Join us for a screening of the first ever feature-length documentary film on Black Mountain College, Fully Awake: Black Mountain College.
Hidden in the mountains of Western North Carolina, Black Mountain College (1933 – 1957) was an influential experiment in education that inspired and shaped twentieth century American art. Fully Awake: Black Mountain College is a documentary film that explores the college’s progressive pedagogy and radical approach to arts education. Highly democratic and faculty-owned, the school promoted practical responsibilities and the creative arts as equally important components to intellectual development. During WWII, Black Mountain College was a haven for refugee European artists such as Josef and Anni Albers who arrived from the Bauhaus in Germany.
In the socially conservative 1940s and 50s, the college also became a refuge for the American avant-garde, (Franz Kline, John Cage, Buckminster Fuller, Merce Cunningham, Robert Creeley, Jacob Lawrence, Willem de Kooning, Robert Rauschenberg, and M.C. Richards). Fully Awake explores how the confluence of this diverse community came together to create a unique educational model.
When: Friday, July 14, 7:00-8:30pm
Where: Education Community Room of the Black Mountain Public Library (105 N Dougherty St, Black Mountain, NC 28711)
Cost: FREE for SVM Members when using their promo code (same code as This is Home: WNC, Past and Present), $10 for General Admission. Some fees may apply.
