off the bat rick mentioned this institute , In the 1930s, artists from across the world flocked to the legendary Black Mountain College in North Carolina to study away from the furrowing brow of fascism. Artists including Anni and Josef Albers, Willem de Kooning, Cy Twombly and architect Buckminster Fuller were fed a complex diet of pottery and poetry, dance and Degas, calculus and kitchen work — all based on the notion that a real education should create a “complete” person, rather than churn out carbon copies of some fusty old textbook. The college saw no purpose in formalities such as… Read more »