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Performance: Tashi Dorji + Tyler Damon
Sunday, October 30 - 7:00 p.m. {56 Broadway} Suggested Donation $5 - $10 Tashi Dorji (electric guitar) & Tyler Damon (drums/percussion) have come together from a place of mutual admiration. Though the pair has scarcely spoken of a musical intention, together they...
MadHat’s Poetry: New Voices
Friday, September 16th – 7:30 pm {56 Broadway}
$5 for BMCM+AC members + students with IDs / $8 general admission
Zola Marcus: Kinetic Origins
January 13 – May 13, 2017
Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center Inaugurates New Gallery Space with Exhibition of Work by Randy Shull
Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center (BMCM+AC), in Asheville, NC, presents an inaugural exhibition celebrating the completion of a three-year, two-phase renovation and expansion project led by artist and designer Randy Shull and J. Richard Gruber, PhD, director...
Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center Names Jeff Arnal Executive Director
The Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center has announced the appointment of Jeff Arnal as Executive Director. In this role, Arnal will provide strategic and operational leadership and further develop the organization’s programming and resources. He will assume...
Performance: Happenchance, An Exploration into Unknown Interiors
Saturday, December 3 – 7:30 p.m. {69 Broadway}
Choreographer Kathy Meyers Leiner + guest artists Sara Baird, Lindsey Kelley Brewer and Jenni Cockrell performed a work in progress that drew inspiration from the original Black Mountain College Happenings and explores the known and unknown interiors of person, place and thing.
Kimathi Moore and Ross Gentry Performance
Thursday, October 20th // 8:00PM
Kimathi Moore, experimental electronic composer, will present his work “Everlasting Castle”, and
Presentation: Susan S. Szenasy’s Ideas Without Walls / In-between the Spaces: Making Things in the Digital Age
Friday, October 28 – 12 p.m. {69 Broadway}
Susan S. Szenasy, Publisher and Editor in Chief at Metropolis Magazine, responds to questions about the tension between local and global, the resurgence of urban manufacturing, and how the new generation of designers fits into the growing culture of making.
Film Screening: The Painters of Black Mountain College
Thursday, December 8 – 7:00 p.m. {69 Broadway}
Please join us for an evening short films about Black Mountain College painters.
The Painters of Black Mountain College: Selections from Southern Collections Opening Reception
Friday, September 23rd – 7:00 – 9:00PM {69 Broadway}
Presentation: Ferment + Complications at BMC – Mary Emma Harris
Wednesday, November 16th – 7:00 p.m. {56 Broadway}
The final few years of BMC’s existence were full of new priorities and challenges. The creative ferment of the 1940s continued, but the leadership vacuum in the wake of the departures of Josef and Anni Albers, Ted Dreier, and others opened the door for Charles Olson to step in.
Workshop on Process
Sunday, September 4th – 10 AM – Noon {56 Broadway}
Black Mountain College alumni Basil and Martha King are both writers with an extensive publishing history who lead the workshop on Reading, Writing, and Editing.
Film Screening + Poetry Reading
Thursday, September 1st – 7:00 PM {56 Broadway}
Basil King: Mirage is a 2012 documentary (22 min) about BMC alumnus, painter, and writer Basil King by Nicole Peyrafitte and Miles Joris-Peyrafitte. The film depicted the intimacy between writing and painting in King’s work. This short film was followed by a poetry reading by Basil King.
BATTLE TRANCE – BLADE OF LOVE
September 9, 2016 | BMCM+AC {69 Broadway} – New York-based tenor saxophone quartet Battle Trance performed a benefit concert at the Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center, touring their sophomore album Blade of Love (New Amsterdam Records).
The follow-up to their widely acclaimed debut Palace of Wind (2014), Blade of Love is an elemental composition that aims to fulfill the tenor saxophone’s expansive potential as an ensemble instrument. Working within the intimate intersection of the human body/breath and the saxophone, Blade of Love is a spiritual and enigmatic work with a deep emotional resonance.
Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center Inaugurates New Gallery Space with Exhibition of Work by Randy Shull
Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center (BMCM+AC), in Asheville, NC, presents an inaugural exhibition celebrating the completion of a three-year, two-phase renovation and expansion project led by artist and designer Randy Shull and J. Richard Gruber, PhD, director of the newly launched Architecture + Design Institute (A+D@BMCM+AC).
Organized by Gruber, Randy Shull/Wide Open: Architecture and Design at Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center examines the enduring legacy of Black Mountain College (BMC, 1933‒57) through the lens of its architecture and design program and the influential innovators who taught there while contextualizing Shull’s design and construction process directly inspired by them. The exhibition is on view July 1‒September 3, 2016, and is accompanied by a publication.
Annual Meeting
Tuesday June 28th – 6 p.m. {56 Broadway}
+ Learn about our accomplishments in the last year
+ Join us in celebrating our upcoming year – including exciting programming + events, and the opening of our expanded space on July 1, 2016!
Panel – Mid-Century Modern: Design for Democracy
Wednesday, August 3 – 7:30 p.m. {69 Broadway}
Moderated by curator, lecturer, and essayist Andrew Glasgow.
Participants include: Charlton Bradsher, of Charlton Bradsher Art + Design; Tamara Reid, Textiles Manager at Knoll Textiles; and Troy Winterrowd…
Presentation – Josef Albers and the Architecture of Color
Sunday, August 14 — 4:00 p.m. {69 Broadway}
Marcia R. Cohen, Professor SCAD Atlanta
This presentation will explore the influences, interactions, and parallels in ideas about color for Albers’ peers, students,…
Grand Opening! Randy Shull Wide Open: Architecture + Design at Black Mountain College Museum + Art Center
July 1 – September 3, 2016 {69 Broadway}
The Board of Directors and Architecture + Design at BMCM+AC invite you to the Grand Opening of the second venue…
Film Screening – M.C. Richards: The Fire Within
Thursday, July 21st – 7:30 p.m. {69 Broadway}
This inspiring documentary by Richard Kane and Melody Lewis-Kane celebrates the life and legacy of M.C. Richards.