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OPENING RECEPTION + GALLERY TALK
Shared History Opening Reception: Friday, June 1, 5:30 – 8pm {56 Broadway} Gallery talk by exhibition curator Erin Dickey at 6:30pm {56 Broadway} 2018 marks the 25th anniversary of the founding of BMCM+AC. As the last exhibition to be held in our 56 Broadway gallery...
Odyssey High School Open Mic Coffee Night
Friday, February 9, 7pm {56 Broadway} Odyssey High School will host an Open Mic Coffee Night at Black Mountain College Museum. Students from Odyssey and other area schools will perform music, poetry, and improv. Wonderful homemade baked goods, coffee, tea, and hot...
PERFORMANCE AND WORKSHOP – MARIA CHAVEZ
June 5, 2018 (56 Broadway) – María Chávez, solo turntable performance and workshop. Born in Lima, Peru and based in NYC, María Chávez is best known as an abstract turntablist, sound artist, and DJ. Her work combines recorded sounds from vinyl records with the electroacoustic sounds of vinyl and needle in various deteriorating phases. Accidents, coincidence, and failures are themes that unite her sound sculptures, installations, and other works with her improvised solo turntable performance practice.
DANCE HEGINBOTHAM – {Re}HAPPENING 7
Dance HeginbothamFeatured performers, {Re}HAPPENING 7Historic Black Mountain College campus at Lake EdenMarch 25, 2017 Dance Heginbotham (DH) is a New York-based contemporary dance company committed to supporting, producing, and sustaining the work of...
THE TESLA QUARTET – SELECTIONS BY HUGO KAUDER
February 23, 2018 | BMCM+AC {56 Broadway} – The Tesla Quartet performed selections by composer Hugo Kauder. This special program is presented in collaboration with The Hugo Kauder Society. Kauder was a composer-in-residence at BMC in the summer of 1945. The program included Kauder’s String Quartet 4, a piece performed at BMC in 1945, as well as Bartok’s String Quartet 3 and transcriptions of works by Gesualdo and Ravel by Tesla violinist Ross Snyder. Praised for their “superb capacity to find the inner heart of everything they play, regardless of era, style, or technical demand” (The International Review of Music), the Tesla Quartet brings refinement and prowess to both new and established repertoire. The group was formed at The Juilliard School in 2008 and includes Ross Snyder (violin), Michelle Lie (violin), Edwin Kaplan (viola), and Serafim Smigelskiy (cello).
ARTIST + CURATOR TALK
Saturday, January 20, 2pm {56 Broadway} Conversation between curator Jason Andrew and Jerry van de Wiele. In association with Gerald van de Wiele: VARIATIONS Seven Decades of Painting (1951-2017) (January 19 – May 19, 2018). This historic retrospective captures...
BIG EARS LISTENING SESSION: Black Mountain College 1952
Friday, March 23 {Big Ears Festival - Knoxville, TN} Listening Sessions at Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center in Asheville, NC investigate the larger lineage of music and interconnected art disciplines and examine the evolving culture of listening. This...
BMC Active Archive Artist Residency
Learn about the BMC Active Archive Artist Residency – a program that invites artists to develop work inspired by Black Mountain College
BMC International Artist Prize
Read more about BMCM+AC’s project to conserve one of Black Mountain College’s most iconic artworks.
Jean Charlot Fresco Conservation
Read more about BMCM+AC’s project to conserve one of Black Mountain College’s most iconic artworks.
Between Form and Content: Perspectives on Jacob Lawrence and Black Mountain College
September 28, 2018 – January 12, 2019
Gerald van de Wiele: VARIATIONS – Seven Decades of Painting (1951-2017)
January 19 – May 19, 2018
ARTIST TALK: Supper, People on the Move
October 26, 3:15pm - 5pm {Graham Theater, Walker Arts Center- Asheville School, 360 Asheville School Road} An Artist Talk by Pablo Meninato and Jennifer Baker, at Asheville School, will detail the process by which the performance "Supper, People on the Move" and...
OPENING RECEPTION + ARTIST TALK: Gerald van de Wiele
Friday, January 19, 5:30 – 8pm {56 Broadway} Gerald van de Wiele: VARIATIONS Seven Decades of Painting (1951-2017) - Curated by Jason Andrew This historic retrospective captures seventy years of art by Gerald van de Wiele in an exhibition that highlights the artist’s...
LISTENING SESSION: Jonathon Keats
Friday, April 20, 7pm {56 Broadway} Universal Music with Jonathon Keats and UNCA Copernican Orchestra This session will focus on Black Mountain College Legacy Fellow Jonathon Keats' collaboration with UNCA faculty and students to create universal music, as well as a...
Looking Back at ReVIEWING 9
This year’s ReVIEWING, our 9th annual International Conference on Black Mountain College, marked a pivotal point in BMCM+AC’s history. With two keynote presentations, the contributions of over 60 scholars, curators, and artists from around the world, the Southeast...
Episode 5: Martha McDonald + Bauhaus
Our 5th episode is an interview with interdisciplinary artist Martha McDonald, who’s the curator of our current permanent collection exhibition titled “ACTIVE ARCHIVE: Martha McDonald.” Martha will also be creating an installation and performance in response to...
Episode 4: Mel Chin
Our fourth episode is an interview with conceptual artist Mel Chin, who will be giving a keynote address at our upcoming ReViewing 9 conference. We discuss the social and political side of his works, the process of dismantling personal and societal delusions, and how...
Episode 3: Make Noise + Frank Hursh
Our third episode of BMC Radio features two segments, the first being an interview with Tony Rolando, Kelly Kelbel, and Walker Farrell from Make Noise, a modular synthesizer company in Asheville, NC who will be giving a free talk + performance at 69 Broadway on...
Episode 2: Foley + Motherwell + Lake Eden Soundmap
Our second episode has three segments, the first being an interview with choreographer and performer Meg Foley, who will be giving a performance at BMCM+AC on Saturday, July 8th. The second segment explores the life and works of Robert Motherwell, a notable Abstract...