Maggie Maggio retired from architecture in 2015 and now spends her time advocating for the integration of art and science in color education programs world-wide.

After graduating with a BS in Interior Design from Drexel University and a Masters in Architecture from Syracuse University, Maggie spent thirty years working with and teaching color to artists and designers.

She is the co-chair of the International Colour Association (AIC) Study Group on Color Education and is currently chairing the Colour Literacy Project, an educational initiative of the Inter-Society Color Council (ISCC) and the AIC to develop state-of-the-art resources for teaching 21st century color.

Robert Hirschler has been actively involved in all aspects of color theory, color science and color technology since 1966.

Robert graduated at the Technical University of Budapest in chemical engineering/textile chemistry. In 1967 he presented his first paper on computerized color matching and has been involved in colorimetry and color science ever since.

He has been involved in AIC activities for over 40 years. He is an active member of both ProCor (Brazil) and the Hungarian National Color Committee and a member of the AIC Executive Committee. Since 2010 he has been the Chair of the Study Group on Color Education.

His current research interest is the teaching of the basics of color science to architects, artists and designers as explained in his recent article “How much color science is not too much” published in the journal Color Research and Application.

Paul Green-Armytage was born and educated in England, graduating as an architect in 1964. After ten years’ experience working as an architect, exhibition designer and set designer for television in England, Canada and Australia, he took up a position, in 1976, as senior lecturer in charge of the first year program in design at what is now Curtin University, in Perth Australia. His interest in color research led to a PhD in 2005; the title of his thesis was “Colour, Language and Design”.

Over the years, Paul has contributed papers at many national and international conferences, served as a member of the executive committee of the International Colour Association and as president of the Colour Society of Australia. He retired from teaching in 2006 but remains active as a researcher and writer.

Stephen Westland currently holds the Chair in Colour Science and Technology in the School of Design at the University of Leeds (UK). He has published over 100 peer-reviewed papers, books and book chapters on various aspects of colour, colour vision, colour imaging, colour design and colour physics. He received the Davies Medal from the Royal Photographic Society in 2008 for his research on digital colour imaging. In 2018/19 he was President of the Society of Dyers and Colourists and was appointed as a Visiting Professor at Huazhong University of Science and Technology (China, 2018-2021) and at School of Computing at University of East Anglia (2017-2022).

In his spare time, Professor Westland is a semi-professional drummer playing in several rock/pop bands in Yorkshire (UK).

Robin Kingsburgh is a trained astronomer and painter. Her background in science comes from the University of Toronto (B.Sc. 1988) and University College London (Ph.D. in Astronomy, 1992). She worked as a postdoctoral fellow in Baja California at the University of Mexico from 1993-1996.

Her painting experience comes from studies in Canada, France and the U.K, and has paralleled her scientific development. She has longstanding interests in the intersections of art, science and education.

Robin currently teaches various natural science courses at York University, including Understanding Colour, The History of Astronomy, and The Nature of Time. She has curated numerous shows and events in the Toronto area, featuring artwork inspired by the ideas and methodologies of science. She is President of the Colour Research Society of Canada, and a member of the Ontario Society of Artists.

Andreas Schwarz teaches Art and English at Staedtisches Maedchengymnasium in Essen Germany and is lecturer of Art education at University Duisburg-Essen. He is member of the German Association for Art Education BDK e.V., and was curator for color didactics of the German Color Center (DFZ).

His interest in color was awakened by the numerous historical and current color diagrams and color sample collections, which he scientifically processed. This initially resulted in his PhD thesis Die Lehren von der Farbenharmonie (The Doctrines of Color Harmony) in 1999. His thesis was later followed by the publication of Color Ordered: A Survey of Color Systems from Antiquity to the Present in 2008 co-authored with Rolf G Kuehni.

Since then, his scientific focus has shifted to the use of color in art teaching, which culminated in a government-sponsored five-year research project.

The results of his research, which for the first time shows the effects of imparting an outdated color theory on the behavior of students and teachers, was published in 2018 under the title Farbtheorie im Kunstunterricht - Eine qualitativ empirische Wirkungsforschung zum Umgang mit Farb; (Color Theory in Art Classes - A qualitative empirical research into the use of color). He is still involved in this area and creates didactic materials for dealing with color for art teachers.

