A fund raiser for the Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center
 (Artists: David & Nicole McConville) “Artists are the last of the speculative philosophers.” Kenneth Snelson
September 13
8:30PM
YMI Cultural Center
The Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center will sponsor Food for Thought, a champagne and dessert party and live auction at the YMI Cultural Center. This exciting event will raise money for programming during the Museum’s “Year of the Women at Black Mountain College.”
A wide variety of desserts will be created by some of Asheville’s most prominent chiefs. They will be served with champagne, other wines and coffee.
A lively auction will be conducted by professional auctioneer John Hill of Weaverville who is well-known for his humor and his ability to move quickly through an auction event.
Items to be auctioned are unique plates, platters, and bowls designed and decorated by some of the area's best artists. These works of art all feature a thought from a student or teacher from the famous Black Mountain College. Quotes inscribed on each piece of dinner ware are from Black Mountain College poets, painters, philosophers, architects, and scientists. The finished works can be previewed at Fired Up! on Wall Street during their regular business hours.  (Artist: Martin Dewitt) “…the background is as much of a shape as the subject” Fannie Hillsmith
The event will be held at the historic YMI Cultural Center beginning at 8:30 PM on Saturday night, September 13. Tickets are $20.00 for members or $25.00 for non members at the door. Doors will open at 8:15 PM. For further information call the museum at 828 350-8484.
 (Artist: Alli Good) “They just wanted them as objects. Aren’t these nice! Put them in a nice museum with nice lighting! Not the ideas…I wanted to paste these things on railroad cars. Nothing to be seen by anyone but coyotes.” Ray Johnson
 (Artist: Brent Skidmore) “Dare to be Naïve.” Buckminster Fuller
 (Artist: Bronwen La Joie) “You start with an idea and then you get lost on something else….that’s when the big things happen.” Harry Callahan
 (Artist: Connie Bostic) “He wrote poetry like his hair was on fire.” Jonathan Williams
 (Artist: Heather Allen Swarttouw) “…it can only be done with a line because a line can go anywhere.” Ruth Asawa
 (Artist: Kathy Triplett) “Now leave us to observe the amenities – to write as you breathe.” Charles Olson
 (Artist: Linda Larsen) “So long as one human being is hungry the entire human race is hungry.” Buckminster Fuller
 Lyn Miller
 (Artist: Mary Charles Griffin) “What is funnier than forms which will not go away?” Notes on Franz Kline by Robert Creely
 (Artist: Rick Melby) “We are a meadow where the bees hum.” Denise Levertov
 (Artist: Rob Pulleyn) “The mind never stops being hungry, never tires of learning.” Buckminster Fuller
 (Artist: Robert Godfrey) “Fielding Dawson and I went to Jonathan Williams’ for Thanksgiving. Tom cooked. Jonathan talked. Fielding drank. I watched.” Jonathan Williams Story
 (Artist: Ursula Gullow) “There is nothing in a caterpillar to tell you it’s going to be a butterfly.” Buckminster Fuller
 (Artist: Hertha Horwitz) “Less is more.” Buckminster Fuller
 (Artist: Emoke B’Racz) “These are the chronicles of an imaginary town.” Charles Olson
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