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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

Dear friends of the Museum, This fall we saw a slow but steady return to limited in-person programs for all ages, and our attendance held

The Asheville Art Museum was fortunate to receive a large gift from Maureen Littleton, the daughter of Harvey K. Littleton, late in 2020. The gift

The holiday shopping season has begun and we’re here to help with gift ideas! From kids and students, to teachers, art lovers, bookworms, and that

The craft community of Western North Carolina lost an important member last month. Billie Ruth Sudduth (Sewanee, TN 1945–2021 New Bern, NC) passed away on

Imagine catching a 4:35pm train from Penn Station in New York City and arriving in Black Mountain, North Carolina at 8:35am the next morning, just

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 Asheville Art Museum is pleased to announce that the 1945 painting Underground by Helen Farr Sloan (New York, NY 1911–2005 Wilmington, DE) has recently

The Mountain Lake Workshop originated in 1980 as a series of conferences founded by artist and curator Ray Kass and co-directed by art historian Howard

Video Transcript Welcome to Rural Avant-Garde: The Mountain Lake Experience. I am curatorial assistant Alexis Meldrum, and this is the Asheville Art Museum’s presentation of