Daniel "Dan" Haugaard

Dan Haugaard was a student from spring 1950 to fall 1951.

Dan Haugaard (1930-2021) was a painter, entrepreneur, collector and furniture importer. He studied at The Belles Artes in Florence, Italy and at the Instituto Allende in San Miguel De Allende, Mexico. In the 1960s, he and his wife Joan Clegg Haugaard founded Danco Furniture, which imported goods from Denmark and eventually all of Europe. He recorded Danish Folk Songs for Folkways Records.

Relationships

Brother: Fellow BMC student, Erik Haugaard

Black Mountain College Project

Mary Emma Harris interviewed Dan in 2002 and the transcript is available from Appalachian State University under The Mary Emma Harris and Black Mountain College Project, Inc. Oral History collection.

Topics: Hearing about BMC – Windsor Mountain School – pre-BMC education – general ambiance of college – Paul Goodman – Clement Greenberg – Robert Rauschenberg – work program– year in Florence – study in Mexico – return to Denmark – post-BMC work of Scandinavian materials and furniture – Leo Amino – Folkways record of Danish folksongs – poker game and sheriff