Program
Here are our KeyNote Presenters!
Here are our KeyNote Presenters!
Prof. Ph.D. Anat Lechner
Professor of
business management
Stern School of Business, NYU
Lecture: Color Strategy in the Age of
Artificial Intelligence
Mini Bio
Anat Lechner, Ph.D., is a Full Professor of Business Management at the Stern School of Business, New York University, focusing on disruptive leadership, innovation, and strategic change. She is also the co-founder and CEO of Huedata Inc., a Color Intelligence Company. A former Research Fellow at McKinsey & Co. Dr. Lechner has advised global Fortune 100 firms in the Financial Services, Pharmaceuticals, Chemicals, Energy, Food, Tech, Design, Defense, and Retail industries. She’s had numerous appearances on the NYT, WSJ, BBC, ABC, FT, Forbes and other premier global media outlets. Anat holds an MBA and a Ph.D. in Business Management from Rutgers University, NJ.
Leatrice Eiseman
Executive
director
Pantone Color Institute
Mini Bio
Leatrice Eiseman is a color specialist and consultant who has been called “the international color guru.” In fact, her color expertise is recognized worldwide, especially as a prime consultant to Pantone®. She has helped many companies make the best and most educated choice of color for personal or professional development, product development, logos and identification, brand imaging, web sites, packaging, interior/exterior design or any other application where color choice is critical to the success of the product, promotion, company image or environment.
Lee heads the Eiseman Center for Color Information and Training and is also executive director of the Pantone® Color Institute. She is the author of ten books on color.
Both the New York Times and Fortune Magazine named Lee as a “Top Decision Maker” for her work in color. She conducts many color/design seminars at trade shows, museums, college and universities, delivers in-house color training and is widely quoted in consumer publications and online, ranging from fashion and interiors/exteriors to various trade magazines.
Her academic background includes a degree in psychology from Antioch as well as advanced studies and counseling specialist certification from UCLA. She has studied both fashion and interior design and has taught in both areas. She is a member of the international forecasting group for the Pantone® View Color Planner and develops a home forecast yearly. She also heads the committee for naming Pantone’s color of the year and seasonally assists in identifying the top fashion colors for Women’s Wear Daily that is shared internationally.
Lee is an allied member of the American Society of Interior Designers, Industrial Design Society of America, as well as the Fashion Group, and has received several awards from the Color Marketing Group where she served as a chairholder. She is a founding member of the Film Institute museum in Los Angeles and a member of the American Film Institute.
She shares her expertise on color and design for industry and personal image in certified programs presented online and in person.
Prof. Ph.D. Anat Lechner
Professor of
business management
Stern School of Business, NYU
Lecture: Color Strategy in the Age of
Artificial Intelligence
Mini Bio
Anat Lechner, Ph.D., is a Full Professor of Business Management at the Stern School of Business, New York University, focusing on disruptive leadership, innovation, and strategic change. She is also the co-founder and CEO of Huedata Inc., a Color Intelligence Company. A former Research Fellow at McKinsey & Co. Dr. Lechner has advised global Fortune 100 firms in the Financial Services, Pharmaceuticals, Chemicals, Energy, Food, Tech, Design, Defense, and Retail industries. She’s had numerous appearances on the NYT, WSJ, BBC, ABC, FT, Forbes and other premier global media outlets. Anat holds an MBA and a Ph.D. in Business Management from Rutgers University, NJ.
Leatrice Eiseman
Executive
director
Pantone Color Institute
Mini Bio
Leatrice Eiseman is a color specialist and consultant who has been called “the international color guru.” In fact, her color expertise is recognized worldwide, especially as a prime consultant to Pantone®. She has helped many companies make the best and most educated choice of color for personal or professional development, product development, logos and identification, brand imaging, web sites, packaging, interior/exterior design or any other application where color choice is critical to the success of the product, promotion, company image or environment.
