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SUMMARY:ELEMENTS of BMC: Waggle Dance Workshop with Swannatopia + Sally Anne Morgan
DESCRIPTION:ELEMENTS of BMC: Waggle Workshop (Collage in Motion)\nwith Swannatopia + Sally Anne Morgan\nSaturday\, August 15\, 2026 at 12PM\nBlack Mountain College Museum + Arts Center {120 College Street}\nFree Registration\nSwannatopia is a group of experimental artists headquartered in Swannanoa\, NC and residing throughout the Southeastern United States. Over the past decade\, they have set out to blur the lines between “artist” and “participant\,” to defamiliarize the familiar\, to nurture an immersive\, whimsical\, thoughtful\, experience of empowerment and offer a glimpse of what is possible. In this workshop\, Swannatopia will explore BEE communication\, putting collage in motion through a “NOW TIME” Hexagon Dance. Inspired by traditions of Square Dancing\, the Hexagon Dance will be accompanied by musician Sally Anne Morgan.\nThis event is presented in conjunction with Black Mountain COLL(A)GE (May 29 – September 5\, 2026)\, an exhibition exploring medium\, method\, and memory.
URL:https://thelaurelofasheville.com/event/elements-of-bmc-waggle-dance-workshop-with-swannatopia-sally-anne-morgan/
LOCATION:Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center\, 120 College Street\, Asheville\, North Carolina\, 28801
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SUMMARY:PERFORMANCE: TRAP DUO + GAF TRIO
DESCRIPTION:PERFORMANCE: TRAP (Tashi Dorji + Thom Nguyen)\nand the GAF Trio (Will Greene\, Ishmael Ali\, Lily Finnegan)\nFriday\, August 7\, 2026 at 7PM\nBlack Mountain College Museum + Arts Center {120 College Street}\nTICKETS – $12 General Admission / $8 for BMCM+AC members + Students w/ID\nJoin us for a night of improvisation with TRAP (Tashi Dorji + Thom Nguyen) and the GAF TRIO (Will Greene\, Ishmael Ali\, Lily Finnegan). Tashi Dorji and Thom Nguyen will start our evening with experiments in rhythm\, followed by a deep dive into the GAF TRIO’s distinctive and expansive sound.
URL:https://thelaurelofasheville.com/event/performance-trap-duo-gaf-trio/
LOCATION:Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center\, 120 College Street\, Asheville\, North Carolina\, 28801
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260625T190000
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SUMMARY:PERFORMANCE: Ida Dierker and Brandon Gouin + LOCALLC
DESCRIPTION: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).\nLOCALLC is a revolving door of local live collaborators. This iteration of the collective features multi-instrumentalists Landon George and Adam McDaniel.\nLandon George (b.1995) is a multi-instrumentalist and serial collaborator based in western North Carolina. His work draws from a variety of influences\, ranging from free improvised chaos to minimalist country ballad singing.\nAdam McDaniel is a music producer and multi-instrumentalist living in Asheville\, North Carolina. Adam’s role as a producer in pop\, rock\, and jazz is characterized by a propensity for experimentation and the inclusion of musique concrète techniques. As founder and co-owner of Drop of Sun Studios\, Adam McDaniel is dedicated to the arts community of Asheville and beyond\, fostering a space and time for artists to seek and discover spiritual and emotional truth in music.\nIda Dierker and Brandon Gouin are a piano/percussion duo founded on free improvisation and are committed to performing works of contemporary music. The pair met in an improvisation class at the University of Maryland\, Baltimore County and since then have performed as an improvised duo in Baltimore’s free scene. Dierker/Gouin have performed many well known works by composers such as Globokar\, Feldman\, Meredith Monk and Kagel as a part of UMBC’s New Music and Percussion Ensembles. Ida and Brandon are members of the Hi-Tom Ensemble\, a group focused on performing works by underrepresented composers and adapting New Music staples to smaller and more accessible instrumentations. In 2024\, Ida and Brandon attended the contemporary music festival\, Nief Norf in Knoxville\, Tennessee.\nGrowing up in Baltimore City\, Ida Dierker studied classical piano. She attended the Baltimore School for the Arts and later the University of Maryland Baltimore County\, where she studied music performance with Dr. Daniel Pesca and Dr. Teodora Adzharova. During her time at UMBC\, she developed a deep appreciation for New Music and improvisation. She has worked directly with composers and performers such as Lois V. Vierk\, George E. Lewis\, Niloufar Nourbakhsh\, Chelsea Loew\, and Vicky Chow. In 2025\, Ida completed both her senior recital titled “Taking Back the Piano”\, as well as completing an undergraduate research award. These two projects focus on works solely by women and non-binary composers. Since graduating\, Ida has played High Zero\, a longstanding Baltimore improvised music festival and performs in the city’s experimental scene as a soloist and member of Hi-Tom Ensemble. She also writes and performs her original songs. Ida’s original song “Figures” appears on More Noise Radio’s compilation album\, “Sounds of Baltimore”. Ida teaches private piano lessons full time and aims to bring her love for exploring and experimenting to her students.\nBrandon Gouin is an improvisor and performer of contemporary music from Laurel\, Maryland. His current projects involve bringing contemporary music to Baltimore City and DC schools and commissioning composers to write accessible works of music for performers of different physical ability. He holds an undergraduate degree from the University of Maryland\, Baltimore County where he studied with Tom Goldstein. He also completed the Post-Baccalaureate Certificate in Contemporary American Music program from UMBC\, studying under Dustin Donahue. In both 2023 and 2024\, Brandon attended the Nief Norf festival of New Music in Knoxville\, Tennessee. He has had opportunities to work with composers such as Annea Lockwood\, Robert Morris\, Niloufar Nourbakhsh\, and Chelsea Leow. Brandon teaches private drumset lessons and performs in the Hi-Tom Ensemble.
URL:https://thelaurelofasheville.com/event/performance-ida-dierker-and-brandon-gouin-locallc/
LOCATION:Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center\, 120 College Street\, Asheville\, North Carolina\, 28801
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SUMMARY:OPENING RECEPTION: Black Mountain COLL(A)GE
DESCRIPTION: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.\nBlack 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 by Black Mountain College artists with select contemporary collagists\, the exhibition foregrounds transformation as a radical strategy\, assembling an ever-shifting picture of collage as medium\, method\, and memory.\nFrom Josef Albers’ matière exercises to the collaborative 1951 “Glyph Exchange” between Charles Olson\, Ben Shahn and Katherine Litz\, cutting up and rearranging found material was a way of life at Black Mountain College. Some of the 20th century’s most influential collage practitioners\, including Robert Rauschenberg and Ray Johnson\, studied at BMC. Many other students took up collage as a life-long medium\, including Irwin Kremen\, William Douglas McGee\, Jo Sandman\, John Urbain\, Mary Parks Washington\, and Susan Weil. Still others continued to experiment with cut-ups while working in other realms of creative production\, such as the writer and critic Suzi Gablik. Today\, collage continues to exert a powerful influence on our art ecosystem. Selected works from contemporary collagists contextualize the medium’s trajectory and provide a window into the future. Curated by Kira Houston\, this exhibition pieces together a wide array of stories to encapsulate a visual and sonic exploration of Black Mountain COLL(A)GE. \nBlack Mountain COLL(A)GE will be on view from May 29\, 2026 through September 5\, 2026.\nBlack Mountain College Museum + Arts Center is donation-based and open to all.\nLearn more on our website at https://www.blackmountaincollege.org/black-mountain-collage/
URL:https://thelaurelofasheville.com/event/opening-reception-black-mountain-collage/
LOCATION:Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center\, 120 College Street\, Asheville\, North Carolina\, 28801
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260425T150000
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SUMMARY:{Re}HAPPENING 14
DESCRIPTION: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 of Black Mountain College visionaries such as John Cage\, David Tudor\, Merce Cunningham\, Anni Albers\, M.C. Richards\, Ruth Asawa\, Buckminster Fuller\, Josef Albers\, and Robert Rauschenberg. \nThe 2026 {Re}HAPPENING will celebrate the event’s 14th anniversary. This year’s boundary-pushing projects will engage visitors deeply with the living legacy of Black Mountain College. From installations to participatory workshops\, the 2026 program is defined by radical experiments in movement\, sound\, and collective presence. \nThe {Re}HAPPENING is a one-day event at the historic campus of Black Mountain College\, 20 minutes from Asheville. It is part art event\, part fundraiser\, and part community instigator\, providing a platform for contemporary artists to share their responses to the vital legacy of Black Mountain College by activating the buildings and grounds of the BMC campus with installations\, new media\, music\, and performance projects. \nGeneral admission brings in hundreds of visitors annually. In addition to providing a forum for regional artists and an accessible\, immersive\, educational experience for attendees\, every year the event is a community collaboration between local businesses and arts organizations. \nAbout Black Mountain College:\nFounded in 1933\, Black Mountain College was one of the leading experimental liberal arts schools in America until its closure in 1957. After the Bauhaus in Germany closed due to mounting antagonism from the Nazi Party\, Josef and Anni Albers readily accepted an offer to join the Black Mountain College faculty. During their 16-year tenure in North Carolina\, the Alberses helped model the college’s interdisciplinary curriculum on that of the Bauhaus\, attracting an unmatched roster of teachers and students including R. Buckminster Fuller\, Elaine and Willem de Kooning\, John Cage\, Merce Cunningham\, Mary Caroline (M.C.) Richards\, Ruth Asawa\, and Robert Rauschenberg. \nThe Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center (BMCM+AC) was founded in 1993 to preserve the history of Black Mountain College as a forerunner in progressive interdisciplinary education and to celebrate its extraordinary impact on modern and contemporary art\, dance\, theater\, music\, and performance. \nThe Museum is committed to educating the public about the history of Black Mountain College and promoting awareness of its extensive legacy through exhibitions\, publications\, lectures\, films\, seminars\, and oral histories. Through our permanent collection\, special exhibitions\, publications\, and research archive\, we provide access to historical materials related to the College and its influence on the field. \nBMCM+AC provides a forum for multifaceted programming in a dynamic environment in downtown Asheville\, North Carolina. Our goal is to provide a gathering point for people from a variety of backgrounds to interact – integrating art\, ideas\, and discourse. \nGeneral Information:\n{Re}HAPPENING 14 will take place April 25th\, 2026 from 3-10pm\nTICKETS:\n$30 Advance Adult Admission (ends at noon on 4/24)\n$37 Regular Adult Admission\n$15 for Youth 10-17 + Students w/ID\n(Children under 10 free with ticket-holding adult)\nPARKING:\n$15 – Parking Pass\nThe $15 parking pass charge covers one vehicle to park on-site at the grounds. We highly encourage visitors to carpool whenever possible. Parking on the grounds is limited.\nPurchase tickets online at https://www.blackmountaincollege.org/rehappening
URL:https://thelaurelofasheville.com/event/rehappening-14/
LOCATION:Camp Rockmont – Lake Eden\, 375 Lake Eden Road\, Black Mountain\, NC\, 28711
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260411T140000
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SUMMARY:PERFORMANCE: UNCA Experimental Ensemble Returns
DESCRIPTION: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. \nThe UNCA Experimental Ensemble is dedicated to expanding 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.
