Women Of Black Mountain College from Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center Bookstore

The first novel by Black Mountain College alumna Martha King. Paperback, 247 pages. NEW. "Always remember," Robby intoned solemnly, "everyone's scared of an artist. You might be a quack or you might not and not a single one of them really knows how to tell. It's all done with mirrors. That's why sometimes it pays to be crazy." An American… Read more about this item

Originally published in conjunction with the centennial exhibition M.C. Richards, Centering: Life + Art — 100 Years at Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center (June 3 – August 20, 2016) curated by Alice Sebrell and Julia Connor. This fully illustrated publication includes ample selections of Richards' pottery, poetry, and painting as well as photographs and ephemera from her life,… Read more about this item

Many were introduced to M.C. Richards through this insightful counterculture classic. The book is based on a series of her talks on the subject of "centering" which were published by Wesleyan Press in 1964. In it, M.C. shares her discovery of the process of centering clay on the potter's wheel as a living metaphor for becoming centered within oneself. Paperback,… Read more about this item

A fascinating study about a uniquely artistic individual, by M.C. Richards, the poet, potter, essayist, translator and painter, who taught at Black Mountain College in the late 1940s and thereafter became an impassioned advocate of community in both art and life. Paperback, 210 pages. NEW.

A stunning example of poetic questioning from M.C. Richards, the poet, potter, essayist, translator and painter, who taught at Black Mountain College in the late 1940s and thereafter became an impassioned advocate of community in both art and life. "This book has the incomparable authority of a human life faced with open mind, eyes, and heart." - Library Journal. Paperback,… Read more about this item

Catalogue for an exhibition held January 24 - May 17, 2014 at Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center, showcasing Homire's life drawing and poetry. Short introduction by exhibition curator Connie Bostic. 48 pages. Bound in semigloss pictorial wrappers. NEW. Cynthia Homire came to Black Mountain College to study pottery with David Weinrib and Karen Karnes, and later married fellow… Read more about this item

Catalog for an exhibition held January 27 - May 26, 2012 at Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center and January 26 - May 25, 2012 at the Fine Art Museum of Western Carolina University. Spans the 63 year career of Black Mountain College alumna and first-generation New York Abstract Expressionist Pat Passlof. Acknowledgments by Connie Bostic, Alice Sebrell, and… Read more about this item

Catalogue for an exhibition held April 21 - August 12, 2006 at Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center and August 22 - September 23, 2006 at the Fine Art Museum of Western Carolina University. Includes acknowledgments by John Wright and Alice Sebrell, essays by Connie Bostic, David Vaughan, and Erika Zarow, and reproductions of Archer's b/w photographs of Black… Read more about this item

Black Mountain College Dossiers #7: Gwendolyn Knight. Original publication of Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center, documenting the works of former students and faculty of the college. Text by Glenis Redmond, with an introduction by Connie Bostic; design by Jon Jicha. v, 34 pages, with 24 color reproductions and several others b/w. Light brown paper wrappers with French flaps.… Read more about this item

Black Mountain College Dossiers #5: Susan Weil. Original publication of Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center, documenting the works of former students and faculty of the college. Text by Donna Stein; design by Jon Jicha. 35 pages, including color and b/w reproductions. Light brown paper wrappers with French flaps. Stamped by hand with BMC logo on front cover. ISBN… Read more about this item

Black Mountain College Dossiers #3: Lore Kadden Lindenfeld. Original publication of Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center, documenting the works of former students and faculty of the college. Text by Sigrid Wortmann Weltge; design by Jon Jicha. 51 pages, including 76 color reproductions. Light brown paper wrappers with French flaps. Stamped by hand with BMC logo on front cover.… Read more about this item

Black Mountain College Dossiers #2: Fannie Hillsmith. Original publication of Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center, documenting the works of former students and faculty of the college. Text by James Thompson; design by Jon Jicha. 83 pages, including 79 color reproductions. Light brown paper wrappers with French flaps. Stamped by hand with BMC logo on front cover. NEW… Read more about this item

Catalogue for the exhibition Clay and Words 1952-1986: exhibited at the Crossing Point Gallery, Carmel, California. Oblong 8vo bound in white wraps. One of 500 copies numbered and signed by Julia Connor (curator of the exhibition, who also hand-set the type for the poems printed here) and Dennis Woodard (printer at Woodaen Angel Press).