Saturday, November 13, 2021
ReViewing Black Mountain College 12
Fritz Horstman, Education Director at the Josef and Anni Albers
Foundation, and Julie Thomson will co-present a workshop about the Leaf
Studies Josef Albers developed, and taught at Black Mountain College,
and later at Yale University.
The Leaf Studies are one of the least examined aspects of Josef
Albers’s teaching and his landmark book The Interaction of Color. First
we will look deeper into the leaf studies made by Josef Albers and his
students and then participants will have the opportunity to experiment
with, and make their own, leaf studies. Fritz will discuss how the Leaf
Studies offer a bridge between Josef Albers’s Color class + Matière
studies. Leaves collected from the Blue Ridge Mountains will allow
participants to further experience and study the colors available to BMC
students.