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Jacob Lawrence, Steel Workers, 1946, gouache and black ink on hardboard, 22.75 x 17 inches. Private Collection. © 2018 The Jacob and Gwendolyn Lawrence Foundation, and Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.

September 28 – 30, 2018 Three-day program filled with speakers, panels, workshops + performances held at UNC Asheville’s Reuter Center and Museum + Arts Center

Co-hosted by University of North Carolina Asheville and Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center www.blackmountaincollege.org FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 28

1:00 p.m. — UNC Asheville’s Reuter Center Lobby REGISTRATION OPENS

1:30 – 3:00 p.m.

PANEL — Room 205 — Moderator: Elliot Inman The Makerspace as 21st Century Bauhaus: from left: Dr. Leslie King Hammond. The Studies Building, designed by Lawrence Kocher. A Black Mountain College in Every University with Elliot Inman, Adam Rogers, David Romito, Lauren Di Monte , Dust to Dust, 1938, tempera on paper, 12.5 x 18.25 inches. © 2018 The Jacob and Gwendolyn Lawrence Foundation, Seattle and Artists Rights Society SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 29 PANEL — Room 206 — Moderator: Melissa Burchard (ARS), New York/Walter O. Evans Collection of African American Art. Charles Darwent: New Worlds: The Art of Josef PANEL — Room 206 — Moderator: Wren Williams 8:00 – 9:00 a.m. — Reuter Center Lobby Albers at Black Mountain Jay Miller: Politics at Black Mountain College 3:15 – 4:00 p.m. MEET + GREET THE PRESENTERS Kate Dempsey Martineau: The Art of Mexico Heather South: Starting at the Beginning: Founding FILM SCREENING — Manheimer Room at Black Mountain College Documents and Ideals at Black Mountain College Erika Archer Zarow + Mary Emma Harris: 9:00 – 10:30 a.m. Marcia R. Cohen: takes Command: Previously Unseen Films from Black Mountain I Like the Beat PANEL — Room 230 — Moderator: Brenda Coates College from the Estate of PANEL — Manheimer Room Ann Dunn: State of the union: the woman keeping — Moderator: Joseph Bathanti PANEL — Room 207 — Moderator: Elizabeth Porter postmodern dance on its toes, dancer Yvonne Rainer 4:15 – 5:30 p.m. — Manheimer Room — Welcome First Encounters with Black Mountain College: Michael Kellner: Negotiating a space between Thomas Young: Gertrude Stein at Black BMCM+AC Executive Director Jeff Arnal An Introductory Undergraduate Class with J.S. Bach and Mountain College A Brief Update on the Journal of Black Mountain Appalachian State University Undergraduate Paige Lunde: Breaking Fixity: John Cage, Art, Eriko Takeno: Rethinking the Quality of an College Studies Panel: Joseph Bathanti, Zoe Chaplin, and a New Understanding of Time Education Philosophy and the Methods Employed Grayson Fields, Abby Frye, Dylan Powell, Dianne Loftis: Beyond Cultivating Vision in Black Mountain College Regarding the Matter KEYNOTE PRESENTATION — Manheimer Room and Tommy Young (Using contemporary theories of social practice and of the Hikikomori Phenomenon in Adulthood Introduction by Darin Waters Ph.D., Executive phenomenology to reflect on the haptic and multi- Director of the Office of Community Engagement, PANEL — Room 205 — Moderator: Mildred Barya sensorial practices at Black Mountain College) WORKSHOP — Room 120 and an Associate Professor of History at Caroline McAlister: Bringing the Avant-Garde Benjamin Wills: Creating Dialogue with UNC Asheville to America’s Children: The Children’s Books of PERFORMANCE — Room 120 Marginalized Populaces; Write a Letter to a Prisoner Leo Lionni, Remy Charlip, and Vera Baker Williams Curt Cloninger: Sad But True (8 hr performance) DR. LESLIE KING HAMMOND Andrea Heiss: Beyond the Frame: ’s Chorus of the Metallica song “Sad But True” as a 2:00 – 2:30 p.m. The World of Jacob Lawrence Transformation of Pop Culture’s Rifleman into a call-and-response duet with his pre-recorded and PERFORMANCE — Manheimer Room Postmodern Epic, “Gunslinger,” and the Influence projected self for eight hours Okapi: Anecdotal Confrontations with Reality – 6:00 – 8:00 p.m. of Black Mountain College Asheville-based duo that utilizes double bass, cello, CONFERENCE + EXHIBITION RECEPTION Alvis Dunn: The Creeleys in Guatemala: Memories WORKSHOP — Room 230 and voice through unconventional juxtapositions — BMC Museum + Arts Center, 120 College Street, Lee Lawson Stockdale: in Black & White. downtown Asheville with a food truck on site Write in place. Share. Then participants perform a Between Form and Content: Perspectives on collaborative poem at 2:45 p.m.

