Mexico and Black Mountain College Author Panel

Authors Diana Stoll and Eric Baden are coming to Pack library to give a presentation on the collaborative work informing their book, Black Mountain and Mexico. Over the course of its short life, Black Mountain College (1933–1957) was a hotbed of creativity, welcoming and inspiring artists and intellectuals from around the world. In the same period, Mexico’s innovations and age-old traditions—in visual arts, poetry, music, performance, design, and more—dovetailed with global impulses toward modernism. Learn about the crucial ties Black Mountain College formed with Mexico during this inspired era. 

Diana Stoll is a writer, curator, and editor who has stewarded scores of art books to publication for such institutions as MoMA, the Getty Museum, and Aperture, where she served for more than a decade as Senior Editor of Aperture magazine. Alongside Eric Baden, she co-organized the 2018 Asheville photo+sphere event, and in 2023 co-curated Black Mountain College and Mexico for the Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center. In 2022 Diana founded Photo Soup, a gathering of photo-centric thinkers that takes place annually in Vermont. Her writings have appeared in a range of publications, including Aperture, Burnaway, and Hyperallergic.

Eric Baden is an artist, photographer, and curator. From 1994 to 2022 was professor of photography at Warren Wilson College in Swannanoa, North Carolina. He is the founding director of photo+, a multidisciplinary arts event held in Asheville, North Carolina.