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2023 {Re}HAPPENING Call for Proposals
Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center announces an opportunity for artists to participate in the 2023 {Re}HAPPENING on Saturday, April 8 at Camp Rockmont in Black Mountain, NC, the former Lake Eden campus of Black Mountain College.
Introduction
Journal of Black Mountain College Studies Volume 2Kate DempseyPublished Spring 2012Evolving out of a panel assembled by Sebastian Matthews at the 2nd annual Black Mountain College Conference, this issue of The Black Mountain College Studies Journal focuses on Ray...
Kenneth Snelson Interview
Journal of Black Mountain College Studies Volume 2Interviewer: Connie BosticPublished Spring 2012Transcribed by Jolene Mechanic. This is Connie Bostic. We’re in the Studio of Bonesteel Films in Asheville, North Carolina. It’s July 22nd, 2008, and we’re speaking with...
Volume 16: Living with the Land
Over the majority of the College’s twenty-three year history, students, faculty, faculty families, and staff worked with and learned from local farmers and farm experts to start and sustain a farm. Most importantly, they learned how to work together, to collaborate.
Volume 15: RE/WEAVING
Weaving marks the theme of this issue, for it names not only the immediate art itself but the nature of so many often surprising and unexpected connections, influences, and collaborations in the many fields of study at the College.
Volume 14: Queer Life at Black Mountain College
Contributions from Kyle Canter, Stella Douglass, Evie Horton, Kira Houston, Alex Landry, Sophie Mak-Schram, Andy Martrich, Christopher-Rasheem McMillan, Chase Pendleton, lydia see, David Silver, Melissa Wilkinson, and Emilio Williams.
Volume 13: Silence/Presence
It has been nearly a decade since the last time the Journal of Black Mountain College Studies published a volume about John Cage. This volume plunges the depths of silence and finds richness in the sounds and stories that appear where there may have first seemed absence.
From Art to Experience
Journal of Black Mountain College Studies Volume 2Johanna GossePublished Spring 2012The Porous Philosophy of Ray Johnson To call Ray Johnson enigmatic would understate his perplexing and intentionally elusive position within postwar American art history. Ever...
Reading Ray VanDerBeek Deep
Journal of Black Mountain College Studies Volume 2Published Spring 2012 Ray Johnson, Untitled (Marcel Marceau 1 and 2), ca. 1950s,collage on corrugated cardboard, 5 x 2.85’’; 5 x 3’’© Ray Johnson Estate, Collection of Johanna VanDerBeek With his mailings, Ray Johnson...
To Ray J, George Brecht Knows, George Brecht’s Nose
Journal of Black Mountain College Studies Volume 2Julie J. ThomsonPublished Spring 2012The Development of Ray Johnson’s and George Brecht’s Participatory and Dialogic Practices In a 1967 interview, when George Brecht was asked what artists he had “a good deal in...
Weaving Correspondence
Journal of Black Mountain College Studies Volume 2Kate Erin DempseyPublished Spring 2012Anni Albers and Ray Johnson Anni Albers, Ancient Writing, 1936, textile in rayon, linen, cotton andjute, 149.8 x 111 cm, Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington D.C. Giftof John...
Ray Johnson and the Road from BMC Into—and Out of—New York
Journal of Black Mountain College Studies Volume 2Michael von UchtrupPublished Spring 2012“I Plan To Send Startling Letters:” Ray Johnson and the Road from Black Mountain College Into—and Out of—New York These tantalizing words appear in a letter Ray Johnson sent to...
Introduction
Journal of Black Mountain College Studies Volume 3Daniel Kane & Paul BettsPublished September 2012“To Open Eyes”: Black Mountain College into the 21st Century Some eight decades after its founding in 1933, Black Mountain College continues to exert influence across...
Interview with Jacob Lawrence and Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence
Journal of Black Mountain College Studies Volume 3Connie BosticPublished September 2012This is Connie Bostic, it’s December 20th, 1999. We’re in the studio of Jacob Lawrence in Seattle and with us is Gwendolyn Lawrence who taught at Black Mountain College in 1947, is...
Owenvarragh
Owenvarragh: A Belfast Circus on The Star Factory Úna Monaghan and Martin Dowling School of Creative Arts Queen’s University of Belfast Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Part 6 Part 7 documentary Will McConnell, film maker Conor Gillespie, additional camera...
For Democracy: Lessons from Black Mountain College
Journal of Black Mountain College Studies Volume 3Emile BojesenPublished September 2012Modern life means democracy, democracy means freeing intelligence for independent effectiveness–the emancipation of the mind as an individual organ to do its own work. We naturally...
Volume 12: Expanding the Canon
This volume focuses not on a singular individual, discipline, or movement, but on little-known areas of study and recent discoveries that expand our understanding of Black Mountain College in unexpected ways.
Merce Cunningham’s Ensemble Space and the Principle of Community
Journal of Black Mountain College Studies Volume 3Arabella StangerPublished September 2012In an 1989 article, Vernon Shetley characterises the choreographic work of Merce Cunningham as “an attempt to imagine a form of human society that reconciles individuality and...
Jonathan Williams and Black Mountain
Journal of Black Mountain College Studies Volume 3Ross HairPublished September 2012“Hemi-demi-semi barbaric yawps”: Jonathan Williams and Black Mountain The achievements of the former Black Mountain College student Jonathan Williams (1929-2008) are, Kenneth Irby...
NO ONE REMAINS, NOR IS, ONE
Journal of Black Mountain College Studies Volume 3Juha VirtanenPublished September 2012NO ONE REMAINS, NOR IS, ONEOlson, Black Mountain and Theater Piece #1 In her introduction to Charles Olson’s The Special View of History, Anne Charters writes, “when asked...