URL:https://thelaurelofasheville.com/event/performance-unca-experimental-ensemble-returns/
LOCATION:Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center\, 120 College Street\, Asheville\, North Carolina\, 28801
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260409T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260409T203000
DTSTAMP:20260321T215804Z
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SUMMARY:BURNAWAY Reader Release
DESCRIPTION: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 diverse creative communities and develops exchange between Southern art\, and the national and international art audiences. This reception event will celebrate the publication of Burnaway‘s annual print reader. The event is free and open to the public. Copies of the Reader will be available for purchase\, and Burnaway editorial staff will offer remarks about the project.
URL:https://thelaurelofasheville.com/event/burnaway-reader-release/
LOCATION:Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center\, 120 College Street\, Asheville\, North Carolina\, 28801
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260131T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260131T120000
DTSTAMP:20260118T000939Z
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SUMMARY:PERSPECTIVES Artist Talk: Naomi Lindenfeld
DESCRIPTION:PERSPECTIVES: Naomi Lindenfeld\nJanuary 31\, 2026\, 11am | Free and Open to All\nBlack Mountain College Museum + Arts Center {120 College Street\, Asheville NC} \nOn 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: Lindenfeld + Lindenfeld\, an exhibition exploring artistic conversations between the work of Naomi Lindenfeld and her mother\, BMC alum Lore Kadden Lindenfeld. \nAbout Naomi: \nNaomi has developed a line of colored clay items which are intended for daily use as well as for gatherings and celebrations. The technique involves layering colored clay into a block. Patterns are created by pressing tools down into the block and then slicing it\, or rolling out the layered colored clay\, carving away strips and rolling it flat again to create a multi-dimensional effect. The flat clay is then hand-constructed into pieces that are tactile\, useful and decorative. In addition\, Naomi throws the layered colored clay on a wheel to form the pieces. She then facets the sides to reveal an agate effect or deeply carves the surface. This reveals mesmerizing striations of color that result in a great sense of depth and movement to the pieces. \nFlowing movement is the main feeling that Naomi hopes to convey in her work. Her inspiration is drawn from her love of dance\, patterns in the natural world that result from the movement of water and wind on materials like rock\, wood and shells. The colored clay technique allows one to work with colors while making a piece. Naomi loves to experiment with different color combinations to see how colors blend and contrast to create different moods. \nNaomi took her first pottery class at the age of 12\, continuing to work in clay in high school. She went on to earn a degree in ceramics from Boston University’s Program in Artisanry\, a program designed to prepare students to be professional craftspeople. During her time at B.U. Naomi observed another student who was experimenting with colored clay. Although it was still a few years before she got involved with this technique herself\, she began to be intrigued. \nAfter college she worked for several potters and eventually had the chance to do some of her own work\, which is when her experimentation with colored clay began. Naomi is one of the founding members in 1983 of the Brattleboro Clayworks\, a potter’s collective. The combination of discovering the wonders of colored clay and forming the group studio helped her aspirations fall into place and connect the work with her heart. \nNaomi has had the chance to share her enthusiasm of colored clay by teaching workshops at many craft institutes around New England\, focusing on this technique. Since the fall of 1998 she is the ceramics teacher at The Putney School\, a progressive boarding high school in Putney\, Vt. with a strong arts program.
URL:https://thelaurelofasheville.com/event/perspectives-artist-talk-naomi-lindenfeld/
LOCATION:Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center\, 120 College Street\, Asheville\, North Carolina\, 28801
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260130T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260130T200000
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SUMMARY:OPENING RECEPTION: Dialogue: Lindenfeld + Lindenfeld
DESCRIPTION:OPENING RECEPTION for Dialogue: Lindenfeld + Lindenfeld\nJanuary 30\, 2026\, 5:30–8pm | Free and Open to All\nBlack Mountain College Museum + Arts Center {120 College Street\, Asheville NC} \nJoin us for the opening reception for Dialogue: Lindenfeld + Lindenfeld hosted at BMCM+AC on Friday\, January 30\, 2026 from 5:30–8pm. \nAbout the exhibition: Dialogue: Lindenfeld + Lindenfeld \nLore Kadden Lindenfeld (1921 – 2010) emigrated from Germany to the US as a Jewish refugee in the late 1930s. She attended Black Mountain College from 1945-48 already equipped with sewing and embroidery skills. She was a student of both Josef and Anni Albers as well as Trude Guermonprez and Franziska Mayer\, all of whom fled Europe like her. Inspired by the Alberses and the Bauhaus tradition\, she worked as a designer for the New York textile industry. While there she met her husband-to-be\, physicist Peter Lindenfeld at a John Cage “Happening” at the 8th Street Club. She went on to have a career as a weaver\, fiber collage artist and as a college level weaving and art history teacher. \nThis exhibition presents the clay and mixed media work of Naomi Lindenfeld as she responded to a selection of her mother Lore’s innovative textiles. The opportunity allowed her to grow creatively and to honor her mother and her life’s work. The pieces created by mother and daughter function independently as well as in dynamic conversation with each other.   \nNaomi Lindenfeld reflects: I grew up with my mother’s loom in our family’s living room\, hearing riveting stories of Black Mountain College\, its avant-garde\, experimental environment and brilliant\, unique personalities. As well\, I was exposed to many artists and craftspeople during my childhood. Not many years later I ended up with clay carving tools and a rolling pin in my own ceramics studio. I responded to the immediacy of clay and pursued it in college\, earning a degree in ceramics. While there I discovered the Japanese technique\, Nerikomi\, of layering colored clays to create patterns. I have been captivated by exploring many ways of working with colored clay ever since. More recently I have been working with mixed media featuring the patterns of tea stains. Both my method of working with clay and the tea art have a sense of movement\, abstract graphic quality\, nature-themed imagery and vivid color that echo my mother’s textiles. \nDialogue: Lindenfeld + Lindenfeld exemplifies the generational impact of Black Mountain College’s remarkable legacy as a cultural melting pot and rigorous laboratory for creative experimentation. The College’s approach to education mixed freedom and responsibility with self-reliance and community. These ingredients co-mingled to create a spirit of exploration that can be shared\, taught\, and passed down from parent to child forever.
