May 15, 2005 Your Art Here co-founders Shana Berger and Nathan Purath worked directly in York’s public and private schools, which have historically been racially divided. Kids were asked to make drawings of their community. The drawings were then digitally collaged into three billboards still on display in the City of York. The York Art Here project was aimed at projecting …
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 …
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 …