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PERFORMANCE: Asheville Symphony – Masterworks Concert (Convergence)
October 25, 2025 at 2pm and 8 pm | First Baptist Church of Asheville
PERFORMANCE: Butoh Dance Festival – Frequency in Motion
October 30th, 2025 at 7:30 PM | BMCM+AC
PERFORMANCE: Living Female Respondent or 53 Yakshi
November 8 at 7pm | BMCM+AC
When We Were Queens… Murielle Elizéon and Shana Tucker
November 13 at 7pm | BMCM+AC
PERFORMANCE: Sandbox Percussion
November 19, 2025 at 7pm | BMCM+AC
PERFORMANCE: Tesla Quartet: The Music of Hugo Kauder
December 4 at 7pm | BMCM+AC
BMC Campus Tours at Lake Eden
Various Dates Sept – Dec 2025 | Lake Eden
FAITH IN ARTS INSTITUTE
October 13-16, 2021 | BMCM+AC {120 College Street} + Zoom – This four-day event brought together acclaimed artists and scholars to explore the intersections of art, faith, and spirit. Public events included performances, film screenings, community workshops, lectures, and more.
DYMAXION CHOCOLATE EPHEMERALIZATION: LIMITED EDITION FLAVOR FROM THE HOP ICE CREAM CAFE
June 21 – June 27, 2021 | The Hop Ice Cream mixes up a new batch of Dymaxion Chocolate Ephemeralization, a celebration of Black Mountain College’s very own Buckminster Fuller! Sales benefitted BMCM+AC.
PERFORMANCE: DUET FOR THEREMIN AND LAP STEEL
September 30, 2021 | Streaming – Duet for Theremin and Lap Steel is Scott Burland (Theremin) and Frank Schultz (Lap Steel guitar). Burland and Schultz bring their mesmerizing duet to BMCM+AC for a live recorded session in the gallery. Presented in conjunction with the Fall 2021 exhibition Don’t Blame it on ZEN: The Way of John Cage & Friends.
PERFORMANCE: KATHERINE YOUNG / TIM DAISY DUO
September 2, 2021 | Streaming – Chicago-based percussionist Tim Daisy and bassoonist, improviser, and composer Katherine Young (a recent Atlanta, GA transplant) bring their two-decades-long collaborative experience to the Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center for a live recording of improvised duets. Investigating a wide array of sonic territory from laser-focused pointillism to extremes in density and texture, Katherine and Tim aim to use the art of listening combined with their shared performative experience to create a unique blend of sound-making, taking full advantage of the unique instrumentation involved.
WESTON OLENCKI / LAURA STEENBERGE
Released May 16, 2022
BROADCAST: BMC RADIO ARTIST NOSTALGIANOID
August 27, 2021 | 103.3 Asheville FM – Each month, a BMC Radio Artist’s work will be featured in various programs on Asheville FM with an exclusive interview kicking off their featured month. At the completion of the broadcasts, a culminating listening session will be held at Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center to celebrate the work of the five radio artists: Mike Holmes (Nostalgianoid), Thom Nguyen, Cilla Vee, Zazie Productions, and Michael Hatch. Presented in collaboration with Asheville FM and Make Noise.
BRÍGHDE CHAIMBEUL
Released May 16, 2022
Jo Sandman / TRACES
Released April 19, 2022
PERFORMANCE: CHRISTOPHER-RASHEEM MCMILLAN
August 19, 2021 | Streaming – “The Long Way Home,” a new solo work by Christopher-Rasheem Mcmillan, poses a way of contending with the Black body as a composite body, one that is connected to, affirms, and disrupts the archive and Historiography. Through this solo dance performance, McMillan tracks the Merce Cunningham technique through diaspora, emphasizing that the diaspora is never the homeland: it’s never home, it’s always somehow both exile in migration and in travel; different from, yet somehow always in dialogue with, its genesis.
BMC-TV: A MULTIDISCIPLINARY COMMUNITY ART EVENT
August 5, 2021 | BMCM+AC {120 College Street} + Streaming – A Happening meets variety show, this premiere episode of BMC-TV connects a wide range of the Asheville area’s most innovative performers, musicians, artists, and craftspeople. For over 25 years, Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center (BMCM+AC) has bridged the history of Black Mountain College with its lasting legacy in Western North Carolina and beyond. Broadcast from the stages, studios, and streets of Asheville, BMC-TV brings together our friends and collaborators who stoke the flames of experimentation sparked at BMC.
Jonathan Williams, Found Sound, and the Concrete Poem
Jonathan Williams was a master of translating sound onto the page. In many of his poems, he inspires the question, “What do the sounds of a place look like?”
CALL FOR ARTISTS: BLACK MOUNTAIN COLLEGE RADIO ART
103.3 Asheville FM, Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center, and Make Noise announce an opportunity for artists living in Western North Carolina (WNC) to create new short works for broadcast on the radio. We invite artists in WNC to propose projects that reflect the experimental and innovative spirit of Black Mountain College. Artists are encouraged to take risks. Projects should be between 3-5 minutes long and no more than 12 months old. New work is strongly encouraged. The work does not have to be music. Projects can include any sound recording, cellphone recording, field recording, meditation, movement score, text score, sound collage, spoken word, audio art, experimental DJ work, etc.. The LOI deadline is July 20, 2022.
PERSPECTIVES: SHERRILL ROLAND
July 14, 2021 | Streaming – A conversation with Sherrill Roland, featured artist in the exhibition I AM A CITIZEN OF THE WORLD, on his installation “After the Wake Up” (2017 – present). Roland is an artist based in Raleigh, NC, well known for The Jumpsuit Project, an ongoing work developed during his MFA at UNC Greensboro and inspired by his experiences with the justice system following a wrongful conviction and incarceration. In this conversation, we will discuss how “After the Wake Up” fits within the artist’s larger body of work and what citizenship means in the face of systemic violence.