Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center announces fall events

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BLACK MOUNTAIN COLLEGE MUSEUM + ARTS CENTER ANNOUNCES FALL 2016 EVENTS FILM SCREENINGS, POETRY, PRESENTATIONS, DISCUSSIONS and PERFORMANCE

October 19, 2016 – (Asheville, NC) Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center’s 2016 fall season continues with a dynamic roster of multi-disciplinary public programs in conjunction with our current exhibitions, The Painters of Black Mountain College: Selections from Southern Collections and Basil King: Between Painting and Writing.

Highlights include Susan S. Szenasy, publisher and editor in chief of Metropolis presentation on October 28 Ideas Without Walls In-Between the Spaces: Making Things in the Digital Age. Also on October 28, The Making of An Installation a roundtable discussion about material and Josef Albers in Leigh Ann Pahapill’s new work at Warren Wilson College. In November, Mary Emma Harris, Black Mountain College scholar and the first Black Mountain College Legacy Research Fellow at UNC Asheville will give an illustrated presentation on the final years of the college’s activity.

Additional programs include a screening of three short films made about painters associated with Black Mountain College (Willem de Kooning, Dorothea Rockburne and Josef Fiore) and two music events with Asheville-based Kima Moore, Carmelo Pampillonio, and Tashi Dorji. Choreographer Kathy Meyers Leiner will premier an immersive piece inspired by the happenings at Black Mountain College and we will also host a poetry event with the remarkable Nathaniel Mackey and Lee Ann Brown.

PRESENTATION, OCTOBER 28, 12PM {69 Broadway}
Ideas Without Walls / In-Between the Spaces: Making Things in the Digital Age
Susan S. Szenasy, Publisher and Editor in Chief, Metropolis responds to questions about the tension between local and global, the resurgence of urban manufacturing, and how the new generation of designers fits into the growing culture of making. Co-sponsored by the Western Carolina University Design Development Foundation. FREE for BMCM+AC members + students w/ID / $7 for non-members.

DISCUSSION, OCTOBER 28, 7PM {69 Broadway}
The Making of An Installation: A Roundtable Discussion
A panel of artists and educators will discuss Leigh Ann Pahapill’s installation The Interaction of Color | The Dematerialization of Form on view at the Elizabeth Holden Art Gallery at Warren Wilson College, October 24 to November 22.

Participants include: Leigh Ann Pahapill, Artist
Dawn Roe, Curator and Photography Professor, Rollins College
Dawna Schuld, Historian of Contemporary Art, Texas A & M University
Marilyn Zapf, Curator and Asst. Director, Center for Craft Creativity and Design

The roundtable will be moderated by Julie Caro, Curator and Art History Professor, Warren Wilson College. This FREE event is co-sponsored by Warren Wilson College.

PERFORMANCE, OCTOBER 30, 7PM {69 Broadway}
Solos and Duo: Tashi Dorji & Tyler Damon
Tashi Dorji (electric guitar) & Tyler Damon (drums/percussion) reside in separate locales but have come together from a place of mutual admiration. The pair has scarcely spoken of intention regarding their music yet channel a sound which seems to reference the familiar and the non-idiomatic at once. Flashes of ecstatic intensity, blurred timbral lines, fractal repetition, noir-ish, cinematic mystery and inclinations toward free play suggest that the two are pleased to follow a winding path to destinations yet unknown. Their new CD Both Will Escape was released this month on Family Vineyard, the artist-centric record label based in Indianapolis. $5-10 suggested donation.

POETRY READING, NOVEMBER 4, 7:30PM {69 Broadway}
MadHat’s Poetry, Prose, & Anything Goes with poets Nathaniel Mackey and Lee Ann Brown
Nathaniel Mackey is an American poet, novelist, anthologist, literary critic and editor. He is the Reynolds Price Professor of Creative Writing at Duke University and a Chancellor of The Academy of American Poets. Lee Ann Brown was born in Japan and raised in Charlotte, North Carolina. She is the author of In the Laurels, Caught (Fence Books, 2013), which won the 2012 Fence Modern Poets Series Award, as well as Crowns of Charlotte (Carolina Wren Press, 2013), The Sleep That Changed Everything (Wesleyan, 2003), and Polyverse (Sun & Moon Press, 2000), which won the 1996 New American Poetry Competition. This is a FREE event co-sponsored by MadHat Poetry.

