LUNCH AND LEARN: THE COLORFUL HISTORY OF PIGMENTS AND POISONS with Arielle Hessler

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Friday, April 27 at 12:00pm.  Where does color come from?  Enjoy a journey through time and space, learning about the famous colors coveted throughout history. Professional bookbinder and historian Arielle Hessler will reveal the colorful (and sometimes fatal) backstories of how these materials, from indigo to lead to arsenic, have been transformed into such coveted hues.

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