Lee heads the Eiseman Center for Color Information and Training and is also executive director of the Pantone® Color Institute. She is the author of ten books on color.
Both the New York Times and Fortune Magazine named Lee as a “Top Decision Maker” for her work in color. She conducts many color/design seminars at trade shows, museums, college and universities, delivers in-house color training and is widely quoted in consumer publications and online, ranging from fashion and interiors/exteriors to various trade magazines.
Her academic background includes a degree in psychology from Antioch as well as advanced studies and counseling specialist certification from UCLA. She has studied both fashion and interior design and has taught in both areas. She is a member of the international forecasting group for the Pantone® View Color Planner and develops a home forecast yearly. She also heads the committee for naming Pantone’s color of the year and seasonally assists in identifying the top fashion colors for Women’s Wear Daily that is shared internationally.
Lee is an allied member of the American Society of Interior Designers, Industrial Design Society of America, as well as the Fashion Group, and has received several awards from the Color Marketing Group where she served as a chairholder. She is a founding member of the Film Institute museum in Los Angeles and a member of the American Film Institute.
She shares her expertise on color and design for industry and personal image in certified programs presented online and in person.
Patricia Fecci
MARKETING
MANAGER
Sherwin Williams
Lecture: Color Trends for 2025
Mini Bio
Patrícia Fecci works as Marketing Manager for Color and Design Services at Tintas Sherwin-Williams do Brasil, being responsible for the tinting system and color services for all product distribution channels in which the company operates. Among the main activities are the development of specific color palettes, color trends, color merchandising, training and development of new partnerships with specifying audiences and influencers. She is part of the Sherwin-Williams global color forecasting team, which tracks and predicts color trends and design influences for the coatings industry, creating and delivering color presentations to architects and designers.
Designer Ciça Costa
Founder laboratório
cores da floresta
Lecture: Natural Pigments from the Brazilian Rainforest
Mini Bio
Designer, co-founder of Estúdio In Totum where the principles of design are at the service of social transformation and human development, aimed at creating a healthy, fair, prosperous and happy world.
She develops, coordinates, and facilitates social projects in communities, working on social design, valuing local culture and practices and exchanging knowledge. Co-creation of the Movimento Revolucion Artesanal, Lab Cor and Cupu do Quintal (AM).
Projects | IPP Amazônia (2011 – Tumbira – AM), Alinhavando o Futuro (2012) with women from RDS Rio Negro and Laborartório Cores da Floresta – Tumbira – Rio Negro/AM since 2019, currently in its 6th edition.
Graduated in Social Communication from Faculdade Cásper Líbero and in Physical Education from FEFISA. She participated in the Profides (2015), Delicate Activism and Invisible Artists Program (2016-2018) courses at Instituto Fonte and Proteus Iniatiative.
Patricia Fecci
MARKETING
MANAGER
Sherwin Williams
Lecture: Color Trends for 2025
Mini Bio
Patrícia Fecci works as Marketing Manager for Color and Design Services at Tintas Sherwin-Williams do Brasil, being responsible for the tinting system and color services for all product distribution channels in which the company operates. Among the main activities are the development of specific color palettes, color trends, color merchandising, training and development of new partnerships with specifying audiences and influencers. She is part of the Sherwin-Williams global color forecasting team, which tracks and predicts color trends and design influences for the coatings industry, creating and delivering color presentations to architects and designers.
Designer Ciça Costa
Founder laboratório
cores da floresta
Lecture: Natural Pigments from the Brazilian Rainforest
Mini Bio
Designer, co-founder of Estúdio In Totum where the principles of design are at the service of social transformation and human development, aimed at creating a healthy, fair, prosperous and happy world.
She develops, coordinates, and facilitates social projects in communities, working on social design, valuing local culture and practices and exchanging knowledge. Co-creation of the Movimento Revolucion Artesanal, Lab Cor and Cupu do Quintal (AM).
