Fall 2005 The municipal WORKSHOP Bicycle Shed was created by Richard Saxton while he was a resident artist at the Coleman Center for Arts and Culture from 2003 to 2005. It is a rehabilitation and upgrade project completed on a failing, city-owned structure in York, Alabama. The structure’s main purpose is to house the utility NOW! public works vehicles that …
Fall 2004 Carl Pope was a resident artist at the Coleman Center during the fall of 2004, and spent his time here working in the Print shop of long term artist-in-resident Amos Kennedy. He made a series of posters that investigate physical as well as psychological blackness. Pope says, “For me, the poetics of Blackness include African-American identity, the realms …
Summer 2004 The Streetscapes Mosaic Workshops, which were a project of the munipcal WORKSHOP and the Coleman Center for Arts and Culture, took place during the summer of 2004 by Richard Saxton and Linda Munoz. Saxton designed mosaic slabs based on the microscopic cell structure of trees indigenous to Sumter County, AL. Glass artist Linda Munoz then led workshops with …