Creative mayhem preserved: Black Mountain College, rich with theatrical history, gets a museum.

From: American Theatre | Date: January 1, 1996| Author: | Copyright information

The Black Mountain College Museum and Arts Center is a nonprofit organization which aims to preserve Black Mountain College's theatrical heritage through performances, exhibitions and reunions. The organization seeks to give honor to the artists who contributed to the birth of American avant-garde in the institution, such as actors Buckminster Fuller and Merce Cunningham and director Arthur Penn.

The locals referred to them as "the mentals." For more than 20 years, artists, poets and performers such as Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline, Robert Rauschenberg, Robert Creeley, Charles Olson, ...

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