Andreas Schwarz’s historical interest in color has also led to an extensive color library with over 2000 titles, some of which are still unknown in today’s color literature. A new focus of non-book materials on color in art classes has added hundreds of paintboxes, oil pastels, colored pencils and crayons, coloring books, etc. to the collection, dating from the middle of the 19th century to the present day.

www.dr-andreas-schwarz.de

Dr David J. C. Briggs is a teacher of painting, drawing and colour at the Julian Ashton Art School, the National Art School and the University of Technology, Sydney. He has taught classes on color for twenty years, including “Theories of Colour”, a Bachelor of Fine Arts lecture course on the theory and practice of color in the Art History and Theory Department at the National Art School, “Traditional and Modern Colour Theory”, a Public Programs course also at the National Art School, and a long running five-day workshop “Colour, Light and Vision” at the Julian Ashton Art School.

David is the author of a website on modern colour theory for painters, “The Dimensions of Colour” (http://www.huevaluechroma.com/, 2007) and has contributed to publications including the chapter “Colour Spaces” in the forthcoming “Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Colour”. David is Vice President and NSW Divisional Chair of the Colour Society of Australia.

After 32 years as a research color scientist at Eastman Kodak Company, Paula Alessi retired in January, 2012. She received a M.S degree in color science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute after studying with Dr. Fred W. Billmeyer, Jr. She has been a member of ISCC since 1977. Her career at Kodak featured work on optimizing color reproduction of Kodak film/paper systems and motion picture film systems. She gave color reproduction tutorials to chemists and film-builders to help them do a better job of building their chemicals based on desirable spectral properties and building their films based on producing colors that would beat the competition, especially for color gamut. She did both national and international color standards work mostly in the area of color management systems for Kodak. Her work also featured hardcopy/softcopy color appearance matching studies and prototypes for CRT to print and backlit film comparisons under a variety of viewing conditions. Paula also worked on optimizing the color characteristics of Kodak’s patented Organic Light-Emitting Diode displays. Finally, Paula ended her Kodak career working on maximizing the color gamut of CMYK high speed drop on demand commercial inkjet printers while minimizing physical defects on the paper. She is the author or co-author of 14 patents on behalf of Kodak.

Mark D. Fairchild is Professor and Founding Head of the Integrated Sciences Academy in RIT’s College of Science and Director of the Program of Color Science and Munsell Color Science Laboratory. He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Imaging Science from R.I.T. and Ph.D. in Vision Science from the University of Rochester. Mark was presented with the 1995 Bartleson Award by the Colour Group (Great Britain) and the 2002 Macbeth Award by the Inter-Society Color Council for his works in color appearance and color science. He is a Fellow of the Society for Imaging Science and Technology (IS&T) and the Optical Society of America. Mark was presented with the Davies Medal by the Royal Photographic Society for contributions to photography. He received the 2008 IS&T Raymond C. Bowman award for excellence in education.

Roy Osborne was born in England in 1948. He became interested in color as a student of art and design, and further investigation of the subject became a central feature of his career as an artist. Initially a printmaker, he began lecturing on the theory and practice of color after publication of his ‘Lights and Pigments: Colour Principles for Artists’ in 1980, one of the first books to link traditional with new art media. He has since exhibited extensively as a painter and has taught and lectured at some 200 institutions worldwide. He has edited texts by other writers and is also author of ‘Color Influencing Form: A Color Coursebook’ (2004). He has more recently published a definitive color bibliography, ‘Books on Colour 1495-2015’ which includes a concise history and over 3,000 titles, plus three books on Renaissance color symbolism, which include original translations: ‘Sicily Herald and the Blazon of Colours’, ‘Telesio and Morato on the Meaning of Colours’, and ‘Leigh and Lomazzo on the Virtue of Colours’.

Kory Stamper is a lexicographer who has been writing dictionaries for over two decades. She was an associate editor at Merriam-Webster for 20 years, where she both defined and edited general vocabulary (including color names) for English speakers and learners of all levels. Her award-winning debut book about the joys and difficulties of writing dictionaries, Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries, was released in 2017. She has been researching the history of color names, the defining of color terms, and color standards for over a decade, and her book on the history of color defining will be published by Pantheon.

