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Color Walk — Open Studio
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Color Walk — Open Studio Flashcards
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| Who created the "Color Walk" activity? | Amy Sillman |
| What is the main task in "Color Walk"? | Spend a day out observing uses and expressions of color everywhere except in a museum or gallery |
| What should you bring on the Color Walk? | A notebook to make notes about how colors are used |
| What are some ways color is used, according to the activity? | Symbolically, harmonically, as shapes, as warnings, advertisements, celebrations, or personal taste |
| Name some places suggested to observe color. | Architecture, billboards, products, grocery stores, TV monitors, recreational areas, municipal buildings, police departments, beauty parlors |
| What question does the activity ask about color and society? | What kinds of limitations or expectations do we have about colors? Where do we censor color? |
| What is the two-part focus of the study? | First focus only on color out in the world, then study how color works in art at a museum |
| What is an "intervention" in this activity? | An action using color alone, invented after studying color, such as wearing unexpected color or placing a colored object/flag in public |
| Give an example of a personal color intervention. | Wearing or using color on your own body for a day in an unexpected, out-of-the-ordinary way |
| Give an example of a public color intervention. | Making a colored object or flag and placing it in a public place to send a mysterious color message |
| What levels is this activity suitable for? | Beginning, Intermediate, and Advanced levels |
| What media are suggested for this activity? | Installation art and Performance art |
| Where and when was Amy Sillman born? | 1955 in Detroit, Michigan |
| Where does Amy Sillman currently live? | New York, New York |
| What themes does Sillman's painting practice explore? | Feminism, performativity, and humor, alongside the physical/material properties of painting |
| How does Sillman physically create her work? | Through bold gestures, dabs, drizzles, and thick applications of paint |
| What jobs did Sillman hold before becoming an artist? | Worked in a cannery in Alaska, a silkscreen factory in Chicago, and studied Japanese language and literature at NYU |
| Where did Sillman study painting? | The School of Visual Arts in New York City |
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