Black Mountain College: Avant-Garde Art from the Experimental School, 1933-1957

Nestled in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina, Black Mountain College existed for just twenty-four years, yet its influence on American art, music, dance and poetry remains unparalleled. Gallery C is proud to present “Black Mountain College: Avant-Garde Art from the Experimental School, 1933–1957,” a sweeping survey featuring works by visionary faculty and students including Josef and Anni Albers, Robert Rauschenberg, John Cage, Cy Twombly and Willem de Kooning, whose ideas reshaped the cultural landscape of postwar America. Spanning painting, printmaking and mixed media, this exhibition is an invitation to experience the electric spirit of a community that dared to imagine education and art as inseparable from life itself.