Lake Eden
Lake Eden explores the landscape of the Lake Eden campus of Black Mountain College, in Black Mountain, North Carolina. From 1933-1957 Black Mountain College offered its students and faculty an alternative path that diverged from established modes of higher education, art-making, and everyday living. Those who made the pilgrimage to participate in the college were treated to an education that merged the ideologies of the Bahaus school and the philosophy of John Dewey, as well as an idyllic landscape. Rigorous experimentation within the liberal arts was not only set-in, but in conversation with, the natural world at Black Mountain College. My photographs focus on the landscape of Lake Eden today, as well as the original structures built by Black Mountain College students and faculty.
Archival photos of Black Mountain College, 1933-1957
1) Photo by Harriet Sohmers Zwerling, Courtesy Ramsey Library, UNC Asheville
2) Courtesy Western Regional Archives, State Archives of North Carolina, Asheville
3) Courtesy Western Regional Archives, State Archives of North Carolina, Asheville
4) Photograph by Barbara Morgan, Courtesy Western Regional Archives, State Archives of North Carolina, Asheville
5) Courtesy Western Regional Archives, State Archives of North Carolina, Asheville