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 …
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, …
Mark Tribe returned to York this summer for a week of planning and painting with the Coleman Center for the Arts (CCA) and the Sumter community for his forthcoming collaborative project, “Painting York.” Tribe worked with a key group of volunteers to paint another experimental wall in the highly visible parking lot across the street from the Piggly Wiggly. Now …