Projects | IPP Amazônia (2011 – Tumbira – AM), Alinhavando o Futuro (2012) with women from RDS Rio Negro and Laborartório Cores da Floresta – Tumbira – Rio Negro/AM since 2019, currently in its 6th edition.
Graduated in Social Communication from Faculdade Cásper Líbero and in Physical Education from FEFISA. She participated in the Profides (2015), Delicate Activism and Invisible Artists Program (2016-2018) courses at Instituto Fonte and Proteus Iniatiative.
Prof. Ed.D. Petronio Bendito
Professor of
art and design
Purdue University, USA
Lecture: Algorithmic Digital Color Expressions
Mini Bio
Petronio Bendito, Ed.D., is a media artist, designer, and professor in the Patti and Rusty Rueff School of Design, Art, and Performance at Purdue University. Dr. Bendito’s creative and scholarly works investigate digital color literacy and the intersection of art, science, and technology. He is the author of the RGB/CMY Digital Color Wheel, which is a tool used for teaching digital color literacy. He is also a contributing writer for The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Design based in the UK and serves as a member of the editorial board for the Journal of Visual Literacy, published by the Taylor & Francis Group. Through his artistic and design practice, he examines digital color design aesthetics and methods and media arts education. Dr. Bendito has collaborated extensively on interdisciplinary projects with professionals from various fields, including music, dance, choreography, theater, light design, mathematics, neuroscience, and computer science. He lectures and presents his work and collaborations internationally.
Dr. Bendito teaches digital media design and digital color, covering topics such as digital color methods and communication, visual storytelling, web and mobile user interfaces (UI), augmented reality (AR), and virtual reality (VR). Dr. Bendito is a faculty member in the Department of Art and Design and teaches in the Visual Communication Design program. He also serves as the co-curator for the Intersection of Art and Science exhibits in the Department of Computer Science and is the co-editor of the accompanying catalog.
Bendito’s works have been cited in interdisciplinary publications, such as Image and Imagery (text by Elizabeth Mix; Corrado Federici (Ed.), 2005, Peter Lang International Academic Publishers (2005); Les Entreprises Critiques (Rose Marie Barrientos, et al., 2008, Cité du Design, Paris); Consortium, No.100 in the article “Bridging The Math-Art Divide” (Sarah Williams and David Pier) by the COMAP, Inc. (Consortium for Mathematics and its Applications); A monography published by the Art Museum of Greater Lafayette, Indiana, titled Petronio Bendito: Digital Color, Algorithm and Expression (2014) includes essays by art historians Catherine Dossin and Elizabeth Mix. His works have also appeared in exhibition catalogs and academic papers.
Bendito is the recipient of several art awards including the International Visual Literacy Association Creative Achievement Award (2007), Best of Show/Digital Printmaking (2013), Indiana Arts Commission Grant (2013), Bank One Purchase Award (2004), Indiana Partnership for Statewide Education Award (2004), Indiana Partnership For Statewide Education Award (2004), VPA/Purdue Excellence in Teaching Award (2005), Puffin Foundation Artist Grant Award (2003), 15ht AVA Juried Annual Exhibition Award (2002) and WIRED magazine’s Contest Winner 10.03/Return to Sender Postal Art (2002). His paper “Algorithmic Color Methods of Media Arts” (2023) published by the ACC Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage was previously recognized as a major contribution to color by the International Colour Association (AIC) 14th Congress, Milan.
Bendito is a former member of the Board of Directors of the International Visual Literacy Association, a former contributing editor for a Media-N, a founding member of the New Media Caucus, and a current reviewer and board member for the Journal of Visual Literacy. He is the co-editor of the Selected Readings of the Information Design International Conference (2009) and wrote a chapter for the Selected Reading of the 4th Information Design International Conference: Theories, Methods, and Applications (2011).
