Virtual Events
CONVERSATIONS: FAITH IN ARTS
Ongoing | BMCM+AC and UNC Asheville host conversations and interviews with a diverse group of artists, curators, faith leaders, and scholars to explore the role of arts in spiritual practice and religious life and the role of spiritual practice and religious life in the arts.
FAITH IN ARTS: A CONVERSATION WITH NORMAN FISCHER
Wednesday, March 3 at 1 PM Eastern | Streaming – A Faith in Arts conversation with Norman Fischer, poet, writer, and Soto Zen priest, teaching and practicing in the lineage of Shunryu Suzuki. He is a Dharma heir of Sojun Mel Weitsman, from whom he received Dharma transmission in 1988.
10-03.space
Available March 10 | 10-03.space is a multimedia platform created by Alma Alloro which traces the path of society during a year of pandemic, capturing the thoughts, ideas, memories, fears, and hopes which arose and developed during this time, acting as a memento of shared crises.
PERSPECTIVES: WILLIAM PARKER + CISCO BRADLEY
Wednesday, March 10 at 7 PM Eastern | Streaming – A performance and conversation with William Parker, a key figure in the New York and European creative music scenes since the 1970s. Parker is a bassist, improviser, composer, writer, and educator from New York City. He has recorded over 150 albums, published six books, and taught and mentored hundreds of young musicians and artists.
MATIÈRE WORKSHOP WITH FRITZ HORSTMAN
Saturday, March 13 from 1:30 – 3:00 PM Eastern | Zoom | Free – Fritz Horstman, Education Director at the Josef & Anni Albers Foundation, will explore the concept of Matiére (material, matter) as taught by Josef Albers at the Bauhaus and Black Mountain College.
CAGE SHUFFLE: A DIGITAL DUET
Saturday, March 20 at 1PM + 7PM Eastern | Webcast + Conversation – In this reconception of Cage Shuffle commissioned by the Wexner Center for the Arts, Paul Lazar teams up with renowned choreographer, dancer, and Ohio State Distinguished Professor Bebe Miller and media artist Eamonn Farrell to present a series of one-minute stories written by musician John Cage while simultaneously dancing a complex choreographic score by Lazar, Miller, and Annie-B Parson, artistic director of Big Dance Theater.
Past Events
FAITH IN ARTS: A CONVERSATION WITH MOLLY SILVERSTEIN
Wednesday, Feb 24 at 1 PM Eastern | Streaming – A Faith in Arts conversation with Molly Silverstein, poet, graduate student, and former BMCM+AC staff member. Silverstein currently studies at Harvard Divinity School, where her work focuses on spiritual care and counseling and the psychology of religion.
CITIZEN SPINS SESSION: BMCM+AC
February 18 + 19th, 5 – 7PM Eastern | Listen in person at the Citizen Vinyl Session Cafe + Bar or tune in @citizenvinyl on Instagram – In this two-day Citizen Spins Session from the team at BMCM+AC, listen in to recordings from Black Mountain College icons like John Cage, David Tudor, and Lou Harrison as well as the influential figures that inspired them and those who are keeping that legacy alive.
A GENEROUS VISION: THE CREATIVE LIFE OF ELAINE DE KOONING
Wednesday, February 17 at 1 PM Eastern | Live stream – Join us for a conversation with Cathy Curtis, the author of the first biography written on the BMC artist, “A Generous Vision: The Creative Life of Elaine de Kooning”
FAITH IN ARTS: A CONVERSATION WITH ANDRÉ DAUGHTRY
Wednesday, Feb 10 at 1 PM Eastern | Live stream – A Faith in Arts conversation with Andre Daughtry, interdisciplinary artist, writer, and Community Minister of the Arts at Judson Memorial Church, NYC.
ASHEVILLE FRINGE ARTS FESTIVAL – ROBERT LADISLAS DERR’S NEW DAY
January 17 – 24 | Vimeo – Revisit the 2020 Fringe Arts Festival interactive performance New Day hosted by BMCM+AC where Derr casts the viewers as painters in a playful investigation of Kenneth Noland’s painting New Day, 1967.
