January 18, 2019 Filmmaker Fraser Jones and members of the Black Belt Citizens Fighting for Health and Justice shared Uniontown, a documentary film that weaves together the untold narratives of local heroes in nearby Perry County. The long-silenced southern city is continuously polluted with industrial waste and environmental racism according to devoted residents. Driven by the story of Esther Calhoun, a community …
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 …
Mark Tribe returned to York this summer for a week of planning and painting with the Coleman Center for the Arts (CCA) and the Sumter community for his forthcoming collaborative project, “Painting York.” Tribe worked with a key group of volunteers to paint another experimental wall in the highly visible parking lot across the street from the Piggly Wiggly. Now …