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On Time and Place
Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center
Saturday
July 31, 2010
8:00 p.m.

Jason Scott Furr and Vincent Wrenn present a collaborative performance based and constructed on the time and location of the performance itself, utilizing emerging data streams as well as live (temporal) composition and sonic cinema. Jason Scott Furr (modulation of audio and video data streams) - Vincent Wrenn (auditory variations on time and location)

$7/$5 BMCM + AC members and students w/ID
828-350-8484

KENNETH SNELSON: SCULPTOR/PHOTOGRAPHER/INVENTOR

June 25 - October 23, 2010

Opening reception: Friday, June 25, 5:00 – 7:00 p.m.
Free for BMCM+AC members and students w/ID / $3 non-members

Kenneth Snelson was an art student at Black Mountain College in the summers of 1948 and 1949, where he studied with Buckminster Fuller and Josef Albers. He describes his work as a study of physical forces in three-dimensional space. Snelson made the original discovery of the tension/compression principle, “tensegrity” which defines his structural sculptures. Another of his works is a fifty year study, a multimedia piece describing the artist’s invented architecture for the atom. This exhibition will include small sculptures, panoramic photographs, digital pictures and patent drawings.

PERFORMANCE

On Time and Place

Friday, July 23, 8:00 p.m.

Jason Scott Furr & Vincent Wrenn

This collaborative performance will be based and constructed on the time and location of the performance itself, utilizing emerging data streams as well as live (temporal) composition and sonic cinema. With Scott Furr (modulation of audio and video data streams) and Vincent Wrenn (auditory variations on time and location.)

$7 / $5 BMCM+AC members + students w/ID

WORKSHOP

The Albers Color Course

Sat., August 7, 10:00 - 4:00 & Sun., August 8, 10:00 - 1:00

Fred Horowitz, a former student of Josef Albers and Black Mountain College student Sewell Sillman, will present a two-day workshop on the Albers color course. Initiated at Black Mountain College, Albers’s course was a revolutionary method that investigated how color behaves in context with other colors. Through hands-on activities, participants will experience something of the magic and delight of color as experienced in Albers’s course. Co-sponsored by UNC Asheville.

Pre-registration required. Some materials provided.

$95 / $85 BMCM+AC members + students w/ID

PRESENTATION
Towards a Poetics of Race, Space & Place: The Harlem Skyrise Project
Thursday, August 19, 7:00 p.m.
New York-based author, poet and professor Cheryl Fish will consider poet and African-American rights activist June Jordan's collaboration with architects in the 1960s and how her challenge to "slum clearance" was an early example of environmental justice and the importance of connecting dwelling space to the psychic and social well being of a community. What do these findings mean for rethinking private and public spaces now?
Presented in collaboration with the French Broad Institute (FBI).
$7 / $5 BMCM+AC members + students w/ID

CONFERENCE

October 8 – 10 at the University of North Carolina Asheville

2nd Annual Re-Viewing Black Mountain College - The legacy of Black Mountain College continues to influence contemporary culture in multiple realms. This conference aims to investigate its history as well as the multiple paths of influence, actual and possible, identifiable in the contemporary world and beyond.

Keynote Speaker: Kenneth Snelson

Kenneth Snelson is an American artist with work in major museum and public art collections all over the world. Known primarily for his gravity defying sculptures, Snelson is also an accomplished photographer with a particular interest in panoramic photographs. The recent publication Kenneth Snelson: Forces Made Visible traces this important artist's five-decade career.


Support for this project has been generously provided by: Architectural Design Studio, Samsel Architects, MDS 10 Architects, Henco Reprographics and UNC Asheville.
Food for Thought
A fundraiser for the Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center
YMI Cultural Center - 39 S. Market Street, downtown Asheville
Saturday, July 10, 2010
8:00 p.m.

Food for Thought is a champagne and dessert party and live auction at the YMI Cultural Center in downtown Asheville. This exciting event will raise money for programming at the museum/arts center. A wide variety of desserts will be served with champagne and coffee along with a lively auction conducted by professional auctioneer John Hill of Weaverville who is well known for his humor.

Items to be auctioned are unique plates, platters, and bowls designed and decorated by some of the area's most talented artists such as Alli Good, Taiyo la Paix, Linda Larsen, Kevin Hogan and many others including a very well-known New York-based artist. These works of art all feature a thought from a student or teacher from the legendary Black Mountain College. Quotes inscribed on each piece of dinnerware are from Black Mountain College poets, painters, philosophers, architects, and scientists. The finished works can be previewed upstairs at Blue Spiral 1 during their regular business hours.

Food for Thought will be held at the historic YMI Cultural Center, 39 S. Market St., beginning at 8:00 PM on Saturday night, July 10. Tickets are $20.00 for members or $25.00 for non-members at the door. For further information call Alice Sebrell at 828 350-8484.

