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CITIZEN SPINS SESSION: BMCM+AC
February 18 + 19, 2021 | Citizen Vinyl Session Cafe and Bar – In this two-day Citizen Spins Session from the team at BMCM+AC, listen in to recordings from Black Mountain College icons like John Cage, David Tudor, and Lou Harrison as well as the influential figures that inspired them and those who are keeping that legacy alive.
FAITH IN ARTS: A CONVERSATION WITH ANDRÉ DAUGHTRY
February 10, 2021 | Streaming – A Faith in Arts conversation with Andre Daughtry, interdisciplinary artist, writer, and Community Minister of the Arts at Judson Memorial Church, NYC.
CONVERSATIONS: FAITH IN ARTS
Ongoing | Streaming – BMCM+AC and UNC Asheville host conversations and interviews with a diverse group of artists, curators, faith leaders, and scholars to explore the role of arts in spiritual practice and religious life and the role of spiritual practice and religious life in the arts.
ASHEVILLE FRINGE ARTS FESTIVAL – ROBERT LADISLAS DERR’S NEW DAY
January 17 – 24, 2021 | Streaming – Revisit the 2020 Fringe Arts Festival interactive performance New Day hosted by BMCM+AC where Derr casts the viewers as painters in a playful investigation of Kenneth Noland’s painting New Day, 1967.
PERFORMANCE: SOFIA JERNBERG
December 9, 2020 | Streaming – Experimental composer and vocalist Sofia Jernberg presents two solo performances at Gränslandet that avant-garde icon Laurie Anderson calls “extraordinary” and “transcendent.” Sofia Jernberg is a Swedish experimental singer, composer, improviser, and performer. She grew up in Ethiopia, Vietnam, and Sweden. Since 2011, she lives in Oslo, Norway.
PERSPECTIVES: ASHER GAMEDZE AND ANOTHER TIME ENSEMBLE
December 2, 2020 | Streaming – For this performance, from a rooftop in historic Cairo, Asher Gamedze and Another Time Ensemble meditate and speculate on the possibility and necessity of another time. The performance will be followed by a discussion with Asher Gamedze.
Jacob Lawrence
Jacob Lawrence and Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence, Black Mountain College, 1946. Photograph by Nancy Newhall.Jacob Lawrence, “Windows,” 1977. Silkscreen, ed. 70/300. Collection of Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center. Gift of Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence.Jacob Lawrence...
Joseph Fiore
Joseph Fiore, “#7-54 The Gathering,” 1954. Oil on canvas. Collection of Matt Chambers and John Cram.Joseph Fiore, "Ducks on Lake Eden," 1947. Oil on cardboard. Collection of Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center. Gift of Janet Heling Roberts.Joseph Fiore (b....
Ingeborg Lauterstein
Ingeborg Lauterstein, “Portrait of Sewell Sillman,” c. 1948-49. Oil on masonite. Courtesy of The Johnson Collection.Ingeborg Lauterstein (Student 1948-1949) (b.1923-d.2012) Ingeborg Lauterstein, known as Inga, was born in Vienna, Austria, and lived there during...
Ruth Asawa
Ruth Asawa, Untitled (S.373, Hanging Six-Lobed, Multilayered Interlocking Continuous Form within a Form), 1954. Enameled and oxidized copper wire. Collection of Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center. Gift of Lorna Blaine Halper.Ruth Asawa (Student 1946-1949)...
Josef Albers
Josef Albers, “Variant/Adobe,” 1947. Oil on blotting paper. Collection of Hedy Fischer + Randy Shull.Josef Albers, "Formula Articulation, Portfolio I, Folder 17," 1972. 15 x 40 inches (paper) 8.5 x 17 inches (ea. image), © Harry N. Abrams, Inc. and Ives-Sillman, Inc....
Anni Albers
Anni Albers, “Study for Nylon Rug from Connections,” 1959/1983. Silkscreen on paper, ed. 60/125. Courtesy of The Johnson Collection.Anni Albers (Faculty Weaving and Textile Design 1933-1949) (b.1899-d.1994) Anni Fleischman arrived at the Bauhaus in 1922, intending to...
Leo Amino
Leo Amino, “Transfigured,” 1950. Resin with mixed materials. The Johnson Collection, Spartanburg, South Carolina.Leo Amino (b. 1911 Taiwan, Japan - d. 1989 New York, NY) Leo Amino immigrated to the US from Japan in 1929. Briefly in 1937, he studied wood carving with...
Yella Pessl
Unknown photographer, Yella Pessl (b. 1906 Vienna, Austria - d. 1991 Northampton, MA). Digital print from scan. Western Regional Archives, State Archives of NC.Yella Pessl (b. 1906 Vienna, Austria - d. 1991 Northampton, MA) Austrian-born American harpsichordist,...
Quentin Kyles Miller
Quentin Kyles Miller (b. 1925 Asheville, NC - d. 1992 Asheville, NC) Application to BMC, 1947. Digital print from archival scan. Western Regional Archives, State Archives of NC.Quentin Kyles Miller (b. 1925 Asheville, NC - d. 1992 Asheville, NC) Quentin Kyles Miller...
Kirill Chenkin
Unknown photographer, Kirill Chenkin (b. 1916 Petrograd, Russia – d. 2008 Munich, Germany). Digital print from scan. Western Regional Archives, State Archives of NC.Kirill Chenkin (b. 1916 Petrograd, Russia – d. 2008 Munich, Germany) Kirill Chenkin (Khenkin) would...
Shōji Hamada
Shōji Hamada, “Bowl,” ca. 1952. Glazed stoneware. Collection of Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center. Gift of Betty Kuhn.Shōji Hamada (b. 1894 Tokyo, Japan - d. 1978 Mashiko, Japan) Japanese potter Shōji Hamada played a pivotal role in the establishment of the...
Jean Varda
Jean Varda, “Veiled Figures.” Fabric, textile, and mixed media collage on board. The Johnson Collection, Spartanburg, South Carolina.Jean Varda (b. 1893 Smyrna, Turkey - d. 1971 Mexico City, Mexico) Jean Varda was a charismatic painter, collage and mosaic artist born...
Xanti Schawinsky
Helen M. Post, "Xanti Schawinsky's Spectodrama," 1936-1937. Collection of Michael Reid.Xanti Schawinsky (b. 1904 Basel, Switzerland - d. 1979 Locarno, Switzerland) Alexander (Xanti) Schawinsky was born to Jewish parents in Switzerland. He was one of the original...
Ati Gropius Forberg Johansen
Ati Gropius Johansen, “Untitled (Gondolier Boats).” Ink on pulp paper. Collection of Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center. Gift of the Artist.Ati Gropius Forberg Johansen (Student 1943-1946) (b.1926-d.2014) Ati Gropius Forberg Johansen was an educator,...