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Merce Cunningham: The Summer Sessions Sessions Summer The Cunningham: Merce a critical biography of Josef Albers Albers Josef of biography critical a call-and-response duet with his pre-recorded and and pre-recorded his with duet call-and-response

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Charles Olson’s Correspondence with Ann Charters Ann with Correspondence Olson’s Charles

Martha Colburn. Tyondai Braxton. Grace Villamil. Villamil. Grace Braxton. Tyondai Colburn. Martha by

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PANEL — Room 206 — Moderator: Julie Levin Caro Performing the Archive: Jean Varda’s Trojan Horse and the Summer Art Institute of 1946 with Julie Levin Caro, Jacob Brault, Anna Helgeson, and Warren Wilson College students

PANEL — Room 205 — Moderator: Alvis Dunn Molly Warnock: Allegories of Embodiment: James Bishop at Black Mountain College WORKSHOP — Room 230 and Beyond Candace Buck: Anni Albers and the Art from far left: , Jacob and Gwendolyn Lawrence, Black Mountain College, Corey Loftus: Prayers in Thread: Anni Albers of Found Object Construction Summer 1946. Western Regional Archives, State Archives of North Carolina. Photographer Kehinde Wiley, Prince Albert, Prince Consort of Queen Victoria (detail), 2013, oil and the Jewish Commissions (1957-1965) Unknown, 1946 BMC Summer Institute Faculty. Portrayed from left: Leo Amino, Jacob Lawrence, on canvas, 72 x 60 inches. Courtesy Stephen Friedman Gallery London. Leo Lionni, Ted Dreier, Nora Lionni, Beaumont Newhall, Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence, Ise 4:30 – 6:00 p.m. Gropius, Jean Varda, , Walter Gropius, Molly Gregory, Josef Albers, Anni Albers. PANEL — Room 207 — Moderator: Mary Alm Courtesy of Western Regional Archives, State Archives of North Carolina. 6:00 – 10:00 p.m. Mabel Taylor: A Multiplicity of Voices: PERFORMANCE — Manheimer Room — 22 London Road, Asheville, NC 28803 M.C. Richards as Black Mountain Historian Eric “Rodent” Cheslak + Walker Farrell: The SAY IT LOUD Katherine Markoski: Pat Passlof’s Black Future Leaks Out (60 min) A modular synthesizer PANEL — Room 206 — Moderator: Greta Trautmann An exhibition of contemporary art from the col- Mountain College piece for two performers, in which spoken word Julie J. Thomson: Black Mountain College lection of Hedy Fischer and Randy Shull, including Dave Peifer: Max Dehn’s Black Mountain audio recordings are cut up in a similar manner Reflections: Ray Johnson, Rivers, Wildflowers, work from eighteen prominent African American College Students to the Surrealist “Exquisite Corpse” game Photography, and Geodesic Domes artists including Kehinde Wiley, chosen for the Shana Dumont Garr: Notes from the Woods: official portrait of President Barack Obama and PERFORMANCES — Manheimer Room PANEL — Room 207 — Moderator: Brian Butler Observing the Spirit of Black Mountain College ninety-two year old Betye Saar, a founding member John Roche: Enacting the Glyphs: ’s and the Tradition of Utopian thinkers on of the in the 1970s. FREE Eric Mullis: The Land of Nod: The Place of “Projectivist” Poetics for Page, Stage, and Screen Contemporary Art in New England Independent Experimental Movement Performance Borim Song: Exploring Artistic Innovations and David Silver: Who Built the Barn at Black SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 30 in the Southeastern (30 min) A Traditions through Cross-Cultural Learning: Mountain College? post-dramatic dance theater based on musical and Bridging Black Mountain College and 9:00 a.m. choreographic structures used by American Shakers Korean Traditional Painting WORKSHOP — Room 230 COFFEE + CONVERSATION Joseph Pizza: Black Mountain Blues: Susan Lowell de Solórzano: From Bauhaus to — BMC Museum + Arts Center, 120 College Street, Lee Lawson Stockdale: Poetry in Black & White Charles Olson, , and Jazz Biotensegrity: Black Mountain College’s Summer downtown Asheville (15 min performance) Program, nexus in the history of tensegrity PANEL — Room 205 — Moderator: Tom Murphy 10:00 a.m. PERFORMANCE — Room 120 Five poets who contributed to the Stone Renga PERFORMANCE — Room 120 DEPART FOR LAKE EDEN CAMPUS TOUR Curt Cloninger: Sad But True (8 hr performance) (Tail Feather Press 2017) project, will read a poem Curt Cloninger: Sad But True (8 hr performance) Carpools depart from BMCM+AC for Black Chorus of the Metallica song “Sad But True” as a by one of the BMC poets and their own poetry Chorus of the Metallica song “Sad But True” as Mountain College’s Lake Eden Campus Tour call-and-response duet with his pre-recorded and with Jeff Davis, Hilary Holladay, Lyman Grant, a call-and-response duet with his pre-recorded led by David Silver + Alice Sebrell projected self for eight hours Tom Murphy, and Ted Pope and projected self for eight hours — $15 per person

