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A SUSTAINABLE EVENING
The Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center, AIA Asheville and the UNCA Office of Cultural & Special Events announce… A Sustainable Evening – Thursday, October 26th at the Broadway Arts Building, 49 Broadway in downtown Asheville $12 admission /...
Albers Lecture
Lecture/Presentation: Thursday, Sept. 21, 7:30 p.m. THE DESIGN LEGACY OF JOSEF + ANNI ALBERS Brenda Danilowitz, Chief Curator of The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, will speak about the Albers’ time at the Bauhaus, Black Mountain College and Yale. $7 /...
Do-it-Yourself Jewelry
Workshop: Do-it-Yourself Jewelry Saturday, September 16 10:00 a.m.-12:00 noon $20 / $17 for BMCM+AC Members and kids 12 and under Instructors: Local artists Connie Bostic and Rick Melby Using fun and eclectic materials, we’ll make wearable art on a budget. For...
Thinking Ahead
Fifty years ago, Black Mountain College was closing its doors after some of the most innovative and influential artists, designers, architects, poets, dancers and craftspeople of the 20th century had passed through them. Most could not help but be influenced by the...
Design Science Lab Public Events
Presentations: 2006 DESIGN SCIENCE LAB PUBLIC EVENTS UNC-Asheville $5 Suggested Donation Seating is Limited The Design Science Lab is a 10-day intensive workshop that employs the pioneering planning methodology of Buckminster Fuller in the design of...
Design Science Lab Coming to Asheville
Workshop: Design Science Lab for the Southern Appalachian Region July 19th - July 28th, 2006 UNC Asheville Visit http://www.designsciencelab.org for full details SPACE IS LIMITED - REGISTER NOW! Description: The Design Science Lab...
Dan Jocz Slide Presentation
Presentation: Dan Jocz Slide Presentation Friday, July 14, 2006 Sponsored by BMCM+AC and the Western Carolina University MFA Program Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center 56 Broadway, Downtown Asheville Daniel Jocz has been called the bad boy of contemporary...
Merce Cunningham + Hazel Larsen Archer at Black Mountain College
Lecture/Presentation: Merce Cunningham + Hazel Larsen Archer at Black Mountain College by David Vaughan Monday, June 26, 7:00 p.m. Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center 56 Broadway, Downtown Asheville $7 / $5 for BMCM+AC members and students with ID David...
Stephen Westfall Visiting Artist Lecture
Lecture: Summer Lecture Series with WCU/MFA Visiting Art Faculty at BMCM+AC Friday June 16, 7:00p.m. Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center 56 Broadway, downtown Asheville FREE! Sponsored by BMCM+AC and the Western Carolina University MFA Program The Black...
Summer Lecture Series with WCU/MFA Visiting Art Faculty
Presentations: Summer Lecture Series with WCU/MFA Visiting Art Faculty Six Friday Nights in June and July June 9, 16, 30 and July 14, 21, 28, 2006 All presentations begin at 7:00 p.m. Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center 56 Broadway, downtown Asheville FREE!...
Jeff Davis’ “NatureS” Reading
Reading: Jeff Davis' reading "NatureS" and sculpture display by Joyce Blunk April 28th, 8pm Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center Free Please join us on April 28 at 8:00pm, for the long-awaited “coming out” party for Asheville poet Jeff...
Black Mountain College: Then and Now
Symposium: Black Mountain College: Then and Now Presented by the The Asheville Art Museum Thursday, April 20, 2006 7:00 8:30 p.m. Free with Museum Membership or with Museum Admission Diana Wortham Theatre Galleries will be open from 5:00 6:30 p.m. to view the...
Festival on the Hill: Music at Black Mountain
Performance: Festival on the Hill: Music at Black Mountain UNC Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, NC March 30th to April 2 2006 The 2006 Festival on the Hill will showcase a particular part of North Carolina history—the musical legacy of Black Mountain College. In the...
Reading of Thomas Meyer’s Daode Jing
Reading: Reading and book signing reception for Thomas Meyer’s new translation of Daode Jing (Tao Te Ching) Wednesday, March 22nd, 7:00 pm Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center 56 Broadway, downtown Asheville FREE! Sponsored by the Captain’s...
Starting at Zero: Black Mountain College 1933-57
Exhibit: Starting at Zero: Black Mountain College 1933-57 January 28 - April 2, 2006 Kettle's Yard Cambridge, England See http://www.kettlesyard.co.uk/exhibitions/bmc.html for full details Black Mountain College began as a utopian dream, born out of the Depression...
What was THAT? Performance Art at Black Mountain College + Beyond
Lecture/Presentation: What was THAT? Performance Art at Black Mountain College + Beyond Ginger Spivey, Assistant Professor of Art History, UNCA Thursday, January 19, 7:00 p.m. Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center $7 / $5 BMCM+AC Members + Students...
HOWL!
Reading + Performance: HOWL! A Celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the publication of Allen Ginsberg's book as well as the American book launch for the 2005 publication of The Baby Beat Generation (The 1970s San Francisco Renaissance) Friday,...
Leo Krikorian / Implied Space
December 3 – April 30, 2005
A Group of People Reading Poems
Reading & Performance: A Group of People Reading Poems (Jaye Bartell, Lisa Flaherty + Joel Bassett) Music with Birds and Skirts Friday, November 18 – 8:00 p.m. 56 Broadway – Downtown Asheville $3 Admission Please join us this Friday night for an...
Music From the Dymaxion Dimension
Performance: Music From the Dymaxion Dimension: A Tribute to Buckminster Fuller with Cellist Michael Fitzpatrick Thursday, Novmber 10th, 7:30 pm Admission: $8 / $7 for BMCM+AC members and students w/ID Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center 56 Broadway,...