URL:https://thelaurelofasheville.com/event/opening-reception-dialogue-lindenfeld-lindenfeld/
LOCATION:Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center\, 120 College Street\, Asheville\, North Carolina\, 28801
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260130T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260509T170000
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SUMMARY:Dialogue: Lindenfeld + Lindenfeld
DESCRIPTION: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 books\, and drawings. Her daughter Naomi creates colored clay objects that are tactile\, useful\, and visually complex. In the exhibition\, the mesmerizing striations of color in Naomi Lindenfeld’s pottery are placed in dynamic conversation with her mother’s innovative textiles\, mixed media collages\, and drawings.  \nFrom Naomi Lindenfeld—  \nI grew up with my mother’s loom in our family’s living room. Not many years later I ended up with clay carving tools and a rolling pin in my own ceramics studio. The pairings of work in this show exemplify the influences of my mother’s work on me and have served as an opportunity to both grow creatively and to honor my mother and her life’s work. \nI grew up hearing riveting stories of Black Mountain College\, its avant-garde\, experimental environment and brilliant\, unique personalities. As well\, I was exposed to many artists and craftspeople during my childhood and took my first pottery class with a friend of my mother’s. I responded to the immediacy of clay more than what appeared to be the tedium of threading warps on a loom. While working on a degree in ceramics from Boston University’s Program in Artisanry\, I discovered the Japanese technique\, Nerikomi\, of layering colored clays to create patterns. I have been captivated by exploring many ways of working with colored clay ever since. I have also come to realize that my method of working with clay – the sense of movement\, abstract graphic quality\, nature-themed imagery and vivid color – echoes my mother’s textiles. In designing work for this show\, I was first more drawn to my mother’s fiber collage work than her weavings\, as a closer match for my own techniques and sensibilities. I later saw that the way I carve into the layers in two directions appears as woven fabric. \nIt was both fascinating and challenging to interpret a two-dimensional medium within a three-dimensional realm; to not just reproduce my mother’s ideas and imagery but to draw inspiration and design the pieces as my own. My hope is that my ceramics\, while paying homage to my mother\, stand on their own just as her fiber works do. \n___ \nARTISTS \nLore Kadden Lindenfeld (1921 – 2010) emigrated with her family from Germany to the U.S. in 1938. After settling in a suburb of Boston\, Lore worked to help support her family\, earning fourteen dollars per week as a seamstress and sales clerk. She was the primary breadwinner for the family. She had previously studied fashion design in Germany and worked as a seamstress doing alterations and in various other jobs.  \nAfter enrolling in adult education classes at Harvard\, she received a scholarship to study at Black Mountain College in 1945. She remained at BMC until she graduated in 1948. Lore studied textile design with Anni Albers\, Trude Guermonprez\, and Franziska Mayer as well as taking classes with mathematician Max Dehn\, artist Josef Albers\, and writer M.C. Richards.. Her training at BMC was integral to her development as a textile designer and her work in industrial textile production.  \nInspired by the Alberses and the Bauhaus tradition\, she worked as a textile designer for the New York fashion industry\, followed by a career as a weaver\, fiber collage artist\, and as a weaving and art history teacher on the college level.   \nNaomi Lindenfeld has developed a line of colored clay works\, intended for daily use as well as for gatherings and celebrations. Flowing movement is the main feeling that Naomi hopes to convey in her work. Her inspiration is drawn from her love of dance\, patterns in the natural world that result from the movement of water and wind on materials like rock\, wood\, and shells. The colored clay technique allows one to work with colors while making a piece. Naomi loves to experiment with different color combinations to see how colors blend and contrast to create different moods.  \nShe took her first pottery class at the age of 12\, continuing to work in clay in high school\, and finally earning a degree in ceramics from Boston University’s Program in Artisanry. Naomi has had the chance to share her enthusiasm of colored clay by teaching workshops at many craft institutes around New England\, and since the fall of 1998\, she has been the ceramics teacher at The Putney School. While being one of the founding members of the Brattleboro Clayworks\, a potter’s collective\, she now has her own home studio in West Brattleboro.  \n___ \nRECEPTION AND TALK \nJoin us for the opening reception for Dialogue: Lindenfeld + Lindenfeld hosted at BMCM+AC on Friday\, January 30\, 2025 from 5:30–8pm. \nOn Saturday\, January 31\, 2025 at 11am\, Naomi Lindenfeld will give a “Perspectives” talk about Dialogue: Lindenfeld + Lindenfeld and the artistic conversations between works in the exhibition. \nBoth events take place at Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center {120 College Street\, Asheville\, NC}. Free and Open to All.
URL:https://thelaurelofasheville.com/event/dialogue-lindenfeld-lindenfeld/
LOCATION:Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center\, 120 College Street\, Asheville\, North Carolina\, 28801
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260107T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260107T200000
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SUMMARY:PERFORMANCE AND FILM SCREENING: Suite for Two (1958)
DESCRIPTION: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.\n___\nAbout the Performance \nSuite for Two (1958) is an arrangement of three solos and one duet from the dance Suite for Five (1956). Cunningham made this arrangement for Carolyn Brown and himself for a concert at the University of Pittsburgh in 1958. Suite for Two was subsequently performed on two European tours made by Cunningham\, Brown\, John Cage\, and David Tudor in 1958 and 1960. Chalvar Monteiro dances two solos entitled “At Random” and “Stillness.” Jacquelin Harris dances “A Meander\,” a new solo made for Carolyn Brown for the 1958 arrangement. The dance concludes with a duet entitled “Extended Moment.” Renowned pianist Adam Tendler plays John Cage’s Music for Piano.\n___\nAbout the Film Screening \n“It is all based on individual physical phrasing. The dancers don’t have to be exactly together. They can dance like a flock of birds\, when they suddenly take off.” \n– Merce Cunningham \nA work for eleven dancers\, the rhythm for “Beach Birds” was much more fluid than other Cunningham dances\, so that the sections could differ in length from performance to performance. John Cage composed the music\, and painter Marsha Skinner provided the costumes and décor. The dancers were dressed identically in all white leotards and tights\, with black gloves. Skinner’s backcloth was a white scrim on which the light varied in color and intensity\, decided by a lighting plot that was devised using chance methods. While the timings did not relate to the dance structure\, the gradual changes of light have been interpreted to imitate those that might occur from dawn to dusk on a beach. “Beach Birds” was adapted for film and called “Beach Birds for Camera.”\n___\nAbout Merce Cunningham \nOne of the most transformative figures in modern dance\, Merce Cunningham (b. April 16\, 1919) brought his radical approach to movement and composition to Black Mountain College during the Summer Sessions of 1948\, 1952\, and 1953. His time at BMC was pivotal—not only for the young dancer and choreographer himself\, but for the College’s vibrant cross-disciplinary community.⁠ \nAt Black Mountain\, Cunningham was surrounded by artists like John Cage (his partner and collaborator)\, Josef Albers\, and Buckminster Fuller—artists and thinkers who\, like him\, were challenging boundaries between disciplines. This creative ecosystem shaped his belief that dance\, music\, and visual art could exist independently and still create something unified in performance.⁠ \nIn 1953\, while still teaching at Black Mountain\, Cunningham officially formed the Merce Cunningham Dance Company\, marking a turning point in American dance. His classes and performances at the College helped sow the seeds for his revolutionary techniques—emphasizing chance operations\, decentralization of the body\, and a rethinking of time and space in choreography.⁠
URL:https://thelaurelofasheville.com/event/performance-and-film-screening-suite-for-two-1958/
LOCATION:Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center\, 120 College Street\, Asheville\, North Carolina\, 28801
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251215T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251215T200000
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SUMMARY:PERFORMANCE: Johnny Loves Johann – Music and Dance
DESCRIPTION:PERFORMANCE: Johnny Loves Johann – Music and Dance\nWith violinist Johnny Gandelsman and choreographers Melissa Toogood and John Heginbotham\nMonday\, December 15\, 2025 at 7PM\nBlack Mountain College Museum + Arts Center {120 College Street}\nTICKETS– $15 General Admission / $10 for BMCM+AC members + Students w/ID \nJoin us Monday\, December 15 at BMCM+AC for a one-night-only performance featuring world-renowned violinist Johnny Gandelsman and internationally acclaimed choreographer/dancers John Heginbotham and Melissa Toogood. \nIn this intimate\, museum-scale version of Johnny Loves Johann\, Gandelsman will perform Bach’s Cello Suite No. 1 with new choreography by Melissa Toogood and Cello Suite No. 4 with new choreography by John Heginbotham. This unique program offers a powerful glimpse into the larger evening-length work\, bringing together music and dance in fresh\, unexpected ways. With Gandelsman’s folk- and dance-inspired interpretation at its core\, Toogood and Heginbotham infuse Bach’s timeless compositions with humanity\, curiosity\, and contemporary movement—transforming them into a vibrant celebration of connection and community.\n____\nAbout the Program \nAt its heart\, Johnny Loves Johann is a tribute to community – both among the artists themselves and with the audience members who join them on this journey. By inviting these remarkable choreographers to bring their personal and cultural narratives to Bach’s music\, the project creates a tapestry of voices and perspectives that reflect the shared human experience. \nBach’s music is often put in the context of order and notions of perfection. While we can enjoy hearing it this way\, it can also limit our experience of this music as the celebration of humanity and beautiful opportunity for connection that it is. \nGandelsman’s interpretation of Bach’s Cello Suites is special in its folk music- and dance-like qualities.  Building upon that\, the Johnny Loves Johann collaborators—each known for visceral\, big-hearted art-making—re-visit the suites by leading with their humanity and curiosity.\n____\nAbout the Performers \nJohnny Gandelsman\nGRAMMY® Award-winning violinist\, producer\, and 2024 MacArthur Fellow Johnny Gandelsman blends diverse musical influences into a unique style. A founding member of Brooklyn Rider and former Silkroad Ensemble artist\, he has collaborated with luminaries including Yo-Yo Ma\, Béla Fleck\, and Mark Morris. \nMelissa Toogood\nRenowned modern dancer and teacher\, Melissa Toogood is Dean and Director of Juilliard’s Dance Division. A former Merce Cunningham dancer and longtime collaborator with Pam Tanowitz\, she is celebrated for her artistry and mentorship worldwide. \nJohn Heginbotham\nBrooklyn-based choreographer and Artistic Director of Dance Heginbotham\, John Heginbotham is known for his innovative works (2019 Broadway revival of Oklahoma!  and Netflix’s The Umbrella Academy)\, and collaborations with top musicians and opera companies. He has received numerous awards\, including a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Jacob’s Pillow Dance Award.
URL:https://thelaurelofasheville.com/event/performance-johnny-loves-johann-music-and-dance/
LOCATION:Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center\, 120 College Street\, Asheville\, North Carolina\, 28801
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251210T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251210T200000
DTSTAMP:20251117T000735Z
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SUMMARY:FILM SCREENING: Taking Venice (2024)
DESCRIPTION: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 crying foul and Rauschenberg questioning the politics of nationalism that sent him to Venice in the first place. \nJoin us for this free screening\, presented in partnership with the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation in conjunction with BMCM+AC’s current exhibition\, Points in Space: Performance at Black Mountain College. \nAbout the film:\nAt the height of the Cold War\, the U.S. government is determined to fight Communism with culture. The Venice Biennale\, the world’s most influential art exhibition\, becomes a proving ground in 1964. Alice Denney\, Washington insider and friend of the Kennedys\, recommends Alan Solomon\, an ambitious curator making waves with trailblazing art\, to organize the U.S. entry. Together with Leo Castelli\, a powerful New York art dealer\, they embark on a daring plan to make Robert Rauschenberg the winner of the Grand Prize. The artist is yet to be taken seriously with his combinations of junk off the street and images from pop culture\, but he has the potential to dazzle. Deftly pulling off maneuvers that could have come from a Hollywood thriller\, the American team leaves the international press crying foul and Rauschenberg questioning the politics of nationalism that sent him there.
