Friday, February 6, 2009 – 7:00 p.m.
$5 for BMCM+AC members / $7 non-members
The Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center (BMCM+AC) will present an evening celebrating the women of Black Mountain College and their work in poetry, music, dance and the visual arts. Participants include four of the region’s most accomplished poets: Laura Hope-Gill, Glenis Redmond, Landon Godfrey and Katherine Soniat and singers Cathy Haas Riley, Linda Metzner, Betsy Murray, Winnie Barrett, Lisa Sturz and Sue Curtis. Dielle Ciesco will tone, a vocalizing technique that is wordless, and Julie Becton Gillum will dance.
The evening is being curated by Laura Hope-Gill and is conceived as a way to honor the work of BMC’s creative women and to also demonstrate how their work can inspire new work from today’s artists. The poets will read work by BMC poets Hilda Morley, M.C. Richards, Jane Mayhall and others. They’ll also read newly composed original works created in response to BMCM+AC’s current exhibition The Shape of Imagination: Women of Black Mountain College (the first of 3 shows focusing on this subject).
Singers Cathy Riley, Linda Metzner, Betsy Murray, Winnie Barrett, Lisa Sturz and Sue Curtis will sing a musical composition written by BMC student Patsy Lynch in 1947. It has likely not been performed since then, so this will be its first performance in over 60 years. Cathy Haas Riley will also speak about her mother Maude Dabbs Haas, who not only graduated from Black Mountain College (in 1942) but also met her father there.
The evening will also offer audience members an opportunity to respond to the contributions of the women of BMC and to collaborate on a “word collage” created that evening.
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