Virginia "Ginger" Osbourne

Virginia Osbourne was a student at the college from 1943 to 1944 where she took Weaving with Anni Albers. She also participated in the student-run maintenance crew and the entertainment committee.

Relationships

Sister: Fellow BMC student, Elizabeth Osbourne

Asheville Art Museum Collection

Writings about Ginger 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 or searching "Osbourne." Her name appears as Virginia and Ginger in collection items.

Ginger reported weekly updates for the maintenance crew while a student, so her name appears in dozens of college bulletins.

2017.40.131 November 1943 bulletin,

"REPORT OF ENTERTAINMENT COMMITTEE: There will be a program of dramatic readings in the Dining Hall on Saturday, November 6, at 8:00 P.M. “The Proposal” by Anton Chokhov, “The Man of Destiny” by Bernard Shaw and “Miss Julia” by August Strindberg will be read. Sam Brown, Virginia Osbourne, Addison Bray, Janie Stone, Ted Hines, Jack Gifford and Barbara Pollet will take the parts. The program will be under the direction of Eric Bentley."

2017.40.147 March 1944 bulletin, "Black Mountain College was represented last week end at the Conference of Southeastern College International Relations Clubs held at Woman’s College of the University of North Carolina in Greensboro. The delegation included: Mary Brett, Jerome Flax, Frances de Graaff, Mary Kriger, Virginia Osbourne, Marita Pevsner, Dorice Tentchoff and Lana Yarashint one of the sessions Mary Brett read a paper on “The Leadership Responsibilities of Britain, China, Russia and the United States in the Post-War World.” At all the sessions the Black Mountain College students participated in the discussion. During their stay in Greensboro the delegates had lunch on Friday and Saturday in Bennett College, a Negro School."

In a letter from Jeanne Hodges to Jane Slater, 1947:

"Ginger Osbourne is trying to break into the modelling business and is doing quite well, I think. She gets more beautiful every time I see her."