PERFORMANCE: SOFIA JERNBERG
Wednesday, December 9th | Premiere – Experimental composer and vocalist Sofia Jernberg presents an original performance that avant-garde icon Laurie Anderson calls “extraordinary” and “transcendent.”
PERSPECTIVES: ASHER GAMEDZE AND ANOTHER TIME ENSEMBLE
Wednesday, December 2nd | Vimeo – For this performance, from a rooftop in historic Cairo, Asher Gamedze and Another Time Ensemble will meditate and speculate on the possibility and necessity of another time. The performance will be followed by a discussion with Asher Gamedze.
PERSPECTIVES – JOHN CAGE: A MYCOLOGICAL FORAY
Wednesday, November 18th at 1 PM EDT | Livestream – A conversation with Atelier Éditions’ collaborative team and Laura Kuhn, Director of the John Cage Trust, about the newly published “John Cage: A Mycological Foray”
TAYO: VIDEO + CONVERSATION WITH GRACE VILLAMIL
Wednesday, November 11th | Vimeo – Tune in for a look at TAYO, a new installation from Grace Villamil, in collaboration with IONE and Lisa Kelley of the Ministry of Maåt. A new film about the October 24th activation of TAYO from cinematographer Sam Falconi and filmmaker Marina Katz will be followed by a discussion with Villamil.
PERSPECTIVES: DR. RUSSELL WILLIAMS, JR + JOSEPH BATHANTI – A CONVERSATION ABOUT ALMA STONE WILLIAMS
Thursday, October 22 at 1 PM EDT | Livestream – In the summer of 1944, a brave young woman from Georgia became the first African-American student to attend an all-white college in the Jim Crow South. Professors Russell Williams Jr., son of BMC alumna Alma Stone Williams, and Joseph Bathanti will discuss her extraordinary life and her place in the history of our country’s struggle for civil rights.
PERSPECTIVES: STEPH RICHARDS + ANDREW MUNSEY
Wednesday, October 14 at 1 PM EDT | Youtube Premiere – Experimental trumpeter/composer Steph Richards and drummer/producer Andrew Munsey perform homeostasis, a new piece for sonic conversations with difficult objects.
PERFORMANCE: KIMATHI MOORE
Thursday, October 8 at 7 PM EDT | Youtube Premiere – Electronic composer Kimathi Moore performs Oliver’s Tail [We The Fish]
RUTH ASAWA’S RADICAL UNIVERSALISM
Wednesday, September 23rd at 1 PM EDT | Live on Zoom + FB – Jason Vartiker asks, “How are Ruth Asawa’s hanging wire sculptures a form of activism for racial justice?”
BMCM+AC FILMS @ HOME – DON’T KNOW, WE’LL SEE: THE WORK OF KAREN KARNES
Limited time screening available September 8th – 15th | Don’t Know We’ll See: The Work of Karen Karnes (directed by Lucy Massie Phenix) | Featuring an introduction by artist and curator Anna Helgeson
AN INVISIBLE REVOLUTION
Thursday, August 27th at 1 PM EDT | Live on Zoom + FB – Join David McConville and Glenn English for an in-depth conversation on the life and work of R. Buckminster Fuller.
PERSPECTIVES: Steve Locke with Ben Hall
Wednesday, August 12th at 1 PM EDT | Live on Facebook and Youtube – Artists Steve Locke and Ben Hall will discuss Locke’s current work, Homage to the Auction Block, a series informed by Josef Albers’ Homage to the Square.
PERFORMANCE: TURNING JEWELS INTO WATER
Thursday, September 10th at 1 PM EDT | Live on Facebook + Youtube – Turning Jewels Into Water exclusively premiere songs from their newly released album, Our Reflection Adorned by Newly Formed Stars.
Performance + Conversation with Brooklyn Rider and Matana Roberts
July 15th, 5 PM EDT | More information coming soon
Material Sound at Home
In the summer of 2019, a group of international artists converged to explore the ideas of Materials, Sounds + Black Mountain College. Curated by Caleb Kelly, this exhibition focused on the making of sound through materials, inspired by Black Mountain College artists...
