Black Mountain College is best known as the famous interdisciplinary art school that attracted internationally-renowned (and in many cases, exiled) artists, musicians, poets, and inventors to the rural mountains of North Carolina. But what were the ideas and ideals that gave rise to Black Mountain College's unique spirit of collaboration, experimentation, and community? In this course, we will explore the history and the philosophy behind BMC's distinctively experiential and experimental model of liberal arts education.
