Renee Siegel

Renee Siegel was a student at the college in 1948. She took a weaving course with Trude Guermonprez.

After BMC, she married Milton Collins. She was a graduate of Brooklyn College and NYU Graduate School and her obituary shared that she was a Docent at the Boca Raton Museum of Art and Art Institute of Chicago.

Alternative Names: Renee Collins

Black Mountain College Project

Mary Emma Harris interviewed Renee 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 at Brooklyn College – pre-BMC education – segregation issues – Charles Olson – Josef Albers classes – weaving – general curriculum – college conflicts – Robert Rauschenberg – Betty Jennerjahn dance class – theater performances – Rauschenberg and Albers – mountain environment – student trip to Florida – discussion of BMC photographs – teaching art