What is your truth? The CAUSE COLLECTIVE’s ongoing project In Search of the Truth (The Truth Booth) made a stop at Larkin’s Deli & Restaurant on Thursday, September 6, 2018. It is an interactive project in the form of a 15-foot-high inflatable speech bubble. Inside the booth, participants were invited to make a two-minute video responding […]
Coleman Center for the Arts collaborated with professional storyteller, award winning poet, and author from the Black Belt Salaam Green to host a one-day, all ages storytelling workshop. The workshop centered around crafting homegrown stories drawn from personal experience. The event was part of Coleman Center’s Community Arts Workshop series and was held at Pop […]
December 9, 2017 The Coleman Center for the Arts hosted Material Memory, a community arts workshop in collaboration with local textile artist Lillie Mack. Community workshops are designed for all skill levels and multiple generations. Attendees represented ages from from 5 to 95 and included friends, parents, sons, daughters, grandparents, cousins, partners, and neighbors. Participants […]
The Coleman Center for the Arts is pleased to present Throne, an exhibition of new works by Birmingham artist Darius Hill from Saturday, July 22 to Friday, September 1, 2017. Throne includes Hill’s socially-engaged sculpture and title work Throne (2017) and Mother (2017). Both continue Hill’s aesthetic and conceptual investigation of assemblage, found materials, and […]
July 18, 2017 This summer students from York West End and Kinterbish Junior Highs spent six weeks studying the work of Alabama artist Lonnie Holley. Holley was born in Birmingham in 1950, began exhibiting his work in the 1980s, and now lives and works in Atlanta, GA. Holley uses primarily found materials to make sculptures, […]
The Coleman Center for the Arts was proud to offer Camp SHIFT, an annual arts summer camp for local youth ages 8-18. Movement, action, change, collaboration and creativity were the inspiration for this summer’s theme. From May 30 to June 3, students joined instructors from across the state and the country for lessons in visual […]
The Coleman Center for the Arts and the Sumter County Fine Arts Council present their Annual Juried Art Show at the Coleman Center gallery from March 2nd to April 12th, 2017. This juried show features the artwork of Sumter County artists. Award winners were selected by our guest juror Imani Brown, founding organizer of Blights […]
The Coleman Center for the Arts is pleased to present the work of students from the 21st Century after-school program at York West End Jr. High School and Kinterbish Jr. High School completed in weekly classes in the Fall semester of 2016. Their work will be in display from Thursday, December 15th to Friday, January […]
The Coleman Center for the Arts was pleased to offer Camp COLOR, an annual summer camp for area youth ages 8 to 18. Boldness, creativity, energy, and collaborative fun served as inspiration for this year’s theme. Instructors offered lessons and projects in visual art, performance, dance, and creative writing. The week wrapped up on Saturday […]
The Coleman Center for the Arts (CCA) is pleased to present “Perfectly Imperfect, Love.” These collaborative murals were made by a group of 5th through 8th grade students from Livingston Jr. High School (LJHS) and North Sumter Junior High School (NSJH) who spent the semester working on conceptualizing, articulating and creating “color and language” with […]