Connecting Legacies
Connecting Legacies
A First Look at the Dreier Black Mountain College Archive
This exhibition features archival objects from the Theodore Dreier Sr. Document Collection presented alongside artworks from the Museum’s Black Mountain College Collection to explore the connections between artworks and ephemera.
This exhibition is organized by the Asheville Art Museum and curated by lydia see, fall 2020 Black Mountain College fellow, with support from a Digitizing Hidden Collections grant through the Council on Library and Information Resources.
related writing:
Lazy-J Chair and Stool by Mary “Molly” Gregory
Untitled Watercolor by Elaine Schmitt Urbain
“Conversation with the Curator” linked below details some of the processes necessary to handle, process, and catalogue Black Mountain College archival materials. We also discuss ethical considerations, archival silences, and some of my other work at the intersections of art with archives and representation.