RUTH ASAWA. ANNI ALBERS. BLACK MOUNTAIN COLLEGE AND RECOVERING PROGRESSIVE EDUCATION HISTORY
Two recent exhibits at the Art Institute of Chicago included women who had spent time at Black Mountain College in North Carolina.
Weaving Beyond the Bauhaus features the work of woman textile artists from the German art school, founded by Walter Gropius, that that existed from 1919 to 1933 when it was shuttered by the Nazis. The school combined crafts and the fine arts.
Among the women featured in the AIC exhibit was Anni Albers who spent time at Black Mountain College. The exhibit runs until February.
Last week I went to see the another show at the AIC. In a Cloud, in a Wall, in a Chair: Modernists in Mexico at Midcentury.
This show also features the work of women and and textiles, including the work of Anni Albers of the Bauhaus.
One of the things that I was aware of was that with the rise of fascism in Germany and the closing of the Bauhaus, many of its faculty, along with other refugees, fled to the United States as immigrants.
One of the institutions where they found a home at was Mies van der Rohe’s Institute CONTINUE READING:
