Explore Student Work

Students in Professor Keller’s Winter 2018 course,  The Global History of Color, investigated individual objects from campus collections. Below is a selection of their work, edited for style, in approximate chronological order. After composing these exhibition labels for their objects, students then went on to write final research papers about each one.

Seals

Coat of arms

Womandrake

King Solomon’s Red Robes

Holy Family

San Zeno monastery, Verona, Privileges

Mary’s Mantle

Flower Garden

Lost and Found

Raspberry

Carolina pinkroot

Floral beaded bag

Spontoon Tomahawk Pipe

Kwakwaka’wakw Mask

Inuit Mask