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 […]
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. […]
June 17, 2011 The Coleman Center for the Arts (CCA) held its first two week all-day summer camp in June 2011. Fifteen students from Sumter County between the ages of 8 and 19 were invited to “Be a Character” as they experimented in visual arts, music, animation, gardening and cooking. Through hourly sessions, campers investigated […]
May 6, 2011 The Coleman Center for the Arts is pleased to host a temporary movie theater developed and operated by students in Art Club, the Center’s after school program. Movies will be shown on Friday May 6th, 13th, 20th, and 27th in the Coleman Center gallery. Doors will open at 6:30 pm and movies […]
November 20, 2009 The Coleman Center for the Arts is pleased to present “Symmetry / Asymmetry / Pop,” new collaborative work by Garland Farwell and his students. The work will be on display in the Coleman Center gallery from November 20, 2009 to February 15, 2010. An opening reception will take place on Friday, November […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]