In June 2021 the Coleman Center welcomed Atlanta-based artist Caleb Jamel Brown for a multi-week visit to continue work on his ongoing project, Sketches for a New American Flag.
About the project, Brown states, “The construction of the flags continues the lineage of Black Americans working in collage and assemblage. Though collage was not coined by Black Americans, it is a form of artistic production that we have truly adopted and made our own. Each flag is an opportunity to rethink the icons and symbols that represent us. Each new flag is a renewed sense of pride”1
Over 14 days Brown used our Inda Hightower Artist-in-residence facility as a studio, culminating in temporary installations in our Altman Riddick Gallery, in downtown York, and at the city’s edges. In addition to his work and research in York, Brown visited the Gee’s Bend Quilters Collective in Wilcox County and met artists and collective member Mary Anne Pettway.
- https://burnaway.org/magazine/mood-ring-sketches-for-a-new-flag/
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- image curtesy of the artists
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- image curtesy of the artists
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- image curtesy of the artists
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- image curtesy of the artists
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- View from the Gees Bend Ferry on the Alabama River in Wilcox County, Alabama
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- Artist Caleb Jamel Brown visits Wilcox County and Gees Bend Quilters Collective.
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- Artist in process
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- image curtesy of the artist
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- Beloved Coleman Center staff Mr Brown and Mr Johnson check things out.
