ELEMENTS OF BMC is a new series that explores the fundamental parts of creative practice at Black Mountain College, highlighting a range of artistic mediums and techniques. The series investigates the role of these elements in shaping the college’s legacy and lasting influence on contemporary art. Attendees will have the opportunity to explore new creative […]

Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center presents the Yarn/Wire quartet, performing compositions by Annea Lockwood and Katherine Young. The Yarn/Wire ensemble will perform the second realization of their Fromm Foundation-supported project in collaboration with composer Katherine Young, entitled BIOMES 6.1. They will also perform the music of Annea Lockwood, a legendary composer, sound artist, […]

Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center presents Hub New Music, performing a dynamic program including compositions by Angélica Negrón, Elijah Daniel Smith, Nico Muhly, Tyshawn Sorey, Andrew Norman, and a new commissioned work by Yaz Lancaster. ----- Hub New Music Called “contemporary chamber trailblazers” by the Boston Globe, Hub New Music is a “prime […]

The Swannatopia Experimental Art Club will host a FASHION / PUPPET show on Friday, March 14th at BMCM+AC, featuring an improvised live scored orchestra, “river runway,” and a lineup of wearables exploring the theme: “How can we disappear but still be seen?” This closing party will celebrate the exhibition DEER FREAKS…and decoys, located downstairs at […]

OPENING RECEPTION for viewshed Friday, April 4, 2025 – 5:30–8pm | Free and Open to All @ Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center {120 College Street, Asheville, NC} Join us for the opening reception for the spring/summer exhibition viewshed, hosted at BMCM+AC. Refreshments will be provided by Curious Elixirs, creators of sophisticated alcohol-free craft […]

Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center presents the Arthur Brooks Ensemble V with Arthur Brooks, Michael Chorney, Bill Heminway, Jeremy Harlos, Anthony Santor, and Matt Weston. Arthur Brooks was a member of the Bennington College faculty for 23 years as both teaching assistant and professor. There he founded Ensemble V. He has been a […]

HOME, a collaboration of Sue Schroeder (dancemaker) and Adam Larsen (filmmaker), connects the foundations of human existence — home, body and nature — as inextricably linked. Experienced through the integration of nature, architecture, story, the moving body and film, our story stretches between finding and losing oneself, reflections on the places we call home, with […]

Join us for the Asheville book launch of The Anthology of Black Mountain College Poetry. Co-editor Joseph Bathanti will join us at the museum, and a multi-generational lineup of WNC poets, curated in collaboration with Bagatelle Books, will read excerpts from the anthology. Edited by Blake Hobby, Alessandro Porco, Joseph Bathanti, The Anthology of Black […]

Join us for a screening of Artists and the Unknown, a selection of documentary films by Art21. These films—five in total, making up an hour-long program—explore the work of artists who use randomness, mystery, and unknowability to try to answer some of life’s biggest questions. Featured artists include Linda Goode Bryant, Sarah Sze, Rose B. […]

Black Mountain College’s interdisciplinary and collaborative philosophy fostered groundbreaking time-based experiments across disciplines, significantly influencing performance, theater, film, music, dance, and visual art worldwide. Points in Space: Performance at Black Mountain College will feature visual and time-based artworks that echo BMC’s innovative spirit from 1933 to 1957. BMC was a nexus of avant-garde activity, fostering […]

Join us for a PERSPECTIVES Artist Talk with Tim Gane, Laetitia Sadier, and Joe Watson of Stereolab ahead of their evening show at The Orange Peel. The band will discuss their performance practice and how the legacy of Black Mountain College – including the work of John Cage, Merce Cunningham, and David Tudor – informs […]

The ReVIEWING Black Mountain College conference is a forum for scholars and artists to contribute original work on topics related to Black Mountain College and its place in cultural history. The format is designed to be interdisciplinary, with sessions that will include panels, presentations, performances, and workshops. BMC itself was a uniquely interdisciplinary organization, generating […]

flux in time: a heterotpic theater from the aborted future (2025) Saturday, September 27th, 2025 at 8pm Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center {120 College Street} FREE and open to all – No Registration Required Join us on Saturday, September 27th for an interactive performance presented in conjunction with the 15th Annual ReVIEWING Black […]

Aphorisms: A Tribute to Ursula Mamlok with dancers from New Chamber Ballet, flutist Roberta Michel, and the Momenta Quartet Performances: Tuesday, October 14th, 2025 at 7PM + Wednesday, October 15th, 2025 at 7PM TICKETS – $15 General Admission / $10 for BMCM+AC members + Students w/ID ---Link for tickets through the event page. Aphorisms is […]

Asheville Symphony Orchestra and BMCM+AC Present The Music of John Cage, Lou Harrison, Arnold Schoenberg, and Amy Williams Tuesday, October 21, 2025 at 7 pm Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center {120 College Street, Asheville, NC} TICKETS – $15 General Admission / $10 for BMCM+AC members + Students w/ID (https://www.tickettailor.com/events/blackmountaincollegemuseumartscenter/1860212) On Tuesday, October 21 […]

PERFORMANCE: Asheville Symphony – Masterworks Concert (Convergence) Saturday, October 25th, 2025 at 2pm AND 8 pm Live at First Baptist Church of Asheville {5 Oak Street, Asheville, NC 28801} TICKETS – Seats range from $20 to $85 depending on location The Asheville Symphony will present a performance celebrating the history of Black Mountain College. The […]

Audio Visual Butoh Performance: Frequency in Motion -- Featuring Atsushi Takenouchi, Hiroko Komiya and Chris H.Lynn. In conjunction with Asheville Butoh Dance Festival 2025 Thursday, October 30th, 2025 at 7:30 pm Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center {120 College Street} TICKETS – $15 General Admission / $10 for BMCM+AC Members + Students w/ ID […]

