ReVIEWING 14 Conference Schedule

Ongoing – 11:00 am – 5:00 pm:
Open Gallery Hours for Digital Weaving, Textile Design and Production
UNC Asheville, Owen Hall 328, The New Media Gallery
This exhibition showcases artists who combine weaving and digital techniques. Qualeasha Wood (Philadelphia, PA) and Phillip David Stearns (Denver, CO) are included in the exhibition alongside work created by UNC Asheville New Media students in a May 2023 Digital Weaving course taught by Dr. Victoria Bradbury.

1:00 pm
Reuter Center Lobby – UNC Asheville – Registration/check-in begins

1:30 – 3:00pm
SESSION NO. 1 – Room 205
Moderator: Michael Beggs
Victoria Bradbury: Digital Weaving, Textile Design, and Production Exhibition
Deborah Randolph: Exhibition Influence: Exhibited Weavings of Anni Albers and Alice Kagawa Parrott
Janie Woodbridge: Integrating Handweaving into Digital Design Education

SESSION NO. 2 – Room 206
Moderator: Carissa Pfeiffer
Paul Bright: Kurt Schwitters at Black Mountain College
Thomas E. Frank: The Landlord: W. D. Weatherford and the Early Years of Black Mountain College
Charlotte Healy: Tracing the Legacy of “Paul Klee’s Hand” at Black Mountain College

SESSION NO. 3 – Room 207
“No Ideas but in Things”: Influences on Black Mountain Poetry I
Moderator: Joshua Hoeynck
Elin Käck: William Carlos Williams at Black Mountain: Pedagogy, Poetics, and Beyond
Seth Forrest: “dif-fi / culty // speak-ing”: Paul Blackburn’s Tape Recorder and the Poetics of Aurality
Daniel Dominguez: The Difficulty of Disentanglement” Mackey, Duncan, and the Legacy of Gassire’s Lute

SESSION NO. 4 – Room 120
Moderator: Maru McCoy
Catherine Cross Tsintzos: PAPER: Art and Agriculture
Monique Lanoix: Does the materiality of touch matter?
Jess Peri: To Know, and Then to Know Again

3:15 – 4:15pm
PERFORMANCE – Manheimer Room
Matt Wellins and Max Hamel
Prepared Zither and electromagnetic transducers (30 minutes)

GLASS WORKSHOP – Room 230
Mark Hursty
Explore many of the hot fused glass techniques used by Albers in his early Bauhaus era glass panel artworks (60 minutes)

TABLETOP SCULPTURE WORKSHOP – Room 206
Anne Dickens
Wire and fabric sculpture-making (60 minutes)

PRESENTATION + CARDBOARD WORKSHOP – Room 207
William Graham
Committing Art: Motivations, Materials, and Conditions of Prison Art (60 minutes)

CLAY WORKSHOP – Outside Patio
Makayla Beam
Clay workshop using a natural clay body from North Carolina soil (60 minutes)

4:30 – 5:45pm – Manheimer Room
WELCOME – Jeff Arnal (Executive Director, BMCM+AC) and Kim Van Noort, Interim Chancellor, UNC Asheville
KEYNOTE CONVERSATION – Brenda Danilowitz and Erica Warren in conversation

Brenda Danilowitz is an art historian and chief curator at the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation. She is the author and editor of numerous books and essays on the work of Josef and Anni Albers and has organized exhibitions of their work in the US, Europe, Mexico, Peru, and Brazil.

Erica Warren is a decorative arts and design curator and scholar, and is currently the editor of Craft Quarterly the James Renwick Alliance for Craft’s magazine and Assistant Instructional Professor, Master of Arts Program in the Humanities at the University of Chicago. From 2016-2022, Dr. Warren was a curator of textiles at the Art Institute of Chicago.

