Making Art In Public: Burnell Smith in conversation

  In July 2019, New Orleans-based artist Zarouhie Abdalian led a four-day workshop for young adults curious about making art in public space. Six participants were guided through the process of designing temporary site-specific artworks for various locations in downtown York. Today we’re following up with a conversation between Abdalian and student artist Brunell Smith.  […]

A Clearer View

Composed sometime between the 1430s and 1450s, Donatello’s bronze David represents a series. Provocatively jutting hip as he trium phantly steps his foot on the Philistine conqueror’s head

The Mysteries of Prince Shōtoku

In a 1982 essay, Halley wrote that the idealist square becomes the prison made
Geoetry is revealed as confinementIn other dawer words just architectural in
structure When institutions present large exhibitions of iconic, deceased artists, their primary objective is often to ask

Community Coalition Choir: We Are Many

January 28, 2012   [audio:http://colemanarts.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/WeAreMany.mp3|titles=We Are Many] [Click above for audio of the complete performance] The Coleman Center for the Arts (CCA) is pleased to present the Community Coalition Choir performing it’s debut piece, We Are Many, by Samita Sinha. Choir members John Brown, Shana Berger, Daymekia Carter, Jocelyn Edens, James Goodwin, Judy Massey, Kanita Sturdivant, Samita […]

Art Club: Get Animated

December 8, 2011 During the fall of 2011, students in the Coleman Center for the Arts’ (CCA’s) Art Club learned techniques of stop-motion animation. Stop-motion is a form of animation that is most successful with objects—paper cut-outs, clay, puppets, found items—rather than drawings. A stop-motion animator makes a film by setting up a composition, taking […]

Samita Sinha

Samita Sinha, Rehearsals

June 1, 2011 Artist Samita Sinha will be visiting throughout 2011 to collaborate with area residents in a community wide ensemble. The group will create new compositions that braid different versions of the same songs that are common to the repertoires of the area’s black and white churches, but that are arranged and performed differently. […]

Amy Pleasant, Almost Empty

October 7, 2011 The Coleman Center for the Arts (CCA) is pleased to present work by Birmingham artist Amy Pleasant, including a new public wall drawing in downtown York, Almost Empty, and a gallery exhibition on display at the CCA until October 30. A reception for the gallery show and the opening of a public […]