URL:https://thelaurelofasheville.com/event/film-screening-taking-venice-2024/
LOCATION:Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center\, 120 College Street\, Asheville\, North Carolina\, 28801
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251204T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251204T200000
DTSTAMP:20251006T211109Z
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SUMMARY:PERFORMANCE: Tesla Quartet: The Music of Hugo Kauder
DESCRIPTION: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 performed at BMC in 1945\, offering audiences a rare chance to experience this historic piece in a contemporary setting. \nThe Tesla Quartet is known the world over for their “superb capacity to find the inner heart of everything they play\, regardless of era\, style\, or technical demand” (The International Review of Music). From cutting edge contemporary works to established masterpieces\, the Tesla Quartet’s emotive and thoughtful interpretations reveal the ensemble’s deep commitment to the craft and to their ever expanding repertoire. The quartet recognizes the power of their platform to amplify underrepresented voices and to encourage the proliferation of an equitable and just future for society as well as a hospitable climate for posterity. \n“From the outset\, the quartet plays as a single instrument. Their sound is balanced across registers\, their timbres and articulations matched.” –The Classic Review \nThe Tesla Quartet is Ross Snyder (violin)\, Michelle Lie (violin)\, Edwin Kaplan (viola)\, and Austin Fisher (cello).
URL:https://thelaurelofasheville.com/event/performance-tesla-quartet-the-music-of-hugo-kauder/
LOCATION:Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center\, 120 College Street\, Asheville\, North Carolina\, 28801
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251122T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251122T150000
DTSTAMP:20251031T135537Z
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SUMMARY:PERFORMANCE: UNCA Experimental Ensemble
DESCRIPTION: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.
URL:https://thelaurelofasheville.com/event/performance-unca-experimental-ensemble/
LOCATION:Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center\, 120 College Street\, Asheville\, North Carolina\, 28801
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ORGANIZER;CN="Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center":MAILTO:info@blackmountaincollege.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251113T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251113T200000
DTSTAMP:20251006T211043Z
CREATED:20251002T175745Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251006T211043Z
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SUMMARY:When We Were Queens… Murielle Elizéon and Shana Tucker
DESCRIPTION: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.  \n“When We were Queens… is shaped as a ritual to call the ancestors. It is the whispering of a spell. It is an attempt to reclaim a lost mythology through somatic embodied imagination. It seeks to face the void of erasure for individual and collective healing. It is shaped as a diptych: two solos in conversation to acknowledge both the singularity of Murielle and Shana’s cultural experience (one is French\, the other is American) and the common thread running through their experience as women of color from the African Diaspora. The performance convokes the audience for a moment of shared witnessing while acknowledging the complexity of a gaze which has often exoticized our Black and Brown bodies.” \nCommissioned by NC State Live\, the original development of the work began in 2022 and after subsequent series of museum and gallery residencies\, When We were Queens… held its world premiere in February 2024\, co-presented by NC State Live and the North Carolina Museum of Art.
URL:https://thelaurelofasheville.com/event/when-we-were-queens-murielle-elizeon-and-shana-tucker/
LOCATION:Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center\, 120 College Street\, Asheville\, North Carolina\, 28801
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251108T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251108T200000
DTSTAMP:20250927T205502Z
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SUMMARY:PERFORMANCE: Living Female Respondent or 53 Yakshi
DESCRIPTION:Living Female Respondent or 53 Yakshi\nA Performance by Jennie MaryTai Liu\nSaturday\, November 8\, 2025 at 7PM\nBlack Mountain College Museum + Arts Center {120 College Street}\nTICKETS – $15 General Admission / $10 for BMCM+AC members + Students w/ID \nJennie MaryTai Liu’s Living Female Respondent or 53 Yakshi\, a dance performance created with devika wickremesinghe and Hannah Heller\, draws from Merce Cunningham’s use of chance operations in his 1976 work Torse. Using the I Ching\, Liu and wickremesinghe selected 64 short video clips from across the internet to build a movement vocabulary. The resulting performance explores how digital media\, randomness\, and embodied movement intersect. First presented at LACMA in 2019\, this work both honors and critically engages with the legacy of postmodern dance. \nMore About the Performance: \nA reference to a reference in a Hollis Frampton text sampled in Maryanne Amacher’s composition Remainder which accompanied Merce Cunningham’s 1976 dance Torse\, Living Female Respondent is a dance which exhaustively appropriates Cage and Cunningham’s compositional use of chance. Originally commissioned to accompany the exhibition Merce Cunningham\, Clouds and Screens\, at LACMA (Los Angeles County Museum of Art) in February 2019\, the dance took place in the Korean Art Gallery amidst 17th–19th century Korean ceramics and screen paintings\, highlighting the primacy of Asian thinking and aesthetic values in the production of the western avant-garde. Along with performers Hannah Heller and devika wickremesinghe\, choreographer Jennie MaryTai Liu playfully consulted contemporary feminist oracles and the Chinese divination text I ching to determine all structural elements of a bank of movement created from a ‘gamut’ of random YouTube videos\, manifesting in a theatrical display of indeterminacy. \nWith live music by Andrew Gilbert and costumes by Wendy Yang\, the version to be presented at Black Mountain College Museum and Arts Center re-wrangles the choreographic material for a different moment and place\, a continuance of a response to impure\, incidental inheritance. \nLiving Female Respondent was originally commissioned with additional funding from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant.
URL:https://thelaurelofasheville.com/event/performance-living-female-respondent-or-53-yakshi/
LOCATION:Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center\, 120 College Street\, Asheville\, North Carolina\, 28801
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251030T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251030T203000
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SUMMARY:PERFORMANCE: Butoh Dance Festival – Frequency in Motion
DESCRIPTION:Audio Visual Butoh Performance: Frequency in Motion — Featuring Atsushi Takenouchi\, Hiroko Komiya and Chris H.Lynn.\nIn conjunction with Asheville Butoh Dance Festival 2025\nThursday\, October 30th\, 2025 at 7:30 pm\nBlack Mountain College Museum + Arts Center {120 College Street}\nTICKETS – $15 General Admission / $10 for BMCM+AC Members + Students w/ ID \nAsheville Butoh Festival\, in collaboration with Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center and the University of North Carolina at Asheville\, presents its 15th annual festival from October 30 – November 2. BMCM+AC will host Frequency in Motion\, an audiovisual performance featuring Butoh dancers: Atsushi Takenouchi\, Jenni Cockrell\, Julie Becton Gillum\, and Constance Humphries. Dancers will be accompanied by live sounds\, field recordings\, and objects by Chris H.Lynn and Hiroko Komiya. Visuals\, including Super 8 and digital film\, are by Chris H.Lynn. \n___ \nAtsushi Takenouchi began his Butoh journey in 1980 with the Hoppo-Butoh-ha company in Hokkaido. His final piece with the company\, Takazashiki (1984)\, was created with the direct guidance of Butoh founder Tatsumi Hijikata. In 1986\, he created his own path: Jinen Butoh — as a universal expression of nature\, earth\, and ancient memories\, embracing the rhythms of life itself. From 1996 to 1999\, embarked on a three-year Jinen tour across Japan\, performing over 600 site-specific improvisations rooted in natural landscapes and sacred spaces. Around this time\, he learned the spirit of the universe of Kazuo Ohno and Yoshito Ohno. \nSince 2002\, based in Europe\, working on solo Butoh and collaboration projects with dancers and actors\, with giving workshops internationally. His presence extends into film\, notably ‘Ridden by Nature’\, an award-winning environmental art dance film by Kiah Keya. From 2015 to 2020\, he directed an intensive Jinen Butoh school in Italy. Today\, he devotes himself fully to transmitting Jinen Butoh through seasonal intensive workshops held both in nature and studio spaces — living his art as a continuous dialogue with life itself. In 2021\, compiling these experiences into a book\, he published Atsushi Takenouchi Jinen Butoh writing of his Butoh life\, workshop contents and his Butoh performance works. \n___ \nHiroko Komiya is a sound artist who transmutes the ephemeral – air\, space\, movement\, bodily sensation\, and memory – into boundless sonic expressions beyond conventional melody and rhythm. Since 1999\, she has been the principal musical collaborator for Atsushi Takenouchi’s JINEN Butoh\, and has provided live accompaniment for his performances and workshops worldwide. \nHer artistic reach extends beyond Butoh\, engaging in multidisciplinary collaborations with filmmakers\, sculptors\, painters\, poets\, costume designers\, and performers for exhibitions and installations. In 2022\, she performed an 11-hour tribute performance to Félix Guattari (French psychoanalyst and philosopher) in Paris\, alongside Ramuntcho Matta’s art music collective and Atsushi Takenouchi. In 2021\, she embarked on a new project with US film/sound artist Chris H. Lynn\, creating audiovisual performances with Butoh dancers\, performed in Vienna\, Warsaw\, Barcelona\, Mexico city\, Hong Kong\, Athens and Kumano\, Japan. \n___ \nThe Asheville Butoh Collective serves as a hub for the creative work of Julie Becton Gillum\, Jenni Cockrell\, Rebecca Schoenecker\, and Constance Humphries\, as well as the Asheville Butoh Festival\, which is entering its 15th season. The collective brings together diverse artists with over seventy-five cumulative years of professional dancing\, choreographing\, collaborating\, and teaching. \nButoh History \nOriginating in post-WWII Japan\, butoh is a potent and revolutionary dance form. Butoh uses the body brazenly as a battleground to attain personal\, social\, or political transformation. In its early forms\, butoh embraced and referenced Western artistic movements; German Expressionism\, Dadaism\, Surrealism\, Existentialism\, and Fluxus\, all of which pervaded the Tokyo underground and the avant-garde arts scene at that time. In fact\, the cofounders of butoh\, Tatsumi Hijikata and Kazuo Ohno\, trained in German modern dance\, which was integral to the development of German Expressionism. But\, eventually\, they took opposite approaches to their dance making. Hijikata’s work became known as ankoku butoh (dance of utter darkness)\, and he embraced the grotesque and the absurd\, exploring themes of sacrifice\, struggle\, and death. Ohno’s butoh was playful\, humorous\, and filled with light and life. Today’s butoh is influenced by both Hijikata and Ohno and wrestles to balance those contrary approaches. Philosophically\, butoh slips between the cracks of definition in order to reveal the fervent beauty of the unique human spirit.
