Rosemary Raymond
Photograph included with student application. Courtesy of Western Regional Archives.
Courtesy of Western Regional Archives
FOCUS
Art/ Design/ Craft
ROLE
Student
ATTENDANCE
1949 - 1949
BIRTH
1928-05-11
Hoboken, NJ
DEATH
2019-02-26
Berkley, CA
Rosemary Raymond was a student for the 1949 Summer Art Institute. After BMC, she obtained a BA from the University of Chicago and a BFA from Alfred University. Her obituary shares other personal and professional accomplishments.
Relationships
Husband: Fellow BMC student, Claude Stoller, 1978.
Black Mountain College Project
Mary Emma Harris interviewed Rosemary in 1998 and the transcript is available from Appalachian State University under The Mary Emma Harris and Black Mountain College Project, Inc. Oral History collection.
Topics: Family background – first trip to BMC on train – weaving with Marli Ehrmann – BMC chorus – Buckminster Fuller’s class – Charles Olson – post-BMC professional work – BMC students
Courses Taken
1949 Summer Art Institute: Basic Workshop with Walley, Sculpture with Woelffer, Elementary Weaving with Ehrman, Esthetics with Pait, Hindu Philosophy with Vashi
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.
