Events

Past Event

Azurite Pigment Workshop

April 17, 2026
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
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Milstein Center for Teaching and Learning (Room 104), Barnard College, 3009 Broadway, New York

Event Description 

Want to try your hand at making paint from scratch? Join the Making and Knowing Project and the Barnard Design Center to learn how 16th-century artisans combined art and science to create brilliant colors. Students will use traditional methods and materials to transform the azurite mineral from a rock to blue paint. No painting experience is necessary! 

Event Information

Open to Columbia University and Barnard College students; registration required. Contact [email protected] with any questions. 

Hosted by the Making and Knowing Project and the Center for Science and Society at Columbia University and the Barnard Design Center.