The Seashore Psychology Training Clinic at the University of Iowa is pleased to be continuing our collaboration with Michigan Technological University Professor of Art Anne Beffel on an art installation entitled Color and Context. This extension of Beffel’s Color of Kindness project, currently exhibited in the Seashore Clinic, will directly engage graduate students as well as clinical faculty and staff.
Participants will be invited to recall a moment in which kindness, or its absence, was important to them and to describe colors present within their memory. As Beffel creates a painting for each person’s named color, she will integrate its complement, located 180 degrees opposite on the Newtonian color wheel. The introduction of the complementary color is intended to embody both contrast and connection as metaphor for belongingness within a spectrum, and the value of diversity.
Participants will be invited to recall a moment in which kindness, or its absence, was important to them and to describe colors present within their memory. As Beffel creates a painting for each person’s named color, she will integrate its complement, located 180 degrees opposite on the Newtonian color wheel. The introduction of the complementary color is intended to embody both contrast and connection as metaphor for belongingness within a spectrum, and the value of diversity.