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 …
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 …
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 …