Boston Globe interviews Evans about ICA’s Black Mountain College exhibit
The Boston Globe spoke with Steve Evans, an English professor at the University of Maine, for an article about a current exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston (ICA) that focuses on the influence of Black Mountain College. “Leap Before You Look: Black Mountain College 1933–1957,” is a comprehensive survey of the North Carolina liberal arts school’s sprawling artistic legacy, according to the article. Evans contributed essays to the exhibit’s catalog on poets Charles Olson and Robert Duncan, as well as the influential “Black Mountain Review,” edited by poet Robert Creeley, the article states. He said there was a question central to the work of many of the artists and poets working at BMC: “What happens at the moment where a mark is just beginning to bear meaning?” Evans called “Black Mountain Review” a “great test case for the collaboration between visual arts and poetry.” The University of Maine Humanities Center (UMHC) in collaboration with the National Poetry Foundation is hosting a symposium on the history and legacy of BMC on the UMaine campus Thursday through Saturday, Oct. 22–24. UMHC also will offer a student bus trip to ICA/Boston on Saturday, Nov. 7 for a tour of the exhibit.