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.