On August 17, 2019, Laurel-based artist Michael Ross lead a one-day drawing demonstration and workshop. Participants learned drawing techniques, ways of looking, composition, and process. The Drawing Workshop is part of the Coleman Center’s Community Arts Workshops series focusing on creative learning experiences designed for multiple generations. These all-ages workshops encourage friends and family […]
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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 […]
The Coleman Center for the Arts presents the Sumter County Fine Arts Council Annual Juried Art Show at the Coleman Center’s Altman-Riddick Gallery from March 22nd to May 11th, 2018. This juried show features the artwork of Sumter County artists. Award winners were selected by our guest juror Elizabet Elliott, Curator of Programs at the Mobile Museum […]
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 […]