Multi-disciplinary
September 27 to November 8, 2025
Tiered Tuition
$250-$600 Reserve My Spot
Saturdays at 1pm-3pm (Eastern) on Sept 27th, Oct 11th, Oct 25th, and Nov 8th
This workshop was designed for anyone interested in taking their color studies to the next level through guided experimentation with nuanced chromatic themes and motifs. During the class we’ll create a small series of collage studies that play around with unique palettes, color contrasts, and harmonies that emerge from paint-mixing prompts rooted in color theory principals. Alongside guided exercises, each participant will create their own visual library of color references based on individual preferences and findings to use as fodder for exploration.
One of the goals of the workshop is to assist in springboarding future projects. If desired, students can use class time to develop palettes for a body of work intended to be completed in a larger format or in a different medium, for example, as a planning phase for ceramics, a quilt, a series of paintings, etc.
Open to practicing artists, craftspeople, designers, and general color enthusiasts alike, the only “pre-req” for this class is a solid foundation in color mixing and basic color theory. I recommend taking Experiments in Color (my basic color theory class) first if you’re new or returning to color studies after a break.
Materials:
We will primarily work with traditional gouache and watercolor paper to hand-mix colors for a series of paper collages. Other mediums can be used if desired. Suggested materials will be shared. If you took Color Lab with me this summer at FAWC, you already have everything you need for this class.
Lena Wolff
is a visual artist, craftswoman and activist for democracy who has lived and worked in the San Francisco Bay Area since the early 1990’s. Her work extends out of American folk-art traditions while also being connected histories of minimalism, geometric abstraction, Op art, social practice, handcraft, and feminist and political art. Her broad interconnected artistic output includes drawing, collage, sculpture, text-based works, frequent collaboration, and public projects. In recent years, she generated several projects to contribute to civic engagement, including a widespread anti-hate campaign and a national public art initiative to boost voter participation that circulated in the US in 2018, 2020 and 2022. Her work has been widely exhibited and collected by ONE National Lesbian and Gay Archives at USC, the Berkeley Art Museum, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and Oakland Museum of California, among others. Lena’s work can be found at Sarah Shepard Gallery in Larkspur, Haines Gallery in San Francisco, and in public spaces across the United States. She lives with her wife, artist, teacher, and illustrator, Miriam Klein Stahl and their daughter in Berkeley, California.
