June 9, 2007 The Coleman Center for the Arts is pleased to announce a new project of the Public Artworks Program by current resident artist Suzanne Hagood. Video and Sound Event: Community Collaboration, is the result of Hagood’s six-month residency at the Coleman Center for the Arts. The outdoor installation and gallery exhibition will open […]
April 13, 2007 The Coleman Center for the Arts is pleased to announce a new project of the Public Artworks Program by resident artists Sue Mark and Bruce Douglas. The husband and wife artist team are visiting from Oakland, CA where they are known as Marksearch. During their one-month stay at the Coleman center they will […]
December 9, 2006 The Coleman Center is pleased to announce Fashion Your Destiny, Black Belt Designs: the Work of Marilyn Gordon and Lillie J. Mack, which will be on display from December 9 through January 20. The works in the show are the culmination of three years of collaboration between Gordon and Mack, whose original […]
September 2, 2006 The Coleman Center for Arts and Culture is pleased to announce the opening of New Outlooks: Images from the Coleman Center’s Youth Photography Class. This exhibition features the work of eleven students who spent one and half months of the summer documenting their point of view through photography. The students’ work is […]
July 20, 2006 The Coleman Center for Arts and Culture in cooperation with the municipalWORKSHOP, is pleased to announce the newest project of the Coleman Center’s Public Artworks Program by current resident artists Jason S. Brown and Elizabeth Scofield. From a distance, a series of tall, bright red fabric spikes are moving in the breeze. […]
May 18, 2006 The Coleman Center is pleased to announce The Darkest Hour is Just Before the Dawn, a new project of their Public Artworks Program by resident artists Owen Mundy and Joelle Dietrick. The project is named after a quote by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr and explored the optimism of the region, both […]
Fall 2005 In the fall of 2005 the Coleman Center collaborated with the City of York and Auburn University’s Center for Architecture and Urban Studies to undergo the Small Town Design Initiative strategic planning process. Students of the Center led by Professor Cheryl Morgan, visited York continuously over a period of several months, talking with […]
November 4, 2005 York’s Community Memory Map consists of two large abstracted maps of the City of York that have been filled in with memories, photographs, drawings, stories, poems, and collages created by local community members. The topics range from the youth’s “favorite things about York” to poems by York native Mary Zeno, and newspaper […]
May 15, 2005 Your Art Here co-founders Shana Berger and Nathan Purath worked directly in York’s public and private schools, which have historically been racially divided. Kids were asked to make drawings of their community. The drawings were then digitally collaged into three billboards still on display in the City of York. The York Art Here […]
Summer 2004 The Streetscapes Mosaic Workshops, which were a project of the munipcal WORKSHOP and the Coleman Center for Arts and Culture, took place during the summer of 2004 by Richard Saxton and Linda Munoz. Saxton designed mosaic slabs based on the microscopic cell structure of trees indigenous to Sumter County, AL. Glass artist Linda […]