6:30 – 9:00pm – OPENING for Weaving at Black Mountain College featuring a performance by Jen Bervin
Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center
120 College St., downtown Asheville

8:00 – 9:00 am
Reuter Center Lobby, UNC Asheville – Meet + Greet

9:00 – 10:30am
SESSION NO. 1 – Manheimer Room
Moderator: Paul Bright
Marcia R. Cohen: Josef and Anni Albers: Color, Space and Material. Collaboration and After-effects in the Classroom
Olivia Comstock: Weaving Anni Albers through Édouard Glissant: The Opacity of Embodied and Material Knowledge
Elliot Inman: Anni Albers, Color Theorist

SESSION NO. 2 – Room 205
Moderator: Michael Beggs
Frédérique Davreux-Hébert: The Jalowetz House: Leaning Towards an Ideal Architectural Design and Democratic Environment at Black Mountain College
Charlott Greub: Formless –The concept of structure and material in John Cage’s 4’33” and the Resor House by Mies van der Rohe.
Karen Koehler: Site and Shelter: Gropius and Black Mountain in the 1940s

SESSION NO. 3 – Room 206
The Poetry and Poetics of M.C. Richards
Moderator: Alessandro Porco
Charmaine Cadeau: Bodycraft
Maggie Warren: Synesthesia as “Centering” in M.C. Richards’ Poetry
Alessandro Porco: M.C. Richards and the New American Poetry

SESSION NO. 4 – Room 207
Moderator: Julie J. Thomson
Marina Budhos: “It Was Art That Saved Me”— How Trude Guermonprez’s Wartime Experiences Shaped Her as an Artist
Danielle Burke: The Hand Arts: Black Mountain College in the Extension Service’s ‘A Partial List of Craftsmen and Handicraft Groups in the United States,’ 1947
Naomi Lindenfeld: Lore Kadden Lindenfeld: A Life in Textiles: with origins as a student of Anni Albers and Trude Guermonprez

SESSION NO. 5 – Room 230
Moderator: Curt Cloninger
Astrid Bridgwood: Synthesizing Art and Science: Living in the Tradition of R. Buckminster Fuller
Mark Diamond: Bucky’s Hologram
John Henson: Finding Black Mountain: The Spirit of Progressive Education in the 21st Century

10:45am – 12:15pm 
SESSION NO. 1 – Room 205
“No Ideas but in Things”: Influences on Black Mountain Poetry II
Moderator: Joshua Hoeynck
Jeffrey Gardiner: Pottery, Weaving, Poetry: Material Influences on Olson’s Poetics
Eireene Nealand: “The New Rites Are My Bones”: How Merce Cunningham pushes Charles Olson to explore shape through multidimensional juxtaposition
Onur Ayaz: Reading Olson Writing Place

SESSION NO. 2 – Room 206
Moderator: Maru McCoy
Marius Hofbauer: The Prepared Piano as Sonic-Material Loom: Experiments in Analysis of John Cage’s Sonatas and Interludes (Black Mountain College, 1948)
Kate Nartker: The Integration of Textiles and Cinema at the Bauhaus, BMC, and Beyond
Heather South and Amanda Hartman: The Black Mountain College Yearbook Project

SESSION NO. 3 – Room 207
Moderator: Julie J. Thomson
Alex Landry: Seeing, Relatedness, Matière: Ray Johnson’s Queer Formalism and BMC
Kira Houston: HOLES: Ray Johnson’s Silhouettes as Nothing and Anything
Sarah Ehlers: Materials of Poetic Experiment: Early Black Mountain College Writing Communities

PAPER-MAKING WORKSHOP – Room 230
Catherine Cross Tsintzos
Paper and Place (90 minutes)

12:15 – 1:15pm
Catered Lunch

1:15 – 2:15pm
Manheimer Room
INTRODUCTION – Dave Peifer (BMCM+AC Board Member)
FEATURED PRESENTATION – Weavers of Black Mountain College, Michael Beggs + Julie J. Thomson, curators of the exhibition at BMCM+AC.
Michael Beggs + Julie J. Thomson, co-curators of Weaving at Black Mountain College will share some of the discoveries they made during their research for this exhibition and introduce the exhibition’s key themes. They will discuss the ways in which Anni Albers formulated the weaving program at BMC and highlight the remarkable artistic and teaching legacy of Trude Guermonprez. The rest of the talk will focus on the work of several Black Mountain College students, bringing their little-known work in weaving into the spotlight at last.

