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 former was the second iteration of Abdalian’s Making Art in Public workshop series. This Spring Abdalian completed a public exhibition of six student proposals in the Coleman …
On Friday, May 7, 2021, the Coleman Center for the Arts hosted our first in-person event in 15 months – a free outdoor screening of Gadsden-based filmmaker Bo McGuire’s Socks on Fire. The documentary/narrative film puts McGuire in between a rich cast of characters as they wage war over their mother’s estate in Hokes Bluff, Alabama. When the matriarch of …
Degrees of Visibility is a nine-year survey of more than 260 carceral spaces throughout the United States, examining the landscapes in which prisons, jails, and detention centers sit within all 50 states and territories by Los Angeles-based artists Ashley Hunt. Each photograph is shot from a publicly available point of view. One may or may not be able to see …