FILM SCREENING | TALK - SUNDAY APRIL 13th | 4:00PM

SUNDAY, APRIL 13, 2025 4:00 – 5:30PM | FILM SCREENNG TALK | GINGER ELLIOTT CENTER @ Garner House | $10 suggested donation

FILM SCREENING - FULLY AWAKE: BLACK MOUNTAIN COLLEGE – 60 MIN
Hidden in the mountains of Western North Carolina, Black Mountain College (1933 - 1957) was an influential experiment in education that inspired and shaped twentieth century American art. FULLY AWAKE: BLACK MOUNTAIN COLLEGE is a documentary film that explores the college's progressive pedagogy and radical approach to arts education. Highly democratic and faculty-owned, the school promoted practical responsibilities and the creative arts as equally important components to intellectual development. During WWII, Black Mountain College was a haven for refugee European artists such as Josef and Anni Albers who arrived from the Bauhaus in Germany. Following the Film a talk about BMC alumni Jane Slater Marquis by Katie Horak

TALK – JANE SLATER MARQUIS by KATIE HORAK
The legacy of Black Mountain College (BMC) lives on through the work of the well-known artists and performers who studied and taught there during its 23-year history.

Architectural Historian Katie Horak examines the life and work of Claremont artist Jane Slater Marquis who studied at BMC during the 1940s, the unique circumstances that brought her there, and the path she would chart as a productive, working artist.
Jane Slater Marquis (1922-2021) came to BMC in 1940 from Ogden, Utah, with a desire to study creative writing and poetry. Her coursework with Josef Albers inspired her to change course, graduating in 1945 with a degree in art. Marquis relocated to Los Angeles, married a fellow BMC student, and started a 70-year career as a working artist, first in graphic design and ultimately in stained glass. Marquis produced hundreds of stained-glass panels, ranging from small residential work to major commissions with notable architects, including Charles Moore.

Katie Horak is an architectural historian and principal at Architectural Resources Group (ARG), a historic preservation design and planning firm on the west coast. She leads the firm’s Los Angeles office. The collaborative, interdisciplinary work of ARG includes award winning projects on some of California’s most recognizable landmarks, including Los Angeles Union Station, the Eames House, and Wayfarers Chapel. Katie is an adjunct assistant professor at the University of Southern California in the School of Architecture’s Master of Heritage Conservation program and current president of Docomomo US, a non-profit organization dedicated to the documentation and conservation of buildings, sites, and neighborhoods of the modern movement.