URL:https://thelaurelofasheville.com/event/performance-butoh-dance-festival-frequency-in-motion/
LOCATION:Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center\, 120 College Street\, Asheville\, North Carolina\, 28801
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251025T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251025T150000
DTSTAMP:20250830T003845Z
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SUMMARY:PERFORMANCE: Asheville Symphony – Masterworks Concert (Convergence)
DESCRIPTION:PERFORMANCE: Asheville Symphony – Masterworks Concert (Convergence)\nSaturday\, October 25th\, 2025 at 2pm AND 8 pm\nLive at First Baptist Church of Asheville {5 Oak Street\, Asheville\, NC 28801}\nTICKETS – Seats range from $20 to $85 depending on location \nThe Asheville Symphony will present a performance celebrating the history of Black Mountain College. The Oct. 25th Masterworks Concert traces a journey from European romanticism to American avant-garde with Brahms’s mountain-inspired Second Symphony\, Bartók’s ethereal Viola Concerto (written in part during his time in Asheville)\, and more alongside groundbreaking works by John Cage that emerged from this transformative haven for creatives in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Conducted by Darko Butorac and featuring violist Natalie Brennecke\, the program includes Satie’s Gymnopédies No. 3\, Cage’s Seventy-Four\, Version II and 4’33”\, alongside the Bartók and Brahms masterworks. \nCelebrating 90+ years of the enduring legacy of Black Mountain College\, this unique program traces a journey from European romanticism to American avant-garde with Brahms’s mountain-inspired Second Symphony\, Bartók’s ethereal Viola Concerto (written in part during his time in Asheville)\, and more alongside groundbreaking works by John Cage that emerged from this transformative haven for creatives in the Blue Ridge Mountains. \nSatie: Gymnopédies No. 3 \nCage: Seventy-Four\, Version II \nBartók: Viola Concerto \nCage: 4’33” \nBrahms: Symphony No. 2\n___\nAsheville’s arts-focused community — home to generations of writers\, musicians and artists — has sustained the Asheville Symphony for nearly 60 years\, embracing the orchestra’s endless creativity\, artistic expression and collaborative explorations.\nAsheville Symphony’s Masterworks Series showcases the orchestra’s world-class musicianship under the baton of Music Director Darko Butorac\, presenting a diverse repertoire ranging from beloved classics to innovative contemporary works. Butorax is praised by the Westdeutsche Zeitung for his “exceptional combination of passion\, elegance and well‐timed pacing\,” establishing himself as a conductor in demand with orchestras both in Europe and the Americas. \nFollowing his debut with the Belgrade Philharmonic in January 2011\, Butorac was reengaged to conduct both the season finale and the opening concert of the 2012 season. Other notable guest conducting engagements include performances with the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Neuss and the Georgische Kammerorchester Ingolstadt (Germany)\, the Rubinstein Philharmonic of Lodz (Poland)\, the Xiamen Symphony (China)\, the Tallinn Sinfonietta (Estonia)\, and the Slovenian Radio Symphony Orchestra. He has appeared at such prestigious venues as the Vienna Konzerthaus\, the Gran Teatro Nacional of Lima\, Belgrade’s Kolarac Hall\, the Teatro Magnani in Italy\, and the Tartu\, Aspen and St. Olav summer music festivals. From 2009 to 2013 he served as the principal conductor of the Fidenza Opera Festival. And from 2007-2019\,  Butorac served as the Music Director of the Missoula Symphony. \nButorac says that he is thrilled to continue this collaboration with First Baptist Church of Asheville: “The intimacy and the acoustic create an unforgettable listening experience for our community. The Asheville Symphony has never sounded so good in its history\, and it is my personal goal to make our concerts the premier acoustic music experience in Western North Carolina.”\n___\nNatalie Brennecke is a violist currently pursuing her Masters at The Juilliard School under the guidance of Heidi Castleman and Hsin-Yun Huang. She received her Bachelors from the Cleveland Institute of Music in 2024\, where she studied with Jeffrey Irvine.\nHer accolades include winning the 2024 CIM Concerto Competition\, which included a performance of Penderecki’s Viola Concerto at Severance Hall. She also received the 2019 Wendel Irish Viola Award. In 2020\, she was a co-winner of the Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra Concerto Competition and was featured on “From the Top” as a Jack Kent Cooke Young Artist. She received first prizes in the Ohio Viola Society’s Collegiate\, Senior\, and Junior Division Competitions in 2023\, 2016\, and 2011\, respectively. Natalie currently performs on a viola beautifully crafted by Gabrielle Kundert.
URL:https://thelaurelofasheville.com/event/performance-asheville-symphony-masterworks-concert-convergence/
LOCATION:First Baptist Church of Asheville\, 5 Oak Street\, Asheville\, NC\, 28801\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251021T190000
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SUMMARY:PERFORMANCE: The Music of John Cage\, Lou Harrison\, Arnold Schoenberg\, and Amy Williams
DESCRIPTION:Asheville Symphony Orchestra and BMCM+AC Present\nThe Music of John Cage\, Lou Harrison\, Arnold Schoenberg\, and Amy Williams\nTuesday\, October 21\, 2025 at 7 pm\nBlack Mountain College Museum + Arts Center {120 College Street\, Asheville\, NC}\nTICKETS – $15 General Admission / $10 for BMCM+AC members + Students w/ID\n(https://www.tickettailor.com/events/blackmountaincollegemuseumartscenter/1860212)  \nOn Tuesday\, October 21 at 7 pm\, the Asheville Symphony Orchestra\, in partnership with Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center\, will present a chamber concert featuring the music of John Cage\, Lou Harrison\, Arnold Schoenberg\, and Amy Williams. The program highlights music that reshaped 20th century sound and celebrates the experimental spirit of Black Mountain College. This event is presented in conjunction with the exhibition Points in Space: Performance at Black Mountain College\, on view at the Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center (September 5\, 2025 – January 10\, 2026). \nAbout the program: \nThe evening begins with pianist and composer Amy Williams performing excerpts from John Cage’s Sonatas and Interludes for prepared piano. Written between 1946 and 1948\, this cycle of twenty short pieces uses bolts\, screws\, and other objects inserted into the strings of a piano to create shimmering\, bell-like sounds. Cage was influenced at the time by Indian philosophy and the writings of Ananda K. Coomaraswamy\, which shaped the meditative and balanced character of the music. First performed at Black Mountain College in 1948\, Sonatas and Interludes is now considered one of Cage’s most important works. \nThe Asheville Symphony String Quartet\, featuring Brian Allen\, Karen Pommerich\, Kara Poorbaugh\, and Franklin Keel\, will perform Arnold Schoenberg’s String Quartet No. 1 in D minor\, Op. 7. Written in 1904–05\, this expansive\, single-movement work lasts nearly 50 minutes and traces an emotional journey from late romantic lyricism toward the boundaries of modernism. It is one of Schoenberg’s most groundbreaking early compositions\, showing the first signs of the new harmonic language that would later define him as the father of twelve-tone music. \nThe program concludes with the Asheville Symphony Percussion Quartet\, featuring Todd Mueller\, Matthew Richmond\, Nathan Tingler\, and Brian Tinkel\, performing Amy Williams’s Dream Landscape alongside Double Music by John Cage and Lou Harrison. Dream Landscape evokes shifting sonic textures\, and Double Music\, composed jointly by Cage and Harrison in 1941\, is a playful and inventive work for four percussionists. The evening will feature guest soloist and composer Amy Williams performing alongside the musicians from the Asheville Symphony Orchestra. The program reflects the collaborative spirit that both composers carried into their years at Black Mountain College. \nThis concert resonates with the history of the 1944 Summer Music Institute at Black Mountain College. That gathering brought together many of Schoenberg’s closest colleagues\, including Edward Steuermann\, Ernst Krenek\, and Roger Sessions\, and marked the largest celebration of Schoenberg’s music in America at the time. Sessions later described it as “the most important thing that has ever happened in musical education in America.”\n___\nThe “fresh\, daring and incisive” (Fanfare) compositions of Amy Williams have been presented by leading international performers\, including the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra\, Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra\, JACK Quartet\, Bent Frequency\, Ensemble Musikfabrik\, Wet Ink\, International Contemporary Ensemble\, Junction Trio\, Orpheus\, pianist Ursula Oppens\, soprano Tony Arnold and bassist Robert Black. Her pieces appear on the Albany\, Parma\, Blue Griffin\, Centaur and New Focus labels. As a member of the Bugallo-Williams Piano Duo\, she has performed throughout Europe and the Americas and recorded six critically-acclaimed CDs for Wergo (works of Nancarrow\, Stravinsky\, Varèse/Feldman and Kurtág)\, as well as appearing on the Neos and Albany labels. \nMs. Williams has been awarded a Howard Foundation Fellowship\, Fromm Music Foundation Commission\, Guggenheim Fellowship\, Koussevitsky Music Foundation Commission\, two awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters\, a Fulbright Scholars Fellowship to Ireland\, a MacDowell fellowship and the 2024 Henri Lazarof International Commission Prize. Ms. Williams holds a Ph.D. in composition from the University at Buffalo\, where she also received her Master’s degree in piano performance. She has taught at Bennington College and Northwestern University and is currently Professor of Composition at the University of Pittsburgh. She is Artistic Director of the New Music On The Point Festival in Vermont.
