Work of the Week

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

CURATOR’S TAKE Much of Maud Gatewood’s art was based on her memories. This small print of moonlight shining on the water’s surface in a cove

Curator’s Take An alternating pattern of tobacco plants and stormy horizons emits an otherworldly glow in Roger Brown’s Plants That Glo in the Dark Tra-La.

Curator’s Take The isolated figure of the dreamer on the right of this composition could be interpreted as an architect or as the artist, Isac Friedlander,

As a collections management intern during the spring semester, I was very fortunate to help catalogue dozens of Bruce Davidson’s photographs. The most striking of

Intern’s Take On Southern backroads, it’s not uncommon to pass ramshackle houses and drive alongside rusted trucks or big rigs making deliveries to small communities.

This new addition to the Museum is certainly a work you’ll want to see before it melts away—pun intended. Recently rotated into the Museum’s SECU Collection Hall, Margaret Curtis’s relatively new painting, The Ice Sculpture, immediately caught my attention by distinguishing

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

Curator’s Take One of the driving forces of Norm Schulman’s work was looking for the duality in human nature. He fearlessly confronted life through his