December 12, 2008 The Coleman Center for the Arts is pleased to present “Collaborations” by Garland Farwell and his students from around West Alabama. Artworks will be featured in the Coleman Center gallery from December 12th through January 31st, and a celebration will take place on Friday, December 12th from 6 to 8 PM. Food […]
November 7, 2008 The Coleman Center is pleased to welcome new resident artist, Richard Curtis, from Florence, Alabama. Curtis is currently completing a two-month residency in which he will work on the project “Mapping Sights and Sounds,” that will premiere in the fall of 2008. Curtis’s community based sound project will engage the residents of […]
July 1, 2008 The Coleman Center is pleased to announce the beginning of a two year project and residency by artists Bob Bingham, Ally Reeves, and Robin Hewlett, from Carnegie Melon University. The artists visited the Coleman Center earlier this month to begin learning about the York and Sumter County community. In 2009, the artists […]
November 15, 2007 The Coleman Center for the Arts is pleased to present the Mose Toliver Project, by current resident artist, Garland Farwell. The project reception will take place on Thursday, November 15th from 4:30 to 6:30 pm at the Coleman Center gallery. The display and celebration of the work will be accompanied by a […]
October 5, 2007 The Coleman Center for the Arts is pleased to announce the opening of the exhibition Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Photographs by Walker Evans from Hale County. The show will be on display from Friday October 5th to November 4th, and the opening reception and annual membership party will take place this […]
June 9, 2007 The Coleman Center for the Arts is pleased to announce a new project of the Public Artworks Program by current resident artist Suzanne Hagood. Video and Sound Event: Community Collaboration, is the result of Hagood’s six-month residency at the Coleman Center for the Arts. The outdoor installation and gallery exhibition will open […]
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 […]
March 27, 2004 Stanislav’s site-specific installation, sponsored by the Coleman Center for Arts and Culture, is being created at Mrs. Jean Dial’s former home at 707 Boulevard St in York, Alabama. The project is inspired from the local oral history as told through ghost stories and the unique place and architecture of York. Ms. Stanislav’s […]