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A few years later the board of BMCA decided to revive the old city garage into a professional teaching clay studio; with grants from The Janirve Foundation, and the Black Mountain Endowment of the Community Foundation of WNC, they made the transformation happen. The clay studio offers classes, taught by local resident potters, opportunities for experienced potters to purchase community memberships, and Paint-on-Pottery sessions. The camaraderie that has developed among the folks who are taking classes there has been one of the best outcomes of the board’s decision to recycle the old building. For more information, visit http://blackmountainartsclay. blogspot.com. The Black Mountain Center for the Arts is proud to celebrate its first decade in the beautifully renovated building, and invites everyone, both local and visitors, to stop by to see the exhibits and learn about classes and events. To learn more about Black Mountain’s converted arts center, visit www.blackmountainarts.org. Or call the Black Mountain Center for the Arts at 828-669-0930.
about the legendary Black Mountain College, and about the thriving arts community for which this area is so well known. They come to view the current show in the Upper Gallery, to register for ongoing classes, to ask about possibilities for artists in this locale, and to exchange ideas for all of the above. What those early BMCA board members knew is that the arts encompass more than one dimension, and that a wide array of talents are well represented in our local and part-time population. BMCA was developed with the idea that focusing on one area of the arts would be insufficient - that the stage is large enough to invite people to participate in as many areas as they will. Thus, the mission of the Center was born - ‘to bring arts to the people, and people to the arts.” When those early board members planned for the Center, they counted on the generosity of the people who love both the arts and the town to support and sustain it. By establishing the Center as a non-profit institution, the founders purposefully chose for it to be a place where people at every level could participate and contribute. The Center continues to derive its support from the philanthropy of the very people who want to see it thrive.
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