Living Female Respondent or 53 Yakshi A Performance by Jennie MaryTai Liu Saturday, November 8, 2025 at 7PM Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center {120 College Street} TICKETS – $15 General Admission / $10 for BMCM+AC members + Students w/ID Jennie MaryTai Liu’s Living Female Respondent or 53 Yakshi, a dance performance created with […]

Acclaimed Durham-based cellist Shana Tucker and Saxapahaw-based French choreographer Murielle Elizéon (co-creator of Culture Mill) present When We were Queens…, a powerful multidisciplinary performance presented as a diptych—two solos in conversation. "When We were Queens… is shaped as a ritual to call the ancestors. It is the whispering of a spell. It is an attempt […]

The UNCA Experimental Ensemble is dedicated to expanding our students’ ideas about what music is and how it is made. Incorporating electronics, found instruments, and performance art as well as traditional musical elements, the ensemble collaborates to create a full concert of new, original music every semester.

BMCM+AC is excited to welcome back The Tesla Quartet! This special performance, presented in conjunction with our Points in Space exhibition, will bring to life the music of Hugo Kauder, who served as composer-in-residence at Black Mountain College during the summer of 1945. The program will feature Kauder’s Seventh String Quartet, the same work first […]

This 2024 documentary tells the story of the 1964 Venice Biennale. A cast of influential figures—Alice Denney, Washington insider; Alan Solomon, ambitious curator; and Leo Castelli, a powerful New York art dealer—embark on a daring plan to make American artist Robert Rauschenberg the winner of the Grand Prize. Their deft maneuvers leave the international press […]

PERFORMANCE: Johnny Loves Johann – Music and Dance With violinist Johnny Gandelsman and choreographers Melissa Toogood and John Heginbotham Monday, December 15, 2025 at 7PM Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center {120 College Street} TICKETS– $15 General Admission / $10 for BMCM+AC members + Students w/ID Join us Monday, December 15 at BMCM+AC for […]

Join us at BMCM+AC on Wednesday, January 7th, 2026 for a live performance of Merce Cunningham’s Suite for Two (1958) and a screening of the dance film Beach Birds. ___ About the Performance Suite for Two (1958) is an arrangement of three solos and one duet from the dance Suite for Five (1956). Cunningham made […]

Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center presents Dialogue: Lindenfeld + Lindenfeld, an exhibition celebrating the works of mother-daughter artists, Lore Kadden Lindenfeld and Naomi Lindenfeld. Lore, who attended and graduated from Black Mountain College in the 1940s, made a career as a textile designer and educator while continuing to create weavings, fiber collages, artist […]

OPENING RECEPTION for Dialogue: Lindenfeld + Lindenfeld January 30, 2026, 5:30–8pm | Free and Open to All Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center {120 College Street, Asheville NC} Join us for the opening reception for Dialogue: Lindenfeld + Lindenfeld hosted at BMCM+AC on Friday, January 30, 2026 from 5:30–8pm. About the exhibition: Dialogue: Lindenfeld […]

PERSPECTIVES: Naomi Lindenfeld January 31, 2026, 11am | Free and Open to All Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center {120 College Street, Asheville NC} On Saturday, January 31, 2026 at 11am, Naomi Lindenfeld will give a “Perspectives” artist talk in BMCM+AC’s upstairs gallery. This event is presented in conjunction with the opening of Dialogue: […]

BMCM+AC is pleased to host the community release party for the 2026 Burnaway Reader: MYTH. Burnaway is a non-profit magazine of contemporary art and criticism from the American South and the Caribbean, published online weekly and in print annually. Through its editorial program and cultivation of emerging arts writers and journalists, Burnaway connects the region’s […]

After their popular performance last fall, the UNC Asheville Experimental Ensemble returns to Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center for another afternoon concert! Join us for this free performance located in BMCM+AC’s upper level gallery on Saturday, April 11th at 2pm. The UNCA Experimental Ensemble is dedicated to expanding students’ ideas about what music […]

Since 2010, Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center (BMCM+AC) has hosted the {Re}HAPPENING inspired by John Cage’s 1952 Theatre Piece No. 1, an unscripted performance at Black Mountain College considered by many to be the first Happening. The annual {Re}HAPPENING brings together dozens of contemporary artists whose work responds to and extends the legacy […]

Join us for the opening reception of our summer exhibition, Black Mountain COLL(A)GE, hosted at BMCM+AC. This reception is free and open to all. Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center presents Black Mountain COLL(A)GE, an exhibition tracing the presence of collage through the history and legacy of the renowned liberal arts college. Combining work […]

Join us for an evening of experimental collaboration at Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center with Ida Dierker, Brandon Gouin, and LOCALLC (Landon George and Adam McDaniel). LOCALLC is a revolving door of local live collaborators. This iteration of the collective features multi-instrumentalists Landon George and Adam McDaniel. Landon George (b.1995) is a multi-instrumentalist […]

PERFORMANCE: TRAP (Tashi Dorji + Thom Nguyen) and the GAF Trio (Will Greene, Ishmael Ali, Lily Finnegan) Friday, August 7, 2026 at 7PM Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center {120 College Street} TICKETS – $12 General Admission / $8 for BMCM+AC members + Students w/ID Join us for a night of improvisation with TRAP […]

ELEMENTS of BMC: Waggle Workshop (Collage in Motion) with Swannatopia + Sally Anne Morgan Saturday, August 15, 2026 at 12PM Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center {120 College Street} Free Registration Swannatopia is a group of experimental artists headquartered in Swannanoa, NC and residing throughout the Southeastern United States. Over the past decade, they […]