URL:https://thelaurelofasheville.com/event/performance-the-music-of-john-cage-lou-harrison-arnold-schoenberg-and-amy-williams/
LOCATION:Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center\, 120 College Street\, Asheville\, North Carolina\, 28801
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251014T190000
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SUMMARY:Aphorisms: A Tribute to Ursula Mamlok
DESCRIPTION:Aphorisms: A Tribute to Ursula Mamlok with dancers from New Chamber Ballet\, flutist Roberta Michel\, and the Momenta Quartet \nPerformances:\nTuesday\, October 14th\, 2025 at 7PM + Wednesday\, October 15th\, 2025 at 7PM \nTICKETS – $15 General Admission / $10 for BMCM+AC members + Students w/ID\n—Link for tickets through the event page.  \nAphorisms is a tribute to composer and Black Mountain College student Ursula Mamlok\, inspired by her life\, art\, and triumph over persecution and oppression. The performance is choreographed by Miro Magloire and performed by the Momenta Quartet\, flutist Roberta Michel\, and the New Chamber Ballet. Presented here as a new performance iteration created especially for Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center\, this event integrates live chamber music and dance to celebrate Mamlok’s work and legacy. BMCM+AC will present two evening performances (Oct. 14th and Oct. 15th) in the museum’s main level gallery\, in conjunction with the exhibition Points in Space: Performance at Black Mountain College.\n___\nAbout the Performances: \nAphorisms presents six works by Ursula Mamlok\, performed live\, enriched by Miro Magloire’s contemporary ballet choreography. Magloire\, a former composition student of Mauricio Kagel and the founder of the New York City-based New Chamber Ballet\, has pioneered a captivating new form of music-and-dance collaboration: ‘unplugged’\, without stage sets or theatrical lights\, and with the audience seated around the stage and up close to the performers. \nAphorisms opens with the eponymous composition for solo violin\, in which Mamlok’s extremely reduced sound language appears in counterpoint to two simultaneous trios of dancers. Her trio Music for Stony Brook reverses the relationship: this time the dancers perform as soloists. This is followed by a fast-paced dance duet to Sintra for flute and cello\, and a rousing dance to the composer’s String Quartet No 2. The performance concludes with a danced finale to Ursula Mamlok’s Terzianum. \nAphorisms received its world premiere this April in Berlin\, Germany\, and will be seen here in a new version created especially for Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center. It follows an earlier production entitled Stray Bird\, based on a different musical selection and choreography\, which premiered in New York in 2017 and went on to great acclaim in sold-out performances in Boston\, Philadelphia\, Washington DC\, and opening the Jewish Culture Days in Magdeburg\, Germany.
URL:https://thelaurelofasheville.com/event/aphorisms-a-tribute-to-ursula-mamlok/
LOCATION:Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center\, 120 College Street\, Asheville\, North Carolina\, 28801
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250927T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250927T210000
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SUMMARY:PERFORMANCE: flux in time
DESCRIPTION:flux in time: a heterotpic theater from the aborted future (2025)\nSaturday\, September 27th\, 2025 at 8pm\nBlack Mountain College Museum + Arts Center {120 College Street}\nFREE and open to all – No Registration Required \nJoin us on Saturday\, September 27th for an interactive performance presented in conjunction with the 15th Annual ReVIEWING Black Mountain College International Conference. Kyriakos Apostolidis\, gordon fung\, Kim Nucci\, Che Pai\, and Kyle Price of //sense\, a Chicago-based neo-Fluxus theater troupe\, will stage an immersive “theater of mixed means” that weaves a metaphorical and metaphysical network through history\, art\, and life\, paying homage to the legacy of BMC. \nThis performance invites audiences to collectively revisit the past and reimagine the future. Through the embodied actions of its artists\, the troupe transforms time and space into heterotopic sites where multiple centers across eras converge in the present moment. Conceiving individuals as living time capsules\, the performers fuse human experiences into intellectual rhizomes\, cultivating a shared terrain of intelligence\, consciousness\, and the cosmic mind.\n___ \ngordon fung (b. 1988\, San Francisco\, CA; lives in Chicago\, IL) is a transdisciplinary artist-curator who works with large-scale curatorial/collaborative practices\, experimental audiovisual performances\, new media installations\, noise music\, experimental film/video\, media archaeology\, participatory works\, and happenings. His works highlight unconventional executions like equipment misapplication\, lo-fi presentations\, and glitches. Such aesthetics confront the viewers’ understanding\, perspective\, and point of view on reality through a more philosophical and esoteric investigation.\n___ \nKyriakos Apostolidis (b. Drama\, Greece 1991) is a performance artist\, movement researcher\, and the founder of Morphoplastics\, a practice-based research project in the field of performance studies—an embodied investigation into the performer’s body as a means of expression and knowledge. Their live performances present movement-based endurance actions while involving audio-visual installations at the intersection of art & technology. In addition to performing with //sense\, Kyriakos will present a workshop at ReVIEWING 15.\n____ \nChe Pai is a Chicago-based Taiwanese artist whose practice spans photography\, performance\, and meditation\, primarily manifested through the medium of artist’s books. His unique approach involves conducting images and employing book structures to invite play and performance\, adding a dynamic layer to the contemplative journey of reading. Drawing inspiration from contemporary literature\, slow cinema\, and the physical theater of Tai Chi\, Che’s artwork transforms the reading experience into a multi-sensory exploration.\n___ \nKim Nucci is a Chicago/Oakland-based media artist\, composer\, improviser\, and technologist. They perform on electronics\, synthesizers\, and saxophones. In their studio practice\, they create interactive installations using architectural intervention\, light\, projection\, microcontrollers\, temporary sculpture and painting. Nucci’s research interests explore the pedestrian cybernetic body\, critically examining our relationship with technology/our instruments. Their solo performance practice is invested in ritualism and trance states in improvisation. They hold an MFA in Electronic Music and Recording Media\, an MA in Music Composition from Mills College\, and a BA from Bennington College.\n____ \nKyle Gregory Price is a genre-fluid composer\, percussionist and turntablist by trade\, who regularly produces work in other mediums including stop-motion animation\, jewelry making\, costume design and dance/movement. He has been a practicing artist for over twenty years. Raised in a one stoplight town in Upstate New York\, Kyle put himself through college\, earned a Bachelors of Music in Composition from SUNY Fredonia in 2005 and was active in the Buffalo art scene for several years before migrating to Chicago in 2010. Since moving to Chicago he has performed solo and collaboratively\, and served as the composer and bandleader in various projects ranging from punk and noise to chamber music and free-jazz.
URL:https://thelaurelofasheville.com/event/performance-flux-in-time/
LOCATION:Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center\, 120 College Street\, Asheville\, North Carolina\, 28801
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250926
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250929
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SUMMARY:ReVIEWING Black Mountain College 2025
DESCRIPTION: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. \nThe format is designed to be interdisciplinary\, with sessions that will include panels\, presentations\, performances\, and workshops. BMC itself was a uniquely interdisciplinary organization\, generating output from its faculty and students that often involved the melding of the visual\, performing\, and literary arts. Each year\, conference participation reflects this; past presentations have explored wide-ranging\, fruitful intersections such as (to name just a few of the most recent examples) how Charles Olson’s “projectivist” poetics inspired works on the stage and screen; the influence of choreographer Merce Cunningham on Abstract Expressionist painters trained at BMC such as Pat Passlof and James Bishop; the photography of poet-publisher-artist Jonathan Williams; the path from BMC’s first Summer Institute in honor of Arnold Schoenberg\, to the design and philosophy of contemporary summer arts programs today; a performance connecting Ruth Asawa’s sculpture to contemporary dance; and a workshop offering attendees the opportunity to weave on looms with found materials\, as Anni Albers’ BMC students did. \nThe conference is hosted annually in the fall. ReVIEWING 15 will take place September 26 – 28th\, 2025\, presented in conjunction with BMCM+AC’s fall 2025 exhibition\, Points in Space: Performance at Black Mountain College\, organized by Jeff Arnal\, curator\, and Adolfo Alzuphar\, curatorial assistant. 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. The exhibition will feature visual and time-based artworks that echo BMC’s innovative spirit from 1933 to 1957 including historical and contemporary works\, interactive installations\, performances\, and immersive experiences that bring the past into conversation with the present.  \n— \nKeynote Speaker: Debra McCall \nDebra McCall is a dance historian\, choreographer\, Certified Movement Analyst\, and performer best known for her reconstructions of Oskar Schlemmer’s 1920s Bauhaus Dances. Recipient of fellowships from the NEA and the NEH\, she also received the Rome Prize in Design from the American Academy in Rome and a Fulbright-Nehru Professional and Academic Excellence Award for her documentation of medieval reliefs of sacred dancers at the Thillai Nataraja Temple in Chidambaram\, Tamil Nadu. McCall served on the graduate faculties of New York University and Pratt Institute where she was Mellon Lecturer. Her Bauhaus work has been presented in a variety of venues including Performa 09\, Artissima 17 Torino\, and Harvard University’s The Bauhaus and Harvard: 100 years.
