ReViewing Black Mountain College 13
Friday, October 6, 2022
UNC Asheville
This presentation shared research for our forthcoming exhibition, Weaving at Black Mountain College (Fall 2023 at BMC Museum + Arts Center), about who Harriett Engelhardt was, examine the collection of textiles that Anni Albers acquired in her memory, and share how BMC students at used this Collection in their study of weaving and textile design.
Fritz Horstman, Education Director at the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, and Julie Thomson will co-present a workshop about the Leaf Studies Josef Albers developed, and taught at Black Mountain College, and later at Yale University.
The Leaf Studies are one of the least examined aspects of Josef Albers’s teaching and his landmark book The Interaction of Color. First we will look deeper into the leaf studies made by Josef Albers and his students and then participants will have the opportunity to experiment with, and make their own, leaf studies. Fritz will discuss how the Leaf Studies offer a bridge between Josef Albers’s Color class + Matière studies. Leaves collected from the Blue Ridge Mountains will allow participants to further experience and study the colors available to BMC students.
