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The Images of America series celebrates the history of neighborhoods, towns, and cities across the country. Using archival photographs, each title presents the distinctive stories from the past that shape the character of the community today. This edition, dedicated to Black Mountain College, explores what life was like at the college, the classroom, the work program, and the beautiful and intimate lived environments of both the Lake Eden and Blue Ridge Assembly campuses. Text by Heather South and Anne Chesky Smith. Paperback, 127 pages with reproductions. NEW.

Catalogue for an exhibition held September 6, 2013 - January 4, 2014 at Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center, exploring the role Black Mountain College played in shaping craft and design ideas and practices of our time, and linking it to the importance of craft on 20th century modernism as a whole. Essays by curator Katie Lee Koven. Acknowledgments by Alice Sebrell. 32 pages, with full color reproductions. Bound in pictorial wrappers. NEW.

Catalogue for an exhibition held September 4 - December 31, 2015 at Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center and February 4 - March 25, 2016 at Koehnline Museum of Art. An exploration of the dynamic exchange of people between the German Bauhaus, and its two major descendants in America; Black Mountain College via Josef Albers + The Institute of Design via László Moholy-Nagy. Essay by curator Michael Reid. Foreword by Alice Sebrell. Includes a "student crossover list" and list of faculty + lecturers at the Bauhaus, Black Mountain College, and the New Bauhaus/Institute of Design. viii, 52 pages. Bound in pictorial wrappers. NEW.

Catalogue for an exhibition held in conjunction with the largest Black Mountain College Reunion to date in 1995. Alumni, regardless of age, or discipline, were asked to submit panels, 18"x24", on which they would remember the college. The Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center received in response: paintings and collages, anecdotes and poems, letters home to mom, music manuscripts and photographs. A poignant remembrance of the college and an acknowledgment of the impact it had on those who taught and studied there. Foreword by Mary Holden, with essays by exhibition curator Mary Emma Harris. Bound in brown paper wraps. v, 110 pages, with illustrations.