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The Asheville Art Museum is pleased to present its first Digital Exhibition, organized by Alex Landry, summer 2022 curatorial intern for museum diversity. Dear Lorna, Love

Video Transcript Welcome to Modernist Design at Black Mountain College. My name is Whitney Richardson. I’m the associate curator at the Asheville Art Museum. Black

Ruth Asawa (Norwalk, CA 1926–2013 San Francisco, CA) enrolled at Black Mountain College in summer 1946. In Josef Albers’s design class, students used materials such

The Museum welcomes its first acquisition of an artwork by Aaron Siskind (New York, NY 1903–1991 Providence, RI), an influential American photographer with ties to

Ray Johnson, a graduate of Cass Technical High School in Detroit, enrolled at Black Mountain College for the 1945 summer program. With the exception of

The Asheville Art Museum is excited to announce a gift of seven paintings by the artist Joseph Fiore accompanied by a charcoal portrait of Fiore

Curator’s Take Etta Deikman notably studied painting with Hans Hoffman at his School of Art in New York City. While at Black Mountain College in

Joseph Bathanti performs “Du Plessix,” inspired by Jonathan Williams’s Beauty and Beast: —Joseph Bathanti, professor, Appalachian State University and former NC poet laureate This project

Exhibition on view January 27, 2021–May 17, 2021 A Forward “Black Mountain College was founded in order to provide a place where free use might

Jo Sandman’s broad, gestural marks and composed splatter place her work in dialogue with the Abstract Expressionists of her generation. The spirit of experimentation demonstrated