Black Mountain College, a university founded in 1933 near Asheville, North Carolina was a new kind of college in the United States in which the study of art was seen to be central to a liberal arts education, and in which John Dewey's principles of education played a major role. The school attracted students and faculty many of whom were or went on to become influential. Although notable even during its short life, the school closed after only tw...
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Black Mountain College, a university founded in 1933 near Asheville, North Carolina was a new kind of college in the United States in which the study of art was seen to be central to a liberal arts education, and in which John Dewey's principles of education played a major role. The school attracted students and faculty many of whom were or went on to become influential. Although notable even during its short life, the school closed after only twenty-four years in 1957.
Founded in 1933 by John Andrew Rice, Theodore Dreier and other former faculty of Rollins College, Black Mountain was experimental by nature and committed to an interdisciplinary approach, attracting a faculty which included many of America's leading visual artists, poets, and designers, like Buckminster Fuller, who popularized the Geodesic dome.
Operating in a relatively isolated rural location with little budget, Black Mountain College inculcated an informal and collaborative spirit, and over its lifetime attracted a...
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