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CONVERGENCE / DIVERGENCE: Exploring Black Mountain College and Chicago’s New Bauhaus / Institute of Design
September 4 – December 31, 2015
Poetry Reading // MadHat’s Poetry Prose & Anything Goes // 11.14.15
Saturday, November 14, 8:00 pm
MadHat Press seeks to foster the work of writers and poets: explosive, lyrical, passionate, deeply wrought voices that stretch the boundaries of language, narrative and image, vital and enduring literary voices that sing on the page as well as in the mind.
Workshop // Notan: Role Reversal in Design // 10.25.15
Notan: Role Reversal in DesignSunday, October 25, 10:00 – 4:00 p.m.Heather Allen Hietala will lead this workshop focusing on the power and magic of the Japanese design principal of Notan. We will explore the interaction between positive and negative space, between a...
Ideas Without Walls/In-between the Spaces: Works in Progress with Arne Emerson
Friday October 23, 2015, 12:00 – 1:30pm
As part of the Ideas without Walls: In between the Spaces series, Arne Emerson of Morphosis Architects will focus on the interaction between design, technology, and fabrication, and outline how ‘process’ drives and catalyzes theory and contextual research into realized form.
My experience of Black Mountain College by Harry Weitzer
Considering the short time that Black Mountain College existed, there have been an unusual number of books written about the college. Only one contains personal reminiscences of people who actually attended the college and the writings included in it are very brief. I...
ReVIEWING Black Mountain College 10
Thematic Focus the Summer Art Institutes
ReVIEWING Black Mountain College 9
Thematic Focus on the Bauhaus + USA
ReVIEWING Black Mountain College 8
Featuring keynote speaker Helen Molesworth
ReVIEWING Black Mountain College 7
Thematic Focus on the Bauhaus + USA
Travel Scholarship Supports Asheville Artist’s Trip to Russia
The Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center (BMCM+AC) announces that Design Apprentice and Museum Intern Carley Brandau will travel to Moscow, Russia this summer to take part in the exhibition Costume at the Turn of the Century 1990-2015 at the A.A. Bakhrushin State Central Theatre Museum as part of BMCM+AC’s new Research Travel Grant program. Brandau’s BMCM+AC-administered travel scholarship is generously funded by a donation from Randy Shull and Hedy Fischer.
Film Screening // How to Draw a Bunny // 08.20.15
Thursday, August 20, 7:30 p.m. John Walter and Andrew Moore's award-winning documentary tells the story of collage artist Ray Johnson, whose death was cloaked in mystery and whose life and art remain enigmatic. A real-life art mystery tale. $5 BMCM+AC members &...
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DOUBLETAKE: A look back at [Re]HAPPENING 2015
Part of Broadway Block Party. On Saturday August 29th, arts organizations and businesses in the Broadway Arts District (B.A.D.), Asheville’s newest downtown cultural hub, will be hosting a free block party featuring exhibitions, installations, performances, hands-on...
We have been selected as a Critic’s Pick by ARTFORUM.
Our current exhibition has been selected as a Critic’s Pick by ARTFORUM.
SOMETHING ELSE ENTIRELY: Ray Johnson, Dick Higgins and the making of THE PAPER SNAKE is on display until August 22, 2015. The exhibition features the production materials from The Paper Snake, as well as collages by Ray Johnson, many of which have never before been exhibited.
Press Release – in the arm of flowers
Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center 56 Broadway, downtown Asheville bmcmac@bellsouth.net or 828-350-8484 Hours: Tues.-Wed. 12-4, Thurs-Sat. 11-5 and by appointment Contact: Alice Sebrell at 828-350-8484 ASHEVILLE, NC – June 18, 2015 BLACK MOUNTAIN COLLEGE...
Schedule – Reviewing Black Mountain College 7
Conference Location UNC Asheville's Reuter Center home of the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) FRIDAY SEPT. 25 1:00 p.m. - Lobby Registration opens 1:30 p.m. Room 206 STUDENT PANEL moderator: Jay Miller Julia Park - Authenticity in Art and Education: Mary...
Talk + Book Signing // Eva Diaz // 08.06.15
Thursday, August 6, 2015 at 7:00pmEva Diaz, Author of The Experimenters: Chance and Design at Black Mountain College. With The Experimenters, Díaz focuses on the significance of three key teachers: Josef Albers, John Cage, and R. Buckminster Fuller. Díaz’s focus is on...
Workshop // Image Speak // 07.12.15
Sunday, July 12, 12:00 – 4:00 p.m.Image Speak taught by Lynn Underwood, expressive arts educator and coach. This workshop will focus on process as opposed to product, creating images (including collage and mandala) with a variety of media and then giving each image a...
Performance // In the Arm of Flowers // 07.03.15
Friday, July 3, 8:00 p.m.Informed by a three year correspondence, in the arm of flowers, is an interdisciplinary performance by Megan Ransmeier and Julia Rich. Two women inhabit a mythic landscape of sand and ice, inviting inclusive spectrums of connection through...
SOMETHING ELSE ENTIRELY: Ray Johnson, Dick Higgins and the making of THE PAPER SNAKE
June 5 – August 22, 2015
BMCM+AC in The New York Times
From the article:
“We try to have one foot in the past, honoring what happened at the college,” said Alice Sebrell, the museum’s program director, who runs the institution with a staff of two and a few interns. “But we also keep one foot very much in the present, looking to the future and what ideas artists are investigating today.”