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Presentation - Friday, October 24, 12:00 - 1:30pm Ideas Without Walls / In-Between the Spaces Thriving in Chaos: Why this is the Best Time in History to be a Designer The rate of disruptive change has become so great that constant chaos is now business as usual. From...

A reading of RED, the Tony Award-winning play by John Logan about painter Mark Rothko and his assistant (loosely based on BMC artist Dan Rice) at NC Stage Company. One performance only!  

Thursday, August 21 at 7:30pm   Black Mountain College 56 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...

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...

Sunday, August 17, 2014 - 3:00 pm $10 in advance/ $12 at the door Tracey 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...

Music Performance Wednesday, June 25, 2014 7:30 pm $8 / $5 for BMCM+AC members & students w/ID Jari Piper, Cellist, will play a solo recital of contemporary music for the cello performing work by living composers. He will share stories and background information...

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  

Thursday, May 29, 2014 - 7:30pm Jacqueline Gourevitch, whose show SITE Reconstruction opens on May 30th, 2014 will speak about her time at Black Mountain College (Summer 1950) and the evolution of her work as a painter. $5 / Free for BMCM+AC members + students w/ID...

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 surprises.

PRESENTATION - Thursday, May 15, 7:30 pm Megan Rice (daughter of Jack & Barbara Rice) and John Corkran (son of David & Marion Corkran) will share their experiences of BMC from a child's perspective, including a reading of Megan's book “A Childish View of Black...

Sunday, March 30, 2014, 3-5 pm Join us as Paulus Berensohn recites the work of his friends Mary Oliver and M.C. Richards and Tracey Schmidt recites Rumi, Hafiz, Kabir, Yeats, and her own work. Set to wonderful local music. $15 / $12 for BMCM+AC members &students...

The Democratic Surround and the Forgotten History of Multimedia by Fred Turner, Associate Professor of Communication and Director of the Program in Science, Technology and Society at Stanford University and author of The Democratic Surround: Multimedia and American...

Thursday, March 6, 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, Robert...