Panel text reads:
This photo is a souvenir from Ruth who says that it blows up to a 8 1/2 x 11. color xerox. You can help her identify faces by matching names and numbers and sending her the results: Ruth Asawa 1116 Castro St., S.F. CA 94114. If you’re not in the photo and would like to be, send a picture of the appropriate size and we’ll see what we can do.
The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco Present
Black Mountain College Reunion
March 6 and 7, 1992
Message For The Future
Black Mountain College
Black Mountain N C (1933-57) 1 legendary 2 experimental, unorthodox unaccredited, without trustees or endowment 3 balanced intellectual development and community living, democratic art-centered integrated curriculum, universal work program 4 total pop under 1500 incl (faculty and guest faculty) Josef Albers, John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Willem de Kooning, Buckminder Fuller, (students) Kenneth Noland, Arthur Penn, Robert Rauschenberg 6 model for future
Friday, March 6, 7PM
Trustees’ Auditorium, de Young Museum, Golden Gate Park
Introduction to Black Mountain College. Keynote speaker, M.C. Richards. Reception follows.
Saturday, March 7, 9:30AM-4PM
Trustee’s Auditorium, de Young Museum, Golden Gate Park
Education at Black Mountain College. “Black Mountain in the Context of American Education,” Page Smith
“Personal Reminiscences: Education at Black Mountain College,” Black Mountain College Alumni
Panel: “Translating the Black Mountain College Experience for the 21st Century”
Saturday, March 7, 8PM
Florence Gould Theater, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, Lincoln Park
Black Mountain College and the Performing Arts, a Concert of Music and Dance. The music of John Cage and Lou Harrison, featuring the Abel-Steinberg-Winant Trio with special guests, and Remy Charlip performing his own choreography. Reception follows.
This program is underwritten in part by the Josef Albers Foundation and is presented by the Education Department of The Fine Arts Museums, which is supported by the CAlifornia Arts Council and the San Francisco Foundation.
Ruth Asawa, BMC (Laundry Stamp), 1948, detail
Participants include: Ruth Asawa, Artist. Remy Charlip, choreographer, artist. Fielding Dawson, author, The Black Mountain Book. Lou Harrison, musician, composer. Mervin Lane, editor, Black Mountain College Sprouted Seeds: An Anthology of Personal Accounts. Kenneth Noland, artist. M.C. Richards, author, Centering: In Pottery, Poetry, and the Person. Knute Stiles, artist. Page Smith, founding provost, University of California at Santa Cruz; author, Killing the Spirit: Higher Education in America; columnist, San Francisco Examiner.
For information call (415) 750-7645.
Program is subject to change. SFUSD district in-service credit available; SFSU extended education credit pending.
Ticket information: $25 for the weekend, $10 ($5 for students) per program, $2.00 handling charges. Box lunches are $10.
To order tickets, call the Box Office (415) 750-7667, or send checks or money order, payable to COFAM, with self-addressed envelope to Box Office, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, Lincoln Park, San Francisco, CA 94121.
M. H. de Young Memorial Museum
California Palace of the Legion of Honor
1-Morton Steinau
2-Jene Markoff
3-Remy Charlip
4-Betsy Williams
5-Ike Nakata
6-Patsy Lynch Wood
7-Mary Miller (Mickey)
8-Jay Engle
9-Lucian Marquis
10-Laddie Delaplane
11-Frank Eisendrath
12-Pete Hill
13-Ann Goldsmith
14-Jane Slater Marquis
15-Nan Oldenberg Black
16-Adele Borouchoff
17-Alexa Mc Lane Nakata
18-Larry Fox
19-Merv Lane
20-Ron Robertson
21-Harry Weitzer
22-Warren Otten
23-Fred Stone
24-Claude Stoller
25-Bob Bliss
26
27-Ati Gropius Johanson
28-Mary Phelan Bowles
29-Fernando Leon
30-Hannalore Hahn
31-Ragland Watkins
32-Sheila Oline Marbain
33-Jean O’Neill
34-Manvel Schauffler
35-John Corkran
36-Lyle Bonge
37-M.C. Richards
38-Howard Rondthaler
39-David Schauffer
40-Katharine Woodwell (Bobby Rondthaler)
41-Ruth Asawa
42-Margaret Kennard Johnson
43-Jinny Kitzmiller Johnson
44-Vera Baker Williams
45-Henry Bergman
46-Peter Oberlander
47-Dorothy Raattama Bergman
48-Charles Archer
49-Alison Pinchuk
50-Charles Archer’s daughter
51-Elaine Schmitt Jennerjohn
54-John Swackhamer
55-
56-Peter Jennerjohn
57-Conrad Schmitt
60-Richard Amero
61-Sondra Isreal
62-Stan Cooke
63-Mary Parks Washington
64-Marcia Chamberlain
65-Judd Woldin (Eddie)
66-Eve Zhitlowsky Milton
67-Sue Spayth Riley
68-
69-Wesley Huss
70-Al Lanier
This photo is a souvenir from Ruth who says that it blows up to a 8 1/2 x 11. color xerox. You can help her identify faces by matching names and numbers and sending her the results: Ruth Asawa 1116 Castro St., S.F. CA 94114. If you’re not in the photo and would like to be, send a picture of the appropriate size and we’ll see what we can do.