Berit Bergström is a Senior Lecturer for NCS Colour AB in Stockholm, Sweden. She was the Managing Director for the NCS Colour Academy between 1991 and 2012. NCS Colour Academy organises and develops colour courses in colour theory & colour design, for professionals. Mrs Bergström has a lengthy experience giving colour courses and presentations worldwide in NCS on a very high level. She has carried out colour design courses for countless colour professionals and has conducted colour studies at university level worldwide. She has also carried out colour research projects, one of which with the purpose to inform professional colourists about useful results from Swedish colour research work. This was published in a booklet in Swedish and English. She was the secretary of the Colour Science Foundation (1991-1997) with the task to grant funds for different colour research projects within the field of colour. Mrs Bergström is the Past President of AIC between 2014 and 2015, and held the Presidency for 2010 to 2013. She was the chairperson of the AIC Study Group on Colour Education between 1998 and 2009. AIC is an international colour research organisation with annual meetings held around the world. She is the secretary of the Swedish Colour Centre Foundation. She is a member of the TASCII advisory Board, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China and member of the Advisory Board for Color Centre and Informatics at the Chinese Culture University, Taipei, Taiwan.

Dr. Osvaldo da Pos is Senior Scholar at the University of Padua, Italy. Graduated in Biology 1971, obtained one year scholarship at the University of Berkeley. Was Lecturer of Research Methods in Behavioural Sciences in Verona (1975-76), and later lecturer of Psychophysiology 1 in Padua (1977-1982).

In 1983 became 2nd level Professor of Anatomical and Physiological Basis of Mental Activity, and in 1987 moved to Psychology of Perception, always at the Faculty of Psychology of the University of Padua. He was also in charge of the courses of Perception , General Psychology , and Ethics in Psychological Research at the Department of General Psychology, Universiyty of Padua. He retired from teaching in 2013. Cofounder of the Inter-departmental Study Centre for Colour and Art of the University of Padua in 1989, and its Director for many terms.

Co-founder of the Doctorate course in Perception and Psychophysics of the University of Padua (1986) was member of its teaching staff until 2015. Enrolled in 1990 in the State Corporation of Professional Psychologists. Past Italian representative at the CIE Div.1, chairman of the AIC Study Group on "Visual Illusions and Effects", member of the AIC Executive Committee, member of many CIE Div.1 TCs. Presently is member of the InterSocietyColorCouncil (ISCC, USA), life member of the BritishColour Group (CG, GB), honorary member of the Gruppo del Colore_Associazione Italiana Colore (GdC_AIC, I) and of its administration board, member of the SIE (Società Italiana Etologia, I), Associazione Italiana Di Illuminazione (AIDI, I).

His main research, inspired by the phenomenological theory of Gestalt, involves the perception of colour in its various aspects, contrast, assimilation, constancy, transparency, colour and illumination, colour and emotion, colour harmony, colour names. Since many years he is working with visual illusions, in which field he made several experimental and theoretical works.

Nick has forty years’ experience in technical sales and support for instrumental appearance and colour measurement, working with BYK Gardner, CyberChrome, Konica Minolta, NCS AB and VeriVide. He also has extensive experience in production and laboratory equipment for inks, paints and pigment dispersions.

Nick commenced his colour training activities in 1999 as he saw a need in industry for a greater understanding of instrumental colour measurement and its application for quality control. His one-day colour course is highly regarded with a total in excess of 1000 attendees. The attendee list covers many of Australia’s leading manufacturing and research organisations.

Nick’s training activities are also international i.e. England, Germany, India, New Zealand, South Africa, Malaysia and Thailand. Nick in cooperation with the School of Design at the University of Leeds launched the colour course in an online format ‘Colour Made Simple” in January 2019 A member of the AIC Executive Committee from 2005 to 2019 as an Ordinary Member (Chair of AIC Congress 2009), Secretary Treasurer 2010 – 2013, Vice-President 2014 - 2015, President 2016 – 2017 and Past-President 2018 – 2019. Whilst President, he established the new Student Paper Awards. He is an Editorial panel member for the Journal of the AIC and Color Research and Application. Nick has been a Guest Editor for Optics and Laser Technology and taught the Measurement of Light and Colour at the School of Optometry and Vision Science, University of New South Wales 2000 – 2006.