March 2005 Allen Peterson, an artist from Birmingham, Alabama completed a residency sponsored by the Coleman Center and the municipalWORKSHOP during March 2005. Peterson worked on site at Cherokee Park, repairing and cleaning a section of the park that in the past had been the York public swimming pool. Allen created two new works for the site: a “diving board” …
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 NOW! public works vehicles that …
Fall 2004 Carl Pope was a resident artist at the Coleman Center during the fall of 2004, and spent his time here working in the Print shop of long term artist-in-resident Amos Kennedy. He made a series of posters that investigate physical as well as psychological blackness. Pope says, “For me, the poetics of Blackness include African-American identity, the realms …