Former liberal arts college in Asheville, North Carolina
Black Mountain College
Type
Private liberal arts college
Active
1933–1957
Director
John Andrew Rice (until 1940)
Administrative staff
about 30
Students
about 1,200 total
Location
Black Mountain
,
North Carolina
,
United States
Website
blackmountaincollege.org
Black Mountain College Historic District
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district
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Nearest city
Black Mountain, North Carolina
Area
586.9 acres (237.5 ha)
Built
1923
Architectural style
Bungalow, craftsman, International Style
NRHP reference No.
82001281[1]
Added to NRHP
October 5, 1982
Buckminster Fuller and students assemble a geodesic dome, 1948
Black Mountain College was a private liberal arts college in Black Mountain, North Carolina. It was founded in 1933 by John Andrew Rice, Theodore Dreier, and several others. The college was ideologically organized around John Dewey's educational philosophy, which emphasized holistic learning and the study of art as central to a liberal arts education.[2]
Many of the college's faculty and students were or would go on to become highly influential in the arts, including Josef and Anni Albers, Ruth Asawa, John Cage, Robert Creeley, Merce Cunningham, Max Dehn, Elaine de Kooning, Willem de Kooning, Buckminster Fuller, Walter Gropius, Ray Johnson, Franz Kline, Robert Motherwell, Charles Olson, Robert Rauschenberg, Mary Caroline Richards, Dorothea Rockburne, Michael Rumaker, Aaron Siskind and Cy Twombly.
Although it was quite notable during its lifetime, the school closed in 1957 after 24 years due to funding issues; Camp Rockmont for Boys now sits on the campus' site.
The history and legacy of Black Mountain College are preserved and extended by the Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center, located in downtown Asheville, North Carolina.[3]
^"National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^"The Artists of Black Mountain College | American Masters | PBS". American Masters. October 16, 2006. Archived from the original on October 11, 2017. Retrieved October 22, 2017.
^Kino, Carol (March 16, 2015). "In the Spirit of Black Mountain College, an Avant-Garde Incubator". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on April 14, 2019. Retrieved October 22, 2017.
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