Events

Our events center on educating our membership and the greater color community.

Upcoming events

  • Advances in Colour Literacy, Volume 1 — Official Book Launch

    • 25 Sep 2026
    • 10:00 AM - 11:20 AM
    • Virtual
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    Advances in Colour Literacy, Volume 1

    Official Book Launch

    Advances in Colour Literacy, Volume 1 is published — and now it is time to meet the authors.

    On 25 September, the Colour Literacy Project and the AIC Study Group on Colour Education invite you to the official online launch of the first volume of the Advances in Colour Literacy series. The event brings together the authors for a live roundtable conversation, open to anyone who wants to attend.

    Advances in Colour Literacy is a book series published by the Colour Literacy Project, dedicated to expanding colour knowledge across education, research, and professional practice. Volume 1 is edited by Ingrid Calvo Ivanovic and includes contributions from Andrew Richard Parker, Valtteri Arstila, David J. C. Briggs, Harald Arnkil, José Luis Caivano, Paul Green-Armytage, Ellen Divers, Robert Hirschler, Andreas Schwarz, Judith Mottram, Dominique Grisard, and Ingrid Calvo Ivanovic.

    The session is structured as a genuine dialogue, not a series of presentations:

    • 10:00 – 10:10 · Introduction to the book and the series
    • 10:10 – 10:40 · Roundtable conversation with all authors, guided by questions on colour literacy from the CLP team
    • 10:40 – 11:15 · Moderated Q&A — your questions, answered by the authors
    • 11:15 – 11:20 · Closing

    The authors bring together expertise from evolutionary biology, philosophy of perception, colour science, architecture, gender studies, and design education.

    Come prepared!

    The book is open access and free to download at colourliteracy.org. We encourage you to read it — or at least one or two chapters that connect with your own work or curiosity — before the event. The Q&A session is audience-driven: the more you have engaged with the book, the more interesting the conversation will be.

    Bring your questions. Bring your curiosity. Bring what the book made you think about.
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  • Fluorescent Fridays: From Plant to Pattern: Exploring Natural Fashion Colors with Almonds and Indigo

    • 16 Oct 2026
    • 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
    • virtual
    • 299
    • 1 registrant
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    WHO University students and faculty
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    		 Friday, October 16, 12-1pm EST

    From Plant to Pattern: Exploring Natural Fashion Colors with Almonds and Indigo

    Speakers: Dr. Jiangning Che and students from the Department of Apparel Merchandising & Management, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

    Projects to be presented: 

    Project 1: Almond Waste for Textile Coloration:  This study investigated the use of almond byproducts as an agricultural waste resource for innovative and sustainable textile coloration. Overall, the findings highlight the potential of almond byproducts as an innovative, eco-friendly natural dye source that supports agricultural waste valorization while providing functional performance for sustainable textile applications.

    Project 2: From Plant to Pattern: Exploring the Indigo Dyeing and Fashion Design Process: The micro-internship project explores the complete “plant-to-pattern” lifecycle of indigo, emphasizing environmental sustainability, craftsmanship, and experiential learning. The initiative demonstrates how natural dyeing can bridge agriculture, design, and manufacturing while fostering creativity, technical skills, and environmental stewardship within contemporary apparel and textile practices.


    Students from the Department of Apparel Merchandising & Management, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

    FLUORESCENT FRIDAYS is a platform for university students from all disciplines to network with color professionals and fellow students, and to explore cutting-edge information about color’s role in our lives and applications in the world. 

    Global Student Chapter: The long range goal is to build a global student chapter that positions color as a multidimensional STEAM model (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, Math), sharing up-to-date color research by scientists, artists, designers, industry professionals, and university students.21st century color communication requires a commitment to building bridges for sharing resources, cultivating mentors, and creating new opportunities. With up-to-date information and useful tools, students become the next generation of leaders in ever-evolving color related disciplines.

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  • Cutting Edge Lectures - Ren Ng presents: A tale of three novel colors

    • 17 Nov 2026
    • 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
    • virtual
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    A tale of three novel colors: olo, keef and litz

    This talk will be about research into novel human color perception.  We showed human subjects a novel color, olo, by individually stimulating thousands of cells on the retina with laser microdoses, using a system we call Oz Vision.  Olo corresponds to targeting only M cone cells and not L or S cones, which never happens in natural vision.  Olo appears blue-green of unprecedented saturation.  In theory, there are other novel colors that could not be as easily described. This talk will present the mathematical theory of two such tetrachromatic colors, keef and litz, and work towards prototyping them in the real world.

    Ren Ng is a professor in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley.  His research interests are in imaging, graphics, human and computer vision.  Research contributions include the novel color olo produced by the Oz Vision system, and the volumetric scene inference method NeRF. Before Berkeley, Ren was founder and CEO of Lytro, Inc., which commercialized his Ph.D. research on light field cameras. Ren completed his Ph.D. in computer science at Stanford University, and received the ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award.  Ren has received the Jim and Donna Gray Faculty Award for Undergraduate Teaching, Sloan Research Fellowship, IS&T Image Engineering Innovation Award, R.I.T.'s Imaging Hall of Fame, the Selwyn Award from the Royal Photographic Society, MIT Tech Review's TR35 and Entrepreneur of the Year, Fast Company's 100 Most Creative People in Business, and is a Kavli Fellow and Optica Fellow.


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International Color Day March 21


International Colour Day is an annual event celebrating colour. It is supported by the International Colour Association/AIC. Events are happening everywhere. 

Learn more at AIC - International Color Association

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The Color Council regularly holds several types of events, both in person and virtually. The goal of these events varies, but all center on educating our membership and the greater color community. We hope to see you at one of these soon!



Colour Literacy Forums are a part of the larger Colour Literacy Project is exploring new approaches to colour education as a multidisciplinary system of connections between science, art and design, industry, technology, and culture. Fluency with the language of color sharpens our visual intelligence, expands our perceptions, and enhances our ability to communicate.

21st century color literacy is not just for scientists and artists — it is for everyone. 



Fluorescent Fridays are one-hour virtual events serving as a platform for university students from all disciplines to network with color professionals and fellow students, and to explore cutting-edge information about color’s role in our lives and applications in the world.

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Colorful Connections is an opportunity to gather informally with other members of ISCC for a little socializing, networking and learning from each other. Discussions are wide-ranging and depend on attendees, their current interests and past experience. Consider this the online version of coffee breaks and happy hours at a color conference. BYO coffee or beverage and join in the conversation!

Note that this is Members Only event. Not a member, no problem - Join here!

Our Annual meeting brings the entire membership together, either virtually or in person. The topics vary, but they are always designed to address the broad spectrum of interests present in our membership.

The most recent meeting, Color Impact 2023, was in Rochester NY in June 2023.


Our Cutting Edge Color webinar series provides an opportunity for a deeper dive into all matter of subjects related to color. Many of these are recorded, and recordings are made available to the membership.

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For a list of past events, visit the complete events listing.


Our quarterly 45-minute lecture series  is a deeper dive into a range of topics related to color.  The public is invited to register FREE for live events, and members have access to recordings. 

BOLD: Color from Test Tube to Textile 

Presented by Dr Elisabeth Berry Drago, Director of Visitor Engagement at the Science History Institute. Recorded last January 23, 2024.

screen grab of Dr Elizabeth Drago presenting a slide on how the museum sets up an exhibit

We are sharing this webinar to non-members for free. Visit this link to the webinar BOLD: Color from Test Tube to Textile and enter your name and email address. 

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