SPECIAL EVENTS

Roy G. Biv: A Series of Colorful Evenings

Enhance your perspective of Figuring Color: Kathy Butterly, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Roy McMakin, Sue Williams! Join us on select Friday evenings where each night will be devoted to a different hue in the color spectrum. Stroll our galleries; delight in a series of short, humorous lectures featuring irreverent viewpoints and physical perceptions of color; participate in hands-on demonstrations about how we perceive color.

MARCH 2: RED
Mini Lectures

• Writer Jack Hamilton: Prince’s Little Red Corvette
• Artist Heather Kapplow:Seeing Red
• Surgeon Matt Menard: Blood Red: A Vascular Surgeon’s Perspective

Painting Demonstration

• Artists Nathan Lachenmyer and Rachel Boyce: hands-on chromodynamic painting demonstrations

MARCH 16: ORANGE
Mini Lectures

• Writer Pete L’Official: The Dutch National Soccer Team
• Artist Owen Rundquist: Invisible Oranges
• Curator Kathleen Smith: Orange You Glad I Didn't Say Banana

Painting Demonstration

• Artists Nathan Lachenmyer and Rachel Boyce: hands-on chromodynamic painting demonstrations

MARCH 30: YELLOW
Mini Lectures

• Scholar Chris Madson: Shakespearean Yellow 
• Bridget Matros: Everything about Yellow

APRIL 13: GREEN
Mini Lectures

• Artist Jack Schneider
• Writer Christopher Muther: Behind the Green Door 
• Artist Dirk Adams
• Artist Dan Borelli: The Color Economy

APRIL 27: BLUE
Mini Lectures

• Writer Jack Hamilton: Joni Mitchell’s Blue
• Megan Dickerson: The Blue Laws
• Artist Maria Molteni: Haint Blue

MAY11: INDIGO/VIOLET
Mini Lectures
 

• Writer Maggie Gram: The Color Purple
• Artist Catherine McMahon
• Associate Curator Anna Stothart
• Artist Dan Borelli: The Color Economy