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Last night’s book talk at @citylightsbooks.bsky.social #blackmountaincollege
December 18, 2024 at 6:01 AM
silverinsf.bsky.social
I have essentially borrowed about half of @gleesonlibrary.bsky.social, especially their collections the Beats, North Beach, the San Francisco Renaissance, and Berkeley Renaissance. #BMCinSF #libraries #blackmountaincollege
February 4, 2025 at 6:40 PM
modernjake.bsky.social
Ruth Asawa exhibit I saw at the Art Institute of Chicago in 2022. Japanese American artist. Fantastic work. She spent time in our internment camps during WW2. Impossibly intricate work. Taught at Black Mountain College.

#ruthasawa #japaneseamerican #weaving #blackmountaincollege
January 22, 2025 at 3:06 AM
designonething.bsky.social
Happy birthday Kenneth Noland. The influential artist, famous for color field paintings, pioneering shaped canvases and his ties to Black Mountain College & Joseph Albers, was born today in 1924. #blackmountaincollege #colorfield

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April 10, 2025 at 6:05 PM
beamonster.bsky.social
She’s Got A Ticket To Ride
2025
9”x12”

#beatrizmonteavaro #tickettoride #shedoescare #holdingoutforahero #wecanbeheroes @bmcmuseum #blackmountaincollege
April 8, 2025 at 1:02 PM
designonething.bsky.social
Happy birthday Kenneth Noland. The influential artist, famous for his color field paintings, pioneering shaped canvases as well as his ties to Black Mountain College & Joseph Albers, was born today in 1924. #blackmountaincollege #colorfield

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April 10, 2024 at 10:31 PM
venteto.pages.dev
#WillemdeKooning completed 𝘈𝘴𝘩𝘦𝘷𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘦 while teaching at #BlackMountainCollege in 1948, likely impacted by the suicide of his friend #ArshileGorky around the same time, but not by the death of #ZeldaFitzgerald in the Highland Hospital fire a few months earlier

#art #AbstractExpressionism #Asheville
the Abstract Expressionist painting 𝘈𝘴𝘩𝘦𝘷𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘦, completed by Willem de Kooning in 1948
August 11, 2026 at 4:55 AM
silverinsf.bsky.social
Super interesting and provocative post! But for the record, no one was fired from Rollins for refusing to sign a loyalty oath. #blackmountaincollege
April 18, 2025 at 2:03 AM
patrickkapty.bsky.social
Homage to the Square: Yellow Signal
1962
Josef Albers
American, born Germany, 1888–1976

See ALT for biography information about the artist.

#josefalbers #art #circa1962 #oilpainting #modernart #modernpainting #modernism #mcm #americanart #bauhaus #blackmountaincollege #montealban #mexico
b. 1888, Bottrop, Germany; d. 1976, New Haven, Connecticut Josef Albers was born March 19, 1888, in Bottrop, Germany. From 1905 to 1908, he studied to become a teacher in Büren and then taught in Westphalian primary schools from 1908 to 1913. After attending the Königliche Kunstschule in Berlin from 1913 to 1915, he was certified as an art teacher. Albers studied art in Essen and Munich before entering the Bauhaus in Weimar in 1920. There, he initially concentrated on glass painting, and in 1929, as a journeyman, he reorganized the glass workshop. In 1923, he began to teach the Vorkurs, a basic design course. When the Bauhaus moved to Dessau in 1925, he became a professor. In addition to working in glass and metal, he designed furniture and typography. After the Bauhaus was forced to close in 1933, Albers emigrated to the United States. That same year, he became head of the art department at the newly established, experimental Black Mountain College, near Asheville, North Carolina. Albers continued to teach at Black Mountain until 1949. In 1935, he took the first of many trips to Mexico, where he encountered the art and architecture of ancient Mesoamerica. He and his wife, the artist Anni Albers (1899–1994), would go on to visit Mexico and other Latin American countries more than a dozen times between 1935 and the late 1960s. On each visit, Albers took hundreds of black-and-white photographs of the numerous archeological sites and monuments they saw. He often created photocollages with these images, such as Monte Albán (ca. 1956), grouping multiple prints and sometimes postcards of various sizes in grid-like compositions on sheets of paperboard. In 1936, he was given his first solo show in New York at J. B. Neumann’s New Art Circle. Albers became a United States citizen in 1939. In 1949, he began his iconic Homage to the Square series, an example of which is this 1969 oil on Masonite painting, also titled Homage to the Square. Albers lectured and taught at various colleges and universities throughout the United States and from 1950 to 1958 served as head of the design department at Yale University, New Haven. In addition to painting, printmaking, and executing murals and architectural commissions, Albers published poetry, articles, and books on art. As a theoretician and teacher, he was an important influence on generations of young artists. A major Albers exhibition, organized by the Museum of Modern Art, New York, traveled in South America, Mexico, and the United States from 1965 to 1967, and a retrospective of his work was held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, in 1971. The exhibition Josef Albers in Mexico is presented at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (2017–18). Albers lived and worked in New Haven until his death there on March 25, 1976. Monte Albán (ca. 1956), a photo collage of ancient Mesoamerican (Mexico) archeological sites, photos taken by the artist in the 1950s.
January 23, 2025 at 5:08 PM
wnctimes.bsky.social
Black Mountain College Museum & Arts Center: A New Exhibition, Dialogue: Lindenfeld + Lindenfeld Jan 30 - May 9, 2026 wnctimes.com/article/blac... #WNC #WncMountains #museumandarts #college #BlackMountain #BlackMountainCollege #Arts #Museum #HigherEducation #WncEvent #ArtEvent #LocalEvents #WncNews
December 11, 2025 at 5:27 PM
cbcarey.bsky.social
“I have very carefully watched not to be a bandwagon guy.
That's my greatest warning to all my students, “Please keep
away from the bandwagon, from what is fashion and seems
now successful or profitable.” - Josef Albers #blackmountaincollege
October 8, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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Celebrating the many cultural leaders that attended or taught at their school, Black Mountain College's Museum and Arts Center presents a rich program thru til February-- Click the image to check out the PICTURE PREVIEW --

#BlackMountainCollege #MerceCunningham #JohnCage #PictureThisPostArt #music
Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center Presents Points in Space: Performance at Black Mountain College - Picture Preview
WHENE: September 5, 2025 – January 10, 2026 For more information visit the Black Mountain College Museum website. A spokesperson describes th
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September 1, 2025 at 7:28 PM