To prepare for Ashé! The Power of the Voice, visiting artist Zarouhie Abdalian and creative collaborator Joseph Rosenzweig hosted studio recording sessions free to Sumter County residents. Abdalian and Rosenzweig provided a series of prompts to encourage responses related to the purpose and theme of the event. Five artists generously shared songs, rhymes, and poetry. Participants included poet and songstress Yawah …
Over a seven-month period, artist Zarouhie Abdalian worked with the Coleman Center for the Arts in Sumter County, Alabama, making five trips to West Alabama with her creative collaborator Joseph Rosenzweig. Beginning in November 2017, Abdalian and Rosenzweig explored Sumter County from Gainesville in the far northern corner to Cuba in the western edge of the county. They spent time …
October 6, 2015 Artist Tameka Norris offered a screening of her film, “Meka Jean: How She Got Good,” at the Coleman Center for the Arts’ downtown Pop Start space. The film originally premiered in 2014 at Prospect 3, the international art biennial in New Orleans. It chronicles Norris’ eponymous character, Meka Jean, as she navigates her own artistic, social, cultural, …