Alan Brown
Photograph included with student application. Courtesy of Western Regional Archives
Courtesy of Western Regional Archives
FOCUS
Art/ Design/ Craft
ROLE
Student
ATTENDANCE
1934 - 1936
BIRTH
1913-12-18
England
DEATH
1955-02-17
Alan McLeod Brown was a student from 1934-1936. Not much is shared about Alan in his student files or in college bulletins. There are many negative remarks from teachers about his "rotten" temperament. Noted he was creative and good with his hands, but wasn't a hard worker.
Courses Taken
Fall 1934: Music I (Evarts), Color I (Albers), Werklehre (Alberts), Modern EuropeanHistory (King), Weaving (A Alberts)
Winter term 1935: Music I (Evarts), European History (King), Weaving (theory and practice) (A Albers), Color I (Albers), Drawing I (Albers), Werklehre (Albers)
Spring term 1935: Werklehre (Albers), Color (Albers), Drawing (Albers) Weaving theoryand practice (A Albers), Art Seminar (Albers), Music I (Evarts)
Fall term 1935-36: Color II (Albers), Drawing II (Albers), Weaving II (A Albers),Writing I (Wunsch), Music II (Evarts), Seminar (Rice)
Winter term 1936: Drawing II (Albers), Color II (Albers), Weaving II (A Albers), MusicII (Evarts), Art Seminar (Albers)
Author
Amanda Hartman
Amanda Hartman is the creator of BMC Yearbook, serving as the lead director, engineer, and researcher. She holds a MLIS in archive/ collections management, MA in art/ museum education, and BA in design. After working in museums and archives for a decade, she made the transition to tech and is now a software developer specializing in applications for museums, archives, and higher education.
Her interest in Black Mountain College began while working as a digital archivist with the Asheville Art Museum's BMC archive collection. She transcribed and digitized over 1500 documents created by the college. While working closely with these archives, she began independent research on the interracial program and Negro Week activities BMC, writing biographies of lesser known students and staff members. That research transformed into this BMC Yearbook project.