Prof. Ph.D. Larissa Noury
Professor of
color in art and Architecture
ITECOM Art&Design Paris, President-founder “Colour-Space-Culture/ Couleur-Espace-Culture » France, Centre Français de la Couleur
Lecture: Ecology of Color in Urban Environment
Mini Bio
Born in Belorussia. She Lives and works in Paris, Montmartre. Artist-painter and Architect-colourist, she has PhD in Art & Architecture, Polytechnic School in Minsk and LISI & Academy of Fine Arts, Saint-Petersburg PhD in History of Arts, University Michel de Montagne, Bordeaux – III Professor of Colour ITECOM ART&DESIGN, Paris Guest researcher-colourist, Scandinavian Colour Institute, Stockholm Professor of Colour, Department of Arts, Bordeaux & High School of Arts & Techniques, ESAT, Paris President-founder of CEC “Colour-Space-Culture” International Association MUSEUMS & COLLECTIONS MUSEUM OF COLOURS, BERLIN, GERMANY MS MUSEUM OF ART, MISSISSIPPI, GRATS DÉCOR, SAN FRANCISCO, USA Ministry of Culture, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, UEA NINGBO PEOPLE’S MUSEUM, CNINA SUPIA ART MUSEUM & KYUNGPOOK NATIONAL UNIVERSITY’S ART MUSEUM, DAE-GU, SOUTH KOREA MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART, ХIAO, MALAYSIA Shanghai Lanphoon Museum/Art Center, CHINA KALA CHAUPAL, JAIPUR & Center KA, Varanasi, INDIA HINDIYEH MUSEUM & IRBID CITY GALLERY, JORDAN MUSEUM YAVOROV, BULGARY NATIONAL MUSEUM of Sukhareka, KOSOVO MUSEUM OF VINE, PARIS, FRANCE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, PARIS, GLDF-GRAND LOGE, PARIS, FRANCE FRENCH INSTITUTE WASHINGTON, DC USA ARTIRANA FONDATION& SARANDA MUNICIPALITY, ALBANIA Municipality of Ödemis, TÜRKIYE Draudacul Art Foundation, Gostivar municipality, NORTH MACEDONIA Municipality of Kalamaria, GREECE AADD Ybbs Foundation, AUSTRIA AWARDS Golden Medal of International Lepine competition, Paris Awards of The Samskrithi Fondation, India Silver Medal of Academic Society ”Arts-Sciences-Letters” Grant of the Ministry of Culture, National Center of Book – CNL, France Great Price of the Union of the Architects, Moscow, Russia Great Price of the Swedish Institute, Stockholm Great Price of the George Soros Foundation, United States of America Author of three books and many articles:
· “Colour in the city”, 2008,
· “Symbolic. Colour in the city”, 2010
· “Symbolic of Colours. Art, Design, Architecture”, 2020. As a Golden medal of International Lepine Design competition, she was Invited professor by different High school of fine Arts and architecture and participate in international art festivals and symposiums in United States, Egypt, China, Japan, Argentina, Mexico, Italy, Sri Lanka, Korea, India, Emirates, Australia, Malaysia, Spain, Kosovo, Albania, Uzbekistan, Belarus etc. She has done more than 30 solo shows, and group exhibitions. Her artwork is in many private collections and in 19 museums and art foundations over the world.
Prof. Ed.D. Petronio Bendito
Professor of
art and design
Purdue University, USA
Lecture: Algorithmic Digital Color Expressions
Mini Bio
Petronio Bendito, Ed.D., is a media artist, designer, and professor in the Patti and Rusty Rueff School of Design, Art, and Performance at Purdue University. Dr. Bendito’s creative and scholarly works investigate digital color literacy and the intersection of art, science, and technology. He is the author of the RGB/CMY Digital Color Wheel, which is a tool used for teaching digital color literacy. He is also a contributing writer for The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Design based in the UK and serves as a member of the editorial board for the Journal of Visual Literacy, published by the Taylor & Francis Group. Through his artistic and design practice, he examines digital color design aesthetics and methods and media arts education. Dr. Bendito has collaborated extensively on interdisciplinary projects with professionals from various fields, including music, dance, choreography, theater, light design, mathematics, neuroscience, and computer science. He lectures and presents his work and collaborations internationally.
