Barbara Payne

Erwin Straus and his Psychology class, ca. 1942-1943. Courtesy of Western Regional Archives.

FOCUS

Music

ROLE

Student

ATTENDANCE

1942 - 1943

Barbara Payne was a student of music from 1942 to 1943.

Asheville Art Museum Collection

Writings about Barbara can be seen in digitized college bulletins on Asheville Art Museum's collection website: collection.ashevilleart.org. They can be found by searching these accession numbers:

2017.40.092 February 1, 1943 bulletin,

"At the lecture period on Wednesday evening there will be a panel discussion on Post-War Problems. Herbert Miller will be chairman of the panel. The other members of the panel will be Eric Bentley, Frances de Graaff, Heinrich Jalowetz, Robert Marden, Isaac Nakata, Herbert Oppenheimer, Barbara Payne and Dr. Erwin Straus."

2017.40.026 January 1944 bulletin,

"Barbara Payne has transferred to the University of Chicago."

Erwin Straus and his Psychology class, ca. 1942-1943.

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.