The Black Mountain College show has been extended to December 11th due to popular demand!

For the first time ever in Atlanta, exhibits from Black Mountain College Museum will be on view at eyedrum art & music gallery. It’s a rare opportunity to get an insider's view into the daily life and activities of this historical, highly influential avant-garde art college renowned for experiments in art, music, dance and design. The exhibit, Idea + Place, is free and open to the public.

Photo by Jennifer Klask

Black Mountain College was fundamentally different from other colleges and universities of the time. It was owned and operated by the faculty and was committed to democratic governance and to the idea that the arts are central to the experience of learning.

A wide assortment of historical media will be on view at the eyedrum, documenting Asheville, North Carolina’s Black Mountain College people, ideas and principles, practices and the places it flourished. Show also includes photos, and inspirations from the Bauhaus - the German school from which Josef and Anni Albers and others at BMC had come.

Notable faculty and students included Josef and Anni Albers, Walter Gropius, Robert Motherwell, Cy Twombly, Robert Rauschenberg, Willem and Elaine de Kooning, Merce Cunningham, John Cage, and Buckminster Fuller.

Gallery Hours: 
Thursdays 12p.m.-4p.m.
Saturdays 1p.m.-5p.m.