6 7 Susan Lowell de Solórzano has an MA in Human Development & Dr. Tom Hansell is an Assistant Professor of Appalachian Studies 10 Education with a focus on kinesthetic learning. Solorzano has been and co-director of University Documentary Services. Hansell has assistant to Dr. Stephen M Levin since 2012 and co-authored “The worked in the academic and nonprofit worlds for twenty years as a significance of closed kinematic chains to biological movement and documentary filmmaker in Appalachia. He is the recipient of numerous dynamic stability.” grants and fellowships and has served on panels for the National Endowment for the Arts. PRESENTERS Lauren Di Monte is the Data and Research Impact Librarian at the University of Rochester where she works to engage and support faculty Dr. Leslie King-Hammond is an artist, curator, and art historian. Jason Andrew is the founding partner of Artist Estate Studio which in interdisciplinary research. In 2017, she founded the library’s Tinker She is the Founding Director of the Center for Race and Culture at manages the careers of Jack Tworkov (1900-1982) and Elizabeth Space with workshops on diverse topics including: creative coding with the Maryland Institute of College Art, where she is also Graduate Murray (1940-2007) among others. He has presented regularly at microcontrollers, basic electronics skills like soldering, and data science Dean Emeritus. BMCM+AC Conferences including papers on , John Cage, skills like data visualization and creative coding projects. Katherine Litz, and Jack Tworkov. Bacia Stepner Edelman, Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence and Jacob Mary Emma Harris is an independent scholar and serves as the Lawrence, Black Mountain College, Summer Art Institute, 1946. Black Alvis Dunn is an assistant professor of history at UNC Asheville. Chair and Director of the Black Mountain Project. Harris was named Dr. Sandra Ballard is a professor of English at Appalachian State Mountain College Project Collection, Western Regional Archives, State His major field of study and research is Latin America, most specifi- the 2016 Black Mountain College Legacy Research Scholar at UNC University. Ballard joined the English Department faculty and the Center Archives of North Carolina. cally Guatemala. First and foremost a colonialist, his work also often Asheville. Harris earned her BA from Greensboro College and an MA for Appalachian Studies in 2000 as the editor of Appalachian Journal. encompasses the stories of travelers to Guatemala. His most recent from UNC Chapel Hill. She is the co-editor of Listen Here: Women Writing in Appalachia and Zoe Chaplin is a sophomore and Management Major at Appalachian publication is entitled, “Six Months in Central America: The Journal The Collected Short Stories of Harriette Simpson Arnow. State University. Chaplin is from Charlotte, NC. of Confederate General Pierce M.B. Young, United States Minister Anna Helgeson is an artist, curator, writer, and educator living Plenipotentiary to Guatemala and Honduras in 1895.” in the mountains of North Carolina. Helgeson received a BA from Dr. Joseph Bathanti is a professor of Creative Writing at Appalachian Eric “Rodent” Cheslak is an Asheville-based photographer, musician, Ripon College and a MFA (Cum Laude) from the University State University and the University’s Watauga Residential College composer and co-founder of Modular on the Spot performance series Ann Dunn has served as a member of the Humanities faculty at UNC of , Milwaukee. She teaches performance art at Warren Writer-in-Residence. Bathanti is the former Laureate of North – an outdoor event that provides modular synthesizer enthusiasts the Asheville since 1996. She graduated from Indiana University-South Wilson College. Carolina (2012-14) and recipient of the 2016 North Carolina Award space to share and perform music in an inclusive environment, free Bend in 1972, received her Master’s Degree from UNC Asheville in for Literature. of cost. 1992, and her Ph.D. program concentration at USC in Shakespearian Andrea Heiss is the director of the Arts-in-Depth Program at the Studies with a secondary focus on the Literature of the Italian Missouri School of Journalism and teaches cultural reporting in the Jay Bonner is the Associate Head of School and Humanities teacher Curt Cloninger is an artist, writer, and Associate Professor of New Renaissance. magazine journalism area of study. Heiss earned her doctorate in at the Asheville School. Bonner received his Master’s of Arts degree Media at the UNC Asheville. He has published on a wide range American Studies at the University of Iowa, her master’s degree at in Creative Writing from Brown University. of topics, including new media and internet art, installation and Walker Farrell is a composer and educator of electronic music, Purdue University, and her bachelor’s degree from Illinois College. performance art, experimental graphic design, popular music, and teaching beginners’ workshops for the Make Noise 0-Coast synthesiz- Jacob Brault is an artist working in Asheville, NC. Brault received network culture. er. In 2017, Farrell gave a presentation at BMCM+AC on the history Scarlett Higgins teaches classes in contemporary American liter- his MFA in Sculpture from the University of Georgia in 2014 and has of tape music and microsound, and took part in the John Cage Room ature and film. She has published articles in The been teaching Sculpture and Installation at Warren Wilson College Marcia R. Cohen, artist and educator, is known for her artwork at