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Entry Deadline for the SCFAC Exhibition

The Coleman Center for the Arts and the Sumter County Fine Arts Council will be hosting their Annual Art and Photography Exhibition at the Coleman Center gallery from April 9th to May 22nd. The exhibition reception will take place on Friday, April 27th. Artists interested in entering the show should prepare to drop off their pieces at the Coleman Center’s gallery on April 2nd and 3rd from 1 to 6 PM. The show will be judged by Randy Shoults, Community Arts Program Manager for the Alabama State Council on the Arts. Remember to drop off your entries for a chance to win a cash prize!

Professional Development for Artists Workshop

Thanks to support from the Alabama State Council on the Arts, the Coleman Center for the Arts is pleased to announce a professional development workshop for artists. The class will take place at the Coleman Center on Tuesdays and Thursdays from April 12-24, from 5:30-7:00 PM. The class is open to the public with a $50 suggested donation, and advanced registration is required.

The class, taught by Coleman Center Directors Shana Berger and Nathan Purath, will focus on effective ways to realize professional opportunities in the arts. Topics covered will include writing successful resumes and cover letters, making high quality slides of 2-D and 3-D artworks, and researching and realizing opportunities. Participants will leave the class with a professional representation of their work, and ideas to pursue further opportunities.

For more information please contact the Coleman Center at 205-392-2005, or email info@colemanarts.org.

Announcing CAlabama Peddlers

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 be working as the CAlabama Peddlers. Starting on April 13th they will be riding their tandem bike in York and surrounding towns in Sumter County, hoping to listen to local stories along the way.

CAlabama Peddlers are looking for your stories about daily life in York: local history, interesting current events, local heroes, personal landmarks, railroad lore, and more. They want your help creating slogans that will promote York. They will travel through the region served by the old Alabama Tennessee & Northern Railroad displaying these slogans on a billboard towed by their tandem bike. In exchange for your stories, the Peddlers will gladly assist you with a chore: grocery pick-up, mail deliveries, or small odd jobs.

The artists will base their project out of the Coleman Center’s municipalWORKSHOP bike shed, which they will be opening to the public on Saturday April 28th, from 10AM to 1 PM. Kids can receive help fixing up their own bike, or in refurbishing a community donated bike that will be theirs to keep once repaired.

This project is in cooperation with the municipalWORKSHOP, and was made possible by funding from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Alabama State Council on the Arts, the Alabama Power Foundation, and the generous contributions of our individual supporters.

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