Black Mountain College / Hammer
Leap Before You Look: Black Mountain College 1933-1957
Hammer museum
Black Mountain College (BMC) was an experimental school located in Black Mountain, North Carolina. It opened in 1933 and was owned by the faculty. Josef and Anni Albers, John Cage, Buckminister Fuller, Robert Motherwell, Charles Olson, and Xanti Schawinsky is just a partial list of the faculty. Ruth Asawa, Kenneth Noland, John Chamberlain, Cy Twombly, and Robert Rauschenberg were all associated with the school. BMC closed in 1957.
Josef Albers painting and a desk he designed for the college
Anni Albers
Josef Albers
Buckminster Fuller
Buckminster Fuller
Source: State Archives of North Carolina
Emerson Woelffer
Ilya Bolotowsky
Robert Rauschenberg
Ingeborg Svarc Lauterstein and Rauschenberg at BMC. I bet at lot of good times were had there.
Source: State Archives of North Carolina
Alvin Lustig cover for Design's special on BMC
Lustig taught a summer Graphic Design class at BMC in 1945
Wood, including a massive bowl by James Prestini and plates by Mim Sivohnen
A. Lawrence Kocher stool and side table
Ruth Asawa
Peter Voulkos
Karen Karnes
John Cage
Ruth Asawa
John Chamberlain
The loom used at Black Mountain College
You have until May. Don't miss it.