A Conversation with Marilyn Chase on Ruth Asawa, BMC Artist
July 22nd, 1 PM – 2 PM EST Live on Zoom
Faith in Arts Instagram Takeover Series
May 12th - 15th, 2020 Hosted on the Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center Instagram Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center is partnering with UNC Asheville for a multi-day Faith in Arts Instagram takeover, presented in the spirit of the forthcoming Faith in...
PERSPECTIVES+ : Julie Levin Caro
Friday, May 8th, 4:30 PM EST Live on Zoom PERSPECTIVES+ transforms our PERSPECTIVES Lunchtime Talks into a new way to connect with our BMC community and learn something new in the process.Join us at 4:30 PM for a talk with Julie Levin Caro, Professor of Art History...
REVOLVE: Home School
Thursday, April 30th at 8:00 pm STUFF TO KNOW: Question Everything! The Women of Black Mountain College with Kate Averett BMCM+AC is proud to partner with REVOLVE for this program, presented as part of their new Home School series, an online offering of stuff to know,...
PERFORMANCE: Third Coast Percussion
Saturday, May 2 at 8 PM EST Livestream on Youtube + Facebook Grammy Award-winning quartet Third Coast Percussion performs a live stream concert featuring John Cage's iconic masterpiece "Third Construction," a new work composed for TCP by composer and modular synth...
A Conversation with Jason Andrew and Julia K Gleich
April 8th at 6PM - Hosted on Instagram Live Tune in at www.instagram.com/bmcmuseum/ Jason Andrew, independent curator and director of the Estate of Jack Tworkov, joins the roster of curators, scholars, and creatives invited to take over the BMCM+AC Instagram account...
A Conversation with Jason Andrew and Hermine Ford
April 8th at 4PM - Hosted on Instagram Live Jason Andrew, independent curator and director of the Estate of Jack Tworkov, joins the roster of curators, scholars, and creatives invited to take over the BMCM+AC Instagram account (@bmcmuseum) to share their perspectives...
Instagram Takeover Series
April 3rd - 11th BMCM+AC Instagram (@bmcmuseum) Join us for a week of Instagram takeovers, where we give the reigns to an incredible roster of scholars, curators and creatives, inviting them to reflect on what Black Mountain College has meant for their practice and to...
Animal Crossing: New Horizons Museum Day Celebration
We are excited to offer the opportunity to bring BMCM+AC into your Animal Crossing game through custom designs based on pieces from our permanent collection and inspiration to create galleries of your own.
WORKSHOP: CONNIE BOSTIC
Saturday, February 29, 10am - 1pm Bits and Pieces: Collage Workshop with Connie Bostic Working with images and text from magazines, photos, books, and other visual materials, we’ll spend a fun 3 hours making collages with artist Connie Bostic. Bring your own scissors...
PERFORMANCE: DAMSELFLY TRIO
Thursday, February 27, 7pm Damselfly Trio This concert will feature three works by BMC alumna Ursula Mamlok: the kaleidoscopic Der Andreas Garten for trio, Haiku Settings for soprano and flute, and Variations for solo flute as well as selections by composers George...
PERFORMANCE: BANA HAFFAR + THIRD COAST PERCUSSION
Thursday, February 13, 7pm Bana Haffar and Third Coast Percussion Grammy-winning Chicago-based percussion ensemble Third Coast Percussion and composer Bana Haffar debut the newly commissioned Shed for percussion and modular synthesizer. Drawing from the rich legacy of...
PERSPECTIVES: BANA HAFFAR
Wednesday, February 12, 12-1pm PERSPECTIVES Lunchtime Workshop @BMCM+AC Join composer/musician Bana Haffar for an interactive experience with her graphic score Shed. In this hands-on workshop, Haffar will explain the process behind the composition and invite...
FILMS@BMCM+AC: DON’T KNOW WE’LL SEE THE WORK OF KAREN KARNES
Thursday, February 6, 7pm Don’t Know, We’ll See: The Work of Karen Karnes - Film Screening. This documentary by award-winning filmmaker Lucy Massie Phenix is an intimate study of the work and life of master clay artist, Karen Karnes. It takes the viewer into her...
