Dr. Awesome's Bad Tape Night
posted: October 26, 2009
Off the MAP for November
Tuesday October 27th 9pm-11pm $3 cover charge.
Bobo Gallery, 22 Lexington Ave, Asheville
Join Jason Holland from the Dr Awesome show for an evening of the worst video he can muster. Expect the unexpected, but my guess is there will be some bad training films, bad commercials and bad public access shows. But that's just a guess. You'll have to show up to find out what all the hubub is about. Perhaps this Off the MAP event should come with a warning. Side effects may include: offended morals, abdominal pain and cramping, blurry vision, bleeding from the eyes, cluster migraines, irregular heatbeat, and vomiting.
Photos from the Sept 26 HAPPENING
posted: October 5, 2009
Despite the pouring rain, over 100 people turned out on September 26th for a MAP and Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center collaboration. Thank you to Jeff Hardman for taking so many great photos! You can look at more pictures here, and read Carol Motsinger's review here. It really was an excellent night! We've heard from a lot folks that they want to do it again so...
The MAP, BMCM+AC, and Phil Mechanic Studios will be joining up again on November 7th for another great HAPPENING at the Phil Mechanic Studios in the River Arts District. Save the date!!
Re-Viewing Black Mountain College An International Conference
posted: October 1, 2009
October 9-11, 2009 on the UNC Asheville Campus
The legacy of Black Mountain College continues to inform contemporary culture in multiple realms. This conference will investigate its history as well as the multiple paths of influence, actual and possible, identifiable in the contemporary world and beyond.
The Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center and the University of North Carolina Asheville are pleased to announce Re-Viewing Black Mountain College, a three-day international conference October 9-11, 2009 to take place on the UNC Asheville campus. Scholars from all over the United States and as far away as France will gather in Asheville to share their ideas about the history and ongoing influence of the famous progressive college community located just outside of Black Mountain from 1933-1957.
The keynote speaker for the conference is BMC alumna and acclaimed artist Dorothea Rockburne. Her presentation will take place on Saturday, October 10th at 7:00pm at UNCA. Rockburne’s Astronomy Drawings series of paintings is currently on display at BMCM+AC as part of its yearlong celebration of the women of Black Mountain College. A student at BMC in the 1950s, Dorothea Rockburne has been immersed in the contemporary art scene since that time. During the sixties she was involved in Judson Dance Theatre performances with artists such as Oldenburg and Rauschenberg. From 1965 until today she has shown internationally. A recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and a NEA grant, she was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Department of Art, in 2001 and received the National Academy Museum Artist's Lifetime Achievement Award in 2009. Selected highlights from the weekend schedule include:
Alone Together: On Merce Cunningham and the Question of Black Mountain College’s Artistic Legacy – Kate Markoski, Johns Hopkins University
What Josef Albers Taught at Black Mountain College, and What Black Mountain College Taught Albers - Frederick A. Horowitz, Washtenaw College
Black Mountain College: Form as the Creator of Content - Mary Emma Harris, Scholar, NY
The Weaver and the Architect: Reconstructing the Modern Shelter - Kirsten Dahlquist, University of South Florida
Aftereffects: Buckminster Fuller and the Legacy of Black Mountain College –Eva Diaz, Pratt Institute
“Like a Girl:” Gendered Sexual Difference at Black Mountain College and the Development of Postmodernism - Jonathan Katz, SUNY Buffalo
Motion Sculpture Movement Installation: Attack Of The Killer Stripey Tubes!!! - Claire Elizabeth Barratt, Cilla Vee Life Arts
Performance of “This Paradise Apart” a play by David Hopes, UNC-Asheville
In addition to over 50 scholarly presentations, the weekend conference will include poetry readings, performances and a clay, color and word workshop. A full conference schedule can be viewed at www.blackmountaincollege.org. Presenters include authors, educators, artists, independent scholars, poets, an architect and an experimental musician. The one thing they all share is a fascination with Black Mountain College and a common belief that it was an extremely significant educational and artistic endeavor that deserves attention, study and discourse. Admission to the conference is $10 per day or $15 for the weekend with free admission for UNCA faculty, staff + students. For advance tickets please call BMCM+AC at 828-350-8484.
HAPPENING: Kicking off Saturday Nights at Black Mountain College
posted: September 16, 2009
A dance party explosion and fundraiser for the MAP and the Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center
WHEN: Saturday September 26 8pm- Midnight
WHERE: The Phil Mechanic Building, 109 Roberts Street, Asheville
HOW MUCH: $7 for MAP members, $10 for the rest of ya!
WHAT: Wine! Beer! Dancing!!
The MAP and the Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center will sponsor HAPPENING, a fundraiser dance party in the heart of the River Arts District of Asheville.