Dr. Bendito teaches digital media design and digital color, covering topics such as digital color methods and communication, visual storytelling, web and mobile user interfaces (UI), augmented reality (AR), and virtual reality (VR). Dr. Bendito is a faculty member in the Department of Art and Design and teaches in the Visual Communication Design program. He also serves as the co-curator for the Intersection of Art and Science exhibits in the Department of Computer Science and is the co-editor of the accompanying catalog.
Bendito’s works have been cited in interdisciplinary publications, such as Image and Imagery (text by Elizabeth Mix; Corrado Federici (Ed.), 2005, Peter Lang International Academic Publishers (2005); Les Entreprises Critiques (Rose Marie Barrientos, et al., 2008, Cité du Design, Paris); Consortium, No.100 in the article “Bridging The Math-Art Divide” (Sarah Williams and David Pier) by the COMAP, Inc. (Consortium for Mathematics and its Applications); A monography published by the Art Museum of Greater Lafayette, Indiana, titled Petronio Bendito: Digital Color, Algorithm and Expression (2014) includes essays by art historians Catherine Dossin and Elizabeth Mix. His works have also appeared in exhibition catalogs and academic papers.
Bendito is the recipient of several art awards including the International Visual Literacy Association Creative Achievement Award (2007), Best of Show/Digital Printmaking (2013), Indiana Arts Commission Grant (2013), Bank One Purchase Award (2004), Indiana Partnership for Statewide Education Award (2004), Indiana Partnership For Statewide Education Award (2004), VPA/Purdue Excellence in Teaching Award (2005), Puffin Foundation Artist Grant Award (2003), 15ht AVA Juried Annual Exhibition Award (2002) and WIRED magazine’s Contest Winner 10.03/Return to Sender Postal Art (2002). His paper “Algorithmic Color Methods of Media Arts” (2023) published by the ACC Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage was previously recognized as a major contribution to color by the International Colour Association (AIC) 14th Congress, Milan.
Bendito is a former member of the Board of Directors of the International Visual Literacy Association, a former contributing editor for a Media-N, a founding member of the New Media Caucus, and a current reviewer and board member for the Journal of Visual Literacy. He is the co-editor of the Selected Readings of the Information Design International Conference (2009) and wrote a chapter for the Selected Reading of the 4th Information Design International Conference: Theories, Methods, and Applications (2011).
Prof. Ph.D. Larissa Noury
Professor of
color in art and Architecture
ITECOM Art&Design Paris, President-founder “Colour-Space-Culture/ Couleur-Espace-Culture » France, Centre Français de la Couleur
Lecture: Ecology of Color in Urban Environment
Mini Bio
Born in Belorussia. She Lives and works in Paris, Montmartre. Artist-painter and Architect-colourist, she has PhD in Art & Architecture, Polytechnic School in Minsk and LISI & Academy of Fine Arts, Saint-Petersburg PhD in History of Arts, University Michel de Montagne, Bordeaux – III Professor of Colour ITECOM ART&DESIGN, Paris Guest researcher-colourist, Scandinavian Colour Institute, Stockholm Professor of Colour, Department of Arts, Bordeaux & High School of Arts & Techniques, ESAT, Paris President-founder of CEC “Colour-Space-Culture” International Association MUSEUMS & COLLECTIONS MUSEUM OF COLOURS, BERLIN, GERMANY MS MUSEUM OF ART, MISSISSIPPI, GRATS DÉCOR, SAN FRANCISCO, USA Ministry of Culture, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, UEA NINGBO PEOPLE’S MUSEUM, CNINA SUPIA ART MUSEUM & KYUNGPOOK NATIONAL UNIVERSITY’S ART MUSEUM, DAE-GU, SOUTH KOREA MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART, ХIAO, MALAYSIA