ASHEVILLE FRINGE FESTIVAL
Saturday, January 25, 11am-5pm Fringe Festival: New Day by Robert Ladislas Derr In this Fringe Festival interactive performance, Derr casts the viewers as painters in a playful investigation of Kenneth Noland's painting New Day, 1967. Viewers apply the 41 color...
OPENING RECEPTION
Friday, January 24, 5:30-8pm Question Everything! The Women of Black Mountain College Curated by Kate Averett and Alice Sebrell. In the midst of modernism, when the foundations of culture were under question, prompted by war and global crises, women were able to make...
PERFORMANCE: JOHNNY GANDELSMAN
Thursday, December 12 - 7pm Johnny Gandelsman performs Bach's complete cello suites. Grammy award-winning violinist and producer Johnny Gandelsman brings his new project to BMCM+AC, presenting Bach’s complete cello suites on the violin. A founding member of Brooklyn...
GALLERY TALK: GLORIA SUTTON
Thursday, December 5 - 7pm Reframing contemporary art history: On the work of Sara and Stan VanDerBeek. Author and art historian Gloria Sutton examines Sara VanDerBeek’s recent photographic work in relationship to the Expanded Cinema experiments of her father, BMC...
PERFORMANCE: SI OTSEDOHA (WE’RE STILL HERE)
Thursday, November 21 - 7pm The Cherokee Chamber Singers perform “Si Otsedoha (We're Still Here)” by William Brittelle. In 2017, Cherokee student leaders assembled a forum for open discussion on what it means for them to be Cherokee in the past, present, and future...
PERSPECTIVES: CURT CLONINGER
Wednesday, November 13 – 12-1pm PERSPECTIVES Lunchtime Conversations @ BMCM+AC. Explore our VanDerBeek + VanDerBeek exhibition along with an artist, historian, or scholar who will give perspective and context to the work from their particular point of view. Guest...
PERFORMANCE: AKI ONDA
Wednesday, November 6 - 7PM Aki Onda Reflections and Repercussions. A multi-media performance exploring the interplay among luminosity, acoustic, architectural, and emotional relationships within the space. Performing with various types of lighting equipment such as...
WORKSHOP: ULTRA LOW-BUDGET FILMMAKING
Saturday, November 2 Ultra low-budget Filmmaking Workshop (Experimental)* 2pm – 5:30 (Experimental) Filmmaker and multi-media artist Adam Larsen teaches this hands-on filmmaking workshop using iPhones and everyday materials to create short films. Participants will...
BOOK LAUNCH: LETTERS TO JARGON
Wednesday, October 30 - 7pm Letters to Jargon – Book Launch and Presentation by Andrew Rippeon. Letters to Jargon collects all of the known correspondence between poet Larry Eigner and Jonathan Williams, BMC alumnus, poet, photographer, and the influential publisher...
FILMS@BMCM+AC: BAUHAUS SPIRIT: 100 YEARS OF BAUHAUS
Thursday, October 24 - 7pm Films@BMCM+AC Bauhaus Spirit: 100 Years of Bauhaus. This film gives a fascinating look at how the Bauhaus ideas about art, theater, design, and architecture continue to shape our world today. The film celebrates the cultural history of...
PERSPECTIVES: TRACEY MORGAN
Wednesday, October 16 – 12-1pm PERSPECTIVES Lunchtime Conversations @ BMCM+AC. Explore our VanDerBeek + VanDerBeek exhibition along with an artist, historian, or scholar who will give perspective and context to the work from their particular point of view. Guest...
FILMS@BMCM+AC: STAN VANDERBEEK
Thursday, October 10 - 7pm Films@BMCM+AC Stan VanDerBeek films. An evening of short films by Stan VanDerBeek, including Science Friction (1959), Breathdeath (1963), Poemfield No. 2 (1966), and others. Free for BMCM+AC members + students w/ID / $8 non-members
VIRTUAL BAUHAUS: VR EXPERIENCE
September 23 - October 7 Using Virtual Reality technology, Virtual Bauhaus offers visitors a one-of-a-kind experience, transporting them into the architectural space of the iconic Bauhaus Dessau building. Created and sponsored by Goethe-Institut.
