Designer and Black Mountain College scholar Michael Beggs leads a workshop exploring rearrangements, a family of collage and material exercises which Josef Albers developed at the Bauhaus and both broadened and refined at Black Mountain College. Participants will sample a few different rearrangement and reordering approaches, see examples from Albers’s classes, and explore the larger constellation of works using this technique by a variety of artists from the Bauhaus to the present day.

This program is part of the Wende Bauhaus series, in which local artists lead hands-on classes inspired by the Bauhaus school’s learning-by-doing philosophy and its spirit of experimentation, play, and discovery.

About the teaching artist: Michael Beggs is a designer, scholar, and multidisciplinary artist. An expert on Black Mountain College, Beggs was formerly on the curatorial staff at the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation and has written extensively about both Alberses, the Bauhaus, and Black Mountain College. In 2023 he co-authored the book Weaving at Black Mountain College: Anni Albers, Trude Guermonprez, and Their Students with fellow Black Mountain scholar Julie J. Thomson, which served as the catalogue to an exhibition of the same name at the Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center in Asheville, NC. He works as a designer at Johnston Marklee, an LA-based architecture firm.

As the museum will be closed during this program, please enter through the garden side gate, which will open 30 minutes before the start time. Doors open 15 minutes before the start time. Seating is first come, first served. An RSVP does not guarantee admission once capacity is reached. No late entry.