woman in blue lab coat teaching
hands crushing dark colored beetle shells with white mortar & pestle
red dye in glass beaker
red foamy dye in pot
3 people in blue lab coats looking at blue pigments in small square vials
4 people wearing blue lab coats talking in laboratory
two people in blue lab coats talking
red dye in clear glass held by blue gloved hand
Woman holding blue tube of paint
green paint brush leaving green paint on white paper
woman teaching class via zoom in lab
tubes of blue paint on counter with clear pestle
professor holding glass beaker with red dye
two people in blue lab coats looking at computer screen with graph
gloved hand pouring blue dye into small vials

Virtual /Material: Color/ Workshop

The Virtual/Material: Color/Pigment workshop took place the week of August 9, bringing together an international group of art history PhD students for a series of seminars, demonstrations, and hands-on labs conducted by a distinguished faculty led by Sarah K. Rich. Funded by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, the virtual workshop analyzed colorants using technical and historical methods while also exploring the behavior of color when represented as data.

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