GALLERY TALK: THE MOON MUSEUM
Thursday, October 3 - 7pm The Moon Museum: Apollo XII’s Secret Art Mission. Hear about this first-ever ‘Space Art’ object, and how it secretly became a part of the Apollo XII lunar lander by author and art historian Jade Dellinger. The Moon Museum was the brainchild...
DRAWING WORKSHOP
Tuesdays, October 15 – December 17 from 1-3pm Drawing Workshop. Regi Weile, architect and educator, teaches this 10 session workshop synthesizing the Foundation Courses of the Werkbund Movement, the DeStijl Movement, and the Bauhaus. Sessions will be progressive in...
ReVIEWING 11
September 20-22 ReVIEWING Black Mountain College 11. Held at UNC Asheville’s Reuter Center, this annual conference explores the history and legacy of Black Mountain College through presentations, workshops, and performances. Keynote Speakers: Sara VanDerBeek artist...
OPENING RECEPTION: VANDERBEEK + VANDERBEEK
Friday, September 20, 6:30-8:30pm 7pm PERFORMANCE: Max VanDerBeek, percussion artist and son of Stan VanDerBeek, will perform a live percussion response to the recently digitized footage Stan VanDerBeek created with Merce Cunningham as part of their larger...
PERFORMANCES: FLYER IN A DARK CHAMBER // OKAPI + EDWIN SALAS
Saturday, August 24 – 7pm Flyer in a Dark Chamber A reimagining of the mythology of Lilith, told through spoken-word, dance and music. Ten vignettes explore the stories of Lilith as the first wife of Adam, an empowered and emancipated woman, an outcast from Eden, the...
PERSPECTIVES: EVA BARES
Wednesday, August 14 – 12-1pm PERSPECTIVES Lunchtime Conversations @ BMCM+AC Explore our BAUHAUS 100 exhibition along with an artist, historian, or scholar who will give perspective and context to the work from their particular point of view. Guest Speaker: Eva...
POETRY READING: JEFFERY BEAM
Thursday, August 8 – 7pm Poetry Reading with Jeffery Beam Poet Jeffery Beam discusses, reads, and sings from Spectral Pegasus/Dark Movements. The book, an intense “marvelous and fateful game” and the result of a six-month collaboration with Welsh painter Clive...
PERFORMANCE: JOHN CAGE’S SONATAS AND INTERLUDES
Thursday, August 1 – 7pm John Cage’s Sonatas and Interludes for solo prepared piano Pianist/composer and Guggenheim Fellow Amy Williams performs Sonatas and Interludes, John Cage’s groundbreaking cycle for prepared piano. The work was composed in 1946–48, shortly...
DRAWING WORKSHOP
Tuesdays, beginning June 18 – August 6 from 1-3pm Drawing Workshop Regi Weile, architect and longtime educator, teaches this 8 session drawing workshop synthesizing the Foundation Courses of the Werkbund Movement, the DeStijl Movement, and the Bauhaus. Workshop...
PERFORMANCE: CAGE SHUFFLE
Thursday, July 18 – 7pm Cage Shuffle Cage Shuffle is a 50 minute dance/theater solo performance by Paul Lazar featuring a series of one-minute stories by John Cage from his 1963 score Indeterminacy, while simultaneously performing a complex choreographic score by...
PERSPECTIVES: AMANDA HOLLOMON-COOK
Wednesday, July 10 – 12-1pm PERSPECTIVES Lunchtime Conversations @ BMCM+AC Explore our Materials, Sounds, and Black Mountain College exhibition along with an artist, historian, or scholar who will give perspective and context to the work from their particular point...
YOWANA SARI GAMELAN ENSEMBLE
Friday, June 28 Yowana Sari Gamelan ensemble Presented in collaboration with Asheville Percussion Festival 4 - 5:30pm - Workshop Free Gamelan Workshop with Yowana Sari hosted by Michael Lipsey director of Aaron Copland School of Music at CUNY. Instruments...
