Nuvart Bedrossian
Massachusetts College of Art and Design, 1935 Yearbook. Ancestry.com
Courtesy of Western Regional Archives
FOCUS
Art/ Design/ Craft
ROLE
Student
ATTENDANCE
1944 - 1944
BIRTH
1899-07-25
Constantinople
DEATH
1981-08-18
Upton, NY
Nuvart Bedrossian attended the 1944 Art Institute and attended Anni Alber's Weaving class. She was a Teachers College, Columbia Univerisity graduate, and a graduate of Applied Design for Women, NYC. She noted in her application that her work was reproduced in French magazines and in the New York Times. At the time of writing her application, she taught at Asheville College. She was also a supervisor and instructor for twenty years at Walkill Central School, New York.
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.
