Painting with Ancient Pigments at the WakerSpace

Thanks to the generous support of Paul Whitener and a WakerSpace Faculty Fellowship, I have incorporated a new module into my first-year seminar: Painting with Ancient Pigments. Students encounter the vibrant color of the ancient Mediterranean world — as it really was, not in faded, white marble misrepresentations that serve European colonial agendas — and they do so hands-on, by taking pigments used by ancient artists, mixing them with binders available to ancient artists, and painting replicas of ancient sculpture.