Color science Ph.D. student presents at three conferences

Leah Humenuck, color science Ph.D. student, presented at three conferences relating to color and cultural heritage. Humenuck presented “Beyond RGB for Item Documentation in a Conservation Workflow” at the American Institute for Conservation’s annual meeting in May in Jacksonville, Fla. Humenuck taught a short course, “Beyond RGB Low Barrier-to-Entry Multispectral Imaging for Color Accurate Art Documentation and Reproduction,” and presented three posters at the Inter-Society Color Council’s Color Impact conference, hosted by RIT in June. Humenuck also presented “Beyond RGB 1.5: Improvements to a free, open-source, spectral image processing software application for cultural heritage studio photography” at the Society for Imaging Science and Technology’s Archiving conference in June in Oslo, Norway. Collaborators include Associate Professor Susan Farnand; Olivia Kuzio ’22 MS (chemistry), ’23 Ph.D. (color science); color science master’s student Gabrielle Brogle; museum studies student Isabell Moyer; and color science Ph.D. student Sofie Herbeck.