URL:https://thelaurelofasheville.com/event/reviewing-black-mountain-college-2025/
LOCATION:OLLI at UNC Asheville – Reuter Center\, One University Heights\, Asheville\, 28804
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250920T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250920T140000
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SUMMARY:PERSPECTIVES Artist Talk: Stereolab (with Tim Gane\, Laetitia Sadier\, and Joe Watson)
DESCRIPTION: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 their experimental approach. This conversation will highlight connections to the upcoming exhibition Points in Space: Performance at Black Mountain College and how BMC’s radical\, interdisciplinary spirit continues to influence Stereolab’s artistic vision. \nAbout Stereolab: \nWith their hypnotic rhythms and mesmerizing vocals\, Stereolab became one of indie’s most distinctive and influential bands when they emerged in the early ’90s. Led by Tim Gane and Laetitia Sadier\, the group celebrated strands of pop music — bossa nova\, lounge-pop\, movie soundtracks — that were traditionally banished from rock’s lineage. \nOn early singles and albums such as 1993’s Transient Random-Noise Bursts with Announcements\, Stereolab combined ’60s pop melodies with an art rock aesthetic borrowed from Krautrock bands like Faust and Neu!; by the time of 1996’s Emperor Tomato Ketchup\, their sound incorporated jazz\, hip-hop\, and dance music. \nTheir work with John McEntire and Jim O’Rourke on 1997’s Dots and Loops and 2001’s Sound-Dust reflected an increasingly intricate\, experimental approach\, but following the 2002 death of member Mary Hansen\, they eventually returned to a poppier style on albums like 2008’s Chemical Chords. Stereolab’s unmistakable sound had a lasting impact: Contemporaries like Pavement and Blur aped their style in the ’90s\, while hip-hop artists such as J Dilla and Tyler the Creator sampled the band’s music or collaborated with its members in the 2000s and 2010s. Late in that decade and into the 2020s\, Stereolab’s revival as a touring band and a steady stream of reissues underscored their reputation as innovators. \nTim Gane (born July 12\, 1964; guitar\, keyboards) was the leader of McCarthy\, a London-based band from the late ’80s that functioned as a prototype for Stereolab’s sound. Gane met Laetitia Sadier (born May 6\, 1968; vocals\, keyboards)\, a French-born vocalist\, at one of McCarthy‘s concerts. The pair began a romantic relationship that became a musical collaboration after McCarthy disbanded in 1990; Sadier sang on the final McCarthy album. The duo began recording as Stereolab\, borrowing the name from Vanguard Records‘ hi-fi effects division in the ’50s. Gane and Sadier also formed the label Duophonic Records with manager Martin Pike to release their singles. Stereolab’s first year of existence was prolific: The debut EP Super 45 arrived in May 1991\, followed quickly by the Super-Electric EP that September and the Stunning Debut Album EP that November. At that point\, the group were working with Th’ Faith Healers drummer Joe Dilworth and former Chills bassist Martin Kean; Gina Morris occasionally provided backup vocals. \nToo Pure released the band’s first full-length\, Peng!\, in May 1992\, and the EP compilation Switched On in October. As with all of the group’s releases from this era\, both albums featured the visual trademark of a maniacally grinning cartoon taken from a ’70s Swiss political comic (which the band named “Cliff”). That year\, Stereolab also issued the Lo-Fi EP and added keyboardist/vocalist Mary Hansen and drummer Andy Ramsay to the fold.\nReleased in early 1993\, Stereolab’s The Groop Played “Space Age Bachelor Pad Music” EP featured the core group of Gane\, Sadier\, Hansen\, and Ramsay\, along with ex-Microdisney guitarist Sean O’Hagan and bassist Duncan Brown. One of the first ’90s alternative records to explicitly draw from the “Space Age” lounge-pop music of the ’50s\, The Groop became an underground sensation\, paving the way toward Stereolab’s first American record contract with Elektra Records. Their next album\, and first American release\, was Transient Random-Noise Bursts with Announcements. Released in August 1993\, it became an underground and college hit throughout the U.S. and U.K. They followed it that October with Crumb Duck\, a split EP with Nurse with Wound. Early the following year\, the Jenny Ondioline EP became Stereolab’s first charting release when it entered the U.K. Singles chart at number 75. \nStereolab soon became a hip name to drop for many musicians\, including Sonic Youth\, Pavement\, and Blur\, who had Laetitia Sadier provide guest vocals on their 1994 hit single “To the End.” Where Transient was dominated by a lo-fi experimentalism\, the group’s sound became lusher and more layered with Mars Audiac Quintet\, which was released in August 1994. O’Hagan moved from a full member to a part-time guest during the recording of the album — he was busy forming his own band\, the High Llamas — and the group added keyboardist Katherine Gifford. By the time of Mars Audiac Quintet’s release\, Stereolab’s style was prominent throughout the underground\, and the band began to change their approach. Created for an interactive art exhibit by Charles Long\, the limited-edition 1995 EP Music for the Amorphous Body Center boasted detailed\, intricate string and vocal arrangements that were more sophisticated than the group’s previous releases. That July\, the band issued their second rarities compilation\, Refried Ectoplasm\, which was released on Drag City in the U.S.\nBefore Stereolab recorded a new album\, Gifford was replaced by Morgane Lhote. Featuring contributions from Tortoise‘s John McEntire\, 1996’s Emperor Tomato Ketchup was an even bigger departure from the band’s early drone rock\, demonstrating a heavy hip-hop\, jazz\, and dance influence. It was Stereolab’s greatest success to date\, earning positive reviews in both the U.S. and U.K. and becoming a significant college hit in the process. After the recording of Emperor Tomato Ketchup\, bassist Duncan Brown was replaced by Richard Harrison. That year\, the band worked with Herbie Mann on “One Note Samba/Surfboard\,” which appeared on the Red Hot Organization’s AIDS benefit album Red Hot + Rio. At the end of 1996\, Stereolab released the limited-edition\, horn-driven Fluorescences EP. For their next album\, Dots and Loops\, the band reunited with McEntire and recruited Mouse on Mars‘ Jan St. Werner; after its September 1997 release\, it peaked at number 111 on the Billboard 200 chart. Another Nurse with Wound collaboration\, Simple Headphone Mind\, appeared that year\, and singer/poet Brigitte Fontaine joined Stereolab on the 1998 single “Calimero\,” which featured the debut of Sadier‘s other project Monade on its B-side. Aluminum Tunes\, the group’s third rarities collection\, appeared in October 1998. \nAfter taking time off from touring following the birth of Gane and Sadier‘s first child\, Stereolab resurfaced in 1999 with the intricate Cobra and Phases Group Play Voltage in the Milky Night\, which featured production by McEntire and Jim O’Rourke. An EP\, The First of the Microbe Hunters\, quickly followed in 2000. Their seventh full-length\, 2001’s Sound-Dust\, reunited the band with O’Rourke and McEntire and took a more melodic approach. In 2002\, Sadier and Gane ended their relationship\, but Stereolab continued. The collection ABC Music: The Radio 1 Sessions arrived that October\, just a few months before Hansen died at the age of 36 when the bicycle she was riding was hit by a truck in December 2002. Following Hansen’s death\, the group soldiered on\, releasing The Instant 0 in the Universe EP in October 2003 and the full-length Margerine Eclipse — a tribute to Hansen — in January 2004. After Elektra Records folded later in 2004\, Stereolab returned to Too Pure\, which released a series of six limited-edition singles collected on 2006’s Fab Four Suture. The group re-teamed with producer/arranger Sean O’Hagan for 2008’s Chemical Chords\, a collection of short\, poppy songs released by 4AD. \nFollowing their Australian tour in February 2009\, Stereolab went on an indefinite hiatus. Not Music\, a collection of material recorded during the Chemical Chords sessions\, arrived in 2010. Subsequently\, Gane formed the kosmische-inspired trio Cavern of Anti-Matter\, which also featured former Stereolab drummer Joe Dilworth. Sadier pursued several projects\, including solo albums and the groups Little Tornados and the Laetitia Sadier Source Ensemble. In 2019\, Stereolab ended their hiatus to play a series of concerts and festivals that coincided with deluxe reissues of their albums\, beginning with Transient Random-Noise Bursts with Announcements and Mars Audiac Quintet that May. Emperor Tomato Ketchup\, Dots and Loops\, and Cobra and Phases Group Play Voltage in the Milky Night followed that September\, and Sound-Dust and Margerine Eclipse appeared that November. Electrically Possessed: Switched On\, Vol. 4 arrived in February 2021 and collected singles\, B-sides\, and rarities from 1999 to 2008\, including the entirety of The First of the Microbe Hunters. \nIn 2022\, Gane\, Sadier\, and Stereolab manager Martin Pike revived Duophonic Super 45s with the first full-lengths released by the label in over 20 years: Ghost Power\, the self-titled album from the duo of Gane and Dymaxion’s Jeremy Novak\, appeared that April\, as did Flickering i\, the debut album from Astrel K\, the solo project of Ulrika Spacek‘s Rhys Edwards. Sadier contributed vocals to the Japanese doom rock duo BlackLab‘s August 2022 album In a Bizarre Dream\, and that September saw the release of Pulse of the Early Brain: Switched On\, Vol. 5\, which gathered rarities and remastered tracks spanning the early ’90s to the Chemical Chords era and featured collaborations with Nurse with Wound and remixes by Autechre. Around the time of the collection’s release\, Stereolab embarked on a world tour. In March 2024\, the box set Switched On\, Vols. 1-5 gathered all of the band’s singles and rarities collections. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine & Heather Phares\, Rovi
URL:https://thelaurelofasheville.com/event/perspectives-artist-talk-stereolab-with-tim-gane-laetitia-sadier-and-joe-watson/
LOCATION:Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center\, 120 College Street\, Asheville\, North Carolina\, 28801
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250905
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260111
DTSTAMP:20250803T123115Z
CREATED:20250730T174232Z
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SUMMARY:Points in Space: Performance at Black Mountain College Exhibit
DESCRIPTION: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 innovation through collaboration and experiential learning. The exhibition will highlight key events and figures\, such as John Cage\, Merce Cunningham\, Lou Harrison\, Roland Hayes\, Ray Johnson\, Hugo Kauder\, Ursula Mamlok\, Robert Rauschenberg\, David Tudor\, Alma Stone Williams\, Stan Vanderbeek\, and Stefan Wolpe\, alongside movements like Bauhaus\, Dada\, and Fluxus. The exhibition will feature historical and contemporary works\, interactive installations\, performances\, and immersive experiences that bring the past into conversation with the present. \nPoints in Space aims to bridge the past and present\, ensuring BMC’s interdisciplinary spirit continues to inspire new generations. Through performance-integrated exhibitions and public programs\, the exhibition will foster a dynamic dialogue between historical and contemporary artistic practices\, expanding the reach and relevance of BMC’s radical approach to art\, education\, and community engagement. \nLearn more about featured artists on our website. \nPoints in Space: Performance at Black Mountain College is organized by Jeff Arnal\, curator\, and Adolfo Alzuphar\, curatorial assistant.