FILMS@BMCM+AC: RECLAMATIONS OF BLACKNESS PRESENTED BY THE AFRO+PROJECTIONLAB
Saturday, June 22nd - 7pm FILMS@BMCM+AC: Reclamations of Blackness. Vonnie Quest, filmmaker, curator, and founder of the Afro+ProjectionLAB, presents the cinema art program Reclamations of Blackness in which filmmakers use experimental modes of image-making to...
PERFORMANCES: MATERIALS, SOUNDS + BMC
Saturday, June 8, 7pm Performances by Pia van Gelder, Peter Blamey, Nathan Thompson, and Jenn Grossman Performances will utilize processes that explore the material nature of the instruments employed - handmade electronics, solar power, feedback systems, and...
GALLERY TALK
Saturday, June 8 - 2:30pm Gallery talk by exhibition curator Caleb Kelly Caleb Kelly will discuss the approach behind the exhibition, addressing the works in the show and the links to Black Mountain College. Kelly is a New Zealand born academic and curator working...
PERSPECTIVES: DIANA C. STOLL
Wednesday, May 8 – 12-1pm PERSPECTIVES Lunchtime Conversations @ BMCM+AC. Explore our Aaron Siskind exhibition along with an artist, historian, or scholar who will give perspective and context to the work from their particular point of view. Guest Speaker: Diana C....
MODULAR ON THE SPOT
Saturday, May 4 – 1-4pm {Pack Square Park} Modular On The Spot. Modular On The Spot is an outdoor modular synthesizer picnic founded in Los Angeles by Eric 'Rodent' Cheslak and Bana Haffar. The idea came about on a camping trip to Arizona in 2014 where the two set up...
PAPERMAKING WORKSHOP
Saturday, May 4 – 9-11:30am Papermaking Workshop with John Dancy Jones. Book artist and papermaker John Dancy Jones leads this hands-on workshop. Papermaking and printing have been substrates for cultural expression for all of history. Learn how paper is made, make a...
NEO PASTICHE: CHANGES IN AMERICAN MUSIC FESTIVAL
Thursday, April 25 - Sunday, April 28 Neo-Pastiche: Changes in American Music Festival A new musical gathering curated by Alec Sturgis and Jack Callahan featuring presentations by living American composers and performers whose work comes from outside academic or...
ASHEVILLE WORDFEST 2019 POETRY READING
Saturday, April 13 – 5pm Asheville Wordfest 2019 Poetry Reading. Introducing writers from Mars Hill University and UNC-Asheville. Three creative writing students from each university will read original work, representing different genres. The evening will be...
PERSPECTIVES: JON ELLISTON
Wednesday, April 10 – 12-1pm PERSPECTIVES Lunchtime Conversations @ BMCM+AC. Explore our Politics at BMC exhibition along with an artist, historian, or scholar who will give perspective and context to the work from their particular point of view. Guest Speaker: Jon...
{Re}HAPPENING 9
Saturday, March 30, 3-10pm {Re}HAPPENING AT LAKE EDEN. The {Re}HAPPENING is an annual afternoon and evening event at the historic campus of Black Mountain College – 15 minutes from Asheville. It is part art event, part fundraiser, and part community instigator,...
FILMS@BMCM+AC: ONE FAST MOVE OR I’M GONE: KEROUAC’S BIG SUR
Thursday, March 21 – 7pm FILMS@BMCM+AC: One Fast Move or I’m Gone: Kerouac’s Big Sur. This 97-minute documentary takes the audience on a visceral ride of raw emotions and dramatic events based on Jack Kerouac’s brilliantly honest 1962 novel, Big Sur. The film is told...
CREATIVE CAPITAL WORKSHOP: STRATEGIC PLANNING + COMMUNICATIONS FOR ARTISTS
Friday, March 15 – 10am - 5pm Creative Capital Workshop - Strategic Planning + Communications for Artists. Participants learn key business, management, and communications skills and hear first-hand from artists who have used these tools to achieve success—as they...
