In July and August of 2020, seven students participated in two workshops – Making Art in Public II and History-Making & Storytelling – with visiting artists Zarouhie Abdalian and Ashley Hunt respectively. The latter was in concert with Hunt’s ongoing exhibition Degrees of Visibility, a nine-year survey of more than 260 carceral spaces. The objective of the workshop was for participants to “make history,” to learn interviewing and storytelling techniques and build projects about nearby histories. Histories they wanted to know more about and want others to know.
This workshop fed into Alabama Newspaper #7, a newsprint publication co-developed by the students and Hunt. You can access a digital copy of the paper via the link below or request a physical copy by sending your mailing address to info@colemanarts.org.
Thank you to Brunell S., Craig E., Craesha J., Katelyn H., Quincy H., Steffon V., Carey Fountain, and Evelyn Yin. Additional thanks to the Sumter County Record-Journal, artist Tony Bingham, and Board Chair Kanita Sturdivant for their participation in this project.