Gilded Cities
Description: A series of ongoing artistic and design projects.
A series of ongoing artistic and design projects by Erik Schmitt.
In 1992, as a design student, I attended the reunion of Black Mountain College in San Francisco. The school is credited with shaping some of the greatest artists in American history: Willem de Kooning, John Cage, Ruth Asawa, Merce Cunningham, Buckminster Fuller, Franz Kline, and Robert Rauschenberg among them.
I took extensive notes that day as former students and teachers recounted their experiences at the school. The quotes I gathered that day are the foundation of this publication.
Gilded Cities