FLAHERTY/CORSANO DUO
Saturday, August 24th - 1:30pm Transfigurations III, Celebrating 15 Years of Harvest Records Presents Flaherty/Corsano Duo Saxophonist Paul Flaherty and drummer Chris Corsano are New England-based musicians dedicated to the promise and purpose of free improvisation....
SCIENCE PUB: A TOAST TO THE SCIENTISTS OF BLACK MOUNTAIN COLLEGE
Science Pub: A Toast to the Scientists of Black Mountain College with David Peifer. November 16, 5:30 - 7:00pm {Asheville Museum of Science, 43 Patton Avenue Asheville, NC 28801} Open only 23 years, from 1933 to 1956, Black Mountain College has become famous for the...
PERSPECTIVES: JAY MILLER
Wednesday, March 13 – 12-1pm PERSPECTIVES Lunchtime Conversations @ BMCM+AC. Explore our Politics at BMC exhibition along with an artist, historian, or scholar who will give perspective and context to the work from their particular point of view. Guest Speaker: Jay...
PLAYING WITH SOUND KIDS WORKSHOP
Friday + Saturday, June 7 + 8 - 1pm Playing with Sound Kids Workshop with Vicky Browne Astound your friends and family by making simple yet annoyingly affecting noise machines. In this workshop we will create a range of noise machines and sound experiments that will...
PERFORMANCE: WE INSIST! MAX ROACH’S FREEDOM NOW SUITE – THE FRESH CUT ORCHESTRA
Friday and Saturday, February 22 + 23 – 7pm We Insist! Max Roach’s Freedom Now Suite by The Fresh Cut Orchestra. A timely restaging of We Insist! Max Roach’s Freedom Now Suite, a seminal recording from the civil rights era. The piece will be performed by the NYC /...
PERSPECTIVES: CONNIE BOSTIC
Wednesday, February 13 – 12-1pm PERSPECTIVES Lunchtime Conversations @ BMCM+AC. Explore our Politics at BMC exhibition along with an artist, historian, or scholar who will give perspective and context to the work from their particular point of view. Guest Speaker:...
OPENING RECEPTION
Friday, February 1, 5:30PM - 8:00PM Join us in celebrating the opening of two new exhibitions at Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center. Politics at Black Mountain College Curated by the team of Connie Bostic, Jon Elliston, Jay Miller, and Alice Sebrell The BMC...
HOOD TOURS
Thursdays - Saturdays, October 1 - January 12 BMCM+AC is teaming up with Hood Huggers International for the run of the Jacob Lawrence exhibition. Hood Huggers International, founded by visionary poet and artist DeWayne Barton, explores the past, present and future of...
FILM SCREENINGS
Thursday, January 10, 7pm Films at BMCM+AC. Jacob Lawrence: The Glory of Expression. Narrated by Ossie Davis, this 28 minute film traces the life and work of Jacob Lawrence, emphasizing the narratives in his paintings and his studio process. Written and directed by...
OPENING RECEPTION
Friday, June 7th - 5:30PM to 8PM Join us for an Opening Reception, celebrating the exhibitions Materials, Sounds + Black Mountain College and BAUHAUS 100. Opening Weekend continues on Saturday, June 8th with kids workshops, gallery talk, and performances. Originally...
PERSPECTIVES: JOSH COPUS
Wednesday, August 28 – 12-1pm PERSPECTIVES Lunchtime Conversations @ BMCM+AC Explore our Materials, Sounds, and Black Mountain College exhibition along with an artist, historian, or scholar who will give perspective and context to the work from their particular...
PERSPECTIVES: DARIN WATERS
Wednesday, January 9, 12-1PM {120 College Street} PERSPECTIVES Lunchtime Conversations @ BMCM+AC. Explore our Jacob Lawrence exhibition along with an artist, historian, or scholar who will give perspective and context to the work from their particular point of view....
PERSPECTIVES: CLARISSA SLIGH
Wednesday, December 12, 12-1PM {120 College} PERSPECTIVES Lunchtime Conversations @ BMCM+AC. Explore our Jacob Lawrence exhibition along with an artist, historian, or scholar who will give perspective and context to the work from their particular point of view. Guest...