Wedge Microbrewery will provide the beer. DJ Trevor Baker will be spinning records. Come early to enjoy the yummy food and to view the art installation downstairs in the Flood Gallery space. There will also be a salon in the upstairs library, hosted by Jolene Mechanic, where you can learn more about the college, our organizations, and our exciting upcoming events series.
This dance party extravaganza is the official kick-off celebration to announce an exciting new series of Saturday Night Events at the original dining hall of the Black Mountain College. Back in the day students and staff at Black Mountain College got together on Saturday nights to entertain each other with music, dance, poetry, theater or whatever they were moved to share.
“Saturday night parties were…a tradition at Black Mountain…for that one night in the week everybody put on shoes and dressed up: the women in dresses and stockings, the men in ties and jackets. Booze for the party was supplied by the student home-brew master on campus…” Michael Rumaker, Black Mountain Days
Starting this fall, the Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center and The MAP are hosting a series of Saturday Night dinner and entertainment-filled evenings in this vein but with a fresh new twist. So be at HAPPENING, Saturday, September 26 at the Phil Mechanic Building to help us revive the Black Mountain College Saturday night tradition. More information can be found at www.blackmountaincollege.org or by calling 828.350.8484
Local fans of the TED conference present TEDxAsheville, an independently organized TED event, Sunday, August 30, 7–11 p.m. at The Orange Peel.
Mix your favorite mind-blowing lecture in college with a hot night out at a club, add a few beers, and you've got TEDxAsheville, where smart is sexy and great ideas are the name of the game. Five Asheville visionaries join a sprinkling of all-local performance talent for a night of fun for your head that promises inspiration, excitement and ideas worth spreading.
Confirmed 2009 TEDxAsheville speakers include: Dee Eggers, UNC Asheville professor of environmental science Drew Jones of the Sustainability Institute, creator of interactive climate simulations David McConville of the Elumenati, media artist, entrepreneur, inventor and community activist
Caroline Yongue, Buddhist minister and director of Asheville’s Center for End-of-Life Transitions
Robert Zimmerman, Bug Logic coder, designer and illustrator
This late-summer conference event is FREE, seats will fill QUICKLY. Arrive early if you can.
TEDxAsheville official website: tedxavl.com
TEDTalks sample videos: tedxavl.com/videos
Facebook: search TEDxAsheville
Twitter: follow @TEDxAVL
ABOUT TEDx
In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TED created a program it calls TEDx. TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. Our event is called TEDxAsheville, where “x” = an independently organized TED event. At TEDxAsheville, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection within the audience.
The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events, including ours, are self-organized.
SOUNDCLASH this Saturday at the Orange Peel
posted: August 20, 2009
This Saturday night, get yourself over to the Orange Peel for a showcase of the region's finest electronica artists. AND you'll be supporting the new community internet radio station, Asheville FM.
AshevilleFM is sort of like college radio, but all grown up. The volunteer-based, grassroots station was envisioned earlier this year as an outlet where community members could broadcast locally based music and news. The space has been rented (behind Wizzy's), the studio being built: Check it out at www.ashevillefm.org. Chip in monetarily (think of it as a fund drive without the boring chatter) at the all-ages Orange Peel benefit. Music from Doom Ribbons, IO, J.R.R. Foolkiller, Aurascene, Kimathir, Liz Lang, sys:ex and Pomme de Terre. Saturday, Aug. 22 (9 p.m., $8 advance, $10 doors. Info: www.theorangepeel.net or 225-5851).
Film Screening: Soul's Journey: Inside the Creative Process
posted: January 14, 2009
The Center for Craft, Creativity & Design
will host a film screening at the Fine Arts Theatre in Asheville, NC
on Thursday, Jan. 29, 2009 at 7:00 PM giving the public an opportunity to preview two
hours of the series.
Admission is $5, free for students.
The Center for Craft, Creativity & Design
(CCCD) will host "Soul's Journey: Inside the Creative Process" Jan. 23 - April
25, 2009. This exhibition features 22 accomplished contemporary object makers
living in the Southeast - from Virginia to Florida - and working in
ceramic, fiber, glass, metal, and wood. The exhibit developed from is a
six-part documentary series (of the same name) illuminating the creative
process through an intimate view of these working artists told largely through
their own words.The film was conceived
and produced by David Hutto, Vice President for Technology at Blue Ridge Community
College, and videographer Chanse Simpson.
The exhibition complements the documentary,
showcasing significant works by established and emerging artists,
representative as much of the ethnic, gender and geographic diversity as the
area's creative tradition and cultural heritage.
Additionally,
CCCD will host a reception in their gallery on Friday, February 20, 2009,
giving the public an opportunity to meet some of the artists who attend.
