IN PERSON WORKSHOP
Date: November 12, 2025
Instructor: Fritz Horstman
Workshop Description: Beginning with a short presentation of Horstman's new book Interacting with Color: A Practical Guide to Josef Albers's Color Experiments, this workshop will focus on the core experiments that Josef Albers developed over his long career of teaching at the Bauhaus, Black Mountain College, and at Yale University. Using Color-aid paper, participants will experiment such phenomena as color relativity, after-image, and illusions of transparency.
Materials/Handouts Fee: Optional Book cost $20
Attendee Limit: 15
Instructor Bio: Fritz Horstman is a curator, educator, author, and artist based in Bethany, Connecticut where he is Education Director at the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation. He has curated exhibitions across Europe and the United States, including the critically acclaimed Anni Albers: In Thread and On Paper last year at the Blanton Museum of Art in Austin, TX. He has lectured and given workshops at Yale University, Harvard University, l'École des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, Lebanese American University in Beirut, The Royal Academy of Art in London, and many other institutions. His recent book Interacting with Color: A Practical Guide to Josef Albers’s Color Experiments was published by Yale Press in 2024. Recent solo exhibitions of his sculptures and prints have been held at the New Britain Museum of American Art in New Britain, Connecticut, and Planthouse Gallery in Manhattan. He is represented by Planthouse in New York and by Municipal Bonds in San Francisco.
Interacting with Color: A Hands-on Workshop of Josef Albers's Color Expe
In-person workshop at the November meeting.
10am - 12 noon