Black Mountain College

The Short Life and Long Legacy of Black Mountain College

This kind of philosophy about learning and creative thinking alines with my own. Maybe we should start a new school.....

"Everybody learned from everybody. Although the faculty was technically in charge, students were involved in institutional decision-making. It was also left to them to decide when they were ready to graduate. (Most never did.) There were no course requirements, departmental restrictions, grades or degrees. The school offered, at least initially, a fairly broad-based liberal arts program, with art itself, modernist in mood, at the center, available to all, not necessarily as a professional pursuit but as a means of unlocking creative thinking in students in every field."

PHOTOGRAPHY AND PERFORMANCE by Mark Alice Durant

PHOTOGRAPHY AND PERFORMANCE by Mark Alice Durant

"The goal of much performance and Conceptual work of those years was the dematerialization of art: an attempt to separate art from precious materials and pretentious institutions so that it could exist in more pure, less compromised forms. Photography was understood and utilized as a functional medium meant to produce an affectless record, without the taint of style or authorship."

This essay was found on http://saint-lucy.com

Chris Burden, Trans-Fixed 1974

CINTHYA SOTO NEW PICTURES 11

KEVIN GORDON ON the WORLD CAFE

Joan Jonas: New York Performances | ART21 "Exclusive"

John Lennon 1969 Interview I Met the Walrus

Where Songs Live by Kim Ruehl, Photos by Sandy Dyas

The roots music authority -- NO DEPRESSION magazine 2015 - out now. 

"Where Songs Live" by Kim Ruehl, 
Photos by Sandy Dyas - photo spread (Jeffrey Foucault, Kris Delmhorst, Dave Moore, Liz Preciado Genell and more).

"These photographs capture in silent images the life and scenery that could just a as well make a song. There is music in those fields and storefronts and back roads, songs about lives that are waiting to be sung." Kim Ruehl.

 http://nodepression.com/users/kim-ruehl --- Thrilled to be apart of this collection of stories, photos, music, and love. Thank you Kim Ruehl! Thank you Grant Alden, Thank you Ed Maxin!

Jeffrey Foucault, near Iowa City, Iowa: Photo by Sandra L. Dyas