Black Mountain College
North Carolina

In reference to The Clearing.

Black Mountain College was founded in 1933 as an experiment in making the arts central to learning. Though it only operated for 24 years, the school played a significant role in fostering avant-garde art, music, dance and poetry. A number of important artists taught and studied there, including Josef and Anni Albers, John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Buckminster Fuller, Karen Karnes, Ruth Asawa and Robert Rauschenberg.