The Center for Craft, Creativity
and Design is an inter-institutional center of the University
of North Carolina, located 5 miles
west of Hendersonville at 1181 Broyles Road adjacent to the UNC Asheville
Kellogg Center. Gallery hours are Monday thru Friday from 10-5pm. Visitors are invited to walk the Perry N.
Rudnick one-mile nature and public art trail following a visit to the
exhibition in the Craft
Center galleries. For more information see www.craftcreativitydesign.org or call 828-890-2050
Heather Lewis : COTTAGE/INDUSTRY
posted: January 12, 2009
New art work and
installations
Opening Reception
Friday 23rd January, 6.30 (includes a talk by the
artist)
Holden Gallery, Warren Wilson
College,
701
Warren Wilson Road, Swannanoa, NC 28788
Exhibition runs January
19th through February 28th
Gallery hours 9.30 – 4.00pm Mon –
Thu
1.00 – 4.00
Sundays
The
work is conceptual with a strong visual (though not always material) presence,
subverting conventional assumptions of skill, perfection or precious materials.
In this way it questions perception of the art object's value.
The
exhibit will feature an enormous shadow; a coin-operated light painting that
invites the viewer to draw on the wall; and the reflections of numerous mirror
circles. Alongside these are various installations including a collection of
glowing, imperfectly molded wax bottles; a painting (displayed as a coffee
table) that bears the scars of a gravel driveway; and three plastic tubs of
recycled cartons lit by cheap Christmas lights.
SUGGESTED DONATION $10 Join
Cat, Jacci, Jeff (of MAP), Scott and Will for an evening of beautiful music and
chanting to open your heart and free you Spirit. This evening of music
will be dedicated to children in foster care. Last year we raised over
$300 and were able to sponsor 3 babies and 2 young girls for the
Holidays who might not otherwise have received gifts. Jacci and Cat
went out and shopped for the children who were assigned to us, bringing
their wish lists and hopes along to aid our decision making. What fun
we had! Please help us to make this year even more successful. Come
sing and give and offer your support of these children who cannot be
home with their families for the Holiday season.
Media artist and dancer Jonah Bokaer coming to UNC Asheville this week!
posted: November 12, 2008
Join us for an innovative
residency and performance with media artist/dancer/choreographer
Jonah Bokaer
as this NC native and acclaimed dancer stages his
evening-long work,
"Three Cases of Amnesia"
Sat,
Nov. 15
8pm,
Lipinsky Auditorium, UNC Asheville
General admission $20
Student admission $6
The performance features Bokaer's
ground-breaking combination of multimedia and solo original modern dance.
Bokaer graduated from the NC School of the Arts
in Media Arts and Dance and was immediately recruited by the prestigious Merce
Cunningham Dance Company in NYC at age 18 - the youngest dancer ever
hired in the company's 55-year history. Continuing in his mentor Cunningham's
footsteps, Bokaer creates technically complex modern dance works that address
the human body's relation to 21st-c. digital technologies, such as motion
capture and 3-D animation. Named one of Dance Magazine's "25 to
Watch" in 2006, he has performed throughout the US,
Europe, Australia and Japan.
For more information on these or other events in
UNC Asheville's
Cultural & Special Events season, call the UNCA Cultural Arts main office: 828/251-6991.
Additional details are available online at
AND you are invited to these FREE related activities with Bokaer!
(Please read beyond the break for details)
Lecture on Motion Capture, FREE>12:15-1:35pm,
Thurs, Nov. 13, Karpen Hall 012 Bokaer will explain and demonstrate how motion capture digitally records a
dancer's movements and incorporates them into a digital model for use in
presentation and performance. Jonah also addresses the use of motion capture
and digital media in POP and contemporary video and film such as The Matrix, walking participants
through the process in his discussion.
Dance Technology Workshop, FREE>10:25am-12n,
Fri., Nov 14, New Hall Drama Studio (Reynolds Green level). Observers welcome. Experience first-hand what
you heard about on Thursday as Bokaer works with UNC Asheville dance students
in this lecture demonstration that explores the software and techniques
integrating media and choreographic techniques.... See the dance studio as
a collaborative & creative space investigating the crossover of
Architecture, Media, Dance and Theatre. Bokaer intros much of the software
(PremiEre, ProTools, Digital Perform, Hyperprism, Flash, Dreamweaver,
Photoshop, Dance Forms, and Improvisation Technologies among others.) Bring
your laptop!
For more information on these or other events in
UNC Asheville's
Cultural & Special Events season, call our main office: 828/251-6991.
Additional details are available online at http://www.unca.edu/culturalarts/08-09/jonahBokaer.asp
