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Runescores in [Cage(d) Time] | Strategies of Scoring Indeterminacy
Journal of Black Mountain College Studies Volume 13Joséphine A. Garibaldi & Paul ZmolekPublished April 2022Runescores[1], directed by Joséphine A. Garibaldi and Paul Zmolek, Artistic Directors of Callous Physical Theatre, is a group-sourced collaborative project...
Woman and/as Myth in Loba: di Prima’s “Open Field” as Poetic Process and Feminist Praxis
Journal of Black Mountain College Studies Volume 13Jessica Covil-MansetPublished April 2022This paper takes the "open field" as its object of study. There is much to value in the creative work and explications of those poets who claimed the "open field" as the ideal...
The Art of Patience and Hesitation
Journal of Black Mountain College Studies Volume 13Maria ChávezPublished April 2022The past few years I have been writing papers that address the phenomenology of sound and its effects on society’s Neuroplasticity. [1] In these papers, one point prevails: one’s...
Black Mountain College: Eclipsing the Local in Artworld Memory
Journal of Black Mountain College Studies Volume 13Topher LineberryPublished April 2022In summer 2018 I began documenting, archiving, researching, and writing about the artwork of Helen Gaines Howerton Lineberry (1919-2012), who also happened to be my grandmother....
For John Cage on his 75th Birthday (1987)
Journal of Black Mountain College Studies Volume 13M.C. RichardsPublished April 2022Audio: M.C. Richards recorded during a poetry reading at Indre Studios, Philadelphia, May 5, 1997. Collection of Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center. Gift of Mary Shepard...
The Space Between: John Cage, Robert Rauschenberg, Stefan Wolpe and Bill Viola
Journal of Black Mountain College Studies Volume 13Paul BeaudoinPublished April 2022Abstract The influence of Black Mountain College on the works of Cage, Rauschenberg, and Wolpe is of paramount importance. The fertile creative landscape allowed participants an...
Volume 16 Contributor Bios
Volume 16 Contributor BiosLiving with the Land (Fall 2025) Meredith Ahmed is an artist, researcher, and emerging archivist whose work bridges storytelling, material culture, and collective memory. Rooted in archival practices and community histories, they explore how...
Volume 15 Contributor Bios
Volume 15 Contributor BiosRE/WEAVING (Fall 2024) Joseph Bathanti is the former North Carolina Poet Laureate (2012-14) and recipient of the North Carolina Award in Literature, the state’s highest civilian honor. The author of over twenty books, Bathanti is McFarlane...
Volume 14 Contributor Bios
Queer Life at Black Mountain College (Fall 2023) Kyle Canter is a master's student at Hunter College, where he is finishing his thesis on photography at Black Mountain College. He currently lives in Brooklyn, NY. Stella Douglass (she/her/hers) was born in Blacksburg,...
Volume 13 Contributor Bios
Silence/Presence (Spring 2022) Alex Ates is an educator, writer, and theater-artist from New Orleans, Louisiana. He is currently a teacher at Westtown School in West Chester, Pennsylvania. MA from New York University, MFA from The University of Alabama, BA from...
Poems
Journal of Black Mountain College Studies Volume 12Gale AcuffPublished May 2021Percy B. Shelley wrote that poets “are the unacknowledged legislators of the world,” meaning, in part, that their task is to expose purge cruelty and its practitioners. William Blake...
10-03.space
Journal of Black Mountain College Studies Volume 12Alma AlloroPublished May 2021Click to view 10-03.spaceInterview: Alma Alloro and Kate Averett Alma Alloro on craft, necessity, and the making of 10-03.space, a new Internet art commission capturing the thoughts,...
The Poetry Postcard Fest: Black Mountain Style
Journal of Black Mountain College Studies Volume 12Paul E. Nelson and Margaret LeePublished May 2021Sending postcards to strangers—a lost art, even quaint—has become the main gateway to the activities of a 27-year-old, literary arts-oriented, nonprofit organization....
Volume 2: A Tribute to Ray Johnson
Journal of Black Mountain College Studies Volume 2 Table of Contents Blake Hobby, Executive EditorBrian Butler, Associate EditorKate Dempsey, Guest Editor Spring 2012 Introduction by Kate Dempsey Ray Johnson Biography by Michael von Uchtrup Kenneth Snelson interviewed...
Volume 12 Contributor Bios
Expanding the Canon (Spring 2021) Gale Acuff has had poetry published in Ascent, Reed, Poet Lore, Chiron Review, Cardiff Review, Poem, Adirondack Review, Florida Review, Slant, Nebo, Arkansas Review, South Dakota Review, Roanoke Review and many other journals in a...
Volume 1: Inaugural Issue
Journal of Black Mountain College Studies Volume 1 Table of Contents Blake Hobby, Executive EditorBrian Butler, Associate Editor March 2011 Dorothea Rockburne Interview with Connie Bostic Transcribed by Jolene Mechanic The Prospect of an Ideal Liberal Arts...
Black Mountain College Portfolios
Journal of Black Mountain College Studies Volume 11Ant M LoboPublished October 2020This body of work, Black Mountain College Portfolios, was scheduled to be shown at the Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center’s 10th annual {Re}HAPPENING festival, on the grounds...
“the pencil, the brush, the chisel”: Black Mountain College and the Practice of Writing
Journal of Black Mountain College Studies Volume 11Jonathan C. CreasyPublished October 2020I.When I think and write about Black Mountain College, several passages in its history come immediately to mind. First among them is John Andrew Rice’s statement to Louis...
Silence Prevails: East Village Community Gardens during the Pandemic
Aki OndaIn November 2019, I had a solo performance at Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center in Asheville, North Carolina. The day before the show, their director, Jeff Arnal, kindly drove me to the Lake Eden campus of Black Mountain College thirteen miles east...
“It wouldn’t have been like a history”: M.C. Richards’s Black Mountain
Journal of Black Mountain College Studies Volume 9Mabel Capability TaylorPublished May 2019Introduction In 1972, Martin Duberman published his landmark history of Black Mountain College, Black Mountain: An Exploration in Community. The first edition, published by E.P....