The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco Present
Black Mountain College Reunion
March 6 and 7, 1992
Message For The Future
Black Mountain College
Black Mountain N C (1933-57) 1 legendary 2 experimental, unorthodox unaccredited, without trustees or endowment 3 balanced intellectual development and community living, democratic art-centered integrated curriculum, universal work program 4 total pop under 1500 incl (faculty and guest faculty) Josef Albers, John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Willem de Kooning, Buckminder Fuller, (students) Kenneth Noland, Arthur Penn, Robert Rauschenberg 6 model for future
Friday, March 6, 7PM
Trustees’ Auditorium, de Young Museum, Golden Gate Park
Introduction to Black Mountain College. Keynote speaker, M.C. Richards. Reception follows.
Saturday, March 7, 9:30AM-4PM
Trustee’s Auditorium, de Young Museum, Golden Gate Park
Education at Black Mountain College. “Black Mountain in the Context of American Education,” Page Smith
“Personal Reminiscences: Education at Black Mountain College,” Black Mountain College Alumni
Panel: “Translating the Black Mountain College Experience for the 21st Century”
Saturday, March 7, 8PM
Florence Gould Theater, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, Lincoln Park
Black Mountain College and the Performing Arts, a Concert of Music and Dance. The music of John Cage and Lou Harrison, featuring the Abel-Steinberg-Winant Trio with special guests, and Remy Charlip performing his own choreography. Reception follows.
This program is underwritten in part by the Josef Albers Foundation and is presented by the Education Department of The Fine Arts Museums, which is supported by the CAlifornia Arts Council and the San Francisco Foundation.
Ruth Asawa, BMC (Laundry Stamp), 1948, detail
Participants include: Ruth Asawa, Artist. Remy Charlip, choreographer, artist. Fielding Dawson, author, The Black Mountain Book. Lou Harrison, musician, composer. Mervin Lane, editor, Black Mountain College Sprouted Seeds: An Anthology of Personal Accounts. Kenneth Noland, artist. M.C. Richards, author, Centering: In Pottery, Poetry, and the Person. Knute Stiles, artist. Page Smith, founding provost, University of California at Santa Cruz; author, Killing the Spirit: Higher Education in America; columnist, San Francisco Examiner.
For information call (415) 750-7645.
Program is subject to change. SFUSD district in-service credit available; SFSU extended education credit pending.
Ticket information: $25 for the weekend, $10 ($5 for students) per program, $2.00 handling charges. Box lunches are $10.
To order tickets, call the Box Office (415) 750-7667, or send checks or money order, payable to COFAM, with self-addressed envelope to Box Office, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, Lincoln Park, San Francisco, CA 94121.
M. H. de Young Memorial Museum
California Palace of the Legion of Honor
1-Morton Steinau
2-Jene Markoff
3-Remy Charlip
4-Betsy Williams
5-Ike Nakata
6-Patsy Lynch Wood
7-Mary Miller (Mickey)
8-Jay Engle
9-Lucian Marquis
10-Laddie Delaplane
11-Frank Eisendrath
12-Pete Hill
13-Ann Goldsmith
14-Jane Slater Marquis
15-Nan Oldenberg Black
16-Adele Borouchoff
17-Alexa Mc Lane Nakata
18-Larry Fox
19-Merv Lane
20-Ron Robertson
21-Harry Weitzer
22-Warren Otten
23-Fred Stone
24-Claude Stoller
25-Bob Bliss
26
27-Ati Gropius Johanson
28-Mary Phelan Bowles
29-Fernando Leon
30-Hannalore Hahn
31-Ragland Watkins
32-Sheila Oline Marbain
33-Jean O’Neill
34-Manvel Schauffler
35-John Corkran
36-Lyle Bonge
37-M.C. Richards
38-Howard Rondthaler
39-David Schauffer
40-Katharine Woodwell (Bobby Rondthaler)
41-Ruth Asawa
42-Margaret Kennard Johnson
43-Jinny Kitzmiller Johnson
44-Vera Baker Williams
45-Henry Bergman
46-Peter Oberlander
47-Dorothy Raattama Bergman
48-Charles Archer
49-Alison Pinchuk
50-Charles Archer’s daughter
51-Elaine Schmitt Jennerjohn
54-John Swackhamer
55-
56-Peter Jennerjohn
57-Conrad Schmitt
60-Richard Amero
61-Sondra Isreal
62-Stan Cooke
63-Mary Parks Washington
64-Marcia Chamberlain
65-Judd Woldin (Eddie)
66-Eve Zhitlowsky Milton
67-Sue Spayth Riley
68-
69-Wesley Huss
70-Al Lanier
Artwork: 1995.49.2
Black Mountain College Renunion, San Fransisco, March 6 and 7, 1992
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 Larry Kocher
Larry Kocher, Black Mountain College Renunion, San Fransisco, March 6 and 7, 1992, 1995. Photographs and printed paper on foam board. Collection of Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center. Gift of the artist.
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