Maggie Maggio Smashing Color

We had a fabulous time staying in the dorm at Color Impact 2023. Private rooms with shared common spaces allowed for lots of networking and community building opportunities with fellow color nerds!

Looking forward to teaching this advanced Colour Literacy workshop with Robin Kingsburgh at the ISCC Color Impact Conference in June at Rochestrer Institutue of Technology. Join us if you are interested in 21st Century color explorations!

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#color #workshops #coloreducation #conference | Inter-Society Color Council Check out this sneak peek 👀 of Impact 2025’s Pre-Conference , which will be held on Sunday, June 15, 2025! Swipe through the post for more information. Available for registration starting March 21st, is “The Eye Opener Series: An Intro to the Color Literacy Project” led by ...

Getting ready for a rehearsal tonight for my presentation at the Polymer Arts Summit on August 10/11. A vintage suitcase is perfect for raising the laptop!
Today is the last day to register.
https://polymerartsummit.com/

I am teaching my Smashing Color Week for artists and designers at Taborspace in Portland, OR in September for the first time since 2019. This five-day color immersion experience includes hands-on exercises for learning 21st color theory combined with explorations of your personal color voice. Lunchtime field trips to colorful, inspirational spots reinforce the key color concepts.

For more info: www.smashingcolor.com
Smashing Color Week
September 2-6, 2024

I am emerging from my social media cave! It's been three years since my last (real) post and I have lots to share! For today - I am thrilled to get my hands back on polymer as I get ready to present at the Polymer Arts Summit in August. So fun!

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Thirteen years ago today I published this blog post. It was part of a series of NOT's that started with sorting a
box of 64 Crayola crayons. I was questioning traditional color theory and I am both happy and sad to see that most of what I wrote is still accurate.

Smashing Color Theory #3: Red is NOT a Paint Primary - Maggie Maggio Color theory is not reality. It is a collection of concepts that explain the complexity of color in a very abstract way. Traditional color theory uses the same key concepts over and over because they are elegantly simple – not because they are always right. Primary Colors The first of these key co...

If you haven't supported this Kickstarter to produce a reprint of Emily Noyes Vanderpoel's Color Problems - do it now so that they can add metallics to the printing process. It will be gorgeous! Republishing a 118 year old color manual by a lost female pioneer of color theory - hurrah!
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‘Superblack’ bird of paradise feathers absorb 99.95% of light Profoundly black feathers may help impress females during courtship

Not sure about the cover, but can't wait to get my copy of this book . . .
I just visited the Forbes Collection while arranging the field trips for the Munsell Centennial. It was fascinating to see both the oldest and newest pigments - and binders too!

::SPECIAL EDITION:: An Atlas of Rare & Familiar Colour An Atlas of Rare & Familiar Colour; The Harvard Art Museums’ Forbes Pigment Collection, is a forthcoming monograph produced in collaboration...

"But despite her famed instructors, Jellett’s work was entirely individual. She, like all the best students, took what she learned from the masters and made it her own."

The Female Painter Whose Modern Art Shocked Ireland When she debuted her work in Dublin in 1923, Mainie Jellett was derided as “artistic malaria.” But the country came soon to understand—and celebrate—her vision.