Local Artists + A Celebration of Community

SPROUTING IN THE SAME SOIL

Perhaps one of the most fascinating aspects of Black Mountain College's history is the seemingly dichotomous relationship between its international influences and rural, southern setting. Over time, we've come to understand that these two aspects of its history are not in opposition but rather amplify one another to create a singular environment and moment in time.

It is this spirit that has come through in our current exhibitions, BAUHAUS 100 and Materials, Sounds + Black Mountain College, which examine BMC's international roots and showcase how its influences can be found across the globe as well as within Western North Carolina. It's fitting that our summer season is coming to a close with a series of programs that put local artists and friends at the forefront.

Learn more about what we have coming up as well as a gorgeous tribute to the legendary Jargon Press publication White Trash Cooking from The Bitter Southerner.

UPCOMING EVENTS

FLAHERTY / CORSANO DUO

Transfigurations III, Celebrating 15 Years of Harvest Records

Saturday, August 24th – 1:30pm

Saxophonist Paul Flaherty and drummer Chris Corsano are New England-based musicians dedicated to the promise and purpose of free improvisation. Together, Flaherty & Corsano seek to champion the cause of total free improvisation, an often misunderstood, underestimated, and sometimes even hated artform.

This performance is presented by Harvest Records as part of Transfigurations III, a celebration of their 15th year of business in West Asheville.

TICKETS AVAILABLE THROUGH HARVEST RECORDS

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AN EVENING OF PERFORMANCES

Saturday, August 24th - Doors open at 6:30pm

INTERPRETATIONS OF ABSURDITY

Okapi and Edwin Salas

Okapi presents anecdotes reflecting pieces of life’s mosaic, which involve complex confrontations with cryptic emotions and circumstances. Edwin Salas interprets these confrontations in visual form, embodying all the compromises and sacrifices woven into one’s decisions after facing life’s harsh ultimatums.

FLYER IN A DARK CHAMBER

Alli Marshall, Elizabeth Lang/Aurocene, Sharon Cooper + Coco Palmer

A reimagining of the mythology of Lilith, told through spoken-word, dance and music. Ten vignettes explore the stories of Lilith as the first wife of Adam, an empowered and emancipated woman, an outcast from Eden, the original vampire, the black madonna, along with contemporary figures such as Chikesia Clemons and Cyntoia Brown.

$10 for BMCM+AC members + students w/ID / $15 non-members

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PERSPECTIVES: JOSH COPUS

Lunchtime Conversations @ BMCM+AC

Wednesday, August 28th - 12 noon

Explore our Materials, Sounds + Black Mountain College exhibition along with an artist, historian, or scholar who will give perspective and context to the work from their particular point of view. Guest Speaker: Josh Copus, Marshall-based potter and contributing artist to the exhibition.

FREE

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A tribute to the author of White Trash Cooking, a landmark publication of the Jargon Society Press.

"In spring of 1986, Ernest 'Ernie' Matthew Mickler’s White Trash Cooking landed on bookshelves across America — a 160-page, spiral-bound anthology of Southern recipes, stories, and photographs.

Oddly enough, damned near everyone loved it. It was immediately revered by literary snobs, Southern aristocrats, Yankees, folklorists, down-home folk, and people on either side of the Mason-Dixon."

- Michael Adno, The Bitter Southerner

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Flaherty / Corsano Duo, poster courtesy of Harvest Records | Okapi and Edwin Salas, photos courtesy of the artists. | Edward Munch, Madonna, woodcut and lithograph. 1895–1902. © 2019 The Munch Museum / The Munch-Ellingsen Group / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York | Josh Copus, photo courtesy of the artist. | The Short and Brilliant Life of Ernest Matthew Mickler, via The Bitter Southerner. Words and photographs by Michael Adno.

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