Black Mountain College Bulletin Supplement: Summer Session 1948 (Vol. 6 No. 3, April 1948)

Single sheet of paper, red and black text. Matte paper, off-white. Announcement of dates, faculty and fees for Summer Session 1948.

Black Mountain College Black Mountain, NC

SUMMER SESSION 1948
Black Mountain College will be in regular session for eight weeks this summer, from July 1 to August 25. Special work will be offered in Art, with distinguished guest members added to our regular faculty. Opportunities not available during the rest of the year will also be furnished by guest faculty in Music, Drama, Dance, Literature, and Social Psychology.
Mark Tobey, well-known artist from Seattle, will teach and criticize painting.
Peter Grippe of New York City will teach sculpture.
Winslow Ames, lecturer on art from Springfield, Missouri, is expected to speak on Graphic Art.
Edgar Wind of New York University will give lectures on Art History.
Beaumont Newhall of New York City, formerly with the Museum of Modern Art, will give a course in History of Photography. He has recently published several articles on this subject. He and his wife, Nancy Newhall, will also give practical advice in photography.
Edgar Kaufman, Jr. of the Museum of Modern Art will lecture on Industrial Design.
It is hoped in addition that there will be an architect for Architectural Planning, and a craft teacher for Woodworking.
Josef Albers of the Black Mountain College faculty will teach Basic Design and Color, How it Works.
Anni Albers and Trude Guermonprez will teach Weaving- Textile Design.
Erwin Bodky, pianist and harpsichordist of the Longy School of Music in Cambridge, will begin as a regular member of the Black Mountain College faculty this summer. He will probably teach the Development of Keyboard Music and the Sonatas of Beethoven. It is hoped that string instrumentalists may also be in residence for summer concerts.
John Cage, known for his composition for percussion instruments and for muted piano, will give courses in Structure of Music for the Dance.
MerceCunningham, in connection with whose choreography Mr. Cage composes some of his music, will come with members of his dance group from New York City and give instruction in Dance Technique in a workshop for Dance, and Movement for Actors.
Helen Livingston of the Neighborhood Playhouse in New York City will teach Acting, Speech, and Stagecraft.
Isaac Rosenfeld, author of the novel PASSAGE FROM HOME and contributor to ‘Partisan Review,’ ‘Harpers,’ ‘Nation,’ will teach a course probably on Tolstoy and will hold conferences in Creative Writing.
Donald Calhoun of Chicago, contributor to ‘Politics’ and ‘Social Forces,’ is expected to teach Culture and Personality; the Psychology of Subordination; or Freudianism and the Social Sciences.
Mrs. Beatrice Pitney Lamb, editor of “The United Nations News” (published jointly by the Woodrow Wilson Foundation and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace), lecturer and author of many pamphlets on international relations and the United Nations for the League of Women Voters and the Foreign Policy Association, will give a short course early in July on Soviet-American Relations within the United Nations.
In addition to creative and academic work, students will be expected to share in community responsibilities.
The Summer Session carries an inclusive fee of $380 for eight weeks, July 1 to August 25/ The same principles of adjustment apply as in the fall and spring terms. For these, please consult the section on finances in the ‘Annual Announcements.’ Veterans should write for information.
Black Mountain College Bulletin Volume 6 Number 4
Supplement April 1948