PERFORMANCE, NOVEMBER 12, 2016, 8PM {69 Broadway}
Experimental sounds with Kimathi Moore and Carmelo Pampillonio
Electronic composer, Kimathi Moore will present his work Everlasting Castle, a piece devised with lush acoustic environments consisting of delicately crafted sounds made to fit within a decidedly ascetic yet immersive palette. Also on the evening composer and percussionist Carmelo Pampillonio will present new work that explores the internal logics of rhythm and arrhythmia, and through fragmenting meters they incite a gestalt sense of rhythm perception. $5 for BMCM+AC members + students w/ID / $10 for non-members.

PRESENTATION, NOVEMBER 16, 7PM {56 Broadway}
Ferment + Complications at Black Mountain College
The final few years of BMC’s existence were full of new priorities and challenges. The creative ferment of the 1940s continued, but the leadership vacuum in the wake of the departures of Josef and Anni Albers, Ted Dreier, and others opened the door for Charles Olson to step in. This presentation by author and scholar Mary Emma Harris reveals the complicated story of 1950s-era BMC. Free for BMCM+AC members + students w/ID / $8 non-members.

PERFORMANCE, DECEMBER 4, 2016, 7:30PM {69 Broadway}
Happenchance, an exploration into unknown interiors
Choreographer Kathy Meyers Leiner performs a work in progress that draws inspiration from the original Black Mountain College Happenings and explores the known and unknown interiors of person, place and thing. Free for BMCM+AC members + students w/ID / $8 for non-members.

FILM SCREENING, DECEMBER 4, 2016, 7PM {69 Broadway}
An evening of short films about Black Mountain College painters featuring: Willem de Kooning: Artist by Academy Award winner Robert Snyder (32 min), Dorothea Rockburne: Drawing Which Makes Itself (8 min) and Josef Fiore: The Nature of the Artist by Richard Kane and Melody Lewis Kane (30 min). Free for BMCM+AC members & students / $8 suggested donation for non-members.

 

Current Exhibitions

The Painters of Black Mountain College: Selections from Southern Collections
September 23 – December 31, 2016 at 69 Broadway
Curated by Alice Sebrell and Connie Bostic

The list of painters associated with Black Mountain College is a who’s who of mid-20th century artists. From influential and groundbreaking Europeans like Josef Albers, Willem de Kooning, and Theodoros Stamos to profoundly original Americans including Robert Rauschenberg, Jacob Lawrence, Robert Motherwell, Elaine de Kooning, Kenneth Noland, Dorothea Rockburne, Cy Twombly and Robert De Niro, Sr., the cumulative impact these painters have had on the history and trajectory of art is remarkable. This exhibition consists of work by many of the painters of Black Mountain College, both famous and lesser known, with work drawn from the museum’s collection and borrowed from other collections in the South.

Basil King: Between Painting and Writing
September 2 – December 24, 2016
Curated by Brian Butler and Vincent Katz

Better known as a poet and illustrator of other poets’ works, Brooklyn resident Basil King exemplifies the intentional independence and purposeful interdisciplinary qualities that Black Mountain College is famous for. And just like Black Mountain College’s legacy, King’s career defies easy categorization. This is most apparently true in the fact that he works as both a painter and a writer and is prolific in both disciplines. Arriving in the United States from England in 1947, he studied painting at Black Mountain College with Joseph Fiore and Esteban Vicente and poetry with Charles Olson and Robert Creeley. He then moved to New York and has been an important member of the New York poetry and art scene ever since. Under recognized because of his independence and interdisciplinary work, a 2012 documentary on his life, Basil King: Mirage, by Nicole Peyrafitte and Miles Joris-Peyrafitte has gone some way to remedy this. Between Painting and Writing aims to be an important step in giving King’s career proper attention by exhibiting his poetry, his illustrations and his paintings as a unified body of work. A chapbook of Basil King’s work will be published concurrently with the exhibition.

More about Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center

Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center was founded in 1993 by arts advocate Mary Holden to celebrate the history of Black Mountain College as a forerunner in progressive interdisciplinary education and to celebrate its extraordinary impact on modern and contemporary art, dance, theater, music, and performance. The Museum is committed to educating the public about the history of Black Mountain College and promoting awareness of its extensive legacy through exhibitions, publications, lectures, films, seminars, and oral histories. Through our permanent collection, special exhibitions, publications, and research archive, we provide access to historical materials related to the College and its current influence on the field. We aim to provide a forum for multifaceted programming and provide a gathering point for people from a variety of backgrounds to interact – integrating art, ideas, and discourse.

More info: blackmountaincollege.org/