We are absolutely elated about collaborating with Future Leaders of Cultivation and Farmers 2022 Summer Camp and Druid City School of Ballet to provide weekly art enrichment, arts education, and weekly ballet classes to the youth! Week 1 featured a tour of the CCA campus and a visit to Pop Start to participate in Bib […]
Hope you stopped by and saw us at York Day 2022 at Cherokee Park! This year, the Coleman Center for the Arts hosted a free Paint & Sip event for all ages. We will had free giveaways and Juneteenth inspired art and educational materials on deck. Thankful for those that got creative and connected with […]
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 […]
The sounds of bells variously signify a call to service, a warning, a memorial, or the marking of a historical time. In Bells for York, the voices of York, of Sumter County, of the Black Belt give expression to these associations through recorded speech and song. The sound work functions as a kind of exalted […]
Representative Terri Sewell hosted Congress in your Community this Spring through out the Black Belt Counties: Greene, Sumter, Pickens, and Perry. Sumter County Town Hall was on Tuesday, April 19th at 2pm in our Pop Start Community Space! Marcus Campbell opened the floor to allow Rep. Sewell to begin with her remarks on the […]
The Coleman Center welcomed Birmingham-based artists Jasper Lee for a screening of their experimental short film Cobweb Codex, with an opening live performance with the artist’s Sweat Wreath collaborators. Lee is a musician and artist; he works across video, film, sound, and installation exploring aspects of ritual, folklore, and the Southern landscape. Through Cobweb Codex, […]
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 early June 2021, the Coleman Center welcomed Brandi Shah, M.D., MPH, an artist and family medicine physician who specializes in adolescent and young adult health. Shah is a lifelong creative writer and poet; she is developing tools to help medical practitioners recognize their patients as storytellers, center patients as experts about their own lives, […]
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 […]