Volume 15: RE/WEAVING
Weaving marks the theme of this issue, for it names not only the immediate art itself but the nature of so many often surprising and unexpected connections, influences, and collaborations in the many fields of study at the College.
Volume 14: Queer Life at Black Mountain College
Contributions from Kyle Canter, Stella Douglass, Evie Horton, Kira Houston, Alex Landry, Sophie Mak-Schram, Andy Martrich, Christopher-Rasheem McMillan, Chase Pendleton, lydia see, David Silver, Melissa Wilkinson, and Emilio Williams.
Volume 13: Silence/Presence
It has been nearly a decade since the last time the Journal of Black Mountain College Studies published a volume about John Cage. This volume plunges the depths of silence and finds richness in the sounds and stories that appear where there may have first seemed absence.
Volume 12: Expanding the Canon
This volume focuses not on a singular individual, discipline, or movement, but on little-known areas of study and recent discoveries that expand our understanding of Black Mountain College in unexpected ways.
Volume 11: The Practice and Pedagogy of Writing at Black Mountain College
The published writers of Black Mountain College, particularly the poets, have received much scholarly attention. The central place of writing as a practice of the arts in the college’s curriculum has been explored much less. In this issue our contributors address this theme through a variety of kinds of texts, both written and performed…
Volume 10: Chance | Dance
Journal of Black Mountain College Studies Volume 10 Dancing. Always there was dancing at Black Mountain College, from the porch of the Blue Ridge Assembly to the dining room at Lake Eden. I was reminded of this by a postcard that recently arrived in my post office...
Volume 9: Archives and Histories
Journal of Black Mountain College Studies Volume 9Welcome to the RE/START of the Journal of Black Mountain College Studies! We are very pleased to present this first volume in several years, re/suming our collective efforts to explore the college and its living...
Volume 8: Celebrating 50 Years of The Paper Snake
This journal volume celebrates 50 years of Ray Johnson’s The Paper Snake and follows the BMCM+AC exhibition, “SOMETHING ELSE ENTIRELY: Ray Johnson, Dick Higgins and the making of THE PAPER SNAKE.”
Volume 7: BMC Writers
A volume focusing on BMC writers with contributions from Erin Dickey, Mary Emma Harris, Thomas Edward Frank, Julia Connor, David Silver, Joseph Bathanti, and Trueman MacHenry.
Volume 6: Progressive Education, Graphic Design + Women on Craft
Journal of Black Mountain College Studies Volume 6 Table of Contents Blake Hobby, Executive EditorAlessandro Porco, Associate Editor June 2014 Vera Baker Williams Interview by Connie Bostic Social Justice at BMC Before the Civil Rights Age: Desegregation, Racial...
Volume 5: Buckminster Fuller
Journal of Black Mountain College Studies Volume 5 Table of Contents BMCS, Black Mountain College StudiesBlake Hobby, Executive EditorAlessandro Porco, Associate Editor June 2014 Claude Stoller Interview by Connie Bostic Buckminsterfullerene by Melissa Gwyn...
Volume 4: John Cage
Journal of Black Mountain College Studies Volume 4 Table of Contents Rand Brandes & John Cheek, Guest Editors Blake Hobby, Executive EditorBrian Butler, Associate Editor April 2013 Introduction by Rand Brandes & John Cheek Blue With China Ink—Homage to John...
Volume 3: BMC’s Modern Legacy
Journal of Black Mountain College Studies Volume 3 Table of Contents Daniel Kane & Paul Betts, Guest Editors Blake Hobby, Executive EditorBrian Butler, Associate Editor September 2012 “To Open Eyes”: Black Mountain College into the 21st Century by Daniel Kane...
Volume 2: A Tribute to Ray Johnson
Journal of Black Mountain College Studies Volume 2 Table of Contents Blake Hobby, Executive EditorBrian Butler, Associate EditorKate Dempsey, Guest Editor Spring 2012 Introduction by Kate Dempsey Ray Johnson Biography by Michael von Uchtrup Kenneth Snelson interviewed...
Volume 1: Inaugural Issue
Journal of Black Mountain College Studies Volume 1 Table of Contents Blake Hobby, Executive EditorBrian Butler, Associate Editor March 2011 Dorothea Rockburne Interview with Connie Bostic Transcribed by Jolene Mechanic The Prospect of an Ideal Liberal Arts...