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Black Mountain College Studies: Call for Papers
Call for Papers: Black Mountain College Studies special volume on Hilda Morley (online peer-reviewed journal; deadline 8/15/2015). Blake Hobby, Executive Editor; Chris Wilson Simpkins, Guest Editor.
Slated for publication in late fall of 2015, this volume of BMCS will contain scholarly essays, poems, artworks, and other forms of media that explore Hilda Morley’s relationship to Black Mountain College.
Grand {Re}OPENING : Phase 1 of our 3-year Expansion Plan
Our {Re}OPENING marks the completion of Phase 1 of our Windgate Charitable Foundation-funded expansion project. Our space has been redesigned and renovated by internationally-known artist and designer Randy Shull.
Shull has sculpted a more accessible museum, library, and study center with multiple ways to access the history and legacy of BMC, a more efficient workspace, and an immersive gallery that takes its aesthetic inspiration and orientation from Black Mountain College.
Last day of Dan Rice Exhibition
Today is the last day to view Dan Rice at Black Mountain College: Painter Among the Poets. The show is closing down early in preparation for the museum opening up at the end of January with a redesigned space and new exhibition Poemumbles – 30 years of Susan Weil’s poem/images.
DOUBLETAKE: A Look Back at the 2014 {Re}HAPPENING
Thursday, August 21 at 7:30pm Black Mountain College56 Broadway in downtown Asheville.Admission is free, though donations are welcome. All donations from this evening's event will go to support the 2015 {Re}HAPPENING.The Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center and...
Poetry + Music
Sunday, August 17, 2014 - 3:00 pm$10 in advance/ $12 at the doorTracey Schmidt recites poetry by memory to music, in the tradition of the middle eastern poets. She has performed and taught internationally, and most recently performed in Ireland, where she was...
MoMA Video of Dorothea Rockburne
Great MoMA video of Dorothea Rockburne, whose work, "Shadowed Perimeter" is featured in our current show. This exhibition also features a 2002 oral history interview with Rockburne! Link - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AN2DJxMLFOw
The Conference 2014 Deadline Approaches
June 30th is the deadline for proposals to present/perform at our annual conference ReVIEWING Black Mountain College scheduled for September 26-28, 2014 here in beautiful Asheville, NC. The theme is "The Writers of Black Mountain College" but any topics related to BMC...
Music Performance – Solo Cello with JARI PIPER
On Wednesday, June 25th at 7:30pm the Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center in downtown Asheville will present a solo recital of contemporary music for the cello with Jari Piper performing work by living composers. He will share stories and background...
Presentation – Reflections on 9/11
Wednesday, June 18, 2014 - 7:30 pm Grace G. Campbell, Lecturer-UNCA Humanities Program $5 / Free for BMCM+AC members + students w/ID. This presentation considers how the 9/11 attacks have been represented and re-interpreted in the West. The world’s geopolitical...
MadHat’s Poetry, Prose & Anything Goes
Friday, June 20, 2014 8:00 pm Poetry Reading Featuring: Tina Barr, Matthew Olzmann, Melissa Crowe and Pasckie Pascua $8 / $5 for BMCM+AC members & students w/ID
ReVIEWING Black Mountain College 6
h2>Call for papers and proposals. All disciplines invited. September 26-28, 2014 Asheville, North Carolina Thematic Focus: The Writers of Black Mountain College Hosted and sponsored by Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center and the University of North Carolina...
MadHat’s Poetry, Prose & Anything Goes: Spring Fever Celebration
Friday March 21, 2014 at 7:00pm Admission is $8 / $5 for BMCM+AC members & students w/ID. Dorianne Laux, Joseph Millar, Caleb Beissert, Vievee Francis, Matt Olzmann, Landon Godfrey, Barbie Angell, Jadwiga McKay, Lockie Hunter, Jeff Davis and a few other...
Film Screening
Thursday, March 6, 2014 7:30 pm Merce Cunningham Dance Company: Robert Rauschenberg Collaborations. Three dances documented by filmmaker Charles Atlas (Suite for Five, Summerspace & Interscape) illuminate the fruitful collaborations between Merce Cunningham,...
The 5th Annual {Re} Happening
April 5th, 2014 The {Re}HAPPENING honors the dynamic artistic energy of Black Mountain College and pays tribute to the groundbreaking innovations of that community of artists. Meanwhile, the event launches a contemporary platform for artists and patrons to experience...
Bucky’s Dymaxion Deployment Units
In the 1940s, R. Buckminster Fuller converted grain bins into emergency housing. For a long time it seemed they had disappeared from the earth, but at least a dozen have survived in New Jersey. A very interesting article from the New York Times. Click Here...
Bauhaus in America – Film Screening
Last night we had an event at the museum, a screening of the prize-winning film Bauhaus in America (1995), directed by Judith Pearlman. We just about had a full house, so we're very thankful for everyone who came out on a rainy night for the film and the following...
New Mural Celebration
This Friday Nov. 8th, join us at 5 Walnut Wine Bar in downtown Asheville from 5-7pm to celebrate a new work by Jimmy O'Neal commissioned by 5 Walnut for the Carolina Lane alley wall. Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center worked with 5 Walnut Wine Bar to select...
Tour of BMC Campus
ReViewing Black Mountain College 5: Shaping Craft + Design was a great success last weekend! Thank you to everyone who made the conference possible! We had a wonderful time Sunday, October 13. We met at the museum in the morning for a wonderful brunch with coffee and...
Welcome to Busytown: Or, What Ever Happened to Graphic Design?
Join us Friday, October 25 at noon for a public lecture at the museum, "Welcome to Busytown: Or, What Ever Happened to Graphic Design?" by Ellen Lupton on the current state of graphic design. The lecture is $7 for the general public and free to museum members and...
Book Launch and Reading – Far from the Centers of Ambition
One of the many events taking place during our upcoming ReVIEWING BMC 5 conference weekend (Oct. 11-13) is a book launch of a two-volume set published by Lorimer Press and funded by Lenoir-Rhyne University. Far from the Centers of Ambition grew out of Lenoir-Rhyne...