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Black Mountain College: Idea + Place
Curated by Alice Sebrell, Director of Preservation
Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center
Opening February 11, 2022

How can an idea inform a place? How can a place inform an idea? Would Black Mountain College have had the same identity and lifespan if it had been located in the urban Northeast, the desert Southwest, or coastal California? How did BMC’s rather isolated, rural, and mountainous setting during the era of the Great Depression and the Jim Crow South influence the college community’s decision-making and the evolution of ideas upon which it was …