Black Mountain College Archive Will be Digitized Thanks to $163,694 CLIR Grant

The Asheville Art Museum has been awarded a $163,694 grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) to digitize "more than 3,000 materials in the museum’s Black Mountain College (BMC) Collection," writes Valentina Di Liscia at Hyperallergic. Picking up there: 

The $163,694 grant will allow the museum to host a digital version of the collection on its website and create an “Interconnective Timeline,” giving the public access to previously unseen archival documents, literature, works of art, and other material related to BMC’s rich history as well as its ongoing influence on contemporary movements and practices. The museum is a repository of the Lorna Blaine Halper Estate; a large portion of the BMC Collection comes from the artist, who studied at Black Mountain College under renowned colorist and Bauhaus master Josef Albers.

The BMC Collection has remained largely hidden from public view until now, according to a spokesperson for the museum. “Up to this point we have really only taken photographs as necessary,” she wrote in an e-mail to Hyperallergic. “Digitizing them will allow the public to search for objects on the website. Being on a website is important to the life of the Collection — if more people can see something without us handling it, the longer it will remain in pristine shape.”

Read on at Hyperallergic.