On this color journey, and throughout this course, we will be using geography, place, and landscape as a metaphor. 

Through visualizations in week three and four, we will conceptualize your creativity as resting in a infinite space in the mind of your own design, a place you can visit at any time, to day dream, luxuriate, develop new ideas, rest, observe interesting things, process memories, make new connections and find solace. 

The terrain of your secret creative planet is woven in color and texture, light and shadow, we will call your Colorscape. While your vision may be hazy at first, your task is to observe this landscape, draw out the details, mapping your Colorscape: the feel, the palette, the relationship between the colors, and how they shine or recede into shadow. As a map leads you to destinations and communicates the landscape through symbols, the map of your Colorscape, your color palette, serves to lead a viewer through mental and emotional states you want to evoke in your work. 

If this sounds abstract or intangible to you, not to worry, we will elucidate the concept of intuitive Colorscape over these four weeks. 

To cultivate some of the insights we are seeking will require you to experience: 

• Curiosity 
• Openness to the emotional experience of color
• Introspection about your past, present, and future

Things to get curious about: 

• What does it feel like to be moved by a color? 
• What colors excite or captivate you? 
• Do you know what is it about the colors that capture your interest? 
• Are there colors that give you a visceral negative response? 
• If so, do you know what it is about the colors that repulse or annoy you? 

Course Schedule

Week 1 - The Foundation: The Science of Color & Traditional Color Theory 

• Access to our Teachable coursework to lay the foundation of science and traditional color theory
• Additional materials & tools for research and development of projects
• Beginning your Color Journal
• Defining our goals

Week 2 - Color Magic: Secrets, illusions, tips, tricks, & curiosities across

mediums from fiber to pigment to digital

• 1.5 hr Group meeting to discuss our creative projects, goals, or inquiries (via Zoom)

March 27th 1pm-2:30 PST (recorded for those who can't make the live class)

• Access to an extensive PDF booklet to use over the following weeks with exercises & sample templates that you will be sent via email

Week 3 - Color as a Compass: Intuition & Unlocking your personal color narrative 

• Coursework and exercises on intuitive approaches to color
• 1.5 hour Group Meeting with visualizations & exercises for developing a color language (via Zoom)- April 6th 6pm-7:30pm PST (recorded for those who can't make the live class)

Week 4 - Building out your Colorscape: Defining your palette

• Final Projects: Closing Exercises
• 1.5 hour Workshop with Yaya Erin Rivera Merriman (via Zoom) - See below description

  April 16th 10am - 12pm PST (recorded for those who can't make the live class) 

¡Los Colores! : Pathways to Color Intimacy & Creative Fulfillment 

Take your relationship with color to the next level of subtlety in this interactive workshop with Yaya Erin Rivera Merriman of Active Culture Family. Together we will explore 3 unique, nature based, color-centric, contemplative practices for developing intimacy with place, as a source of multidimensional health and creative fulfillment.

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Week 5 - Processing & Presentation (Optional / Bonus)

• Bonus 1 hr Group meeting : Final discussion & presenting our palettes (via Zoom)
• OPTIONAL April 21st 4pm-5pm PST