December 9, 2017 The Coleman Center for the Arts hosted Material Memory, a community arts workshop in collaboration with local textile artist Lillie Mack. Community workshops are designed for all skill levels and multiple generations. Attendees represented ages from from 5 to 95 and included friends, parents, sons, daughters, grandparents, cousins, partners, and neighbors. Participants studied contemporary and regional examples …
The Coleman Center for the Arts is pleased to present Throne, an exhibition of new works by Birmingham artist Darius Hill from Saturday, July 22 to Friday, September 1, 2017. Throne includes Hill’s socially-engaged sculpture and title work Throne (2017) and Mother (2017). Both continue Hill’s aesthetic and conceptual investigation of assemblage, found materials, and African American iconography of the …
July 18, 2017 This summer students from York West End and Kinterbish Junior Highs spent six weeks studying the work of Alabama artist Lonnie Holley. Holley was born in Birmingham in 1950, began exhibiting his work in the 1980s, and now lives and works in Atlanta, GA. Holley uses primarily found materials to make sculptures, paintings, performances, music, and other …