Camp POP!

June 13, 2013 The Coleman Center for the Arts (CCA) is pleased to present the works of “Camp POP!,” a one week all day camp for area youth ages 8-18. The work of summer camp students will be on display in the CCA gallery from June 13 to August 8, 2014. An opening celebration will […]

Pop Smart

An Art Club Community Workshop and Street-Level Art Intervention The Coleman Center for the Arts is pleased to announce the opening of “Pop Smart,” a community workshop and art installation by the students of Art Club. The event will take place on Tuesday, May 6 at 5:30 PM at Pop Start, the Coleman Center’s downtown […]

Mark Tribe Visit

April 15, 2014 The CCA was pleased to welcome back artist Mark Tribe to continue research, planning and development for his collaborative project, “Painting York.” The project will employ collective decision making, contemporary design practices, creative problem solving and civic action to transform storefronts in downtown York. In his second visit to York, Tribe met […]

Create and Communicate

The Coleman Center for the Arts is pleased to announce the opening of “Create and Communicate” an exhibition of self published magazines by the student of Art Club, exhibited with selections from the Nexus Press artists’ book collection. The event will take place on Tuesday, December 10 at 6 PM in the Coleman Center gallery. […]

Be a Part of Camp

“Be a Part of Camp” investigated the idea of holons: something that is simultaneously a part and a whole. Campers considered hierarchy, structure and systems like biology, society and culture. Participants gained experience in drawing, painting, photography, music, performance, creative writing and critical thinking.  Working with Nathan Purath and Shana Berger, students made David Hockney inspired […]

Flowers for Hope

The Coleman Center for the Arts’ (CCA) recently premiered “Flowers for Hope,” a public project by the students of Art Club, starting on Wednesday, May 22, 2013 in the CCA gallery. This spring, Art Club students explored the relationship between art, social activism and their community. In weekly lessons students learned about contemporary artists working […]

Storyquilt of Old Kinterbish

The “Storyquilt of Old Kinterbish” mural is a collaboration between Garland Farwell, Mildred Delaine Black, students of Kinterbish Jr. High School and the Coleman Center for the Arts (CCA.) The three panel mural by Garland Farwell and Kinterbish students was installed in the entryway of Kinterbish Jr. High School. It features images inspired by Mildred […]

Movement(s)

June 9, 2012 The multimedia activities of the CCA’s 2012 one-week summer camp encouraged students to explore different meanings of the word “movement.” How do we move through the world? What does movement look like? What songs make us move, and what songs move us—to laughter, tears, contemplation? How do ideas move and inspire? The […]

Art Club: Get Animated

December 8, 2011 During the fall of 2011, students in the Coleman Center for the Arts’ (CCA’s) Art Club learned techniques of stop-motion animation. Stop-motion is a form of animation that is most successful with objects—paper cut-outs, clay, puppets, found items—rather than drawings. A stop-motion animator makes a film by setting up a composition, taking […]