The Coleman Center for the Arts is pleased to present of Joy & Terror, a solo exhibition of sculptures, textile works, and paintings by Atlanta-based artist Y. Malik Jalal. Works in this exhibition bring together themes including but not limited to Afrocentricity and afro-futurism of the 1970s to the present, southern folk traditions, Kemetism, contemporary black spiritualism, and found object …
On July 3, 2021, the City of York celebrated York Day from sun up to sun down and well after. Artist Zarouhie Abdalian, collaborating artist Joseph Rosenweig, Coleman Center staff, family and friends used the occasion to recognize student artists from our two Making Art in Public workshops. We help a soft, COVID-safe opening for our storefront exhibition, Making Art …
In June 2021 the Coleman Center welcomed Atlanta-based artist Caleb Jamel Brown for a multi-week visit to continue work on his ongoing project, Sketches for a New American Flag. About the project, Brown states, “The construction of the flags continues the lineage of Black Americans working in collage and assemblage. Though collage was not coined by Black Americans, it is …