Black Mountain College: The Most Influential School That Vanished

[@sheramiedelozier3122]

I visited black mountain college yesterday. This is gonna sound dumb but I never heard of Black Mountain college until it became part of Ruth & Ira's love story on the movie The Longest Ride!! It intrigued me so I visited it yesterday while visiting my brother whom lives in Ashville, NC. There of course has been changes but on the backside where the school remains all still looks the same as well as most the the landscape. I found this video helpful. Thank You for posting it.

[@GEEKORMAN]

So glad you were able to see it! It really is stunning. Thank you for watching!

[@mellowmarmot1191]

Great video! Criminally under-viewed

[@GEEKORMAN]

Thank you so much!

[@mgsilverhead9636]

Black mountain was such a source lode!!! How do we not know more about this?? I've been dancing for 30 years in the Cunningham lineage via Steve Paxton ... no one ever mentioned Black Mt! Sooo Great to lean more. Thanxx

[@GEEKORMAN]

I'm glad you found this informative, thanks for watching! I think maybe it's one of those things where enough time has passed where we sort of lose the evolutionary trail, but all the more reason to go back and look at the history and trace the roots.

[@HallFilmProductions]

Fascinating video! Keep up the great work!

[@GEEKORMAN]

Thank you so much!

[@xingzhang]

thanks!

[@GEEKORMAN]

You bet!

[@GEEKORMAN]

The Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center reached out to me and shared an important point of clarification on the topic of grades at BMC: “While academically rigorous, students at Black Mountain College would often never see their grades and could stay at the college as long as felt necessary for their own academic and personal growth. There are a few dozen distinguished graduates of Black Mountain College, but graduation was never required or expected. Many students went on to distinguished graduate degrees based solely on recommendations from Black Mountain Faculty." Also, it's worth clarifying that the statement about "30 faculty members" is a generalization for any given year. The number would range between 9 to 30 year to year, and because many faculty members rotated through the ranks over the two and a half decades the college was open, there were many more total faculty members in that time.

[@GEEKORMAN]

What do you think the greatest legacy of Black Mountain College was?

[@mgsilverhead9636]

Only just the entirety of modern art as we know it?-!