Hertha O. Horwitz

"Explore your own possibility!" - Ilya Bolotowsky

Nava Lubelski

" I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones. " - John Cage

Margaret Curtis

"These days, whatever you have to say, leave the roots on, let them dangle and the dirt, just to make clear, where they come from." - Charles Olson

Kevin Hogan

"Josef! Shut up and eat." - Anni Albers

Billy Bernstein

"more more more more more more more more more more more more..."

Kate Bernstein

"Dog with daisies for eyes/who flashes forth/flame of is very self at every bark"

- The Dog of Art, Denise Levertov

Connie Bostic

"Blackbird hangs low in the sky

Sun and moon gone south until solstice" - CK Holmire






Christopher French

"Art, like life, is all about location."

Donald Sultan

HOT DOG HOT DOG

Alchemist’s Rock







Tony Bradley

"the artist begins with art, and through it arrives at reality."

- Robert Motherwell








Terry Taylor

Follow Ray's Instructions

1. Draw Circle

2. Add Ear

3. Add Another Ear

4. Add Eye

5. Add Another Eye

6. Add Nose

7. Add Mouth

8. Moustache Optional

Phil DeAngelo

" I've been looking at this landscape for twenty years, and I've come to the conclusion that there's only one tree out of place." - Nell Rice


Kristy Urquhart

" Imagine inventing yellow or moving for the first time in a cherry curve."

- MC Richards



Jeff Kinzel

"Young people don't know when to stop." - Fannie Hillsmith













Dana Irwin

" abstract expressionism was the first American art that was filled with anger as well as beauty." - Robert Motherwell

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Brigid Burns

"the Dog / of Art turns to the world / the quietness of his eyes"

- Denise Levertov









Michael Hofman

“ There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly”
– Buckminster Fuller












Alli Good

“ But I found a lot of the artists at the Cedar Bar difficult for me to talk to.”
– Robert Rauschenberg













Taiyo la Paix

“ The naked musculature of the Rockies was overpowering and my painting responded.”
– Elaine DeKooning














Marcia Cohen

“Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature.”
-Josef Albers














Aimee Ellingsen

“ Love is form and cannot be without important substance.”
– Charles Olson














Karen Weihs

“If I plant a tomato seed I will get a tomato plant out of it. Then I will get tomatoes from that. I LIKE THAT.”
– Ruth Asawa













Sally Bryenton

“ There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly”
– Buckminster Fuller














Linda Larsen

“Art is always a personal moral adventure.”
– Josef Albers














Charles Krekelberg

“ When I spoke of flowers I was a flower, with all the prerogatives of flowers, especially the right to come alive in the spring.”
– William Carlos Williams



Absentee bids will be accepted, please contact us for further information.
From BMC to NYC: The Tutelary Years of Ray Johnson (1943-1967)
February 19 – June 12, 2010
Opening reception: Friday, February 19, 6:00 – 8:00 p.m.
Free for BMCM+AC members and students w/ID / $3 non-members




The Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center (BMCM+AC) will present the exhibition From BMC to NYC: The Tutelary Years of Ray Johnson (1943-1967) beginning February 19th, 2010, and running through June 12th. In addition, we will host related programs, including a guest lecture, a film screening of the popular documentary How to Draw a Bunny, a collage workshop by Washington DC collagist Krista Franklin and an opening-night performance by Graham Hackett and Poetix Lounge. An exhibition catalogue will be available for purchase.

A seminal Pop Art figure, Ray Johnson has been called the most significant "unknown artist" of the post-war period, a "collagist extraordinaire" who influenced Pop artists such as Andy Warhol and Keith Haring, as well as a generation of contemporary artists. Since his death, however, Johnson has emerged not only as a key member of the 1960's generation, but as one of the major artistic innovators of the second-half of the 20th century.

Black Mountain College—in particular, Johnson’s first teacher, Josef Albers—was a critical factor in Johnson’s development as an artist. Indeed, Johnson’s time at the college can be viewed in retrospect as a platform from which he dove into Manhattan and its vibrant art world. Our exhibition will explore the ways that many of Johnson’s early tutelary influences, both the people and the places, helped create his unique vision. Throughout his career, Johnson always found ways to engage those around him—mentors, friends and strangers alike—in a correspondence “dance” of collage, letter writing and interactive performance art. Following in Marcel Duchamp’s footsteps, Johnson, as one art critic put it, “introduced life into art.”

Through a carefully selected group of paintings, collages and early correspondence, From BMC to NYC: The Tutelary Years of Ray Johnson will explore the early transitions in Johnson’s career—in particular his graduation from high school in Detroit to his three years of serious study at Black Mountain College to his immersion in the Manhattan art scene of the 1950s and 1960s. From BMC to NYC, curated by writer and collage artist Sebastian Matthews, will trace a circle around roughly two decades of Johnson’s early art, creating a spotlight on his explosion from talented painter and master collagist to, by the 1960s, Grand Dean of Dada & Postal Art. The exhibition will provide an interactive, playful presentation of Johnson’s “tutelary” work, highlighting the people and places that influenced Johnson’s creations in order to give the viewer a roadmap of Johnson’s creative process.

The Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center is an exhibition space and resource center in downtown Asheville dedicated to exploring the history and legacy of the world's most acclaimed experimental educational community, Black Mountain College. Over the course of its 24 year history, Black Mountain College attracted and created maverick spirits, some of whom went on to become well-known and extremely influential individuals in the latter half of the 20th century. Even now, decades after its closing in 1957, the powerful influence of BMC continues to reverberate.

Citation: Ray Johnson James Dean/Rimbaud
ca. 1956-58
Collage on cardboard
11 by 7-5/8 inches
Private Collection

Related Programming

OPENING NIGHT PERFORMANCE
Graham Hackett & Poetix Vanguard are spoken-word performers who deliver poems solo, as duets, in 3 parts, or as ensemble pieces. They will perform throughout the opening reception.

COLLAGE WORKSHOP
Saturday, February 27, 10:00 a.m - 2:00 p.m.
The Visual Poetry workshop, taught by Chicago-based poet and artist Krista Franklin, will engage participants in the creation of original work out of pre-existing text and images. Using the art of collage, workshop participants will engage in art-making exercises designed to expand one’s creative possibilities. Pre-registration suggested. $20 / $15 BMCM+AC members + students w/ ID. Most materials provided.

FILM SCREENING
Thursday, April 8, 7:00 p.m.
How to Draw a Bunny John Walter and Andrew Moore's award-winning documentary tells the story of collage artist Ray Johnson, whose death was cloaked in mystery and whose life and art remain enigmatic. As one of the seminal figures in the Pop Art era, Johnson is known as the founding father of mail art and as a collagist extraordinaire. Winner of the special jury prize at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival. Fine Arts Theatre - 36 Biltmore Avenue, Downtown Asheville $10 / $8 BMCM+AC members + students w/ID

GUEST LECTURE
Friday, May 21, 7:00 p.m.
Dr. Frances F. L. Beatty, Vice President of Richard L. Feigen & Co. and Director of the Ray Johnson Estate, will talk about Ray Johnson’s attitude towards exhibiting his work, the contents of the Estate and her relationship with the famously eccentric artist. $7 / $5 BMCM+AC members + students w/ID

CLOSING NIGHT POETRY READING
Saturday, June 12, 7:00 p.m.
Earl Braggs teaches creative writing and African-American literature at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. He is the author of five collections of poetry, including Hat Dancer Blue and In Which Language Do I Keep Silent: New and Selected Poems. Keith Flynn is the founder and editor of the Asheville Poetry Review. His fourth book of poems, The Golden Ratio, and his first book of nonfiction, The Rhythm Method, Razzmatazz and Memory: How To Make Your Poetry Swing, have garnered Flynn national attention. $7 / $5 BMCM+AC members + students w/ID

Support for this project has been generously provided by: the North Carolina Arts Council, Asheville Area Arts Council, Henco Reprographics and many generous individual sponsors.

Curator's Blog
Collage Mind: A Collage Workshop


for Rising 8th graders thru Rising10th graders

What happens when you take two things that seem unrelated—llke, say, visual art and writing, collage art and poetry, non-fiction and creativity, Black Mountain College Museum and Arts Center and the Thomas Wolfe Memorial site—and mix them all up in a one week camp? We’re not sure, but we know it will be something new and exciting.

We’re also sure it will help all of us to enter into what Beat Generation novelist William S. Burroughs called “the third mind”—where inspiring poems, short memoir pieces or lively personal essays are born. Participants will begin the week at the Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center by exploring the art of collage artist Ray Johnson, one of the seminal figures of the Pop art Era and student at the Black Mountain college in the early 40s.

Tuesday through Friday will offer time at both the BMCM+AC and the Wolfe Memorial, for writing, making collage art, and having great conversations about creativity. Poet Sebastian Matthews, curator of the Ray Johnson exhibition, From BMC to NYC: The Tutelary Years of Ray Johnson, will take the lead on poetry, beginning with his workshop, 7 Things Ray Can Teach Us About Poetry. In the house that Asheville’s most famous novelist, Thomas Wolfe, made famous with his barely fictionalized novel Look Homeward, Angel, Janet Hurley and camp participants will explore the creative non-fiction genre—where murkiness and clarity are inspirational.

To cap the week, participants will share their writing and art in a public reading and art show at the Thomas Wolfe Memorial Visitor Center.

How Much? $170.

Where? Thomas Wolfe House and Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center.

When? Monday, June 14-Friday, June 19, 10:00 am-3:00pm

The workshop is limited to 12 participants and scholarship assistance is available.

Collaboration with UNCA

The Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center and University of North Carolina Asheville's Ramsey Library Special Collections are collaborating to digitize and make available for study materials from the BMCM+AC archives and permanent collection. This is an ongoing process that will continue to develop and grow over time. It is also an invaluable learning experience for students at UNC Asheville. Please click on the link below to see our progress.

http://tinyurl.com/y6bv3fs

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