WORKSHOPS
Colour Stories - Colour Mapping the Living Past
Reimagining a Colour Narrative
Creative Colour Workshop, in collaboration with the Gallo-Roman Museum Tongeren
Saturday, 27 April 2024, 10:30 - 16:30 CEST
Gallo-Roman Museum, 15 Kielenstraat 3700 Tongeren, Belgium
Do you love art, colour and history? Join Maja Kaurin, Inez Michiels and Jeannette Hanenburg in our upcoming workshop Colour Stories: Colour Mapping the Living Past.
This one-day colour workshop is a creative investigation into the Colours of Antiquity, organised in collaboration between the Interdisciplinary Colour Association Belgium and the Gallo-Roman Museum in Tongeren, Belgium's oldest city, not far from the borders of The Netherlands and Germany.
Discover how to use the power of colour and storytelling to develop captivating colour palettes and create work that resonates and communicates.
Exploring – recording – creating. These activities will take you through a hands-on investigation and exploration of colour awareness, colour measurement and notation, all while mapping the colours of selected works in the exhibition ‘Antiquity in Colour’ at the Gallo-Roman Museum in Tongeren.
Together we will explore the notion of real (measured) and perceived colour and analyse the intricate dynamics of colour, form, scale, material and pattern. Exploring the narrative of the past will offer the inspiration for the stories of today, your stories.
Through colour matching, you will create colour palettes and develop your own colour combinations inspired directly by the exhibition, the stories from mythology and eventually your own stories and memories. You will explore these colour narratives and colour associations by creating art compositions, combining collages of coloured paper and written words. The old stories are thus to give birth to the new ones.
The workshop ends with a mini exhibition of participants’ work.
Who is this workshop for?
This workshop is for creative professionals in art and design working (or wishing to work) with colour, educators, and students in general, as well as all lovers of history and colour.
By the end of the workshop, you will:
learn how to view, record, analyse and experiment with colour
expand skills and grow confidence in making colour choices, creating cohesive and meaningful colour palettes and combinations
form a narrative through colour and composition
understand and translate historical colour information into an art or design project, inspired by personal reflection, the power of storytelling and memory
gain a set of new skills and tools for your creative practice
gain confidence to explore and recognise the multifaceted nature of colour and the ability to discuss colour, colour associations and cultural connections
learn to ask critical questions about the role and meaning of colour in antiquity, art, design and architecture
INCLUDED
All materials are provided, including the tools for colour measurement, coloured papers, pencils, markers, printed forms for colour notation and papers for final colour compositions.
Participants bring a ruler, glue, scissors or a paper cutter, and optionally a cutting board, own pencils and markers.
Entry to the temporary exhibition Antiquity in Colour is included in the price of the workshop.
*Lunch is not included. A lunch or snack can be ordered at the museum’s restaurant (Museum Café). There you can enjoy delicious meals, sandwiches, a cup of good coffee, refreshing regional beers, and more. You are also free to bring your own lunch.
LECTURERS
Inez Michiels is a professor of Colour and Semantic Design at the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Arts Visuels de La Cambre in Brussels, as well as a visiting professor for graphic designers at MICA, Baltimore USA, and a visiting professor at the interior architecture and industrial design departments of the University of Antwerp, Belgium. Inez is co-founder and president of CITY OF 8, a design semantics research association. She has spent over 30 years studying the meaning and affective effects of non-verbal language. Several companies and design agencies have drawn on her expertise. She’s the author of numerous articles and books, as well as the Design Semantics Database. Concurrently, she is a co-founder and board member of the Belgian Interdisciplinary Colour Association ICA-Belgium.
Maja Kaurin is a multidisciplinary designer working in architectural, interior and colour design, creating environments that optimise human health and wellbeing. She holds a degree in Architecture from the University of Zagreb, Faculty of Architecture and an MSc in Colour Dynamics (Environmental Colour Design) from the Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Faculty of Architecture. She is working on urban rehabilitation projects designing urban colour plans and chromatic city maps, as well as designing public and residential buildings. She is interested in the methodologies of (urban) colour mapping and participatory design involving local communities. She is vice president of the Belgian Colour Association (ICA-Belgium) and a member of AIC Study Groups on Environmental Colour Design and Colour Education.
Jeannette Hanenburg is the founder of the ColourProfessionals Institute in Antwerp, a training centre for colour specialists, with a diverse offer of courses and training in the field of colour. She believes that a real understanding of colour can only be achieved by experiencing the interactions of colour and that it involves lifelong learning. Jeannette is a member of AIC and its 4 international study groups on Colour Education, Environmental Colour Design, The Language of Colour, and Arts & Design. She is a co-founder of the Belgian Colour Association ICA-Belgium. Besides working with colour, Jeannette loves to travel. These travels are often with a colour theme. She likes to visit conferences, trade fairs and exhibitions at home and abroad to keep abreast of new developments in the field of trends and colour.
Visit Tongeren
Prolong your stay in Tongeren and use the opportunity to visit Belgium's oldest city, not far from the borders of The Netherlands and Germany. The city will undoubtedly surprise you with not only its rich heritage sights but also its cuisine, cosy pavement cafés, famous Antiques Market (open every Sunday from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m.) and its renowned hospitality.
Discover more about Tongeren and its sights here.
The Gallo-Roman Museum is located in the city centre of Tongeren, in the shadow of the beautiful Gothic Basilica of Our Lady. It is one of the top European archaeological museums.
About getting to and around Tongeren see here.
Accommodation in Tongeren: visittongeren.be/en/accomodation
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For more information check here or contact Jeannette at info@colourprofessionals.eu.
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