September 2, 2006 The Coleman Center for Arts and Culture is pleased to announce the opening of New Outlooks: Images from the Coleman Center’s Youth Photography Class. This exhibition features the work of eleven students who spent one and half months of the summer documenting their point of view through photography. The students’ work is […]
July 20, 2006 The Coleman Center for Arts and Culture in cooperation with the municipalWORKSHOP, is pleased to announce the newest project of the Coleman Center’s Public Artworks Program by current resident artists Jason S. Brown and Elizabeth Scofield. From a distance, a series of tall, bright red fabric spikes are moving in the breeze. […]
June 16, 2006 The Coleman Center for Arts and Culture is pleased to announce the opening of Transcendence, new photographic works by former resident artist Jeff Nilan. The show will be on display at the Coleman Center from June 16th to July 29th, and a closing reception will be held on July 29th from 7 […]
June 3, 2006 The Coleman Center is pleased to announce the opening of Vietnam War Veterans: Portraits and Stories, by Jeffrey A. Wolin. This series of documentary photographs provides a present day look at Vietnam Veterans, and presents in the Veterans’ own words, their memories, stories, and reflections. Wolin originally began the series as a […]
May 18, 2006 The Coleman Center is pleased to announce The Darkest Hour is Just Before the Dawn, a new project of their Public Artworks Program by resident artists Owen Mundy and Joelle Dietrick. The project is named after a quote by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr and explored the optimism of the region, both […]
Fall 2005 In the fall of 2005 the Coleman Center collaborated with the City of York and Auburn University’s Center for Architecture and Urban Studies to undergo the Small Town Design Initiative strategic planning process. Students of the Center led by Professor Cheryl Morgan, visited York continuously over a period of several months, talking with […]
November 4, 2005 York’s Community Memory Map consists of two large abstracted maps of the City of York that have been filled in with memories, photographs, drawings, stories, poems, and collages created by local community members. The topics range from the youth’s “favorite things about York” to poems by York native Mary Zeno, and newspaper […]
May 15, 2005 Your Art Here co-founders Shana Berger and Nathan Purath worked directly in York’s public and private schools, which have historically been racially divided. Kids were asked to make drawings of their community. The drawings were then digitally collaged into three billboards still on display in the City of York. The York Art Here […]
March 2005 Allen Peterson, an artist from Birmingham, Alabama completed a residency sponsored by the Coleman Center and the municipalWORKSHOP during March 2005. Peterson worked on site at Cherokee Park, repairing and cleaning a section of the park that in the past had been the York public swimming pool. Allen created two new works for […]
Fall 2005 The municipal WORKSHOP Bicycle Shed was created by Richard Saxton while he was a resident artist at the Coleman Center for Arts and Culture from 2003 to 2005. It is a rehabilitation and upgrade project completed on a failing, city-owned structure in York, Alabama. The structure’s main purpose is to house the utility […]
