Exploring Color
Instructor: Leah Wilson
July 20 – July 24, 2026 6:00 – 8:00 PM
Location: Tunison Community Room – 2270 SW Butterfield Dr, Corvallis, OR 97333
Cost: $180
About the Workshop
Dive into the vibrant world of color in Exploring Coloring, an engaging workshop designed for adult artists. This 5-day class invites participants to investigate how colors interact, behave, and affect one another through both intuitive and practical exercises. Emphasizing experimentation, the workshop encourages creative risk-taking and hands-on exploration to deepen your understanding of color. Whether you work in paint, fiber, digital media, or another form, the skills gained in this class will enhance your ability to use color with confidence and nuance across many media.
Students will:
- Learn formal color relationships
- Understand optical effects & expressive uses of color
- Begin to develop a personal color palette that reflects their individual style
About the Instructor
Leah Wilson is a place-based visual artist, educator, and outdoor enthusiast. She considers specific places to be long-term collaborators in art. Many of her chosen places correlate to long-term ecological research and scientific inquiry. Attracted by the enduring focus of inquiry into a specific place, she is now an episodic lifetime artist in residence at the HJ Andrews Experimental Forest near Blue River, Oregon. Her artwork often follows seasonal changes in the environment, telling the story of environmental change through color, patterns, and form from a macro to a micro level. Leah makes her home in Eugene, Oregon, and teaches at Oregon State University.
Questions? Contact Claire Elam, Arts Education Manager