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Collage Mind: A Collage Workshop
for Rising 8th graders thru Rising10th graders What happens when you take two things that seem unrelated—llke, say, visual art and writing, collage art and poetry, non-fiction and creativity, Black Mountain College Museum and Arts Center and the Thomas Wolfe Memorial...
On Time and Place
Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center Saturday July 31, 2010 8:00 p.m. Jason Scott Furr and Vincent Wrenn present a collaborative performance based and constructed on the time and location of the performance itself, utilizing emerging data streams as well as...
MadHat’s Poetry, Prose & Anything Goes
Saturday, November 20th, 7:00 - 9:00pm Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center 56 Broadway, downtown Asheville $7 / $5 BMCM+AC members + students w/ID The Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center (BMCM+AC) at 56 Broadway in downtown Asheville is pleased to...
Exhibiting Ray
GUEST LECTURE by Dr. Frances Beatty for the exhibition From BMC to NYC: The Tutelary Years of Ray Johnson (1943-1967) Friday, May 21, 7:00 p.m. $7 / $5 BMCM+AC members + students w/ID Dr. Frances F. L. Beatty, Ph.D., Columbia University, Vice President of Richard L....
Women of Black Mountain College Film Screenings
3 documentary films in 1 evening at the Fine Arts Theatre Thursday, June 11, 7:00 p.m. M.C. Richards: The Fire Within by Richard Kane + Melody Lewis-Kane Ruth Asawa: Of Forms and Growth by Robert Snyder Josef and Anni Albers: Art is Everywhere by Sedat Pakay Fine Arts...
HAPPENING
Kicking-Off Saturday Nights at Black Mountain College September 26, 8:00-12:00PM $7 for students + BMCM+AC members; $10 for everyone elsePhil Mechanic Building, 109 Roberts Street, River Arts District A dance party explosion and fundraiser for the Black Mountain...
Visualizing world views: Explorations at the boundaries of perception
David McConville, Media Artist + Researcher 7:30 pm, Thursday September 24, 2009 $7 / $5 for BMCM+AC members + students w/ID On Thursday, September 24th at 7:30 pm, the Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center (BMCM+AC) will host a presentation by media artist and...
Stan Vanderbeek: Avant-garde Filmmaker + Teacher
Thursday, December 3, 7:30 pm Johanna Vanderbeek will present and discuss the underappreciated films of her late husband Stan. Combining animation, painting and collage with a Dadaist sensibility, Vanderbeek made films in the 1950s and 60s that were beautifully...
Double Blind (Love)
Telepresence performance Annie Abrahams. Living Room, Montpellier, France. Sunday November 29, from 6PM until the end of the performance (Living Room will remain open until 23:30PM). Curt Cloninger. Black Mountain College Museum and Arts Center, Asheville, North...
Poet/Activist Andrea Gibson
Yellowbird - CD Release Tour Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center Friday, January 29th, 8:00 p.m. 56 Broadway, Downtown Asheville Admission: $10 Andrea Gibson (http://www.andreagibson.org) is not gentle with her truths. It is this raw fearlessness that has made...
Asheville Fringe Arts Festival – Fringe Audio
Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center 56 Broadway, Downtown Asheville Friday and Saturday, January 22 and 23, 2010 - 8:00 pm $10 for BMCM+AC members, seniors and students w/ID / $12 for all others Free with Fringe Freak all-access Pass The Asheville Fringe Arts...
How to Draw a Bunny
by John Walter and Andrew Moore The Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center and the Fine Arts Theatre present the award-winning documentary How to Draw a Bunny as part of the exhibition From BMC to NYC: The Tutelary Years of Ray Johnson (1943-1967) Thursday, April...
BMCM + AC and The Captain’s Bookshelf present a
Reception and Reading to Celebrate North Carolina's New Poet Laureate Cathy Smith Bowers Friday, April 30, 2010 - 7:00 PM BMC Museum + Arts Center, 56 Broadway, Downtown Asheville Free The Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center and The Captain's Bookshelf are...
The Poetry Bomb – Tour of Words 2010
May 23, 3:00 p.m. This is a free event, donations appreciated. "I'm taking one of the most iconic images of destruction of the 20th century and turning it into something positive." S.A. Griffin The Poetry Bomb is a former Vietnam era...
Write Soon Goon
CLOSING NIGHT POETRY READING & PERFORMANCE for From BMC to NYC: The Tutelary Years of Ray Johnson (1943-1967) Saturday, June 12, 7:00 p.m. $7 / $5 BMCM+AC members + students w/ID {mosimage} In celebration of the recent four-month run of the Ray Johnson...
Food for Thought 2010
A fundraiser for the Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center YMI Cultural Center - 39 S. Market Street, downtown Asheville Saturday, July 10, 2010 8:00 p.m. Food for Thought is a champagne and dessert party and live auction at the YMI Cultural Center in downtown...
BREAKING NEW GROUND: The Studio Potter + Black Mountain College
{mosimage}September 21, 2007 – January 19, 2008Opening reception: Friday, September 21, 6:00-8:00 p.m. Free to BMCM+AC members, $3 all others An exhibition exploring functional work by potters who were at Black Mountain College in the 1950s including Shoji Hamada,...
Yearlong Project Honors the Women of Black Mountain College
The Shape of Imagination: Women of Black Mountain College {mosimage} SPHERE: Oct. 3, 2008 – Feb. 14, 2009 A Group exhibition {mosimage} TRIANGLE: February 27 – June 27, 2009 Anni Albers, Ruth Asawa + M.C. Richards {mosimage} POINT: July 10 – November...
Dorothea Rockburne: Astronomy Drawings

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