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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
Fall 2005 The municipal WORKSHOP Bicycle Shed was created by Richard Saxton while he was a resident artist at the Coleman Center for Arts and Culture from 2003 to 2005. It is a rehabilitation and upgrade project completed on a failing, city-owned structure in York, Alabama. The structure’s main purpose is to house the utility […]
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 […]