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Albers Foundation Education Director Fritz Horstman will introduce Josef Albers’s seminal Interaction of Color (Yale University Press 1963, with later editions)as well as his new book Interacting with Color: A Practical Guide to Josef Albers’s Color Experiments (Yale University Press June 2024), which will be followed by a hands-on color workshop. Using Color-aid paper, participants will explore color phenomena such as color relativity and the illusion of transparency.

Horstman’s book is the essence of Josef Albers’s famous – though sometimes opaque–Interaction of Colorbook in a format that engages learners of all ages and levels and encourages a hands-on approach.

Interaction of Color, often presented as an overarching theory of color, is a timeless learning method on how to see and better understand color. Many of the color exercises illustrated in Interaction of Color were devised by Albers’s students: cutting and pasting, looking, pondering, and learning. This workbook companion is a teaching tool designed to enable readers to engage in the kinds of tactile creativity and exploration that characterized Albers’s own classroom.

Focusing on 8 of the most essential lessons in Interaction of Color, this book invites readers to learn by doing, using only simple materials. Core instructions for each exercise are enhanced by additional tips, references to Albers’s original text and illustrations, and stories about how Albers presented the ideas in class. The book and exercises are sufficiently nuanced to challenge and inspire seasoned artists, designers, and educators while readily accessible to younger readers and less-experienced practitioners.

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