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Andrew Dietz

Aug 11, 2026

12:14
Could you just explain Black Mountain College and talk about why it was so extraordinary?
12:19
Yeah, Black Mountain College.
12:20
So if you...
12:21
The, the middle of the last century, from 1933 to 1957, this place, Black Mountain College, existed.
12:29
And even though it hasn't been around for a long time, its shadow, or maybe spotlight, the light it sh- cast, let's put it that way, not the shadow, but the light it's cast on the creative world continues to shine.
12:42
It's the only defunct college that has a museum still functioning in its name.
12:48
This place, which was really a bastion, a centerpiece of avant-garde creativity in America, maybe in the world, in the mid-20th century, existed not in New York, not in LA, i- in Black Mountain, North Carolina, 20 minutes east of, southeast of Asheville.
15:15
[laughs]

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