Oh what a night! Congratulations to Visual Artist Zuri Keyetta on a very successful Opening Night, Artist Talk, and Reception at the Coleman Center for the Arts! Surrounded by family, friends, and new art patrons, Zuri shared her triumphs and challenges as a working artist that also holds down a “traditional” job, and how she […]
Celebrate#art and#activism with us! We are so pleased to have welcomed “The March Quilts: A Celebration of Arts & Activism” Exhibition to our Pop Start Community Space! This summer will have an incredible two site exhibition of #TheMarchQuilts! The entire collection will be on view with quilts being shown at the Pickensville Rosenwald School, and […]
On July 3, 2021, the City of York celebrated York Day from sun up to sun down and well after. Artist Zarouhie Abdalian, collaborating artist Joseph Rosenweig, Coleman Center staff, family and friends used the occasion to recognize student artists from our two Making Art in Public workshops. We help a soft, COVID-safe opening for […]
In June 2021 the Coleman Center welcomed Atlanta-based artist Caleb Jamel Brown for a multi-week visit to continue work on his ongoing project, Sketches for a New American Flag. About the project, Brown states, “The construction of the flags continues the lineage of Black Americans working in collage and assemblage. Though collage was not coined […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Memorial Meditations is a solo exhibition of sculptures and photo-based work by Birmingham-based artist Tony Bingham. Memorial Meditations pulls together objects that span nearly two decades of practice in Birmingham, the Black Belt region, and across the state of Alabama. Works in this exhibition bring together themes the artist has focused on in recent years […]
The Coleman Center for the Arts closed its first season of experimental films for the Black Belt in the Black Belt at Larkin’s Restaurant & Deli. Lunchtime patrons watched In Search of the Truth (The Truth Booth) alongside their meal. Participants from Sumter County, Selma, Uniontown, and McComb (MS) were featured in the work. […]