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Ted Dreier, Jr. Remembering Black Mountain College Faculty child 1933-46 Student 1947-49 1941 With pet goats named "Abercrombie" and "Fitch". Molly Gregory helped me build a house for them.
1946 With brother Eddie Dreier. Meadow's Inn in background.
1946 Wearing the thong-between-the toes sandles [sic] which I made. Unusual at that time. Bernard and Berta Rudofsky introduced them to BMC and many of us made a pair.
1951 After BMC at Harvard (still inspired by Merce Cunningham's dance class).
1933 (age 41/2) Chairs piled high and filling the kitchen [in Overlook cottage at Blue Ridge]. We will live here. 1935 Juppi [Josef Albers] calls me to his side in the college dining hall. The top, small piece of a divided hard boiled egg is always "fuer die Kinder". Today it's for me.
1936 Mr. Rice [John Andrew Rice] sometimes gave us children candy. But one day he chased me about three hundred yards from Abbot Hall at Blue Ridge through the covered walkway until I was cornered near the basement entry to Lee Hall. He caught me, shook me, and told me never to disturb him again when he was teaching a class. (I never accepted candy from him after that).
1940 Joined in the work building the new Study Building whenever possible.
1947 Fellow student Merv Lane sighed and shook his head when he read what I had written for the workshop. M.C. Richards, our teacher encouraged me to write a journal, which I did.
1948 One of 20 or more students in a class taught by Merce Cunningham
1948 Studied design, drawing, and color with Josef Albers. Loved design and color. Felt clumsy at drawing. 1949 Charles Olson, towering over me outside the Dining Hall, pulled out of his coat pocket a crumpled page of my journal which I had given him and said "Here, where you write '...and Ulie will go on being confident in Paris,' I like the cadence in that!"
Remembering the Dance of Death Performance at Black Mountain College May 14, 1938 "You egg!" spoke the figure of Death, his hand crushing the child's skull, "Your mother still will die, despite your efforts!" And she did. In that dark gymnasium, lit with candles, since the electric lights went out, Bela Martin, my childhood hero, black body tights and white stripes over his rippling muscles, was student actor playing Death, dancing, dancing. Bela, where are you now? I remember most the thunder of that enormous, flapping flag you swung over the fallen knight's head.
Ted Dreier, Jr. Remembering Black Mountain College Faculty child 1933-46 Student 1947-49 1941 With pet goats named "Abercrombie" and "Fitch". Molly Gregory helped me build a house for them.
1946 With brother Eddie Dreier. Meadow's Inn in background.
1946 Wearing the thong-between-the toes sandles [sic] which I made. Unusual at that time. Bernard and Berta Rudofsky introduced them to BMC and many of us made a pair.
1951 After BMC at Harvard (still inspired by Merce Cunningham's dance class).
1933 (age 41/2) Chairs piled high and filling the kitchen [in Overlook cottage at Blue Ridge]. We will live here. 1935 Juppi [Josef Albers] calls me to his side in the college dining hall. The top, small piece of a divided hard boiled egg is always "fuer die Kinder". Today it's for me.
1936 Mr. Rice [John Andrew Rice] sometimes gave us children candy. But one day he chased me about three hundred yards from Abbot Hall at Blue Ridge through the covered walkway until I was cornered near the basement entry to Lee Hall. He caught me, shook me, and told me never to disturb him again when he was teaching a class. (I never accepted candy from him after that).
1940 Joined in the work building the new Study Building whenever possible.
1947 Fellow student Merv Lane sighed and shook his head when he read what I had written for the workshop. M.C. Richards, our teacher encouraged me to write a journal, which I did.
1948 One of 20 or more students in a class taught by Merce Cunningham
1948 Studied design, drawing, and color with Josef Albers. Loved design and color. Felt clumsy at drawing. 1949 Charles Olson, towering over me outside the Dining Hall, pulled out of his coat pocket a crumpled page of my journal which I had given him and said "Here, where you write '...and Ulie will go on being confident in Paris,' I like the cadence in that!"
Remembering the Dance of Death Performance at Black Mountain College May 14, 1938 "You egg!" spoke the figure of Death, his hand crushing the child's skull, "Your mother still will die, despite your efforts!" And she did. In that dark gymnasium, lit with candles, since the electric lights went out, Bela Martin, my childhood hero, black body tights and white stripes over his rippling muscles, was student actor playing Death, dancing, dancing. Bela, where are you now? I remember most the thunder of that enormous, flapping flag you swung over the fallen knight's head.
Artwork: 1995.34.1
Ted Dreier, Jr. Remembering Black Mountain College, Faculty Child 1933-46, Student 1947-49
1995
Photographs and printed paper on foam board
This work was created for the 1995 exhibition Remembering Black Mountain College curated by Mary Emma Harris in conjunction with Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center and the BMC alumni reunion organized by Mary Holden Thompson, founding director of BMCM+AC.
24 x 18 inches
In copyright
Gift of Ted Dreier Jr.
Ted Dreier Jr., Ted Dreier, Jr. Remembering Black Mountain College, Faculty Child 1933-46, Student 1947-49, 1995. Photographs and printed paper on foam board. Collection of Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center. Gift of the artist.
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