Shanghai Lanphoon Museum/Art Center, CHINA KALA CHAUPAL, JAIPUR & Center KA, Varanasi, INDIA HINDIYEH MUSEUM & IRBID CITY GALLERY, JORDAN MUSEUM YAVOROV, BULGARY NATIONAL MUSEUM of Sukhareka, KOSOVO MUSEUM OF VINE, PARIS, FRANCE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, PARIS, GLDF-GRAND LOGE, PARIS, FRANCE FRENCH INSTITUTE WASHINGTON, DC USA ARTIRANA FONDATION& SARANDA MUNICIPALITY, ALBANIA Municipality of Ödemis, TÜRKIYE Draudacul Art Foundation, Gostivar municipality, NORTH MACEDONIA Municipality of Kalamaria, GREECE AADD Ybbs Foundation, AUSTRIA AWARDS Golden Medal of International Lepine competition, Paris Awards of The Samskrithi Fondation, India Silver Medal of Academic Society ”Arts-Sciences-Letters” Grant of the Ministry of Culture, National Center of Book – CNL, France Great Price of the Union of the Architects, Moscow, Russia Great Price of the Swedish Institute, Stockholm Great Price of the George Soros Foundation, United States of America Author of three books and many articles:
· “Colour in the city”, 2008,
· “Symbolic. Colour in the city”, 2010
· “Symbolic of Colours. Art, Design, Architecture”, 2020. As a Golden medal of International Lepine Design competition, she was Invited professor by different High school of fine Arts and architecture and participate in international art festivals and symposiums in United States, Egypt, China, Japan, Argentina, Mexico, Italy, Sri Lanka, Korea, India, Emirates, Australia, Malaysia, Spain, Kosovo, Albania, Uzbekistan, Belarus etc. She has done more than 30 solo shows, and group exhibitions. Her artwork is in many private collections and in 19 museums and art foundations over the world.
Polar Design Studio
Lad awarded as best
design studio in brazil
Former Design ESPM Students
Lecture: Chromatic Design Cases
Polar Design Studio
Lad awarded as best
design studio in brazil
Former Design ESPM Students
Lecture: Chromatic Design Cases
Here are our Workshops!
Here are our Workshops!
Watercolor of Brazilian Plants and Landscapes
Workshop 1
Monday September 16th, 10am – 12am
Registration available in the Registration segment of the site. Open soon. 20 places, for the first 20 interested.
Prof. Artist Maria Ines Lukacs
President of the Brazilian Watercolor Society
Mini Bio
President of Brazilian Association of Watercolor and Art on Paper. Graduated in Fine Arts at Casa São Vicente de Paula (1969) and in Literature at the Faculty of Philosophy, Sciences and Letters Oswaldo Cruz (1987). Since 1991, she has been a member of the FASM Watercolorist Group, which in 2006 became the ABA – Brazilian Association of Watercolor and Art on Paper, in São Paulo. In 1998, she obtained a Postgraduate Degree in Fine Arts “watercolor painting” at Faculdade Santa Marcelina. She participated in the Watercolor Workshop with Dong Kingman, in New York (1998). Since 1967, she has participated in numerous group exhibitions, in Brazil and abroad, Museo Nacional de La Acuarela Coyoacán, Mexico City (1996); Pannonia Gallery, Sopron, Hungary (1997); Scuola Internazionale di Gráfica, Venice, Italy; Galeria Candido Portinari, Embassy of Brazil, Rome, Italy (2000); Gallery of the Union’s Club in Frankfurt and Sparkässe in Giessen, Germany (2000); IBRIT, Milan, Italy (2001); FabrianoinAcquarello since 2014; Sperlonga in Acquarello (2019). Of the individual exhibitions, which began in 1982 at the UCBEU Art Gallery in São Paulo, we can highlight the Centro Cultural de São Paulo (1987); Asian Watercolors’97, Singapore, representing Brazil as a special guest (1997); “Brazilian Trees and Landscapes”, Haus Rosenbrunn, Frankfurt, Germany (2000); “Brazilian Forests and Landscapes”, UCBEU, São Paulo (2000); “The Amazon, a link between Brazil and Guyana”, Georgetown, Guyana (2002); and Anfavea, Motor Show, São Paulo (2002), Galeria do Hospital Albert Einstein – SP, Clube Transatlântico – SP (2003), Brasilia (2010) and Rosa Cruz – SP (2022) – Galeria Priscila Mainieri – SP (2023) . She also participated in biennials and triennials abroad, Mexico, Colombia, Bolivia, Venezuela and art salons in Brazil, having received several awards and gold medals. 