Black Mountain College Resources

Websites
Western Regional Archives 
The Western Regional Archives (WRA) collects, preserves, and makes available for public use historical and evidential materials relating to western North Carolina. The WRA is administered by the State Archives of North Carolina and operates under North Carolina General Statutes 121 and 132 in carrying out its archival mission and programs. The holdings consist primarily of private collections and some microfilmed county records

Black Mountain College Project
Mary Emma Harris, author of 
The Arts at Black Mountain College, maintains this extensive archive of BMC-related materials. The Project's goal is to "ensure that the history and influence of Black Mountain College are preserved and documented for future generations."

PBS American Masters: Black Mountain College
Support information about the PBS American Masters series episodes about Black Mountain College teachers

 

Books
The Arts at Black Mountain College
Mary Emma Harris, MIT Press, 1987 (updated in 2002)

Black Mountain College: Experiment in Art
Vincent Katz (Editor), MIT Press, 2003 

Black Mountain College: An Exploration in Community
Martin Duberman, WW Norton & Co, 1993

Black Mountain College: Sprouted Seeds: An Anthology of Personal Accounts
Mervin Lane, University of Tennessee Press, 1991

Black Mountain Days
Michael Rumaker, Black Mountain Press, 2003 

The Black Mountain Book: A New Edition
Fielding Dawson, North Carolina Wesleyan, 1991

Hazel Larsen Archer: Black Mountain College Photographer
92 pgs, fully illustrated exhibition catalogue. Essays by David Vaughan, Connie Bostic, and Erika Zarow, Hazel's daughter. $24.95

 

Dossiers
Black Mountain College Dossier #8:
Gregory Masurovsky, A World In Black and White
Michel Butor, Black Mountain College Museum & Arts Center, 2004

Black Mountain College Dossier #7:
Gwendolyn Knight
Glenis Redmond, Black Mountain College Museum & Arts Center, 2002

Black Mountain College Dossier #6:
Michael Rumaker: Eroticizing the Nation
Leverett T. Smith, Jr., Black Mountain College Museum & Arts Center, 1999

Black Mountain College Dossier #5:
Susan Weil: Full Circle
Donna Stein, Black Mountain College Museum & Arts Center, 1998

Black Mountain College Dossier #4:
With Ray: The Art of Friendship
William S. Wilson, Black Mountain College Museum & Arts Center, 1997

Black Mountain College Dossier #3:
Lore Kadden Lindenfeld
Sigrid Wortmann Weltge, Black Mountain College Museum & Arts Center, 1997

Black Mountain College Dossier #2:
Fannie Hillsmith
James Thompson, Black Mountain College Museum & Arts Center, 1996

Black Mountain College Dossier #1:
Imagining the Landscape: Joseph Fiore's Structures of Rhythm and Sentiment
James Thompson, Black Mountain College Museum & Arts Center, 1995

 

Exhibition Catalogues
John Urbain: No Ideas But In Things

Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center, 2013

Pat Passlof: Selections 1948 - 2011
Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center, 2011

In Site: Late Works by Irwin Kremen
Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center, 2011

From BMC to NYC: The Tutelary Years of Ray Johnson 1943-1967
Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center, 2010

The Shape of Imagination: Women of Black Mountain College
Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center, 2008

Breaking New Ground: The Studio Potter + Black Mountain College
Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center, 2007

Emerson Woelffer: At the Center + At the Edge
Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center, 2008