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RUTH ASAWA’S RADICAL UNIVERSALISM
September 23, 2020 | Zoom – Jason Vartiker asks, “How are Ruth Asawa’s hanging wire sculptures a form of activism for racial justice?”
PERFORMANCE: TURNING JEWELS INTO WATER
September 10th, 2020 | Streaming – Turning Jewels Into Water exclusively premiere songs from their newly released album, Our Reflection Adorned by Newly Formed Stars, including ‘Flower In Flames,’ ‘Our Reflection Adorned by Newly Formed Stars’ and ‘Crushed Petals.’ Presented in partnership with Asheville Rhythm.
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Janet Heling Roberts
Hazel Larsen Archer, Janet Heling Roberts at Black Mountain College, 1945. Silver gelatin print. BMCM+AC permanent collection. Gift of Janet Heling Roberts.Janet Chloe Heling Roberts (Student 1943 - 1947, b. 1925 d. 2020) Born in 1925 in Lindenhurst, New York, Jan...
BMCM+AC FILMS @ HOME – DON’T KNOW, WE’LL SEE: THE WORK OF KAREN KARNES
September 8 – 15, 2020 | Limited time Vimeo screening – Don’t Know We’ll See: The Work of Karen Karnes (directed by Lucy Massie Phenix) | Featuring an introduction by artist and curator Anna Helgeson
Black Lives Matter
BMCM+AC believes that Black Lives Matter. We are committed to critically evaluating how our organization can confront implicit biases and are looking ahead to long term changes to ensure equity within our museum, community collaborations, exhibitions, curation, and...
AN INVISIBLE REVOLUTION
August 27, 2020 | Zoom – Join David McConville and Glenn English for an in-depth conversation on the life and work of R. Buckminster Fuller.
Animal Crossing: New Horizons Museum Day
May 18 Animal Crossing: New Horizons Museum Day Celebration Virtual "Gallery" tour and QR code sharing Want to bring a little bit of Black Mountain College into your world on Animal Crossing: New Horizons? We are celebrating the in-game Museum Week with the release of...
PERSPECTIVES: Steve Locke with Ben Hall
August 12, 2020 | Streaming – Artists Steve Locke and Ben Hall will discuss Locke’s current work, Homage to the Auction Block, a series informed by Josef Albers’ Homage to the Square.
A Conversation with Marilyn Chase on Ruth Asawa, BMC Artist
July 22, 2020 | Zoom – BMCM+AC presents a live conversation with Marilyn Chase, author of the newly published biography of artist and BMC alumna Ruth Asawa Everything She Touched: The Life of Ruth Asawa. This new biography recounts the incredible life of American sculptor Ruth Asawa (1926–2013), a woman who wielded imagination and hope in the face of intolerance and who transformed everything she touched into art. This lively and compelling new book by journalist and author Marilyn Chase is the first biography of this major American artist.
Question Everything! The Women of Black Mountain College
January 24, 2020 – March 20, 2021
IG TAKEOVER: MICHELLE YI MARTIN
June 7 – 12, 2021 | Instagram @bmcmuseum – Artist Michelle Yi Martin takes over our Instagram, sharing her connections to Black Mountain College in conjunction with the exhibition I AM A CITIZEN OF THE WORLD. Yi Martin lives in San Francisco, but actively draws on her Korean immigrant roots in her practice. She is a multi-disciplinary artist and self-taught weaver, who characterizes her work as a conversation between convention, art, utility, adornment, material, light, solidity, and space.
PERFORMANCE: THIRD COAST PERCUSSION
May 2, 2020 | Streaming – Grammy Award-winning quartet Third Coast Percussion performs a live stream concert featuring John Cage’s iconic masterpiece “Third Construction,” a new work composed for TCP by composer and modular synth practitioner Bana Haffar entitled “Shed,” and an early work by TCP ensemble member David Skidmore, “Ritual Music.”
MATERIAL SOUND AT HOME
May 21, 2020 | Web-based – Material Sound at Home is a new virtual experience that expands the ideas of the 2019 exhibition “Material Sound and Black Mountain College” within the context of the COVID-19 global crisis and lockdowns. Artists from the exhibition, Peter Blamey, Vicky Browne, Pia van Gelder, and Jenn Grossman, explore Material Sound through original performances recorded from their homes and home studios across Australia and in New York.
Animal Crossing: New Horizons Museum Day Celebration
May 18, 2020 | Nintendo Switch Online – We are excited to offer the opportunity to bring BMCM+AC into your Animal Crossing: New Horizons game through custom designs based on pieces from our permanent collection and inspiration to create galleries of your own.
Francine du Plessix Gray
Jonathan Williams, Francine du Plessix Gray (Cornwall Bridge, CT), 1969. Type C print. Collection of Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center. Gift of Jonathan Williams.Francine du Plessix Gray grew up with a troubled childhood which she chronicled Them: a memoir...
PERSPECTIVES+ : Julie Levin Caro
May 8, 2020 | Streaming – Julie Levin Caro discusses how her experience as a Black Mountain College scholar has served her as an educator during this crisis. She will share lessons she has learned through her research on such BMC educators as Josef and Anni Albers, Jacob Lawrence, Jean Varda, Leo Amino, and Jack Tworkov. Following the talk, we will transition over to a virtual happy hour for a moderated Q&A discussion.
REVOLVE: Home School
April 30, 2020 | Zoom – Hosted by Revolve Home School. Gain a new understanding of the legendary Black Mountain College from the perspective of the women who defined and championed the school and its community.
A Conversation with Jason Andrew and Julia K Gleich
April 8, 2020 | Streaming – Jason Andrew, independent curator and director of the Estate of Jack Tworkov, joins the roster of curators, scholars, and creatives invited to take over the BMCM+AC Instagram account. Julia K Gleich, choreographer and founder of Gleich Dances joins Jason Andrew to talk about the collaborative event they co-produced that took place on August 6, 2011 at the Masonic Temple in downtown Asheville.