1st Piracicaba Watercolor Room – Acquisition Prize – (2015). She was curator of the Exhibition “Aquarela 2000, At the Doors of the Millennium”, Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Americana (2000); from the Exhibition “Images of Malaysia”, Espaço Cultural Eugenie Villien, São Paulo (2001) and “Aquarela e Gravuras” from the Núcleo de Aquarelistas da FASM, Associação Comercial de São Paulo (2002) in addition to other annual ABA exhibitions. She was a member of the American Watercolor Society, AWS, APAP and SINAPESP. Her works are found in official and private collections, notably in the collection of the Pinacoteca Municipal de São Paulo and Tombo: 0000090377 – Guard of the São Paulo Cultural Center, UNIFIEO, the Circolo Italiano, the Cultural Center of the Brazilian Embassy in Mexico City , from the Museo Internazionale dell’ Acquarello, Fabriano, Italy, at the Pinacoteca Forum das Artes – Botucatu – SP, at the IHGSV – São Vicente – SP. Leader of Brazil for Fabriano Inacquarello and the International Watercolor Platform. Painting is part of M Inês Lukacs’ daily life. It’s like breathing, dreaming and creating.
Prof. Artist Lilian Arbex
Counselor of the Brazilian Watercolor Society
Mini Bio
Artist and Counselor to ABA – Brazilian Association of Watercolor and Art on Paper. Ambassador of WhiteNights/Nevskaya Palitra paints.
Master in Aesthetics and Art History (2022 – USP). Graduated in Pharmacy and Biochemistry (1992) and Industrial Design/Visual Programming (1997 – FAAP), postgraduate degree in Graphic Design (2001). Other courses: Botanical Illustration at Cornell University (United States) and the Royal Botanic Garden of Edinburgh (UK), university extension in Book of Artist and its Grammatical Extensions (Faculdade Conec).
Some of her paintings and engravings belong to collections private and public, such as Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo and National Library of Rio de Janeiro, Banco Bradesco, São Paulo Sports Secretariat, International Watercolor Museum (Fabriano/Italy) Izmir City Hall (Türkiye),
Bolivariano Museum of Contemporary Art Foundation (Colombia), Casa de Xilogravura Museum (Campos do Jordão, SP).
RGB Color Mixing Through Microscopic Pixel Exploration
Workshop 2
Monday September 16th, 1pm – 4 pm
Registration available in the Registration segment of the site. Open soon. 30 places, for the first 30 interested.
Prof. Ed.D. Petronio Bendito
Professor of Art and Design
Purdue University, US
Mini Bio
Petronio Bendito, Ed.D., is a media artist, designer, and professor in the Patti and Rusty Rueff School of Design, Art, and Performance at Purdue University. Dr. Bendito’s creative and scholarly works investigate digital color literacy and the intersection of art, science, and technology. He is the author of the RGB/CMY Digital Color Wheel, which is a tool used for teaching digital color literacy. He is also a contributing writer for The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Design based in the UK and serves as a member of the editorial board for the Journal of Visual Literacy, published by the Taylor & Francis Group. Through his artistic and design practice, he examines digital color design aesthetics and methods and media arts education. Dr. Bendito has collaborated extensively on interdisciplinary projects with professionals from various fields, including music, dance, choreography, theater, light design, mathematics, neuroscience, and computer science. He lectures and presents his work and collaborations internationally.
