good article in Dwell  

Black Mountain cut a wide swath in the arts...
When in college, and studying literature and writing, I spent a day with the poet Robert Duncan, one on one. He was part of Black Mountain, and he relished it.
Interestingly, perhaps ironically, a comparison of the faculty and visiting artists with the students suggests that with a few notable exceptions like Robert Rauschenberg, the program's students never equalled the faculty for accomplishment and importance of contribution to their fields.
Regarding Josef Albers, while admiring his systematic research into the interplay of color and form (the squares), I am not much moved by any of his art work.

Soem years ago...
I had the opportunity to visit the Anni Albers exhibition in the Venice Guggenheim museum. Only a few weeks ago I gave away the catalogue to a good friend who is a talented weaver. She obviously had more pleasure from Anni Albers' experiments than I did. A forum like this is not a particularely good place to discuss as large a subject as Black Montain College but DC's remark is interesting because it applies also to the Bauhaus where Jozef Albers was teaching before he and his wife (a bauhaus student) moved to the U.S.A.
Let's see how many former Bauhaus students (excluding those who became teachers) do we know... Wilhelm Wagenfeld, Max Bill, Marianne Brandt....

In addition to
a little ceramics I did some weaving at college. When I first saw examples of Anni Albers's work I was very moved. I consider her a modern master.
SDR