davidsilver: Josef Albers giving Nan Chapin (and others) painting pointers, Lee Hall porch, Blue Ridge campus, Black Mountain College, spring 1936
davidsilver: community meeting (students, faculty, faculty families) at black mountain college, lake eden campus, circa early to mid-1940s
davidsilver: the dining room at blue ridge campus, black mountain college
davidsilver: outside patio of the dining hall at black mountain college
davidsilver: students digging drainage ditches, black mountain college
davidsilver: john andrew rice, founder of black mountain college, and students planting seeds in the campus farm, blue ridge campus, circa 1936-37
davidsilver: building the studies building
davidsilver: studies building built
davidsilver: summer session, black mountain college
davidsilver: bucky fuller, elaine de kooning, josef albers, students, and a thing that would become, a year later, the first geodesic dome
davidsilver: cast and crew of ruse of medusa, including bucky fuller, merce cunningham, john cage, elaine de kooning, and alvin few
davidsilver: students working on the farm at black mountain college, june 1936
davidsilver: classic shot of the farm with barn and silos, circa 1947-50
davidsilver: farm committees
davidsilver: back in the archives
davidsilver: in the archives! a big chunk of the black mountain college collection at the western regional archives
davidsilver: My second home ... Immersed in the Black Mountain College Collection at the Western Regional Archives, Asheville, North Carolina
davidsilver: archival research
davidsilver: the moment i learned, in the #WesternRegionalArchives, that Black Mountain College took first place in the hog competition at the 1937 Black Mountain Community fair
davidsilver: "Construction of barn, Lake Eden farm"
davidsilver: the barn and silo, designed by lawrence kocher and constructed by students (especially bob bliss) and faculty in 1941
davidsilver: photography class with joseph breitenbach (and josef albers) in the cabbage patch at black mountain college, summer 1944
davidsilver: Cutting the Corn
davidsilver: Climbing Up the Silo
davidsilver: theodoros stamos’s (black mountain college faculty of painting and drawing, summer 1950) “the emperor ploughs the fields”
davidsilver: students heading to work at the farm on black mountain college
davidsilver: the farm at black mountain college
davidsilver: a day on the farm
davidsilver: Jack Lipsey
davidsilver: rubye lipsey