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Journal of Black Mountain College Studies Volume 4Dean WilcoxPublished April 2013John Cage made you realize that there wasn't a thing called noise,it was just music you hadn't appreciated. ~ Brian Eno  For years now John Cage has been my “go-to guy” for potent...

Journal of Black Mountain College Studies Volume 4Úna Monaghan and Martin DowlingPublished April 2013 Owenvarragh: A Belfast Circus on The Star Factory Creating a Circus of Words, Music, and Sound: From Roaratorio to Owenvarragh Rhythm, Rhymes, and Pleasure: Mesostics...

Journal of Black Mountain College Studies Volume 4Rand Brandes and John CheekPublished April 2013We would like to thank Dr. Blake Hobby and Dr. Brian Butler for inviting us to gather articles and work closely to shape this issue of The Black Mountain College Studies...

Journal of Black Mountain College Studies Volume 5Connie BosticPublished June 2014

Journal of Black Mountain College Studies Volume 5Melissa GwynPublished June 2014A naturally occurring carbon hollow sphere, the Buckminsterfullerene looks like one of Fuller’s geodesic domes. Known also as “buckyballs,” these geodesic shaped molecules are detectable...

Journal of Black Mountain College Studies Volume 5Melissa GwynPublished June 2014An artist living in San Francisco and teaching at the University of California Santa Cruz after moving to the West Coast from Brooklyn in 2000, Melissa Gwyn received her MFA from Yale in...

Journal of Black Mountain College Studies Volume 5Buckminster Fuller InstitutePublished June 2014Buckminster Fuller’s prolific life of exploration, discovery, invention and teaching was driven by his intention “to make the world work for 100% of humanity, in the...

Journal of Black Mountain College Studies Volume 6Micah Wilford WilkinsPublished June 2014“Our efforts to contribute in a small way to better interracial living may not be just another one of those fads of which we were so often accused. It must be an effort as hard...

Journal of Black Mountain College Studies Volume 5BMCS StaffPublished June 2014R. Buckminster Fuller Collection at Stanford Librarieshttp://library.stanford.edu/collections/r-buckminster-fuller-collection The Estate of R. Buckminster...

Journal of Black Mountain College Studies Volume 5Fall 2014 Conference and CFPPublished June 2014International Conference September 26-28, 2014 Thematic Focus: The Writers of Black Mountain College The 6th Annual ReVIEWING Black Mountain College conference will focus...

Journal of Black Mountain College Studies Volume 5Steve LansfordPublished June 2014[The following is the text portion of Steve Lansford’s multimedia presentation Thoughtland. Links to the audio/visual portion of the presentation are given at the beginning of each...

Journal of Black Mountain College Studies Volume 6Jonathan FisherPublished June 2014“I hope, earnestly, that your efforts to get adequate support for Black Mountain College will be successful. The work and life of the College (and it is impossible in its case to...

Journal of Black Mountain College Studies Volume 6Interviewer: Connie BosticPublished June 2014   Vera Baker Williams Oral History from BMCM+AC on Vimeo.Transcript: Bostic: This is Connie Bostic, it's October 3rd, 2008, we're in the home of Linda and Ron Larsen...

Journal of Black Mountain College Studies Volume 6Joshua WatskyPublished June 2014 In 1998, as curator Elizabeth Licata was working to prepare a catalogue for the traveling exhibit, “In Company,” she interviewed Robert Creeley for the history she would write of his...

Journal of Black Mountain College Studies Volume 6Julie J. ThomsonPublished June 2014Black Mountain College is widely known for its arts, craft, and literary programs, its famous alumni and teachers, and its innovative approach to education. However the role it played...

Journal of Black Mountain College Studies Volume 6Suzanne PenuelPublished June 2014In the mid-twentieth century, renowned academic malcontent John Andrew Rice, second member of a three-man dynasty of college presidents, was probably best known for his position as...

Journal of Black Mountain College Studies Volume 6Courtney Lee WeidaPublished June 2014In considering craft education from a holistic perspective, a central voice is renowned poet and potter, Mary Caroline (M. C.) Richards, who once noted that one “cannot talk about...