Helen Molesworth on Black Mountain College

Published: June 29, 2016, 7:33 a.m.

b'It\\u2019s where John Cage staged his first Happening, Fridays were often dedicated to art classes, and all faculty, staff, and students participated in the college\\u2019s operations from farming to construction. Located in the mountains near Asheville, NC, Black Mountain College was an experimental school founded upon the idea of \\u201clearning by doing.\\u201d We stop by the Hammer Museum\\u2019s exhibition, "Leap Before You Look: Black Mountain College, 1933\\u20131957," to talk to Helen Molesworth, curator of the exhibition and chief curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.'