mountain College Studies Volume 11Mary Parks WashingtonPublished October 2020Mary Parks Washington (1924-2019) attended Black Mountain College in the summer of 1946. Her artistic medium was what she termed “histcollages,” layered surfaces of paint,...
Letters to Maximus
Journal of Black Mountain College Studies Volume 11Amanda CookPublished October 2020When I started working on my Letters to Maximus it felt like a necessity. Charles Olson was the big man in the room, quite literally staring at me from more than one wall inside the...
Gathered Momentum: Black Mountain College and Haystack Mountain School of Crafts in the 1950s
Journal of Black Mountain College Studies Volume 12M. Rachael Arauz, Ph.D.Published May 2021The founding years of Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, an acclaimed alternative institution for craft education still thriving on the coast of Maine, were the subject of a...
The Art of Graphic Design: Lustig, Albers, Johnson, and the 1945 Summer Session
Julie J. ThomsonIndependent Scholar and Curator, Durham, NCBlack Mountain College is widely known for its arts, craft, and literary programs, its famous alumni and teachers, and its innovative approach to education. However the role it played in the development of...
A Remy Charlip for Michael Dumontier
Journal of Black Mountain College Studies Volume 10Jason Polan (1982-2020)Published February 2020Jason Polan died in January 2020 of cancer at the too young age of 37. We include this drawing here to honor his memory and drawing, and because we miss him and all that...