Color Theory
The three primary colors on the color wheel
What is red, yellow, blue?
Housing where NYC’s urban poor lived at the turn of the century, in oftentimes unsafe and unhealthy conditions
What are tenements?
Publicolor’s Founder and CEO
Who is Ruth Lande Shuman?
The name for where students get all their supplies and paint refills while painting
What is a workstation?
The current mayor of NYC
Zohran Mamdani
The lightness or darkness of a color
What is value?
Public housing that is run and maintained by the City
What is NYCHA?
Publicolor’s introductory program in the schools, where students transform their spaces with color
What is Paint Club?
The name for the portion of painting where you “outline” the wall, painting around the corners and any difficult to reach areas
What is cutting?
The country that gifted us the Statue of Liberty
What is France?
What you get when you add gray to a hue
What is a tone?
The urban planner who worked closely with Mayor LaGuardia on the development of public housing in NYC
Who is Robert Moses?
The director of Publicolor’s Next Steps program
Who is Jose Figueroa?
The primer that we use on doors, doorframes, metal, fences, etc.
What is Stix?
The largest borough by land mass
What is Queens?
This color exercise is when you make one color look like two different colors by changing their context.
What is simultaneous contrast?
The design inspired by Le Corbusier that was used for the majority of NYCHA buildings in NYC
What is “towers-in-the-park?”
The year Publicolor was founded
What is 1996?
Our most commonly used wall color
What is sundance?
The largest borough by population
What is Brooklyn?
A visual impression that remains after the original image is gone.
What is afterimage?
A kind of affordable housing in NYC specifically aimed at middle class residents, giving them opportunities to rent and own in a co-op structure
What is Mitchell-Lama?
The name of Publicolor’s annual gala
What is Stir, Splatter and Roll?
The three parts of a paintbrush
What are bristles, ferrule, and handle?
The longest subway line in NYC
What is the A train?