October 27, 2018 Community members shared knowledge, seeds, recipes, and stories at the inaugural Garden Exchange Workshop. Longtime Garden Manager Catherine Shelton led discussions on cultivating community around food and agriculture. Participants gathered for coffee, conversation, and lessons on seasonal growing in Sumter County. Shelton demonstrated winter planting techniques, strategies for saving seeds, and propagating […]
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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’s new Pop Start Arts Apprenticeship program launched Monday, October 29 thanks to a grant from National Endowment for the Arts. This particular grant is in the NEA’s largest funding category and supports projects that focus on the creation of art that meets the highest standards of excellence, public engagement with diverse and excellent […]
Camp Connect 2018 The Coleman Center for the Arts was proud to offer our annual summer arts camp. We asked 30 students in 1st-8th grade to hear and be heard, to communicate, and collaborate as part of this year’s ‘connect’ theme. Local and regional instructors taught printmaking, graphic design, poetry, songwriting and composition, choreography 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 […]
Workshops and Exhibition with local artist Sheila J. Hull The Coleman Center for the Arts (CCA) was pleased to host a series of workshops with Sumter County artist Sheila Hull. Hull lead 4 workshops in the CCA gallery in York, helping residents to paint iconic images from Sumter County life—a railroad scene, red birds, owls, […]
During the summer months, the CCA collaborates with the Sumter County Board of Education to provide arts education for 5th-8th graders at Kinterbish and York West End Junior High schools. The summer portion of the 21st Century program focuses on the work and legacy of Alabama artists. Students study art history and art making techniques […]