Yale Norfolk School of Art series tackles ‘Color Problems’

NORFOLK — The Yale Norfolk School of Art Lecture Series “The Ethics of Color” presents guest speaker Tomashi Jackson with “Color Problems,” on Thursday from 7 to 8 p.m. with a reception to follow.

The event, at 20 Litchfield Road, Norfolk, is free and open to the public.

During her lecture at the Yale Norfolk School of Art, entitled “Color Problems,” she will share a selection of projects that illustrate both failed and successful attempts at solving color problems through her work.

Tomashi Jackson was born in 1980 in Houston and raised in Los Angeles. She earned her BFA from the Cooper Union School of Art in 2010. She earned her masters of science in art, culture and technology from the MIT School of Architecture and Planning, and her Master of Fine Art in Painting and Printmaking from the Yale University School of Art. Tomashi has lectured as a visiting artist at NYU and School of Visual Arts New York, she has taught at Massachusetts College of Art and Design, is current faculty in the Lesley University MFA Program, the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, and the Rhode Island School of Design.

Yale Norfolk School of Art offers a thematic program, made possible by Norfolk Foundation Inc., called “The Ethics of Color” that will include a series of public lectures covering divergent topics such as the language of color theory coupled with human rights legislation, color as a material witness to disaster, new materialist conceptions of brown and the environment, W.E.B. DuBois’s infographics utilizing color and data for analysis and activism, and an ’80s art exhibition in black and white.