In 2019, the Asheville Art Museum was awarded a Digitizing Hidden Special Collections and Archives grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR). This multi-year project enabled the digital creation of artwork’s from the Museum’s Black Mountain College (BMC) Collection with focus on archival documents from the Theodore Dreier Documents and the 2012 BMC Project gift. The catalog records—images, transcriptions, dimensions, descriptions, etc.—of these objects are searchable through the Online Collection Database.
The other significant goal of this project was to establish a Timeline for interconnected content from resources, institutions/organizations, and scholars with focus on BMC. The Timeline acts as a starting place for the dissemination of the locations for the content. Anyone can use the Timeline to learn about short summaries of events, peoples, and other for the years of the College. Interested parties would then be able to search within the website to find content links to other relevant BMC materials such as digital exhibitions, peer-reviewed scholarly articles/journals/essays, books, objects, and more. The Timeline is a hub for the interconnecting of all materials relevant to increasing the study and awareness of BMC across the world.
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