JACOB LAWRENCE COMMUNITY DAY
Saturday, December 8, 12-4pm {120 College Street} Jacob Lawrence Community Day. Join us for a fun, free day in the museum celebrating Jacob Lawrence’s art and life. Including tours of the exhibition, poetry, and hands-on art activities for all ages. Presented in...
PERFORMANCE: THE FUTURE LEAKS OUT
Tuesday, December 4, 7pm {120 College Street} Performance: The Future Leaks Out A quadraphonic modular synthesizer piece in which spoken word audio recordings are cut up in a similar manner to the Surrealist "Exquisite Corpse" game, or the cutup literary method or...
JOSEF ALBERS: MAKING AND LEARNING (SOLD OUT)
Saturday, December 1, 9am-4pm {120 College} Josef Albers’s Color and Design Workshop. Fritz Horstman, Education Coordinator at The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation leads this workshop exploring and expanding upon Josef Albers's classroom exercises from the Bauhaus,...
CONVERSATION WITH BARBARA EARL THOMAS
Thursday, November 15, 7pm {120 College Street} Conversation with Barbara Earl Thomas. Curator and art historian Julie Levin Caro leads a conversation with Barbara Earl Thomas, granddaughter of southern sharecroppers, artist, and former student of Jacob Lawrence. From...
PERSPECTIVES: BARBARA EARL THOMAS
Wednesday, November 14, 12 - 1pm {120 College Street} PERSPECTIVES Lunchtime Conversations @ BMCM+AC. Explore our Jacob Lawrence exhibition along with an artist, historian, or scholar who will give perspective and context to the work from their particular point of...
PHOTO+SPHERE
photo+sphere Saturday, November 10 at 1PM, 2:15PM + 6:30PM {120 College Street} photo+sphere is an innovative art/science event exploring how we see the environment and our role in determining the future. November 7–11, 2018 in Asheville, North Carolina, photo+sphere...
PERFORMANCE: BROOKLYN RIDER
Wednesday, November 7, 7pm {120 College Street} Performance: Healing Modes by Brooklyn Rider. “[Brooklyn Rider’s] superb playing is matched only by the thought, commitment and inspiration its members pour into projects...making the string quartet not a relic of times...
CURATOR TALK
Thursday, October 25, 7pm {120 College Street} Julie Levin Caro, co-curator of Between Form + Content will discuss the fruits of her multi-year research process into Jacob Lawrence and the impact of BMC and Josef Albers on Lawrence’s painting and teaching. FREE for...
PERFORMANCE: JACE CLAYTON aka DJ /rupture
Friday, October 19, 8pm {120 College Street} The Jacob Lawrence of Jacob Lawrence by Jace Clayton aka DJ /rupture. Presented in conjunction with African Americans in WNC & Southern Appalachia Conference, The Jacob Lawrence of Jacob Lawrence is a video and...
PERSPECTIVES: CLEASTER COTTON
Wednesday, October 10, 12-1pm {120 College Street} PERSPECTIVES Lunchtime Conversations @ BMCM+AC. Explore our Jacob Lawrence exhibition along with an artist, historian, or scholar who will give perspective and context to the work from their particular point of view....
OPENING RECEPTION – SAY IT LOUD {22 London Road}
Saturday, September 29 - 2018, 6-10pm {22 London Rd., Asheville, NC 28803} Opening reception for Say It Loud, an exhibition of contemporary art from the collection of Hedy Fischer and Randy Shull, including work from eighteen prominent African American artists...
OPENING RECEPTION: BETWEEN FORM AND CONTENT
Friday, September 28, 6-8pm - Opening Reception for the exhibition / Grand Opening for 120 College St / ReVIEWING Black Mountain College 10 conference reception. Between Form and Content: Perspectives on Jacob Lawrence and Black Mountain College. Curated by Julie...
ReVIEWING 10
September 28-30, 2018 {UNC Asheville’s Reuter Center} ReVIEWING Black Mountain College 10 This annual conference explores the history and legacy of Black Mountain College through presentations, workshops, and performances. Keynote Speaker: art historian Dr. Leslie...