Based on the teachings of Josef & Anni Albers, our educational programs translate their fundamental into accessible activities for all ages.

This hands on tutorial demonstrates how one color can appear as two, based on Josef Albers’s Interaction of Color.

Education director Fritz Horstman leads this hands-on tutorial demonstrating an exercise using afterimages, based on Josef Albers’s Interaction of Color.

This hands-on tutorial demonstrates color gradients, based on Josef Albers’s Interaction of Color.

This hands-on tutorial demonstrates the Four Color Worlds, based on Josef Albers’s Interaction of Color.

This hands-on tutorial demonstrates Old Masters, based on Josef Albers’s Interaction of Color.

This hands-on tutorial demonstrates weaving with a card loom, based on lessons taught by Anni Albers.

This hands-on tutorial demonstrates more advanced weaving with a card loom, based on lessons taught by Anni Albers.

This hands-on tutorial demonstrates Leaf Creatures, based on Josef Albers’s Interaction of Color.

This hands-on tutorial demonstrates holiday cards/rearrangements, based on lessons originally taught by Josef Albers.

This hands-on tutorial shows how common table salt can become a beautiful drawing material.

Everyone—starting with children of about age five—is invited to watch, listen, and experiment with their own color combinations. 

Everyone—starting with children of about age five—is invited to watch, listen, and experiment with their own color combinations. 

For this workshop of The Magic of Color, we are joined by Félix Detaille from Paris. He shows us the playful and fascinating experience of an afterimage.

For the fourth workshop, Alexandre and Felix join forces to show we can playfully create unique Color Wheels and Gradients using objects we find around the house! 

For this workshop, Alexandre shows us how we can create completely different worlds (artworks) with the same four colors by thinking about the quantity and placement of the colors.  

In this exercise, Félix and Alex show us how we can easily recreate our favorite work of art using cutouts from magazines and colored papers. They also show how you can carefully pick the colors and shapes to even recreate the finer details of some works. 

Alex and Félix return for the seventh Albers for Kids workshop. We take our first dive into the mesmerizing Magic of Weaving. They show how we can create our own simple loom using a small cardboard and some thread.

For this workshop, Sabijn and her friend keep it simple and make many beautiful works of art using salt, black paper and tools found easily around the house!