Dr. Bendito teaches digital media design and digital color, covering topics such as digital color methods and communication, visual storytelling, web and mobile user interfaces (UI), augmented reality (AR), and virtual reality (VR). Dr. Bendito is a faculty member in the Department of Art and Design and teaches in the Visual Communication Design program. He also serves as the co-curator for the Intersection of Art and Science exhibits in the Department of Computer Science and is the co-editor of the accompanying catalog.
Bendito’s works have been cited in interdisciplinary publications, such as Image and Imagery (text by Elizabeth Mix; Corrado Federici (Ed.), 2005, Peter Lang International Academic Publishers (2005); Les Entreprises Critiques (Rose Marie Barrientos, et al., 2008, Cité du Design, Paris); Consortium, No.100 in the article “Bridging The Math-Art Divide” (Sarah Williams and David Pier) by the COMAP, Inc. (Consortium for Mathematics and its Applications); A monography published by the Art Museum of Greater Lafayette, Indiana, titled Petronio Bendito: Digital Color, Algorithm and Expression (2014) includes essays by art historians Catherine Dossin and Elizabeth Mix. His works have also appeared in exhibition catalogs and academic papers.
Bendito is the recipient of several art awards including the International Visual Literacy Association Creative Achievement Award (2007), Best of Show/Digital Printmaking (2013), Indiana Arts Commission Grant (2013), Bank One Purchase Award (2004), Indiana Partnership for Statewide Education Award (2004), Indiana Partnership For Statewide Education Award (2004), VPA/Purdue Excellence in Teaching Award (2005), Puffin Foundation Artist Grant Award (2003), 15ht AVA Juried Annual Exhibition Award (2002) and WIRED magazine’s Contest Winner 10.03/Return to Sender Postal Art (2002). His paper “Algorithmic Color Methods of Media Arts” (2023) published by the ACC Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage was previously recognized as a major contribution to color by the International Colour Association (AIC) 14th Congress, Milan.
Bendito is a former member of the Board of Directors of the International Visual Literacy Association, a former contributing editor for a Media-N, a founding member of the New Media Caucus, and a current reviewer and board member for the Journal of Visual Literacy. He is the co-editor of the Selected Readings of the Information Design International Conference (2009) and wrote a chapter for the Selected Reading of the 4th Information Design International Conference: Theories, Methods, and Applications (2011).
Natural Pigments from the Brazilian Rainforest
Workshop 3
Wednesday September 18th, 4:30pm – 6 pm
Registration available in the Registration segment of the site. Open soon. 12 places, for the first 12 interested.
Designer Ciça Costa
Founder Laboratório Cores da Floresta
Mini Bio
Designer, co-founder of Estúdio In Totum where the principles of design are at the service of social transformation and human development, aimed at creating a healthy, fair, prosperous and happy world.
She develops, coordinates, and facilitates social projects in communities, working on social design, valuing local culture and practices and exchanging knowledge. Co-creation of the Movimento Revolucion Artesanal, Lab Cor and Cupu do Quintal (AM).
Projects | IPP Amazônia (2011 – Tumbira – AM), Alinhavando o Futuro (2012) with women from RDS Rio Negro and Laborartório Cores da Floresta – Tumbira – Rio Negro/AM since 2019, currently in its 6th edition.
Graduated in Social Communication from Faculdade Cásper Líbero and in Physical Education from FEFISA. She participated in the Profides (2015), Delicate Activism and Invisible Artists Program (2016-2018) courses at Instituto Fonte and Proteus Iniatiative.
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