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 […]
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. […]
January 22, 2011 The Coleman Center for the Arts is pleased to welcome artist Matthew Mazzotta on his first visit to York. Please join us at the Coleman Center for food, fun, and creative conversation on Saturday, January 22nd from 10 to 11 am. While exploring his work through and with the community, Mazzotta will […]
November 14, 2010 Memorial Event, by visiting artist Steed Taylor, took place at the Coleman Center for the Arts in November of 2010. Participants were invited to write the names of loved ones, memories, or thoughts, onto balloons that were released into the sky, and blessed by a community prayer. The project introduced the York […]
October 8, 2010 Alabama artist Amy Pleasant began working with the Coleman Center for the Arts through a series of introductory visits in 2010. Over the last year she has offered youth workshops, given artist talks, and re-sited part of her Birmingham Museum of installation, Suspended. Pleasant is currently working on a new public wall drawing […]
Summer 2010 MASH UP turns the Coleman Center gallery into a collaborative space for artist projects, research, and community events. The show will be ongoing from May 6th August 14th. Community Sing, Samita Sinha and Stephanie Loveless, May 6th, 6pm Artists Samita Sinha and Stephanie Loveless will be holding a “Community Sing.” The public is invited to […]
May 6, 2010 In the spring of 2010, artist Samita Sinha and collaborator Stephanie Loveless began work with the CCA and the York community. The artists spent a week offering workshops in sound, choral experiments, and singing. Their visit concluded with a “Community Sing,” in which area residents sang and talked about American folk songs […]
October 31, 2009 The Coleman Center for the Arts is working with the City of York and the Fruit Tree Planting Foundation to plant a small fruit tree orchard in Cherokee Park. The trees will be planted on Saturday, October 31st from 10 am to 4 pm. Please help make this wonderful addition to Cherokee […]
September 25, 2009 The One Mile Garden is a collaborative project with artists Bob Bingham, Ally Reeves, and Robin Hewlett, and the Coleman Center for the Arts and the community of York, Alabama. This community project will be featured in the Coleman Center for the Arts’ gallery from September 25th to November 13th, 2009. An […]
August 15, 2009 The Coleman Center for the Arts is pleased to present a new project by Walton Creel. Creel’s work is on display in the Coleman Center gallery from June 22 to August 29. A closing reception and community paintball event will be held on Saturday, August 15th from 6-9 PM. Creel’s work investigates […]