10 EXPLORING THE HISTORY + LEGACY OF10 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, Seattle 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 Black Mountain College 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 Jacob Lawrence, 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: Josef Albers takes Command: Previously Unseen Films from Black Mountain I Like the Beat PANEL — Room 230 — Moderator: Brenda Coates College from the Estate of Hazel Larsen Archer 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 John Cage 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: Ed Dorn’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: Poetry 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. Jacob Lawrence and Black Mountain College SCHEDULE CONTINUED ON PAGE 4 2 3 SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 29 CONTINUED FROM PAGE 3 10:45 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. PANEL — Room 205 — Moderator: Jeff Gardiner The Black Mountain Poets Correspondences and the Emerging of the New American Poetry and Poetics with Jeff Gardiner, Jeff Davis, Scarlett Higgins, Seth Stewart, and Matthew Hofer Jeff Davis: My Muse Is Kleos: Tying It Together. from far left: Film still detail Hammer-Camera-Scissors (The Workers of Jacob Lawrence) Charles Olson’s Correspondence with Ann Charters by Martha Colburn. Tyondai Braxton. Grace Villamil. Scarlett Higgins: Robert Duncan’s Letters: Black Mountain Correspondence and Letters: 12:45 p.m. Poems 1953-1956 FILM SCREENING — Manheimer Room Seth Stewart: Teaching John Wieners Second Look: Previously Unseen Films Matthew Hofer: Olson prefers to call them letters: from Black Mountain College from the Maximus and the New Epistolarity Estate of Hazel Larsen Archer PANEL — Room 230 — Moderator: Dave Peifer PERFORMANCE — Room 120 1:00 p.m. — UNC Asheville’s Reuter Center Lobby Jason Andrew: Jack Tworkov + Franz Kline, Curt Cloninger: Sad But True (8 hr performance) BOOK SIGNINGS John Cage + Stefan Wolpe, Katherine Litz + Chorus of the Metallica song “Sad But True” as a Charles Darwent: JOSEF ALBERS: Life and Work, Merce Cunningham: The Summer Sessions call-and-response duet with his pre-recorded and a critical biography of Josef Albers at Black Mountain College projected self for eight hours (Thames & Hudson 2018) Jay Bonner: The Summer Photography Workshops Julie J. Thomson, editor: That Was The Answer: and the Arrival of Jonathan Williams to BMC WORKSHOP — Room 206 Interviews with Ray Johnson Steven Lane: The Influence of the 1944 Black — Moderator: Damiana Gibbons Pyles (Soberscove Press, 2018) Mountain College Summer Music and Art Institute An Exploration in Collaboration, Place, History, and Kate Dempsey Martineau: Ray Johnson: People with Black Mountain College Semester at Selective Inheritance Appalachian State University: Joseph Bathanti, (University of California Press, 2018) PERFORMANCE — Manheimer Room Mary Anne Redding, Damiana Pyles, Sandra Matthew Steinke: NOPLACE. Artist and composer Ballard, Tom Hansell, Ray Miller, Savannah 1:30 – 2:30 p.m. — Manheimer Room Matthew Steinke performs the music and visuals Paige Murray, and Dianna Cameron KEYNOTE PANEL from top: Bacia Stepner Edelman, Anni and Josef Albers, Black Mountain for his latest work. The aural score, incorporating Introduction by UNC Asheville Provost Karin Peterson College, Summer 1946. Black Mountain College Project Collection, Western several of Steinke’s invented robotic musical WORKSHOP — Room 207 A Roundtable Discussion moderated by Jeff Arnal Regional Archives, State Archives of North Carolina. Photographer Unknown, Ruth Asawa and Ora Williams, Black Mountain College, Summer Art Institute, instruments, accompanies live projections from Martha Colburn: Animation Workshop Contemporary Artists Respond to Jacob Lawrence 1946. Courtesy of the Asawa Family Collection. closed circuit cameras, synced animations, with Martha Colburn, Tyondai Braxton motorized zoetropes, and the shifting shadows 12:15 – 1:15 p.m. and Grace Villamil produced by an ensemble of mechanical devices. CATERED LUNCH SCHEDULE CONTINUED ON PAGE 6 4 5 SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 29 CONTINUED FROM PAGE 5 2:45 – 4:15 p.m. 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: Beaumont Newhall, 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, Nancy Newhall, 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