"A Crazy, Magical Place"--Black Mountain College (1933 - 1957)

Buckminster Fuller professor at Black Mountain College

Instructor, Robert Motherwell and wife, Maria

Cy Twombly was a student at Black Mountain College

Willem de Kooning

Instructor, Merce Cunningham

Student Robert Rauschenberg--Self Portrait via Artist and Studio

A few of the creative minds at Black Mountain College in North Carolina,  an incubator for the American avant garde, founded in 1933 until 1957- included students such as Cy Twombly, Robert Rauschenberg, and San Francisco artist / sculptor, Ruth Asawa--and some instructors included painter, Robert Motherwell, architect, Buckminster Fuller, composer, John Cage, Painter Josef Albers, and dancer / choreographer, Merce Cunningham--What a line up! A student commented..."a crazy, magical place...so that one woke up in the morning excited and a little nervous, as though a thunderstorm were sweeping in." --via Artist and Studio and Mondoblogo--"The Men of Black Mountain College"