Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center is proud to demonstrate its artistic legacy by presenting the work of alumnus and former teacher Dan Rice. According to the exhibit’s press release, Rice, who died in 2003, was an underappreciated painter who paid his rent by stretching canvases, mixing paints and building frames for his more acclaimed […]
A Cynthia Homire exhibit; the opening of the Center for Craft, Creativity and Design; and the Biltmore Avenue Mural Project provide a full canvass for Friday night.
The Black Mountain Center for the Arts and BMCM+AC collaborate at an opening reception on Sunday, July 7. Image courtesy of Black Mountain Center for the Arts.
The exhibition, which takes an intimate look at some of the pivotal moments in Seidler’s upbringing and the relationships forged with those around him, opens tonight from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at the Black Mountain College Museum and Arts Center. Photo of Walter Gropius and Harry Seidler.
Local musicians celebrate the Black Mountain College composer’s centennial with an evening of music at The Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center on Wednesday, Aug. 15.
On Saturday, March 17, head downtown for an out-of-doors art exhibition of many forms. Much more than a preview for the April 7 {Re}Happening on the banks of Lake Eden, the {Pre}Happening joins BMCMAC and MAP with Easel Rider, the city of Asheville-sponsored “mobile art lab.” (Photo by John Leidel. Graphic treatment by Nathanael Roney.)
Local musicians contribute to a 639-year-long John Cage composition. Variations on the Long Note takes place Saturday at Black Mountain College + Arts Center.
— Photo by Tadd Clarkson
Black Mountain College Museum and Arts Center and Norte Maar, a nonprofit arts organization based in Brooklyn, N.Y., host a night of collaborative performance, poetry, music and dance at the Masonic Temple Saturday, Aug. 6, at 8 p.m. The show’s title remains prospective: Untitled (as of yet). They’d better hurry! The event is tonight!
With the money raised from two years of successful events at the former Black Mountain College campus, the Media Arts Project is offering a grant of up to $1,500 for WNC-based artists.
An abstract-expressionist exhibit from an influential artist and painting teacher at BMC opens tonight at Black Mountain College and Arts Center. There’s a free lecture tomorrow, as well.
Attention, locals and visitors: If you’re intrigued by Asheville’s creative climate, take advantage of LaZoom’s latest endeavour, the Asheville Art Tour. Hosted by local artist Gabriel Shaffer, the multi-axle expedition connects art enthusiasts to artists and offers a close look at the burgeoning art scene of Asheville from the open windows of the purple bus.
Photos by Zen Sutherland
Alma Stone Williams, an African-American woman from Savannah, Ga., attended Black Mountain College in the summer of 1944 to study music – nearly 10 years before many other colleges admitted black students. She will be a panelist at the “What Was it Like to be Woman at Black Mountain College?” symposium at 3 p.m. Oct. 4 at UNCA’s Humanities Lecture Hall. Xpress talked to Williams from her home in Savannah about her experiences at BMC.
