Storytelling for the Ages

Coleman Center for the Arts collaborated with professional storyteller, award winning poet, and author from the Black Belt Salaam Green to host a one-day, all ages storytelling workshop. The workshop centered around crafting homegrown stories drawn from personal experience. The event was part of Coleman Center’s Community Arts Workshop series and was held at Pop Start, Coleman Center’s community space …

Pop Start Art Apprenticeships

The Coleman Center’s new Pop Start Arts Apprenticeship program launched Monday, October 29 thanks to a grant from National Endowment for the Arts. This particular grant is in the NEA’s largest funding category and supports projects that focus on the creation of art that meets the highest standards of excellence, public engagement with diverse and excellent art, lifelong learning in the …

Camp Connect 2018

Camp Connect 2018 The Coleman Center for the Arts was proud to offer our annual summer arts camp. We asked 30 students in 1st-8th grade to hear and be heard, to communicate, and collaborate as part of this year’s ‘connect’ theme. Local and regional instructors taught printmaking, graphic design, poetry, songwriting and composition, choreography and dance, gardening, and local foodways. …