The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts

Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center

Grant Cycle
Spring 2022
Amount
$60,000
Type of Grant
Exhibition SupportMulti-year Program Support
Website
www.blackmountaincollege.org ↗
The Transfluent Orchestra / Mobile Coaction Lab by Gene A. Felice II, Owen Smith, + Susan Smith, {Re}HAPPENING 9, March 30, 2019. Photo by Michael Oppenheim.
Black Mountain Songs performed by Brooklyn Youth Chorus, ReVIEWING Black Mountain College 9, September 29 + 30, 2017. Photo by Michael Oppenheim.
Immersion by George Sims + Kirta Shuckstes, {Re}HAPPENING 7, March 25, 2017. Photo by Adam Pinnell.

The Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center (BMCM+AC) preserves and continues the legacy of educational and artistic innovation of Black Mountain College (BMC). It achieves its mission through collection, conservation, and educational activities including exhibitions, publications, and public programs.

Arts advocate Mary Holden founded BMCM+AC in 1993 to celebrate the history of Black Mountain College as a forerunner in progressive interdisciplinary education and to explore its extraordinary impact on modern and contemporary art, dance, theater, music, and performance. Today, the museum remains committed to educating the public about BMC’s history and raising awareness of its extensive legacy. Its goal is to provide a gathering point for people from a variety of backgrounds to interact through art, ideas, and discourse.

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1964

Philip Johnson commissioned Warhol to make a large-scale work for the exterior for his pavilion for the New York World’s Fair, along with other artists. Warhol’s provocative response, a multiple portrait of ‘Most Wanted Men’ was installed a few days before the opening but was deems too inflammatory and contrary to the upbeat image of the World’s Fair and the work was taken down.