Black Mountain College

“We must find our way back to simplicity of conception in order to find ourselves. For only by simplicity can we experience meaning, and only

My curiosity was aroused by the idea of giving structural form to the images in my drawings. These forms come from observing plants, the spiral

Jonathan Williams attended Black Mountain College’s famous 1951 Summer Institute in photography at the suggestion of Harry Callahan, who told Williams he would be teaching

In a chair sits a woman—stoic, blue, and simplistic, perhaps in contemplation. This work by Ruth Asawa, Portrait of Johanna Jalowetz, offers a calming look