Conferences & Publications
Conference activity, publications, workshops and celebrations, in connection with papers and presentations delivered about Black Mountain College and the Gate Hill Cooperative by Mark Davenport, are listed here, such as the international conference "Invisible Republic: Music, Lettrism and the Avant-gardes," an extraordinary meeting of artists and scholars at the University of Lisbon in the fall of 2017 (documented in the short film above).
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“Away with the Snobbery of Art: How Paul Williams Effected Social Forms and Values.” Invited speaker for Anarchism Across the Arts, International Conference, University of Victoria, Canada (28 February - 2 March 2025). Forthcoming
“Life as Art: The First Year of the Gate Hill Cooperative.” Gallery talk and digital image presentation, in conjunction with the exhibition The Land: Early Artists @ Gate Hill Co-op (19 October - 23 November 2024), Rockland Center for the Arts, West Nyack, NY, 22 November 2024. Forthcoming. click link here
“Art, Community & Social Activism: The Untold Story of Vera B. Williams.” Gallery talk and digital image presentation, in conjunction with the opening of the exhibition Vera B. Williams / STORIES (26 January - 11 May 2024), Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center, Asheville, NC, 27 January 2024. click link here.
“The Legacy of Erich Katz (1900-1972),” American Recorder, the journal of the American Recorder Society 64 (Fall, 2023): 6-21.
“I Prefer Laughter to Tears: Decoding Jud Yalkut’s ‘John Cage Mushroom Hunting in Stony Point’,” film screening and pre-lecture image and photographic presentation, Society for American Music 2023 Annual Conference, Minneapolis, WI, 9 March 2023.
“Introduction to ‘Community as Art: From Black Mountain College to the Gate Hill Cooperative,’” talk and photographic presentation, Gate Hill Cooperative, Stony Point, NY, 29 September 2022.
“Black Mountain College Student Patsy Lynch Celebrates Two Milestones,” photo essay, Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center blog (June 2022). click link here.
“Art, Community & Social Activism: The Untold Story of Vera B. Williams.” The Fifteenth International Conference on the Arts in Society “Against the Grain: Arts and the Crisis of Democracy,” National University of Ireland Galway, 24-26 June, 2020 (presentation cancelled due to COVID-19).
“Paul Williams: The Cage Mix,” Journal of the Society for American Music 14 (May 2020): 113-140.
“Variations on a Ground: Patsy Lynch at Black Mountain College,” Appalachian Journal, 44-45 (2017/2018), Black Mountain College Special Edition: 416-429.
“Conversations and Interviews.” Magis Scholare: A Celebration of Scholarly Achievements. URSC Grant Presentation, Regis University, Denver, CO, 24 April 2018.
“Paul Williams: The Cage Mix.” The Society of American Music 2018 Annual Conference, Kansas City, MO, 3 March 2018.
“Experiments in Community & Art: from Black Mountain College to the Gate Hill Cooperative.” Invisible Republic: Music, Lettrism, Avant-Gardes – International Conference on Music, Avant-Gardes and Counterculture. University of Lisbon Center for English Studies, Lisbon, Portugal, 26 October 2017.
“Renaissance Man – LaNoue Davenport: Pioneer of the Recorder Movement in America.” San Francisco Early Music Society (SFEMS), St. Albert’s Priory, Oakland, CA, 25 July 2016.
“Paul Williams: from Black Mountain to Gate Hill.” ReVIEWING Black Mountain College: Bauhaus + USA, an international conference hosted by the University of North Carolina, Asheville, and the Black Mountain College Museum and Arts Center, The Reuter Center at UNC Asheville, NC, 26 September 2015.
“Home Land: from Bauhaus to Space House, a Preliminary Report.” Gate Hill Cooperative 60th Anniversary Celebration, Stony Point, NY, 27-28 June 2015.
“American Recorder Pioneer LaNoue Davenport Dies at Age 77,” The Recorder Magazine 20 (Summer, 2000): 47-49.