ReHappening 2018. Review, The Review of Contemporary Fiction, and Quarterly. since 2015. and scholarship in color theory. Cohen has presented at national and international conferences dedicated to the interdisciplinary dimension Grayson Fields is a junior at Appalachian State University studying Matthew Hofer teaches twentieth-century poetry and poetics at Tyondai Braxton is a composer and electronic musician. He was the of color topics. Her work explores color and perception across all Interdisciplinary Studies Major. Grayson is from Greensboro, NC. the University of New Mexico. His research focuses primarily on former front man of the experimental rock group Battles. In collab- media including painting, sculpture, photography and site-based formally experimental work. He is the founder and editor of the oration with artist Uffe Surland Van Tams, Braxton premiered HIVE, installation work. Abby Frye is a junior at Appalachian State University and an series “Recencies: Research and Recovery in Twentieth-Century a multimedia sculptural and electronic project at The Guggenheim Interdisciplinary Studies Major. Frye is from Irmo, SC. American Poetics.” Museum in in 2013. Martha Colburn attended the Maryland Institute College of Art and Design in Baltimore where she released 6 records, made 5,000 record Jeff Gardiner received his Ph.D. from the University of Iowa; he wrote Hilary Holladay is a poet, novelist and scholar of modern and Candace Buck completed her MLAS degree in 2016, focusing on covers and over 40 super 8mm and 16mm films. Colburn began pro- his dissertation on Charles Olson under the guidance of Sherman Paul. contemporary American poetry. She is a graduate of the University creative writing with the history of Black Mountain College woven ducing multimedia art installations and visual art shows to accompany In addition to his essays and talks on Olson, he has taught a course on of Virginia with an M.A. from the College of William and Mary and a into her final projects. Buck currently lives in Asheville and works for her films during an artist residency at Rijksakademie (Royal Academy Olson’s poetics at the Ruth Asawa School of the Arts in . Ph.D. in English from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. the Administration and Finance Department at UNC Asheville. of Arts) in 2000. Shana Dumont Garr is the Curator of Fruitlands Museum in Harvard, Elliot Inman has led workshops in electronics and creative coding Dianna Cameron has been the Curator of Exhibitions & Collections Charles Darwent is an art critic and reviewer. He contributes reg- MA. She oversees the exhibitions and the permanent collection. She on topics ranging from basic electronics and Arduino programming to Director at the Blowing Rock Art and History Museum (BRAHM) since ularly to the Guardian, the Art Newspaper and ArtReview. His publi- holds a MA in Art History from Boston University and a BA in Art Fast Fourier Analysis. He earned his undergraduate degree in English July 2014. Cameron coordinated the exhibition Arts at the Center: A cations include The Drawing Book: A Survey of Drawing, Mondrian in History and Creative Writing from Colby College in Waterville, ME. at North Carolina State University and his Ph.D. in Experimental History of Black Mountain College at BRAHM in Spring 2018. London, and Josef Albers: Life and Work. Psychology at the University of Kentucky. Lyman Grant is a poet and writer of four collections including Old Julie Levin Caro is Professor of Art History and Chair of the Art depart- Jeff Davis attended UNC Greensboro’s MFA program in creative Men on Tuesday Mornings and many edited volumes of short stories, Michael Kellner is an artist who lives in Columbus, Ohio and lectures ment at Warren Wilson College. Specializing in American and African writing, and studied with at the State University of served as Dean of Humanities at Austin City College, and is now in the Department of Design at the Ohio State University. Kellner American art, Caro also frequently works as an independent curator. Her New York at Buffalo. His poems have appeared in Lillabulero, Iron, retired in Virginia. received a BFA with a concentration in drawing from the Hite Art current exhibition project is Between Form and Content: Perspectives on Asheville Poetry Review, Nantahala Review, Kakalak Anthology, and Institute at the University of Louisville; an MFA at the School of Art in Jacob Lawrence and Black Mountain College. other periodicals. Davis hosts the radio program Wordplay, which the DAAP college at University of Cincinnati; and his Ph.D. from the features poets and writers of creative prose via AshevilleFM.org. Graduate School at The Ohio State University in Art Education. CONTINUED ON PAGE 10 8 9 Steven Lane is an artist and educator in New York. He studied at Tom Murphy is a People’s Poetry Festival-Corpus Christi Committee the New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting, and Sculpture and member. Murphy’s books and CDs include: American History (Slough received a BFA from Antioch College; an MFA from the City College of Press, 2017), co-edited Stone Renga (Tail Feather, 2017), chapbook New York; and an Ed.D. from Columbia University, Teachers College. Horizon to Horizon (Strike Syndicate, 2015), CD “Live from Del Mar College He is chair of the Department of Art at Keio Academy of New York, an (BOW Productions, 2015), and CD “Slams from the Pit” (BOW Productions, affiliate of Keio University, Japan. 2014). Murphy teaches at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi.

