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M.C. Richards Centennial Birthday Party
Sunday, July 10 – 1:00-4:00 p.m. @ Lake Eden Campus Help celebrate M.C. Richards' 100th birthday at the historic barns of Black Mountain College. Activities include pottery, poetry, refreshments, and the planting of a tree in honor of M.C. Richards. Free, but space is...
What is Modernism for our Mountains?
Thursday, June 16 – 5:45 p.m. @ BMCM+ACPresented by: Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center, AIA Asheville, and Modern AshevilleA community conversation between local architects on: What is Modernism at large and how did it first make itself known in Asheville?...
Tribute to M.C. Poetry Reading
Friday, July 8 – 7:30 p.m. Poets Paulus Berensohn and Julia Connor honor their friend and mentor M.C. Richards. $5 for BMCM+AC members + students with ID // $8 for non-members Continue to M.C. Richards Exhibition Website ↵
Ray Spillenger: Rediscovery of a Black Mountain Painter
January 22 – May 21, 2016
Roundtable Panel
Thursday, July 7 - 7:00 p.m.M.C. Richards' influential work affected the course of the visual and performing arts and education. In this panel, we will hear from people who knew her both personally and professionally as they consider her life and legacy. With Julia...
Carl Sandburg and the American South
Poetry Reading - Saturday May 7, 8:00 pm$5 for BMCM+AC members // $8 for non-membersOrganized by poet and educator Eric Steineger and co-sponsored by the Carl Sandburg Home and Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center, this evening of poetry is themed around the...
Ray Spillenger Related Programing
Presentation + Discussion//Making and Meaning: Photobooks and the Social Fabric//4.2.16
Saturday, April 2, 10:00 - 11:30 am Black Mountain College Museum + Arts CenterIn conjunction with photo+craft, internationally recognized artists Clarissa Sligh and Alejandro Cartagena show and talk about their work with...
Randy Shull, Wide Open: Architecture + Design for Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center
July 1 – September 3, 2016
M.C. Richards, Centering: Life + Art, 100 Years
June 3 – August 20, 2016
Presentation + Discussion//Building a Collection: A Conversation with David Raymond, Hedy Fischer and Randy Shull//4.3.16
Sunday, April 3, 11:00-12:30 pmBlack Mountain College Museum + Arts Center As part of photo+craft, these prominent collectors - David Raymond, Hedy Fischer and Randy Shull - discuss how they identified, formed and developed their passion for contemporary art and...
The Painters of Black Mountain College: Selections from Southern Collections
September 23 – December 31, 2016
Frame + Form | Screen Dance Festival
Friday, February 24, 2017 - Screening, 7:00 p.m. {69 Broadway}Saturday, February 25, 2017 - Workshop, 1:00 – 5:00 p.m. {69 Broadway} Presented in collaboration with The Media Arts Project, this two-day festival and workshop features dance created specifically for film...
An Inevitability: Ray Spillenger, Abstract Expressionism + a snowy weekend opening
Ray Spillenger: Rediscovery of a Black Mountain Painter celebrates the work of a relatively unknown Abstract Expressinist painter, Ray Spillengert. Now, unearthed from his 10th Street apartment, cleaned and framed on the wall of our gallery at 56 Broadway, Ray Spillenger’s paintings are finally shining.
Bidding Convergence/Divergence Farewell + Welcoming Ray Spillenger
In the aptly named “Form and Function” section of Modern Magazine’s Winter 2016 issue, Margot Ammidown remarked that “of all the institutions with a Bauhaus legacy, Black Mountain retains the image of a creative arcadia that produced many of the great artists of the mid-twentieth century.”
Interlude Call
FAQs: + Where will the projects take place? Projects will be presented in the two galleries of the BMCM+AC, located at 56 + 69 Broadway respectively. Other locations will be determined based on the needs of individual accepted projects in relation to each other. +...
Presentation and Book Launch
Thursday, March 3, 7:00 p.m.
It’s been over sixty-five years since Jerrold Levy and Richard Negro composed, circulated, and performed Poems by Gerard Legro on the campus of Black Mountain College. Dr. Alessandro Porco will discuss the history of Poems by Gerard Legro and read a short selection from the book. Free Admission
Public Discussion
Saturday, January 23, 11:00 a.m.
Join us for a fascinating discussion between current exhibition, of RAY SPILLENGER: Rediscovery of a Black Mountain Painter, curator Dr. Theodore E. Stebbins Jr. and Paul Spillenger, the artist’s son.
Free BMCM+AC members + students w/ID / $5 non-members
Faust Foutu, Performance
April 15, 16, 22, 23, 30 + May 1
In collaboration with Anam Cara Theatre Company, we present Robert Duncan’s Faust Foutu, an experimental exploration of the artist’s dilemma, drawing upon the Faust legend and set in the milieu of the 1950s avant-garde.
Film Screening // Rarely Seen Films from BMC + the ID Design Workshop // 11.19.15
Thursday, November 19, 7:00 pm
The Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center in downtown Asheville presents an evening of short films that include rarely seen footage from Black Mountain College and the Institute of Design.