Lecture: Seeing Mesoamerican Color with Kristopher Driggers

In ancient Mesoamerican traditions, colors were rich with meaning, and artists made choices about chromaticism that infused their work with an understanding of color’s place in the cosmos. Today, new paths for exploring color have created fuller understandings of its meanings in Mesaomerica. In this talk, Associate Curator of Latin American Art Kristopher Driggers will examine how recent findings by archaeologists, materials scientists, linguists, historians, and artists have produced new visions of color in traditions like Maya, Aztec, and Zapotec art. These advances allow us to better understand the cultural context of colors like the pigment at the center of the SAMA exhibition "Maya Blue: Ancient Color, New Visions," on view through May 2026.

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