• TV Party Tonight
    Jun 11 2024

    The final episode of Season 3. A reflection on the past three seasons.


    The Book of Colour Concepts, Alexandra Loske and Sarah Lowengard, Taschen 2024

    Color Theory: A Critical Introduction, Aaron Fine, Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2021

    Magenta + Green = Blue? Instagram video reel

    Black Flag, TV Party, 1982

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    59 mins
  • Interview with Gamma Jeanne: I Love Blue
    May 14 2024

    Interview with Gamma Jeanne; a departure from our more in-depth discussions of color theory. Jeanne's career as an artist spans over nine decades and includes working with acrylic paints in the 1940s and being at the center of department store design in the 1950s. Our conversation is wide-ranging as it addresses an artist's inner drive to create and form connections with people.

    Relevant links:

    The Terrazzo Jungle
    By Malcolm Gladwell
    The New Yorker
    March 7, 2004

    Victor Gruen; Gruen Associates
    Southdale Center
    Edina, Minnesota, USA

    Gruen (formerly The Gruen Transfer)
    Australian Broadcast Corporation

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    51 mins
  • The Eclipse: Purkinje Shift Reprise
    Apr 8 2024

    CNN online article: Wear red and green to experience the Purkinje effect during the total solar eclipse

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    28 mins
  • Interview with Luanne Stovall: A New 21st Century Color Literacy Paradigm
    Mar 12 2024

    Luanne Stovall is an artist and color theorist with an MFA in painting from Tufts University and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston. She attended the New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting, and Sculpture (New York City), and Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (Skowhegan, Maine).

    Luanne is a member of the Steering Committee of the global Colour Literacy Project and a visiting lecturer in the School of Design and Creative Technologies at the University of Texas in Austin. Currently she is teaching Color Literacy as an upper level interdisciplinary course in the School of Design and Creative Technologies at the University of Texas at Austin.

    She has taught color courses and workshops in many locations including UT Austin, The Contemporary Austin; School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Wellesley College, MA; and MIT Sloan School of Business. Her paintings and works on paper have been exhibited widely, and are in private and public collections, including the Art Museum of South Texas; El Paso Museum of Art; Blanton Museum, Austin, TX; Moakley Cancer Care Center, Boston; and the Estee Lauder Collection.

    Luanne’s website:
    https://www.luannestovall.com/

    The Colour Literacy Project, Steering Committee member:
    https://colourliteracy.org/

    Inter-Society Color Council, Board of Directors member; Team leader, Fluorescent Fridays
    https://www.iscc.org/

    2023 International Colour Association (AIC), volume 33,
    Special issue on contributions by the Colour Literacy Project Team:
    https://aic-color.org/journal-issues

    Luanne's contribution to the 2023 AIC volume 33:
    Prologue: one artist's journey from traditional colour theory to the Colour Literacy Project (PDF)

    University of Texas Color Literacy course
    Designed as four modules:

    • Color Perception
    • Color Interaction
    • Color Psychology
    • Color Design / Portfolio Project.

    University website: AET Courses (Search under the Upper Division tab.)

    Flower Color Theory, by Darroch and Michael Putnam

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    1 hr and 18 mins
  • Interview with Suyao Tian: A Journey into Color
    Feb 13 2024
    A conversation with artist, Suyao Tian exploring her process as a painter and her personal approaches to using color. Please find more information related to this episode here.

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    45 mins
  • Interview with Jon Reischl: Memory, Perception, and Experience
    Jan 9 2024

    A conversation with Jon Rieschl. Please find additional resources to this episode here.

    Jon Reischl is a visual artist and designer specializing in mixed-media and oil painting. He has shown work locally in the Twin Cities and the greater metro area as well as regionally at venues throughout the Midwest.

    A graduate of St. Paul’s College of Visual Arts (RIP), He works out of Rock 9 Art Studio, located in the heart of the Creative Enterprise Zone. Jon lives on St. Paul’s East Side with his lovely wife Debra and their trusty beagle.




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    1 hr and 8 mins
  • Interview with Sebastián Wilson: The Mystery of Color
    Dec 12 2023

    Sebastián Wilson is a photographer living in Santiago, Chile. He studied architecture which has a clear influence on his work both on the graphic sense, and on the way he observes and portrays light. For links and resources related to this episode, please see the Chromosphere episode webpage.

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    1 hr and 5 mins
  • Interview with Dr. David Briggs: Understanding and Applying Colour
    Nov 14 2023

    Dr. David Briggs has been teaching classes on colour for more than 20 years, and currently teaches colour, drawing and painting at the National Art School and the University of Technology, Sydney, Australia. For links and resources related to this episode, please see the Chromosphere episode webpage.

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    50 mins