ReVIEWING 16 Conference Schedule

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2026

1:00pm
Reuter Center Lobby – UNC Asheville 
Registration I Check-in Begins

Ongoing in the Lobby
Nyssa Collins: Object Dance – the making of a stop motion animation

1:30 – 2:45pm 
SESSION NO. 1 – Manheimer Room 
Moderator: Cherry Saenger
Maxwell Fertik: Raccoons in the Cybertruck: On Fuller’s Comprehensive Design as Radical Ecological Practice
John R Jungck: Self-Assembling and Self-Folding Biological Architectures
Craig Kerins: Making As Thinking

SESSION NO. 2 – Room 120
Albers, Bauhaus, and Black Mountain: Critiques and Enhancements to a Modernist Color Legacy
Moderator: Benny Fountain
Benny Fountain, Richard Kenton Webb, and Fritz Horstman

SESSION NO. 3 – Room 206
Robert Creeley Centennial (Panel One)
Moderator: Joshua Hoeynck
Basil Lloyd Moffett – Like and Unlike: Robert Creeley, J. V. Cunningham, and the Poetics of Erotic Negation
Miriam Nichols – Moving the Mountain: Creeley – Olson strategies in contemporary poetry
Seth Forrest – “Fit”: Robert Creeley’s Art Criticism and the Haptic Poetic

SESSION NO. 4– Room 207
Designing a Residency: Influence, Vision and Practice
Moderator: Tyler Emerson-Dorsch
Tyler Emerson-Dorsch, Brook Dorsch, James Stevens, and Ibett Yanez del Castillo

SESSION NO. 5– Room 230
Moderator: Ralph Burns
Elliot Inman: Visual Riddles and the Unexpected: The Art of Ruth Asawa and Ray Johnson
Katherine Kuenzli: To Monte Alban and Back Again: Anni Albers at Black Mountain College

3:00 – 4:30pm 
WORKSHOP – Manheimer Room 
Mike Oleon: Bring Structure to Life: A Hands-On Tensegrity Workshop

WORKSHOP – Room 206 
Patrick Farris: Making Place: Exploring the Centrality of Place to Black Mountain College

WORKSHOP– Room 207 
Sonja Thomsen: Whose eyes do you see through? Locating Hazel Larsen Archer and her ways of seeing.

WORKSHOP – Room 230 
Lauren Whitehurst: The Language of Paper Weaving: A Workshop Inspired by Anni Albers

6:30 – 8:30pm – RECEPTION for IMAGINARY LANDSCAPES: Black Mountain College Architecture + Design exhibition Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center (120 College St., downtown Asheville)

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 3, 2026

8:00 – 9:00am – Reuter Center Lobby, UNC Asheville
MEET + GREET

Ongoing in the Lobby
Nyssa Collins: Object Dance – the making of a stop motion animation

9:00 – 10:15am 
SESSION NO. 1 – Manheimer Room
Moderator: Elliot Inman
Michael Kellner and Alexandra Robinson: Some aspects of artwork: Considering a collaborative art project through the writing of Anni Albers
Adam Lion: When a Line Bends 
Tymek Woodham: Architectures of Experience: Xanti Schawinsky, John Evarts and the Danse Macabre (1938)

SESSION NO. 2 – Room 205
Robert Creeley Centennial (Panel Two)
Moderator: Joseph Pizza
Onur Ayaz: “… that one man, Robert Creeley, could write so many pages!” Rhetorically Reading the Intimate Dimensions of Letters
Jeff Davis: Robert Creeley: Human Again After a Long Time
Dale Smith: Robert Creeley’s Improvisational Measure

SESSION NO. 3 – Room 206
The Studies Building at Black Mountain College: Its Past, Present, and Future
Moderator: Charles Flournoy, Executive Director, The Black Mountain College Studies Building Foundation
John G. Waite, Shannon E. Brown, and Nancy A. Rankin

SESSION NO. 4 – Room 207
Moderator: Bethany Pierce
Thomas Frank: Frank Aydelotte: Mentor of Black Mountain College
David Peifer: The Connection between Black Mountain College and the Institute of Advanced Study
Lilli Treppel: The Temporality of the Grid: Anni Albers, Weaving, and Gendered Time at Black Mountain College

SESSION NO. 5 – Room 230
Moderator: Ben Fluet 
Tessa Bolsover: Ground Work: Depth, Roots, and Exhumation in the poetry of Robert Duncan and Susan Howe
Andrew Kohn: Richard Blevins and his Castle Tubin as continuation of Black Mountain Poetics
Alessandro Porco: Jane Mayhall and the Little Magazine, 1940–1960

