Color as Code with Sangram Majumdar
Color as Code with Sangram Majumdar
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| Mentor: | Sangram Majumdar |
| Cohort Type: | 💻 Virtual |
| Meeting Day: | 📅 Monday |
| Meeting Time: | 🕛 12-3pm (EST) / 9am-12pm (PST) |
| 8 Weeks: | June 16 - August 4 |
| Course Dates: |
June 16, 23, 30 July 7, 14, 21, 28 August 4 |
| Cohort Size: | 12 Artists |
| Cost per Contact Hour: | $68.75 per contact hour |
| Total Cost: |
Free to apply Apply by June 2nd, 2025 Tuition, if accepted: $1650 Tuition & Financial Aid |
About This Course
Color as Code is an 8 week virtual course which meets weekly on Mondays via Zoom. This course is open to artists working in any media.
Often overlooked, color is a powerful tool, creating perceptual, emotional, and physiological responses. It also contains signifiers and meanings that may not be obvious at first glance. We will explore these implicit and explicit possibilities as it relates to personal, political, cultural, and historical paradigms. This will in turn strengthen and particularize students' understanding and use of color in their own artwork. All content will be self-generated with guided prompts. Research examples accompanied by visiting artist lectures by Clintel Steed and Chie Fueki will help artists see various ways to digest and apply formal strategies to improve their own studio work. Demonstrations about application, color relationships, light and mood will help broaden our discussions on the critiques and questions of how each artist can better understand ‘color as code’.
Artists will have two opportunities to present their work for formal and conceptual advice by the Faculty and the class. The first critique will afford every artist a personalized prompt and assignment to consider for their second critique - with the space of several weeks in between to react to the discussion.
Artists Will:
- Participate in a class size of 10 - 12 artists max
- Have dialogue about research, p ainting and color
- Recieve demonstrations by Sangram on how color operates in the natural world as well as within the studio.
- Receive opportunities for critiques & feedback from Faculty + peers twice throughout the 8 week course.
- Get a personally-tailored, color-specific assignment from Sangram about their work after critique #1 to follow up with on their second critique.
- Receive virtual visits and artist talks by Dana Frankfort, Molly Zuckerman-Hartung, and Sarah Faux.
- Share and gain new perspectives to reinvigorate each other’s approach and artistic practice.
- Learn about new artists, suggested films, readings and exhibitions to see.
- Engage in open forum to discuss all painting related + art world questions - a focus on transparency for artists who have finished school and want to continue to grow and learn.
Guests
Mentor Bio
Sangram Majumdar (b. 1976) lives and works in Seattle, Washington. Born in Kolkata, India, Majumdar has an MFA from Indiana University and a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. Recent solo exhibition venues include Galerie Mirchandani+Steinruecke, Mumbai; Geary Contemporary, NY, Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects, NY, and Asia Society Texas Center. Selected group exhibition venues include Shoshana Wayne Gallery, LA, The Landing Gallery, LA and James Cohan Gallery, NY. Selected awards include a Gottlieb Foundation Individual Support Grant, Mellon Faculty Fellow in Arts, NYFA Grant in Painting, Purchase Award from American Academy of Arts and Letters, NY, a MacDowell Fellowship, a residency at Yaddo, the 2009-10 Marie Walsh Sharpe Space Program Grant, and a MICA Trustees Award for Excellence in Teaching. In 2019 he was inducted into the National Academy of Design. His work has been reviewed in Artforum, The Brooklyn Rail, Hyperallergic, among others. He has also lectured on his work at numerous institutions including Columbia University, RISD, CCA, Cranbrook School of Art, Princeton University, and the New York Studio School. He is an Associate Professor in the School of Art + Art History + Design at University of Washington. He has an upcoming solo exhibition at Nathalie Karg Gallery in September 2025.