Dianne Loftis is an artist, writer and cultural worker focused on the Savannah Paige Murray is a Ph.D. student in Rhetoric & Writing at study and practice of socially-engaged art. She has collaborated on Virginia Tech. Murray was a contributor and member of the editorial staff the curation and production of public art projects and forums as well for Appalachian Journal’s special edition on Black Mountain College. as several small publications. Her art practice investigates notions of from left: Beaumont Newhall, Jean Varda’s Trojan Horse, Black Mountain College, Summer 1946. Beaumont Newhall, Leo Amino and his sculpture Anticipant, spatial justice and the relationships between people and place. OKAPI is an Asheville-based duo that utilizes double bass, cello, and Black Mountain College, Summer 1946. Bacia Stepner Edelman, Josef Albers Design Class, Black Mountain College, Summer Art Institute, 1946. Black Mountain voice through unconventional juxtapositions to create an alternative College Project Collection. All courtesy of Western Regional Archives, State Archives of North Carolina. Corey Loftus is a recent graduate of the University of Pennsylvania sense of unity within their intimate orchestrations. Carrying honest where she studied Art History and Religious Studies. Her research and satirical messages driven by existential philosophies, their work Mabel Taylor is a recent graduate of Barnard College, where she interests include Twentieth-Century American Art and Modern Irish forms a unique mosaic that aims to stimulate the cryptic emotions David Romito is a science and makerspace librarian at the University earned a degree in American Studies. Her senior thesis, entitled History. Loftus is currently partnered with the West Philadelphia often overlooked in everyday life, in hopes of inspiring universal of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He works with students, faculty, and “Between Alchemy and Daily Bread: M.C. Richards After Black Historical Society to research local buildings and to prepare the nec- consciousness and individual empowerment. staff in all disciplines, helping them enrich their research and learning Mountain” explores the life and legacy of M.C. Richards through essary nomination materials for their historic preservation. experience with technologies such as 3D printing, electronics, and close study of three books that Richards either wrote, planned to David Peifer has taught mathematics at UNC Asheville for 24 years. virtual reality. write, or translated. Paige Lunde is a Ph.D. candidate currently completing her disserta- He does research in topology and infinite group theory. Peifer has tion in the Philosophy of Art Theory and Aesthetics at The Institute for published papers on the mathematics and history of Max Dehn, a Borim Song is Associate Professor at the School of Art and Design Julie J. Thomson is an independent scholar, curator, and the editor Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts (IDSVA). She is also an Artist, Art German mathematician who became a BMC faculty member. David of East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, USA. She holds of That Was The Answer: Interviews with Ray Johnson (2018). In 2017, Educator, and Arts Advocate living in the Chicago area. has been a board member of the BMCM+AC for the past nine years. her Ed.D. and Ed.M. from Teachers College, Columbia University in Thomson curated the exhibition Begin To See: The Photographers of New York City. Song’s writings on art, art education, and cultural Black Mountain College at the Black Mountain College Museum + Katherine Markoski is the Director of the Kohl Gallery and Lecturer Dr. Joseph Pizza received his doctorate in English Language and studies appear in publications in both the U.S. and Korea. Arts Center. in Art History at College. She received her Ph.D. in the Literature from Oxford University in 2012. He has since taught courses History of Art from Johns Hopkins University, having completed a in Modern and and in African American and Heather South is the lead archivist at the Western Regional Archives. Grace Villamil is a multidisciplinary artist exploring interconnectivity dissertation on Black Mountain College. Markoski is a recipient of Africana Studies for Johnson C. Smith University and Belmont Abbey South works to help collect, preserve, and make historical and evidential through installation, video and sound. Her mylar multi-sensory envi- the Dedalus Foundation Dissertation Fellowship and a Smithsonian College in nearby Charlotte, NC. materials relating to western North Carolina accessible to the public. ronments are places where hope, curiosity and reflection coexist and American Art Museum Postdoctoral Fellowship. are implanted with visitors to share in their individual worlds. Ted Pope is a performance poet, included in multiple collections of Matthew Steinke is an American artist and composer working with Caroline McAlister has a Ph.D. in English Literature from Emory poetry, including Varve. robotics, sculpture, and animation. His sonic narratives and musical Molly Warnock is an assistant professor in History of Art at Johns University and is pursuing an MFA in writing books for children from experiments take the form of audio recordings, videos, performances, Hopkins University where