Craft galleries and quaint bistros fill the historic core, not far from Lake Eden, where intellectuals and artists once convened at the iconoclastic
Black Mountain College. Here, on the so-called front porch of the mountains, you just might want to sit and stay a spell.
Albers taught not only at the Bauhaus, but also at
Black Mountain College in North Carolina and finally at the Yale School of Fine Arts.
"He studied photography at
Black Mountain College, [North Carolina,] with Hazel-Frieda Larsen and Aaron Siskind, who were two great American photographers of their times," foundation founder Nicola Del Roscio told The Daily Star.
Richards, associated with the experimental
Black Mountain College in North Carolina and several members of the New York avant-garde and celebrated for her cult classic Centering: In Pottery, Poetry, and the Person; and Susan Peterson, who established ceramics programs at the University of Southern California and later at Hunter College in New York City, and who presented a series of educational television programs on ceramics in the 1950s.
Guests are encouraged to interact with the 40+ objects on view — paintings, works on paper, textiles, and sculpture — created by artists associated with the progressive arts enclave of
Black Mountain College.
The amount of material amassed over the life of the company--founded in 1953 at
Black Mountain College in North Carolina as an outgrowth of the school's fertile inter-arts experiments--is staggering: over four thousand objects and texts related to more than 150 dances and eight hundred Events, as Cunningham termed the time-based works that brought independently developed sound, visual elements, and movement into intimate and revelatory proximity on the stage.
"Tuesday History: Bringing the Old Kentucky Home to
Black Mountain College." Mountain Xpress, online 3 Jan.
museum exhibition about the work of
Black Mountain College, the legendary school In the Blue Ridge Mountains in North Carolina that created an experimental interdisciplinary environment for the education and production of art.
Writing in an accessible style with humor and insight, he describes his early years on a Southern plantation during the period after the Civil War, his education in England, his academic career, and his founding of
Black Mountain College in North Carolina in 1933.
Art colonies such as Pond Farm near Guerneville, California, and institutions such as
Black Mountain College in North Carolina and the Institute of Design at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago also furthered the reach of modernism.
It would be difficult to imagine interdisciplinary studies in graduate programs in the last two decades without acknowledging the inventive pedagogy of
Black Mountain College. Even though it lasted only 23 years (1933-1956) and enrolled fewer than 1,200 students,
Black Mountain College is still considered one of the most progressive and experimental institutions in art education.
The
Black Mountain College approach to education (Summerhill School is a parallel example in England) is discussed and some appropriate actions are suggested.