18:30EST – Artist Talk with Jeff Arnal

Intimate Conversations with Artists about Art
Join us as Jeff Arnal talks with Artistic Director, Sue Schroeder!

Jeff Arnal is an American percussionist and the Executive Director of Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center Executive Director in Asheville, NC. He has been active as an artist, curator, and community organizer since the 1990s. In 2002, he co-founded Improvised and Otherwise, an interdisciplinary festival for emerging artists in Brooklyn, NY. He has performed in a wide variety of concerts and festivals, including a series of duo concerts with Charles Gayle in 2002, a trio concert at the Vision Festival with John Dierker and Gordon Beeferman in 2008, and his percussion duo with Michael Evans, performed live on WFMU radio and at the Issue Project Room in 2009. His collaborations with choreographers have been produced at PS 122, Joyce SoHo, Danspace Project at St. Mark’s Church, The Chocolate Factory, and Judson Church. Arnal’s music can be heard on a number of independent record labels, including Transit and Quadrologues with Seth Misterka, Reuben Radding, and Nate Wooley on Clean Feed, and Astral Chronology with John Dierker on Mahakala Music. In 2024, his duo with Curt Cloninger, Drum Major Instinct, performed at the Big Ears Festival in Knoxville, TN, and his trio with Ken Vandermark and Bonnie Jones released their debut record on Catalyst Sound. Arnal studied music with composer Stuart Saunders Smith and visionary artist Milford Graves and holds a BA in Interdisciplinary Studies from the University of Maryland and an MFA in Music from Bennington College.