Lectures and Workshops
Upcoming Events
Events Available for Future Booking
Thanks for your interest in my educational events! If you are an organization, please contact me directly for pricing and scheduling an event at: ErikaSews(at)gmail(dot)com. As of February 2024, I am only scheduling events in and around the greater Chicagoland area (approximately 100 miles from the city of Chicago).
Custom
Lecture, Class, or Workshop
Are you
looking for a lecture, workshop, or class to learn more about color theory for
your organization or group, but can't find exactly what you're looking for? Let
me work with you to tailor an event about color specifically for you and your
members that fits your needs!
Color Boot Camp Workshop
This workshop focuses on how our current ideas about using color have been influenced by historical ideas, and how you can move beyond the constraints of "color theory" to find your own personal appreciation and approach to working with color. Each major concept is discussed in class, followed by hands-on exercises and experiments, and helpful class-wide discussions. Students use colored paper provided by the instructor to create concrete examples to take home and study, with enough material to continue experimenting with colored paper studies at home.
You will
learn three different ways that historical color theorists have approached
color in the past 200 years, how each of these approaches has been adopted by
artists, and how you can practice these approaches to color in your own work.
Most
educators teach quilters to use color focusing on color wheel harmonies. These
tools have been promoted as "faultless" ways to find color
combinations, a way to find "perfect" color schemes each and every
time. Why is this tool so magical, how does it work, and where did it come
from? Learn the answers to these questions (and more!) as you explore the
origin of the modern color wheel and color harmonies with Erika Mulvenna.
Participants will leave with a solid understanding of color wheels, and how color
combinations can be made with color wheel harmonies.
Event
Time: 45-60 minute lecture plus time for Q&A.
Feedback
from Erika's Color Wheel lecture:
Trunk Show: Diary of a Color Nerd
Event Time: 45-60 minutes plus time for Q&A
Please note, this event requires a few volunteers to help hold up quilts
throughout the event.
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