May 18, 2006 The Coleman Center is pleased to announce The Darkest Hour is Just Before the Dawn, a new project of their Public Artworks Program by resident artists Owen Mundy and Joelle Dietrick. The project is named after a quote by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr and explored the optimism of the region, both past and present, by collecting …
Small Town Design Initiative
Fall 2005 In the fall of 2005 the Coleman Center collaborated with the City of York and Auburn University’s Center for Architecture and Urban Studies to undergo the Small Town Design Initiative strategic planning process. Students of the Center led by Professor Cheryl Morgan, visited York continuously over a period of several months, talking with community members, taking photographs, making …
York’s Community Memory Map
November 4, 2005 York’s Community Memory Map consists of two large abstracted maps of the City of York that have been filled in with memories, photographs, drawings, stories, poems, and collages created by local community members. The topics range from the youth’s “favorite things about York” to poems by York native Mary Zeno, and newspaper collage by Mary Jane Everett …