10:30– 12:00
WORKSHOP – Manheimer Room 
Kate Tarlow Morgan: The Body is a House: Proprioception in Space at Black Mountain College
WORKSHOP – Room 120 S
Stephanie Kuss: Chance, Play, and Process: Building Poems, Composing Spaces, and Bringing Black Mountain College into the classroom and studio

WORKSHOP – Room 206
Derek Fenner: Field, Dwelling, Fire: Writing Space at Black Mountain College

WORKSHOP – Room 207 
N.S. Boone and Michael Hettich: Scoring Simultaneity: Poems of Biblical and Personal Proportions in the Black Mountain College Project

WORKSHOP – Room 230 
Fritz Horstman: Interacting with Color: A Practical Guide to Josef Albers’s Color Experiments

12:00 – 1:00pm
Catered Lunch

1:15 – 2:15pm 
MANHEIMER ROOM
Keynote Panel with Jeff Arnal, Michael Beggs, Frédérique Davreux-Hébert, Tyler Housholder, and Alice Sebrell, co-curators of Imaginary Landscapes: Black Mountain College Architecture and Design

2:30 – 3:45pm 
SESSION NO. 1 – Manheimer Room
Moderator: Heather South
David Silver: Ebbe Borregaard comes and goes
Becky Alexander (with Jeff Gunderson, and Alex Landry): Black Mountain College in the West: The Influence of 
Black Mountain College within Bay Area Creative Communities

SESSION NO. 2 – Room 120 
Moderator: 
Kyriakos Apostolidis: Bauhaus’ legacy in art education: towards an onto-epistemological account
Matthew J. Ely: Credit without Credit Hours: The Black Mountain College Model of Curricular Progression
Bradley Walters: Opening Eyes through Hands-On Making: From Black Mountain College to the Univ. of Florida

SESSION NO. 3 – Room 206 
Moderator: Nan Zander
Brian D Crisp: Take A Seat: Making Place and Placemaking at Black Mountain College
Rachel de Cuba: Migration & Weaving at Black Mountain College
Aaron Ernst: What the Building Remembers: Forensic Architectural Examination of the Studies Building

SESSION NO. 4 – Room 207
Robert Creeley Centennial (Panel Three)
Moderator: Jeff Gardiner
Thade Jude Correa: Speech is a Mouth: Notes on the Musical / Experimentalist Poetics of Robert Creeley
Josh Hoeynck: “Main Flaw is Inadequate Organization”: Robert Creeley and Larry Eigner’s Publishing and Correspondence
Eireene Nealand: A Bite Through the Possible: Creeley’s Engagement with Movement and Modality

SESSION NO. 5 – Room 230
Moderator: Michael Beggs
Elizabeth Cronin: Education as Life: Molly Gregory and Design/Build at Black Mountain College
W Jason Miller: Poet Langston Hughes Visits BMC: Part II
Amy Jean Porter: Adventures of Ideas: Anni Albers and Alfred North Whitehead 

4:00– 5:15pm 
SESSION NO. 1 – Manheimer Room
Moderator: Michael Beggs
Justin Childress: The Visible World Loosens: Three Microgeographies of Black Mountain Design
Sophia Garner: Built from Black Mountain College
Katie Horak: After Black Mountain: Stoller, Guermonprez, Marquis, and a Career-Making Collaboration at Temple Rodef Sholom

SESSION NO. 2 – Room 205
Moderator: 
Dima Alekseyev: Anatomy of an Artistic Experiment: The Parallel Paths of BMC and the ART-OVRAG Festival in Rural Russiay breathes in repetition
Ryan Johnson: Open Air Learning, An Introduction
Alejandro Loureiro Lorenzo: Relational Structures: Black Mountain College, Bauhaus, VKhUTEMAS, and the Organization of Meaning

SESSION NO. 3 – Room 206
Place, Product, and Person at Black Mountain College
Moderator: Rachel Pickert
Jared Arredondo: Shaped by Stone: Architecture as Cultural and Material Education
Rachel Pickert
Keif Schleifer: The Landscape is the Teacher

SESSION NO. 4 – Room 207
Moderator: Margi Conrads
Kira Houston: Medium, Method, Memory: Stories from Black Mountain COLL(A)GE 
Cait McCarthy: Not an Unlikely Place: Black Mountain College and the Pedagogies of the Appalachian South
Carissa Pfeiffer: Creative Crossroads: Black Mountain College and the Public Library

SESSION NO. 5 – Room 230
Moderator: Sadie Bowen
Derek Fenner: Outside the Margins: Black Mountain Poetics and the Design of Scholarly Space
Omar Ali: At Home in the Studio: Unmaking the Design Critique
Dominika Tylcz and Heather South: Navigating the BMC campus with disability

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 4, 2026

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

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