2:30 – 4:00pm
EXPERIENCING TENSEGRITY WORKSHOP – Room 120
Chris Morita Clancy and Bruna Petito
Physically interact with tensegrities to understand the front edge of a Revolution in materials science and structural biology that started at BMCs summer program with artist Kenneth Snelson and design scientist Buckminster Fuller (90 minutes)

PERFORMANCES – Manheimer Room
Ann Dunn
Woven (30 minutes)

Maria Molteni
Yarn Over Double Dribble (15 minutes)

Caitlyn Schrader + Tara Webb
Woven Playground (10 minutes)

COLLAGE WORKSHOP + SALON – Room 207
Caprice HamlinKrout
Creating A Collaborative Collage, a Woven Conversation (90 minutes)

MATIÈRE WORKSHOP – Room 230
Fritz Horstman
A hands-on exploration of the material studies at the heart of Anni and Josef Albers’s design teaching (90 minutes)

PERFORMANCE – Outdoor Patio
Ted Pope
Weaving Longing. Blue, Gray, and Black. (60 minutes)

4:15 – 5:45pm
SESSION NO. 1 – Room 205
Moderator: Elliot Inman
Sam O’Hana: “50/50 Hitler”: Findings From the Olson Collection on his Work at the OWI
Alex Mouw: John Berryman’s Homage to Mistress Bradstreet, Black Mountain College, and the Postwar Poem Including History
Rishi Singh: Vulturine World-Making

SESSION NO. 2 – Room 206
Moderator: Sarah Ehlers
Kyle Canter: Felix Krowinski’s Photo Album: Photographic Materiality and the Black Mountain Archive
Katie Horak: Jane Slater Marquis: Everything is Lovely, But Never Quite Like Black Mountain
David Silver: The Last Thanksgiving at Black Mountain College

SESSION NO. 3 – Room 207
“No Ideas but in Things”: Influences on Black Mountain Poetry III
Moderator: Joshua Hoeynck
Eric Keenaghan: War Is the Field of Action: Rethinking the “Socialism” of Black Mountain Poetics through the Legacy of William Carlos Williams’s Influence on the Anarcho-pacificism of Robert Duncan
Jeffrey Hamilton: Robert Duncan’s “My Golden Book”: Charles Scott Sherrington, Computational Life Metaphors, and Their Period’s Compulsive Poem (and Ours)
Joseph Pizza: H.D. and Black Mountain Poetics

SESSION NO. 4 – Room 230
Moderator: Victoria Bradbury
Justin Childress: Beyond Two Cultures: Exploring the Legacy of Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.) and its Influence on Cross-Disciplinary Learning
Crystal Irene Gregory: The Shapes of Movement, Collaboration, and Experiments in Pedagogy
Simon Packard: Structures to teach and learn in: Bespoke spaces for drawing and performance

6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Closing Reception for Digital Weaving, Textile Design and Production
UNC Asheville, Owen Hall 328, The New Media Gallery

Gallery hours during the conference:
Fri, Oct 13, 11am-5pm
Sat, Oct 14, 6-8pm (closing reception)

This exhibition showcases artists who combine weaving and digital techniques. Qualeasha Wood (Philadelphia, PA) and Phillip David Stearns (Denver, CO) are included in the exhibition alongside work created by UNC Asheville New Media students in a May 2023 Digital Weaving course taught by Dr. Victoria Bradbury.

9:00 – 10:00am
Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center (120 College St., downtown Asheville)
Coffee + Conversation

10:00am
Depart for Lake Eden Campus Tour
Carpools depart from BMCM+AC for Black Mountain College’s Lake Eden Campus Tour, led by Julie J. Thomson and David Silver – $20 per person