In July and August of 2020, seven students participated in two workshops – Making Art in Public II and History-Making & Storytelling – with visiting artists Zarouhie Abdalian and Ashley Hunt respectively. The former was the second iteration of Abdalian’s Making Art in Public workshop series. This Spring Abdalian completed a public exhibition of six […]
On Friday, May 7, 2021, the Coleman Center for the Arts hosted our first in-person event in 15 months – a free outdoor screening of Gadsden-based filmmaker Bo McGuire’s Socks on Fire. The documentary/narrative film puts McGuire in between a rich cast of characters as they wage war over their mother’s estate in Hokes Bluff, […]
In July and August of 2020, seven students participated in two workshops – Making Art in Public II and History-Making & Storytelling – with visiting artists Zarouhie Abdalian and Ashley Hunt respectively. The latter was in concert with Hunt’s ongoing exhibition Degrees of Visibility, a nine-year survey of more than 260 carceral spaces. The objective of […]
The Peabody Award-nominated film, Warrior Women (2018) documenting multiple generations of Native American women activists, will be presented in a special screening by the Coleman Center. This virtual event is FREE. Folks will have access to the film for four (4) days from March 7-11, 2021, including pre-recorded Q&A with filmmaker co-directors Christina D. King […]
This virtual event is FREE. You will have access HERE to the film from February 7, 2021, to February 10, 2021, including a pre-recorded Q&A with filmmaker Anthony Banua-Simon. Called one of 2020’s most exciting documentary films by IndieWire, Cane Fire will be presented in a special screening by the Coleman Center for the Arts. […]
Artist Micheal Ross’ solo exhibition – which includes drawings, paintings, collage, and textile sculptures – serves as a summary of his work from the early 1990s to the present; his practice is influenced by his roots in Mississippi and time living in San Francisco, California. Ross’ work frequently pictures abstracted, anthropomorphic houses. The artist has […]
Degrees of Visibility is a nine-year survey of more than 260 carceral spaces throughout the United States, examining the landscapes in which prisons, jails, and detention centers sit within all 50 states and territories by Los Angeles-based artists Ashley Hunt. Each photograph is shot from a publicly available point of view. One may or may […]
From October 2, 2020, to October 30, 2020, the Coleman Center hosted portraits from the ongoing exhibition series Art On The Inside from the Alabama Prison Art and Education Program. The program has offered arts and educational classes in Alabama prisons since 2003. The exhibition included drawings that express the students’ distinct experiences “in an […]
Last fall, Tuscaloosa-based artist Jamey Grimes installed their work Strata VII & VIII, (2015) in our “Pop Start A,” storefront space. The objects and environments that Grimes creates are fueled by encounters with real and imagined natural forces. The artist generates unique forms through the manipulation of synthetic materials, in this case, common corrugated plastic. […]
In early February 2020, artist Tia Simone Gardner made a quick trip to Alabama to continue work on her developing book project. Gardner is researching four homes and multiple communities that were inhabited by her mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother. The artist, mother-collaborator Jackie Gardener, and FAA-licensed drone pilot Jay Whitson walked boundaries and sites in […]