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Title

Black Mountain College summer 1954 poster

Date
1954
Century
20th century
Medium & Support
Ink on paper
Object Type
Archival Documents
Accession Number
2017.40.324
Description

In red text, behind main text, reads “black mountain college summer 1954”
THE REGULAR SUMMER QUARTER 11 WEEKS
JUNE 21 TO SEPTEMBER 4
FEATURES A SPECIAL INSTITUTE IN WRITING UNDER THE DIRECTION OF:
Robert Creeley and Charles Olson

Editor of The Black Mountain Review
Published of The Divers Press, Mallorco, Spain
Author of:
LE FOU (poems), Golden Goose Press, 1952
THE KIND OF ACT OF (poems), Divers Press, 1953
THE IMMORAL PROPOSITION (poems), Jargon Press, 1953
THE GOLD DIGGERS (stories), Divers Press, 1954
Mr. Creeley’s stories and poems have appeared in New Directions, Kenyan Review, New Mexico Quarterly, Golden Goose, Contact, Origin, etc.; also in magazines in Japan, Italy, England, and Germany.

Author of:
CALL ME ISHMAEL (Melville critique), Reynal and Hitchcock, 1947
Y & x (poems), Black Sun Press, 1949
APOLLONIUS OF TYANA (dance play), Black Mountain Press, 1951
A LETTER FOR MELVILLE, Black Mountain Press, 1951
IN COLD HELL, IN THICKET (poems), Origin Press, 1953
THE MAXIMUS POEMS, 1-10, Jonathan Williams, publisher, 1953
MAYAN LETTERS, Divers Press, 1954
Mr. Olson’s poems, critique, and stories have appeared in Partisan Review, Twice-A-Year, New Directions, New Mexico Quarterly, Golden Goose, Origin, Contact, Poetry New York, etc.; also in magazines in Germany, England, and Japan.

PLUS COURSES AND SPECIAL INSTRUCTION IN:
PAINTING Joseph Fiore
One Man Shows: Cleveland, 1945, 1948, 1950, 1952; San Francisco Bay Area, 1949; Claucester, 1950; Knoxville, 1952. Prizes: May Shaw, Cleveland Museum, 1948, 68th Annual, San Francisco Museum, 1949. Represented in Third Annual, Stable Gallery, New York, Wuppertal, Germany, November, 1954. Mr. Fiore will also offer basic instruction in Lithography this summer, and supervise the lithography workshop.
THEATER Wesley Huss
Actor with Hedgerow Theater, 1946-50; Director of Theater, Black Mountain College since 1950; has maintained a continuing workshop in production method, using plays by Obey, Lorca, Brecht, William Carlos Williams, Annouilh, etc., with musical collaboration by BMC faculty and students; major work in summer of 1953 was reconstruction and showing of Seami’s THE POOL SACRIFICE. Emphasis of teaching is on the use of what is customarily taught as techniques: acting, movement, make-up, design, lighting, etc., both as preparation for theater work, and in creating pieces for production in the theater.
POTTERY Karen Karnes
Prizes: Syracuse National Exhibition Prize, 1951; Young Americans Exhibition, 3rd. Prize, 1953; Cranbrook Pottery Purchase Prize, 1953; Clay, Fiber, Metal Exhibition, St. Paul, 1st Prize, 1953. Two Man Shows: America House, New York, 1953; Philadelphia Art Alliance, 1954.
LANGUAGES Robert Hellman
Spent five years in France and Spain, doing intensive work in the languages of those countries and also in related areas such as Catalan, Mallorquin, Provencal, etc.; will offer courses in French and Spanish, and special instruction in French literature. Mr. Hellman, a practicing writer who has recently held a fellowship at the University of Iowa Fiction Workshop and has published criticism and fiction in various magazines in the United States, will participate in the Writing Institute.
MUSIC: THEORY AND COMPOSITION Stefan Wolpe
Works include:
PALESTINIAN SONGS; 2 EPITAPHS for Chorus & Percussion; Contatas: LAMENT FOR IGNACIO SANCHEZ; YIGDAL. Operas: ZEUS AND ELIDA; WIT AND STORY. For piano: FOUR STUDIES ON BASIC SETS OF INTERVALS; BATTLEPIECE; ENACTMENTS for Three Pianos. SONATA FOR VIOLIN & PIANO*; SONATA FOR OBOE & PIANO; SECOND SONATA FOR OBOE, with ‘Cello, Drums, & Piano; QUARTET FOR SAXOPHONE, TRUMPET, DRUMS, PIANO*; CONCERTO FOR NINE INSTRUMENTS; SYMPHONY FOR TWENTY-FOUR INSTRUMENTS. Publishers: New Music, Hargail, Bomart, McGinnes & Marx. (SONATA FOR VIOLIN AND PIANO to be published by McGinnes & Marx, Spring, 1954) *Scheduled for release by Esoteric Records, Fall, 1954.

CERAMICS AND TILES David Weinrib
Prizes: Syracuse National Exhibition Prize, 1949, Young Americans Exhibition, 2nd Prize, 1952; Designer Craftsman USA, Brooklyn Museum, 3rd Prize, 1953. Two Man Shows: America House, New York, 1953; Philadelphia Art Alliance, 1954. Tile Commissions Poteat House, Black Mountain, N.C., 1953; First Methodist Church, Black Mountain, N.C., 1954.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, WRITE TO: THE REGISTRAR, BLACK MOUNTAIN COLLEGE, BLACK MOUNTAIN, NORTH CAROLINA

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