Head over to the Hunt Library on Monday, Aug. 4, for a multimedia event that tells the story of America’s boldest experiment in higher education. Visiting scholar David Silver takes advantage of the Hunt’s advanced technologies to present, “The Farm at Black Mountain College: A Hunt Library Happening.”
The morning performance starts at 10:30 a.m. and concludes at noon. The evening performance runs from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Both performances start at the iPearl Immersion Theater and are free and open to the public.
Silver, an associate professor at the University of San Francisco who specializes in media history, digital media production and urban agriculture, will use the library’s dramatic video walls and other media tools to chronicle the rise and fall of Black Mountain College, founded in 1933 near Asheville, North Carolina. Although the college remained open for only a short period of time, participants such as Buckminster Fuller, Merce Cunningham and John Cage set the stage there for major transformations in educational practices.
Focusing on the Black Mountain College farm and work program, Silver will lead an exploration of the school’s lesser-known but vitally important participants.
Using the entire Hunt Library as a storytelling platform and featuring never-before-seen photographs, this dynamic event will spark conversation about the basic premises of how students learn across disciplines. Silver will employ an unconventional storytelling approach that unfolds as participants walk through the building.
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