Chromosphere: The Color Theory Podcast

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This podcast centers on my research and understanding of color, color usage, and optics as they relate to theories of human color perception in the making of visual art and design. By Ed Charbonneau, an artist (drawing & painting focus), and an adjunct faculty member in the Foundation and Fine Arts Departments at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. (Content expressed does not reflect the views of the Minneapolis College of Art & Design)

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The Eclipse: Purkinje Shift Reprise

Apr 08 2024 27 mins

CNN online article: Wear red and green to experience the Purkinje effect during the total solar eclipsePlease find more information to each episode on the Chromosphere website.

Interview with Luanne Stovall: A New 21st Century Color Literacy Paradigm

Mar 12 2024 77 mins

Luanne Stovall is an artist and color theorist with an MFA in painting from Tufts University and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston. She attended the New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting, and Sculpture (New York City), and Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (Skowhegan, Maine).Luanne is a member of the Steering Committee of the global Colour Literacy Project

Interview with Suyao Tian: A Journey into Color

Feb 12 2024 45 mins

A conversation with artist, Suyao Tian exploring her process as a painter and her personal approaches to using color. Please find more information related to this episode here.Please find more information to each episode on the Chromosphere website.

Interview with Jon Reischl: Memory, Perception, and Experience

Jan 08 2024 68 mins

A conversation with Jon Rieschl. Please find additional resources to this episode here.Jon Reischl is a visual artist and designer specializing in mixed-media and oil painting. He has shown work locally in the Twin Cities and the greater metro area as well as regionally at venues throughout the Midwest. A graduate of St. Paul’s College of Visual Arts (RIP), He works out of Rock 9

Interview with Sebastián Wilson: The Mystery of Color

Dec 11 2023 65 mins

Sebastián Wilson is a photographer living in Santiago, Chile. He studied architecture which has a clear influence on his work both on the graphic sense, and on the way he observes and portrays light. For links and resources related to this episode, please see the Chromosphere episode webpage.Please find more information to each episode on the Chromosphere website.

Interview with Dr. David Briggs: Understanding and Applying Colour

Nov 13 2023 49 mins

Dr. David Briggs has been teaching classes on colour for more than 20 years, and currently teaches colour, drawing and painting at the National Art School and the University of Technology, Sydney, Australia. For links and resources related to this episode, please see the Chromosphere episode webpage.Please find more information to each episode on the Chromosphere website.

Interview with Jeremy Szopinski: Abstract Landscape Painting

Oct 10 2023 37 mins

I interview painter Jeremy Szopinski who is a good friend and longtime studio mate. For more information about the podcast and Jeremy's artworks, check out this website link.Please find more information to each episode on the Chromosphere website.

Mary Gartside and the Colour Ball: A Correction

Apr 24 2023 30 mins

The final episode of Season 2; includes a correction to the Mary Gartside episode from Season 1. The first version of this episode erroneously stated a connection between Mary Gartside and the writing of Johann von Goethe. This new episode was recorded as a correction and published on April 24, 2023. Mary Gartside was a painter, teacher, and color theorist who lived in England from

Focal Points and the Roots of Abstraction, part 1

Mar 27 2023 33 mins

Part one of a reading of an essay I am writing, Focal Points and the Roots of Abstraction.Human color vision adapts to the changing environment in many ways. Pupils dilate and constrict in order to regulate the amount of light entering the eye. The lens either bunches up or flattens out to change its shape while focusing light wavelengths along the spectral band at different proxim

Red, White, Gray, and Black

Feb 27 2023 29 mins

Are nearly all the cars and trucks in your area either red, white, gray, or black? Discussion of red colors pairing to neutral colors as a color scheme.Please find more information to each episode on the Chromosphere website.