Black Mountain College

“Black Mountain’s contribution was that you could live creatively simply by the way you looked at life and the way you lived it. I didn’t

Curator’s Take Petroglyph I is a large oil on canvas by Joseph Fiore (1925–2008), who was a student at Black Mountain College in the summer

In 1946 Elaine Schmitt Urbain was living, working, and making as a student at Black Mountain College (BMC) alongside faculty, students, and staff from diverse

The Asheville Art Museum is grateful for the contributions from Rick & Maggi Swanson, Kathy Dambach, and Charles & Jennifer Riner for the purchase of

The Museum is grateful to William Newton for gifting the complete Ruminations series by Robert Rauschenberg in honor of his sister-in-law and friend of the

This sculpture by Karen Karnes is from an intimate series created later in her career as a ceramicist. She was a trailblazer in the ceramic

Dreamy clouds float by in this work from Jacqueline Gourevitch’s ongoing series of cloud paintings, which she started in the 1960s. Her practice of working

The trained eye of Morgan’s camera freezes in time the tense and sorrowful choreography of Martha Graham’s seminal 1930 work, Lamentation. The image typifies Morgan’s

The Spiral Headed Man is a series of six panels in which artist Lorna Blaine Halper traces the life span of Spiro, a mythological spiral-headed persona

A weaver and published author, Joan Potter Loveless spent four years on and off at Black Mountain College. There, she studied art with Josef Albers,