November 15, 2008 Join artists Bob Bingham, Robin Hewlett, and Ally Reeves at the Coleman Center for the Arts (CCA) for a community meeting to discuss York’s future community garden. The design charrette will take place at the CCA office on Avenue A November 15 at 6 pm. Help CCA artists and staff design our […]
July 1, 2008 The Coleman Center is pleased to announce the beginning of a two year project and residency by artists Bob Bingham, Ally Reeves, and Robin Hewlett, from Carnegie Melon University. The artists visited the Coleman Center earlier this month to begin learning about the York and Sumter County community. In 2009, the artists […]
October 5, 2007 The Coleman Center for the Arts is pleased to announce the opening of the exhibition Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Photographs by Walker Evans from Hale County. The show will be on display from Friday October 5th to November 4th, and the opening reception and annual membership party will take place this […]
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 […]
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 […]
June 16, 2006 The Coleman Center for Arts and Culture is pleased to announce the opening of Transcendence, new photographic works by former resident artist Jeff Nilan. The show will be on display at the Coleman Center from June 16th to July 29th, and a closing reception will be held on July 29th from 7 […]
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 […]