Color Impact 2023 was a great success. These pages are left here for archival purposes.
We hope to see you at a future Color Council meeting! Our next conference in June 2025.
June 11-15, 2023
Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY, USA
Workshop Presenter - Robin Kingsburgh
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Robin Kingsburgh, Astronomer and Painter
The Eye Opener Series: An Intro to the Color Literacy Project - Monday 2:15 - 5:30
Participants in this workshop will get the chance to experience a selection of the hands-on beta-test materials and activities which are part of the Eye Opener Series and STEAM Series for the current teacher training program with partner schools. This first two series in the training curriculum are focused on color perception, the human visual system, and naming, describing and ordering color. Exercises will include exploration of color illusions and the comparative mixing of lights, pastels, and spinning disks. Participants will be given free access to the beta-test CLP Teacher Guides and a mini Colour Explorer Tool kit to take home.
*The Colour Literacy Project is a joint effort of the Inter-Society Color Council of the United States (ISCC) and the International Color Association (AIC).
Color Explorer Room - Tuesday 3:30 - 5:30
A drop-in activity room for hands-on color exploration. We would like to set it up on one, two, or three afternoons for attendees to come and play. Team members from the CLP project will staff the room for a couple hours each day. The room will include stations with tools and materials for exploring:
1. the spectrum with prisms, CD's and diffraction gratings
2. light with LED's, lasers, polarizing filters, tablets, and colored shadows
3. vision acuity and limited color vision
4. naming, sorting and ordering color in 2D and 3D
5. partitive mixing with spinning disks
6. simultaneous and successive contrasts and the Munker-White illusion
Bio
Robin Kingsburgh is a trained astronomer and painter. Her background in science comes from the University of Toronto (B.Sc. 1988) and University College London (Ph.D. in Astronomy, 1992). She worked as a postdoctoral fellow in Baja California at the University of Mexico from 1993-1996.
Her painting experience comes from studies in Canada, France and the U.K, and has paralleled her scientific development. She has longstanding interests in the intersections of art, science and education.
Robin currently teaches various natural science courses at York University in Toronto, including Understanding Colour, The History of Astronomy, and The Nature of Time. She has curated numerous shows and events in the Toronto area, featuring artwork inspired by the ideas and methodologies of science. She is President of the Colour Research Society of Canada and a member of the Ontario Society of Artists.
The Inter-Society Color Council advances the knowledge of color as it relates to art, science, industry and design.
Each of these fields enriches the others, furthering the general objective of color education.