Elizabeth "Betty" Osbourne
Photograph included with student application. Courtesy of Western Regional Archives.
Courtesy of Western Regional Archives
FOCUS
Art/ Design/ Craft
ROLE
Student
ATTENDANCE
1944 - 1945
BIRTH
1923-02-26
New York City, NY
DEATH
1974-12-05
Dade, FL
Elizabeth Osbourne was a student from 1944 to 1945. She took Introductory Weaving with Marilyn Bauer and Anni Albers, Fall 1944 and Winter 1945. She was a student officer and worked on the college bulletins. Married Joseph Wolfe Richards.
Relationships
Sister: Fellow BMC student, Ginger Osbourne
Asheville Art Museum Collection
Writings about BJ 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:
2017.40.218 November 1946 bulletin,
“Ginger Osbourne is now in Paris where she is writing feature stories for the Toronto Star. Her sister, B.J. Osbourne, is assistant art director for the New York advertising agency, Spaded, Inc. Her duties include the arrangements of layouts for ads and supervision of photography. In her spare time B.J. does some modeling. She has appeared in recent issues of Mademoiselle and Harper’s Junior Bazaar.”
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.
