ABSTRACT
Black Mountain College (BMC) is a historically significant example of radical pedagogy and sustainability based in practices of nurturing others, development of the whole person and care for community and environment. Care for community, environment and self were the key tenets of BMC’s revolutionary heart, an ethos that shares strong resonances with the surge of political and ecological awareness driven by the urgent need to find radically different ways of living and learning on a wounded earth. Helena Reckitt explores the ways care plays out in the fields of art and culture, examining how feminist practices often point to where care is typically invested, and critiques where it has fallen, “raising questions about how we might develop new habits of care.”. The research follows a feminist methodology, actively privileging vernacular photography and memoir over canonical historical texts in search of evidence of the situated knowledge of the women of BMC.
