Black Mountain College

The Black Mountain College was founded in 1933 near Asheville, North Carolina and existed until 1956 It was the late 1940s, the leading institution for interdisciplinary training mainly ( but not exclusively) artistic disciplines.:

• Fine Arts
• Theater
• Literature
• Music
• Architecture
• History
• Physics
• Economics

There, among other things, many artists from the Bauhaus rallied after their emigration from Germany.

Significant faculty

• Josef Albers
• Anni Albers
• Willem de Kooning
• Elaine de Kooning
• John Cage
• Robert Creeley
• Merce Cunningham
• Max Dehn
• Walter Gropius
• Lou Harrison
• Franz Kline
• Jacob Lawrence
• Charles Olson
• M. C. Richards
• Alexander Schawinsky
• Ben Shahn
• Erwin Straus
• Cy Twombly
• Stefan Wolpe

Significant guest lecturers

• Albert Einstein
• Clement Greenberg
• William Carlos Williams

Significant Alumni

• Ruth Asawa
• John Chamberlain
• Robert De Niro, Sr.
• Ray Johnson
• Basil King
• Kenneth Noland
• Arthur Penn
• Robert Rauschenberg
• Dorothea Rockburne
• Kenneth Snelson
• Susan Weil
• John Wieners
• Vera B. Williams