In the mid-1950s, he made his way to that touchstone for so many of the best American modern artists, BlackMountainCollege in North Carolina.
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Snelson first delved into sculpture during his first summer at the prestigious BlackMountainCollege in 1948, when such legends as Willem DeKooning, John Cage and Merce Cunningham were on faculty.