Josef Albers: Interaction of Color Exercises

Josef Albers was one of the most influential artist-educators of the twentieth century. As a member of the Bauhaus in Germany in the 1920s; a teacher at Black Mountain College during the 1930s and 1940s; and Chairman of the Department of Design at Yale University beginning in 1950, Albers developed a distinctive approach to color education based on experimentation and individual perception. His collaborative research with students was first published in 1963 in Interaction of Color, a book that has become a classic of design education around the world. Albers experts Jeannette Redensek, Fritz Horstman, and Michael Beggs will guide us through a number of exercises exploring color perception, illuminating such principles as color relativity, intensity, and temperature; vibrating and vanishing boundaries; and the illusion of transparency and reversed grounds. Exercise participation is available on a drop-in basis.