she specializes in twentieth and twenty-first Hollins University. She teaches writing at Guilford College and has Dylan Powell is a senior from Sampson County, NC, and a Political and installations. Steinke’s invented instruments combine electro- century art and theory. Prior to joining the faculty of Johns Hopkins published three children’s picture books. Her picture book about the Science/Public Administration Major at Appalachian State University. mechanical engineering and acoustic design for both composed and in 2013, she held a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at Princeton life of BMC sculptor, Ruth Asawa, is forthcoming from Roaring Brook/ improvised performances. University (2008-10), an ACLS-Mellon New Faculty Fellowship at the Macmillan in 2020 or 2021. Dr. Damiana Pyles is an Associate Professor of Media Studies and University of Chicago (2010-12), and an assistant professorship at Curriculum and Instruction at Appalachian State University. Pyles Seth Stewart earned his Ph.D. at the Graduate Center of the City Emory University (2012-13). Jay Miller is a philosophy professor at Warren Wilson College, has a background in both Literary and Literacy Studies, with partic- University of New York, where he edited the journals and letters specializing in the philosophy of art, politics, and aesthetics. Miller ular emphasis on social semiotics in media production. She currently of John Wieners. He edited and published Stars Seen in Person: Benjamin Todd Wills is the Catron Visiting Professor of Art at received a BA at the College of William and Mary and a Ph.D. from the teaches courses to preservice and practicing teachers to help them Selected Journals of John Wieners (2015, City Lights Books), which Washburn University. He received his Master of Arts and Master of University of Notre Dame where he did his dissertation on the inter- develop critical media literacy perspectives. collects four of Wieners previously unpublished journals from the Fine Arts from the University of Iowa. Wills served as Instructor of section of G.W.F. Hegel’s aesthetics and social/political philosophy. period between 1955 and 1969. Record at the University of Iowa from 2014-2017. His work has been John Roche earned his Ph.D. from SUNY/Buffalo studying under exhibited across the United States. Dr. Ray Miller, Professor in Dance Studies and Theatre Arts at Robert Creeley and Jack Clarke as well as an MA from University Lee Lawson Stockdale has a wide range of experience including: Appalachian State University, has directed and choreographed over College Dublin, Ireland. Roche co-edited an anthology of poems NYC cab driver, Army Colonel, criminal defense attorney, Library Thomas Young is an artist, student, and aspiring teacher based in 150 productions. Miller served as President for the Congress on from Auburn Prison, and edited Martha Rittenhouse Treichler’s Black of Congress Junior Fellow, and Poetry Craft Workshop Instructor at Boone and Asheville. Their research is focused on Gertrude Stein, Research in Dance. He has published in Theatre Journal, Dance Mountain to Crooked Lake: Poems 1948-2010, with a Memoir of Black Isothermal Community College, Columbus, NC. He received his MFA queerness, , and the body in the LGBTQ+ community. Research Journal, Theatre Topics, Studies in Musical Theatre, Journal Mountain College (2010). He was the chief organizer of the 2010 Black in Creative Writing from Queens University, Charlotte, NC. Young discovered Black Mountain College while growing up in on Dance Education, and others. Mountain North Symposium in Rochester, NY. Asheville, reading Olson, performing Cage, and appreciating de Eriko Takeno is an artist at Royal College of Art (London, UK), School Kooning, but, ultimately, falling in love with the writing of Francine Eric Mullis is a Charlotte, NC-based dance artist who received an Adam Rogers is an innovative, user-focused librarian who works at the of Communication, Information Experience Design. Her research du Plessix Gray and M.C. Richards. MFA in Dance from the University of Wisconsin (Milwaukee) and a intersection of public services and new technologies. In his role as Head of focuses on the quality of art education in relation to mental health Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of South Carolina. His current Making & Innovation Studio for the NCSU Libraries, he directs the library’s which she examines in a variety of media including the use of moving Erika Archer Zarow is the daughter of BMC artist/photographer research interests include ecstatic states in charismatic Appalachian Makerspace program, which includes spaces at the James B. Hunt Jr. image within a space, installation, contextual design, and artistic Hazel-Frieda Larsen Archer. From an early age, Zarow participated in Pentecostalism and improvisation across artistic disciplines. Library and the D.H. Hill Library, and makes 3D printing, 3D scanning, laser multimodal research method. She has led workshops in artistic multi- her mother’s classes in Perception at the Tucson Art Center. She is the cutting, and electronics prototyping tools accessible to all at NC State. modal research method in Japan. head of the Estate of Hazel Larsen Archer. 10 11 BETWEEN FORM and CONTENT Perspectives on Jacob Lawrence + Black Mountain College

