CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 12/18/2024

BMCM+AC presents David Silver on 'The Farm at Black Mountain College'

Wednesday, December 18 at 7 PM, Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center will host David Silver, co-curator of The Farm at Black Mountain College, for a gallery walk-and-talk alongside a book launch / signing event. If you're in North Carolina, please join for an in-depth look at the Farm story and a celebration of the exhibition. This event is free and open to all.

Built on more than a decade’s worth of deep, original archival research, The Farm at Black Mountain College constitutes a comprehensive new history of Black Mountain College. By focusing on the farm, the exhibition sidesteps the popular paradigm of approaching BMC through its famous faculty and students, and instead offers a new cast of characters, one that includes mostly students, women, and farmers. It spotlights the importance of collaboration, both on campus among students, faculty, and faculty families, and in the community with farmers and organizations in nearby cities and towns. Finally, the exhibition shows what happens when communal living is no longer communal, and offers the first ever detailed account of the fall of the college, a dramatic and often dangerous story.

David Silver is a professor of environmental studies and urban agriculture at the University of San Francisco (USF), where he has been since 2006. At USF, he teaches classes in urban ag, hyperlocal food systems, and food, culture, and storytelling, and serves as faculty advisor for the USF Community Garden, USF Food Pantry, and the USF Seed Library. Fiercely interdisciplinary, David has taught and published in multiple fields, including American studies, communication, environmental studies, internet studies, media studies, and urban agriculture. For over a decade, he has been researching the farm and food at Black Mountain College, resulting in multiple articles, book chapters, and, in Fall 2024, The Farm at Black Mountain College, his book co-published by Atelier Éditions and Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center, and an exhibition, co-curated with Bruce Johansen, at BMCM+AC.

GALLERY TALK & BOOK LAUNCH
David Silver on 'The Farm at Black Mountain College'
Wednesday, December 18 at 7 PM
BMCM+AC
120 College St
Asheville, NC 28801