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Asheville Newcomers Club at BMCM+AC
Today we received a morning visit from the Asheville Newcomers Club! Club members new to Asheville and those just looking to learn more about their hometown took in a short documentary about the history and philosophy of Black Mountain College. Afterwards, Program...
The 2014 {Re}HAPPENING Artist Call
Applications available now through November 1, 2013 The call is now open for project proposals for the 2014 {Re}HAPPENING. Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center and The Media Arts Project hope that you'll join us again this year to share art and inspiration on...
In Process: Shaping Craft + Design
This week we're busy laying out our new show, Black Mountain College: Shaping Craft + Design. It has been so exciting to see the pieces come out of boxes, out of storage. Among many many other things (furniture, ceramics, textiles, paintings, prints, ephemera...),...
Remembering Ruth Asawa
Modernist sculptor Ruth Asawa, famed for her hanging wire sculptures, came to Black Mountain College from Milwaukee State Teachers College, after having spent the early years of WWII in internment camps for Japanese Americans. After studying with Josef Albers from...
The BMC Summer Sessions
In 1944, Black Mountain College began the first of its famed summer music and arts institutes. Of the sessions, Martin Duberman in Black Mountain, An Exploration in Community writes, "From that first summer, Jean Charlot had left behind two frescoes on the reinforced...
Cutting Spaces
On Sunday, August 11, Nicole McConville and Travis Medford will team up in our space once again to lead a collage workshop that will examine architecture through the lens of collage. This past March, McConville and Medford provided an overview of the craft of collage...
Sounds of BMC
PennSound, a project of the University of Pennsylvania's Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing, is an excellent audio archive, with pages dedicated to BMC rector and instructor Charles Olson and BMC alumnus and poet Robert Creeley. Click here for the studio...
Black Mountain Review 7
Our exhibition this summer is heavily geared towards architecture and design. With the video wall displays, and tables full of ephemera, it's immersive. Next time you're in the gallery though, take a peek at the small display near the books. It'll give you a hint...
Designing summer…
It seems like this summer in Asheville is chock-full of craft-, design-, and architecture-centered programming. In addition to last night's illuminating discussion on the influence of Modernist Architecture on Western NC, here are a few of the other exciting things...
Modernist Asheville?
As part of the programming for our new exhibition, Harry Seidler: Architecture, Art and Collaborative Design, we're presenting a conversation with Jim Samsel and John Rogers. Jim Samsel, AIA, is founding principal of Samsel Architects, P.A., established in 1985. His...
Color Catalogue Workshop with Marcia Cohen
On Sunday June 16, 2013 Black Mountain College Museum will be hosting a color worksop in conjunction with our new exhibition, Harry Seidler: Architecture, Art and Collaborative Design. Savannah College of Art and Design professor Marcia Cohen will be leading a...
Unpacking Harry Seidler
In preparation for Friday's opening, we've been unloading many large crates for our new exhibition, Harry Seidler: Art, Architecture, and Collaborative Design. This will be our first show featuring architecture as the main focus.
Opening Reception and Lecture for Harry Seidler: Architecture, Art and Collaborative Design
Aside from the spanakopita from Filo, we're expecting the highlight of Friday's opening reception for our new exhibition, Harry Seidler: Architecture, Art, and Collaborative Design, to be curator Vladimir Belogolovsky's gallery talk at 6:00pm. Belogolovsky, founder...
Woven Textures from BMC
Of the pieces on display in our current exhibition, Black Mountain College: Shaping Craft + Design, we have a special addition to our collection - a Shuttle-Craft Practical Loom that was used in the BMC Weaving Workshop. During the exhibition's opening on Sept. 6th,...
At the Opening Reception
We had an extra long and free opening reception for our new exhibition Shaping Craft & Design this past Friday. Among the pieces that captured attention: Leo Amino's molded plastic piece Transfigured, Ruth Asawa's copper wire sculptures, and the BMC loom, lovingly...
ReVIEWING Black Mountain College 4 Documentation
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ReVIEWING Black Mountain College 5 Documentation
Poetry Reading June 2015
Thursday, June 11, 7:30 p.m.Poets Katherine Soniat and Kathryn Stripling Byer will read from their latest book projects, The GoodBye Animals and The Vishnu Bird. $5 BMCM+AC members & students w/ID / $8 for non-members.
Schedule – ReViewing Black Mountain College 6
Conference location - UNC Asheville's Reuter Center FRIDAY REGISTRATION OPENS - 1:00pm 2:15 – 3:30 PANEL - Room 206 - Moderator: Ellen Feig Heather South: The Western Regional Archives' BMC Holdings Annie Davey: Subjectivity, Irreverence and the troubling of...
The Founding of the Farm at Black Mountain College
Wednesday, June 10, 7:30 p.m.Presentation by David Silver, associate professor of media studies, environmental studies, and urban agriculture at the University of San Francisco, will present a definitive history of the founding of the farm at Black Mountain College....