only 24 short years prior to, throughout and after World War II (1933- to be held at the Monte Vista Hotel at 2 pm. Ticket information on all 57), established an influence that has inspired artists, educators, these events is available through the Center at (828) 669-0930. philosophers, visionaries, and more around the world. For many New to the Center’s spring calendar for 2012 is an opportunity decades more people outside North Carolina were aware of Black for amateur and professional photographers to participate in the 12th Mountain College and its reputation than those who lived here. Even Annual Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day on Saturday, April 29 without a tangible space to visit, the devoted and the curious have from 1-4 p.m. This international event promotes the fantasy, art, fun come to Black Mountain seeking information about this renowned and experience of lens-less photography. Pinhole cameras will be part of U.S. education history. provided; then photos will be uploaded to an Internet gallery. It is not unusual for the Black Mountain Center for the Arts to Another new event will be a “Run for Your Art” 5K fun run on receive at least one or two visitors per week asking for information Saturday, June 23, which is sponsored by Black Mountain Running on the college, which had on its faculty such Company, to be a fundraiser for BMCA. artistic minds as Josef & Annie Albers, John Concerts and theater on the schedule Cage, Merce Cunningham, Franz Kline, Willem include: the Swannanoa River Project Play, a de Kooning, M.C. Richards, Jacob Lawrence, presentation by “Reasonably Priced Babies,” a Black Mountain Center and Lou Harrison. Today reunions, gatherings, locally-based improv comedy troupe (date TBA); for the Arts symposiums, tributes, books, catalogs, and and a concert by Jonathan Byrd, a N.C. acoustic multi-media presentations about the College musician who has been compared to a young 225 W. State Street are available, including the “Fully Awake” DVD Doc Watson (date TBA), and who played for Black Mountain that was released in 2007 that is available for BMCA’s grand opening in 2000. Check the Web purchase at the Black Mountain Center for site for additional concerts and events, www. (828) 669-0930 the Arts. Other places in town to learn more blackmountainarts.org. Blackmountainarts.org about the College are Black Mountain Books, Stop by the Black Mountain Center for Black Mountain Library, the Swannanoa Valley the Arts, between Thai Basil Restaurant (the Museum, and the kiosk near the Old Depot. old police station) and the Swannanoa Valley Establishing the Black Mountain Center for the Museum (the old fire station), on the same end of Arts was an ambitious undertaking for a small town and a volunteer the block with The Dripolator Coffeehouse (the old funeral home) and group. They applied for grants, completed a capital campaign, and across the street from Harwood Home for Funerals (a newer funeral found other creative ways to raise over a million dollars to renovate home) and enjoy some of W.N.C.’s best cultural resource – the arts. the old building, turning it from a repository for everything from the holding-cell jail to the water department to the library replete with orange shag carpet and pine-paneled walls, into a showplace gallery for art, a concert stage with outstanding acoustics, classroom space, western North Carolina’s along with cooperative work with local businesses, environmental groups, and the Town of Black Mountain to upgrade the back into a rain garden and functional municipal parking lot. Later, with additional grant funding, the old city garage was renovated into the current BMCA Clay Studio. This year the Arts Center will host a variety of events through the spring and summer, including returning favorites and new adventures. • 75 ft. Indoor Swimming Pool The 6th Annual Art in Bloom has a slightly different configuration this • Water Therapy Pool year. The Art in Bloom Gallery Exhibit, a collaboration between BMCA • Cardio Equipment and area art galleries curated by BMCA Executive Director Gale Jackson, will begin April 18 and be in the gallery through June 13. • Free Weights/Machines Beginning the evening of June 14 with the Gala Preview Party, where • Land and Water Aerobics Classes floral designers will have moments before completed their floral • Massage Therapy interpretations of the gallery show, Art in Bloom will kick off with a • Men & Women’s Locker Rooms dinner, complete with entertainment and opportunity to meet the floral • Coffee/Juice Bar designers and some of the artists. • Pilates 1-on-1 Training On Friday and Saturday, June 15-16, a cottage garden tour of 6 local gardens with plein air painters will happen from 10 a.m. - 4 • Personal Training p.m., along with entrance to the floral and art exhibit. Finishing up Art Cheshire Fitness Club in Bloom on June 16 at 7:30 p.m. will be a concert by 2012 Honorary 828.664.0400 Chairs Doug and Darcy Orr, along with Joe and Karen Holbert, all of M-F: 5:30am - 9pm Swannanoa Gathering renown. The following week, June 18-22, the Sat: 8am 6pm • Sun: 1- 6pm plein air paintings from the garden tour will be exhibited. www.cheshirefitnessclub.com Another returning favorite with a twist this year is the Fashion Located on the right 3/4 mile south of downtown Black Mountain on Highway 9 Show that will be moved away from Art in Bloom to Saturday, May 5,
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