Black Mountain College

Black Mountain College
Type	Private liberal arts college
Active	1933–1957
Director	John Andrew Rice (until 1940)
Administrative staff	about 30
Students	about 1,200 total
Location	Black Mountain, North Carolina, United States
Website	blackmountaincollege.org
	Black Mountain College Historic District
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
	U.S. Historic district
Nearest city	Black Mountain, North Carolina
Area	586.9 acres (237.5 ha)
Built	1923
Architectural style	Bungalow, craftsman, International Style
NRHP reference No.	82001281
Added to NRHP	October 5, 1982

Black Mountain College was a private liberal arts college in Black Mountain, North Carolina. It was founded in 1933 by John Andrew Rice, Theodore Dreier, and several others. The college was ideologically organized around John Dewey's educational philosophy, which emphasized holistic learning and the study of art as central to a liberal arts education.^[2]

Many of the college's faculty and students were or would go on to become highly influential in the arts, including Josef and Anni Albers, Ruth Asawa, John Cage, Robert Creeley, Merce Cunningham, Max Dehn, Elaine de Kooning, Willem de Kooning, Buckminster Fuller, Walter Gropius, Ray Johnson, Franz Kline, Robert Motherwell, Charles Olson, Robert Rauschenberg, Mary Caroline Richards, Dorothea Rockburne, Michael Rumaker, Aaron Siskind and Cy Twombly.

Although it was quite notable during its lifetime, the school closed in 1957 after 24 years due to funding issues; Camp Rockmont for Boys now sits on the campus' site.

The history and legacy of Black Mountain College are preserved and extended by the Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center, located in downtown Asheville, North Carolina.^[3]

^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ "The Artists of Black Mountain College | American Masters | PBS". American Masters. October 16, 2006. Archived from the original on October 11, 2017. Retrieved October 22, 2017.
^ Kino, Carol (March 16, 2015). "In the Spirit of Black Mountain College, an Avant-Garde Incubator". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on April 14, 2019. Retrieved October 22, 2017.

[nris-1] "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.

[American_Masters-2] "The Artists of Black Mountain College | American Masters | PBS". American Masters. October 16, 2006. Archived from the original on October 11, 2017. Retrieved October 22, 2017.

[Kino-3] Kino, Carol (March 16, 2015). "In the Spirit of Black Mountain College, an Avant-Garde Incubator". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on April 14, 2019. Retrieved October 22, 2017.

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