The college was owned by the faculty, which included Buckminster Fuller, who created his first successful Geodesic Dome at Black Mountain, Merce Cunningham, who founded the Merce Cunningham
Dance Company at Black Mountain, John Cage, who taught music and produced
multi-media theater
pieces, artist Josef Albers, who had fled Nazi Germany after the closure of the Bauhuas and Robert Motherwell, one of America's finest artists, whose prints are for sale at Vertu.