Our 5th episode is an interview with interdisciplinary artist Martha McDonald, who’s the curator of our current permanent collection exhibition titled “ACTIVE ARCHIVE: Martha McDonald.” Martha will also be creating an installation and performance in response to Bauhaus and BMC artist Xanti Schawinsky’s experimental theater piece “Spectodrama.”

Our fourth episode is an interview with conceptual artist Mel Chin, who will be giving a keynote address at our upcoming ReViewing 9 conference. We discuss the social and political side of his works, the process of dismantling personal and societal delusions, and how art can facilitate the creation of a more just and invigorating […]

Our third episode of BMC Radio features two segments, the first being an interview with Tony Rolando, Kelly Kelbel, and Walker Farrell from Make Noise, a modular synthesizer company in Asheville, NC who will be giving a free talk + performance at 69 Broadway on Friday, July 21st. The second segment explores the life and […]

Our second episode has three segments, the first being an interview with choreographer and performer Meg Foley, who will be giving a performance at BMCM+AC on Saturday, July 8th. The second segment explores the life and works of Robert Motherwell, a notable Abstract Expressionist who taught at Black Mountain College. Discussed is his use of […]

This debut episode begins with Carmelo Pampillonio’s interview of Julie J. Thomson, the curator of our current exhibition “Begin to See: The Photographers of Black Mountain College.” It also features a segment dedicated to composer Lou Harrison, who taught at BMC. Lou Harrison would have been 100 today on May 14th, and we celebrate his […]

PennSound, a project of the University of Pennsylvania’s Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing, is an excellent audio archive, with pages dedicated to BMC rector and instructor Charles Olson and BMC alumnus and poet Robert Creeley. Click here for the studio recording at Black Mountain College of Olson reading from Maximus, and here for his […]