Logging truck wizzes by storefront in quiet downtown rural community

Making Art In Public II: Exhibition

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 …

African American drag queen performer in-front of white film screening in front of a ladder and brink building in a lot at sunset

Film Screening: Socks on Fire

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 …

Alabama Newspaper #7

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 latter was in concert with Hunt’s ongoing exhibition Degrees of Visibility, a nine-year survey of more than 260 carceral spaces. The objective of the workshop was for participants …