URL:https://thelaurelofasheville.com/event/points-in-space-performance-at-black-mountain-college-exhibit/
LOCATION:Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center\, 120 College Street\, Asheville\, North Carolina\, 28801
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ORGANIZER;CN="Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center":MAILTO:info@blackmountaincollege.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250814T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250814T200000
DTSTAMP:20250803T122956Z
CREATED:20250730T173723Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250803T122956Z
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SUMMARY:FILM SCREENING: Artists and the Unknown
DESCRIPTION: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. Simpson\, Josephine Halvorson\, and Michael Rakowitz. The screening is free to attend and open to all. Pre-registration helps us plan for the right amount of guests\, but is not required. You can pre-register using the button above. \nThis event is presented in collaboration with Art21. For more information\, visit art21.org. \n“What does the ‘unknown’ mean? It is something we encounter in ways big and small every day of our lives. It appears when we wake up and wonder what the day holds\, as we watch the world around us change\, develop\, and decay\, and in our risks\, dreams\, and curiosities. The unknown can appear unexpectedly\, at any time\, and with myriad forms and faces. What do we do with that information? At Art21\, we look to artists.” \nThese five films capture engaging\, inspiring\, and stimulating conversations that explore encounters with the unknown. Featuring the works and words of groundbreaking contemporary artists\, this collection serves as a guide and a companion in your own encounters with unknowability.
URL:https://thelaurelofasheville.com/event/film-screening-artists-and-the-unknown/
LOCATION:Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center\, 120 College Street\, Asheville\, North Carolina\, 28801
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ORGANIZER;CN="Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center":MAILTO:info@blackmountaincollege.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250529T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250529T190000
DTSTAMP:20250522T124330Z
CREATED:20250521T153618Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250522T124330Z
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SUMMARY:Poetry Reading + Book Launch: The Anthology of Black Mountain College Poetry
DESCRIPTION: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. \nEdited by Blake Hobby\, Alessandro Porco\, Joseph Bathanti\, The Anthology of Black Mountain College Poetry is published by The University of North Carolina Press in association with Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center. This brand-new volume features over fifty BMC poets selected with an expansive historical and critical lens\, including BMC luminaries like M.C. Richards\, Jonathan Williams\, and Susan Weil\, alongside those not typically considered as poets\, such as artist Cynthia Homire\, composer John Cage\, architect Buckminster Fuller\, and artist Josef Albers. Many years in the making\, this book presents the clearest picture of the poetry and poetics of Black Mountain College yet.
URL:https://thelaurelofasheville.com/event/poetry-reading-book-launch-the-anthology-of-black-mountain-college-poetry/
LOCATION:Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center\, 120 College Street\, Asheville\, North Carolina\, 28801
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ORGANIZER;CN="Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center":MAILTO:info@blackmountaincollege.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250515T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250515T200000
DTSTAMP:20250209T143929Z
CREATED:20250208T164143Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250209T143929Z
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SUMMARY:FILM SCREENING: home
DESCRIPTION: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 an emphasis on nature within human nature. \nFilmed in France and Poland\, Larsen and Schroeder\, alongside an international community of artists create connection\, impact\, and meaning through a visually rich and poetic experience of beauty and loss\, tenderness and urgency\, action and recognition.
URL:https://thelaurelofasheville.com/event/film-screening-home-2/
LOCATION:Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center\, 120 College Street\, Asheville\, North Carolina\, 28801
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ORGANIZER;CN="Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center":MAILTO:info@blackmountaincollege.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250515T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250515T200000
DTSTAMP:20250209T143910Z
CREATED:20250208T162710Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250209T143910Z
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SUMMARY:Arthur Brooks Ensemble V
DESCRIPTION: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. \nArthur 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 student and collaborator with Cecil Taylor\, Bill Dixon\, Milford Graves\, dancer Penny Campbell\, dancer Patricia Bardi\, Frank Wright\, William Parker and many others. He was one of the founding members of the Boston Art Ensemble with the great Stan Strickland\, Syd Smart\, and the late Hayes Burnett. Brooks was also a member of Brute Force\, a group founded by the late Richard Daniels where he met Stan and Sydney\, and the trumpeter\, Ted Daniel. He remains indebted to all of these artists\, and inspired by the integrity of their spiritual and artistic pursuit. \nMichael Chorney is a musician from Lincoln Vermont. He has worked as a composer\, bandleader\, librarian\, orchestrator\, assembly line worker\, Tony award winner\, arranger\, janitor\, dance accompanist\, carpenter\, engineer\, house painter\, teacher and sideman. His work spans genres\, from avant-garde prepared guitar pieces to arrangements of Paul Bowles\, Kurt Weill and Sun Ra. His newest project is a six-piece psychedelic jazz-rock collective called Freeway Clyde. \nBill Heminway has been active in the music scene in Vermont since the early nineties: The So-Called Jazz Sextet\, New Nile Orchestra\, Ensemble V\, Pantet. He is eternally grateful to Penny Campbell\, Michael Chorney\, Arthur Brooks and Bill Dixon for introducing him to the world of improvised music\, art\, and life within all of us. In addition to music Bill worked as a paraprofessional and teacher for 25 years in local elementary schools.  Bill’s teaching now happens on his farm where he works mainly with primary aged students and non-neuro typical adults in a quest to explore and share in the creative life forces which form our habitat. \nJeremy Harlos studied with Arthur Brooks and Bill Dixon at Bennington College 1986-1992. B.A. in Black Music and Mathematics from Bennington College in 1990. Performed and recorded with Arthur Brooks\, Jack Wright\, Justin Perdue\, Matt Weston\, Michael Chorney\, Anthony Santor\, Bill Heminway\, Alec Julien\, Patricia Julien\, Daniel Carter\, Ehran Elisha\, and Haim Elisha. \nAnthony Santor is a musician residing in Vermont. He has been playing bass since he was a teenager. His professional career has taken him through the east coast of the United States and abroad. He has been performing with Ensemble V for the last 20 years.  Santor is also a body worker for the last 35 years. In the last 5 years he combined body work and sound with the use of Tibetan Singing Bowls. Santor’s focus with performing with Ensemble V is now totally using Tibetan Bowls and other Vibration instruments. \nMatt Weston plays percussion and electronics\, and has performed throughout the U.S.\, Canada\, and Europe. A student of Arthur Brooks\, Bill Dixon\, and Milford Graves\, Weston has also collaborated with Bill Callahan\, Kevin Drumm\, Mary Halvorson\, Jeff Parker\, and many others. His recordings have been hailed by Vital Weekly as “some of the best modern music\,” and his double LP Embrace This Twilight was chosen for Bandcamp’s 2023 Best Experimental Music list. He is the grandson of Black Mountain College co-founders Nan and Norman Weston.
URL:https://thelaurelofasheville.com/event/arthur-brooks-ensemble-v/
LOCATION:Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center\, 120 College Street\, Asheville\, North Carolina\, 28801
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250503T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250503T220000
DTSTAMP:20250413T192718Z
CREATED:20250409T162340Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250413T192718Z
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SUMMARY:{Re}HAPPENING 13
DESCRIPTION:Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center board member Jolene Mechanic developed a fundraising idea that grew into the {Re}HAPPENING\, a dinner and performance event inspired by John Cage’s 1952 Theatre Piece No. 1\, considered by many to be the first Happening. For the first six years\, the Media Arts Project (MAP)\, an artist-run non-profit in Asheville\, collaborated to organize and produce the event with BMCM+AC. \nThe {Re}HAPPENING is a one-day event at the historic campus of Black Mountain College\, 20 minutes from Asheville. It is part art event\, part fundraiser\, and part community instigator\, providing a platform for contemporary artists to share their responses to the vital legacy of Black Mountain College by activating the buildings and grounds of the BMC campus with installations\, new media\, music\, and performance projects.
URL:https://thelaurelofasheville.com/event/rehappening-13/
LOCATION:Camp Rockmont\, 375 Lake Eden Road\, Black Mountain\, NC\, 28711\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center":MAILTO:info@blackmountaincollege.org
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