Black Mountain College

Ruth Asawa: An Artist Takes Shape

This graphic biography by Sam Nakahira, developed with Asawa’s youngest daughter, Addie Lanier, chronicles the genesis of Asawa as an artist.

Ruth Asawa Through Line Coming to Whitney, Menil

Co-organized by the Whitney Museum and the Menil Collection, Ruth Asawa Through Line is the first exhibition to examine Ruth Asawa’s work through the lens of her lifelong drawing practice.

Aurora, The Embarcadero, 1984-1986

Hear Peter Coyote and Ruth Asawa’s family discuss her Aurora fountain on San Francisco’s Embarcadero, origami, and paper folding at Black Mountain College

Connecting Legacies: A First Look at the Dreier Black Mountain ...

Displayed in this gallery are archival objects shown alongside works from the Museum’s Black Mountain College Collection, which is comprised of over 1000 artworks and ephemera. These objects create connections, each one a thread contributing to a nuanced tapestry of the people, materials, geographies, and ideas of Black Mountain College and its ongoing legacy.

Question Everything! The Women of Black Mountain College

BMC was a place where women could explore their identities as artists and individuals; a space where women were expected to question things, to think critically and to explore their own self determinacy. Through artworks, personal accounts and archival film and photographs, Question Everything! details how this new generation went forward with a strong sense of what it meant to be a woman in the 20th century, forging new paths for themselves and those who followed in their footsteps.

Josef and Anni and Ruth and Ray

Featuring work by Josef Albers, Anni Albers, Ruth Asawa, and Ray Johnson—all of whom were at Black Mountain College in North Carolina in the late 1940s—this exhibition will explore both the aesthetic and personal dialogue between these artists during their Black Mountain years and beyond;