CURATED BY JULIE LEVIN CARO + JEFF ARNAL SEPTEMBER 28, 2018 – JANUARY 12, 2019

One of the most widely regarded American artists of the 20th century, Jacob Lawrence (1917-2000) is known for his paintings, drawings, and prints that hover between abstraction and socially inspired narrative realism, chronicling African-American history and experience during his lifetime. Lawrence taught painting at BMC in the summer of 1946 at the invitation of Josef Albers. Included in the Jacob Lawrence exhibition are works by Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence, Josef and Anni Albers, Leo Amino, Jean Varda, Ruth Asawa, Ray Johnson and others. It also examines Lawrence’s paintings, pedagogy, and legacy in a contemporary context, through the lens of four multimedia artists: animator/filmmaker Martha Colburn; composer/ performer Tyondai Braxton; installation artist Grace Villamil; and writer and interdisciplinary artist Jace Clayton (DJ /rupture).

Jacob Lawrence in his studio, 1994. Photograph by Spike Mafford. Friday, September 28, 6 – 8 p.m. — FREE EXHIBITION OPENING RECEPTION + GRAND OPENING FOR 120 COLLEGE ST. + ReVIEWING BLACK MOUNTAIN COLLEGE 10 CONFERENCE RECEPTION

SPECIAL THANKS TO OUR FOUNDATION, BUSINESS, and INDIVIDUAL SUPPORTERS

Mr. + Mrs. Raymond J. Horowitz Foundation, Windgate Charitable Foundation, Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundation, Jacob + Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence Foundation, The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, James Kammon, Hedy Fischer + Randy Shull, and Micah Pulleyn