A blog about living in color.
Color & Culture
Art & Artisanry
True Colors presents the work and vision of twenty-six natural dye artists from around the world, opening a window into their culture, their lives, and the power of color.
The second edition of True Colors will be released on September 1, 2020. Pre-Order Today!
About The Chromosapien
Keith Recker brings 35 years of adventuresome, insightful, multicultural experience in marketing, merchandising, trend and color forecasting, and content development tool of his work. He is Editor in Chief of TABLE Magazine, a publication with strong roots in food and drink, as well as travel, interior design, fashion and jewelry, and other facets of modern living, in both print and digital formats.
Recker is the founder and editor of HAND/EYE Magazine, an online publication with a global following that profiles forward-looking creators, faraway cultures, ancient craft traditions, and cutting-edge design. Previously, Recker was vice president of home furnishings at Bloomingdale’s and Gump’s San Francisco, and director at Saks Fifth Avenue. As director of product development at Granet and Associates, Recker helped create relationships between creative brands and manufacturers and marketers serving the retail and design industries. Clients included Clodagh, Suzanne Kasler, Charlotte Moss, Pantone, and many others. Recker is also a trend and color forecaster whose almost 20-year client list includes global influencers Pantone, WGSN, Stylus, and more.
The revised second edition of his book, True Colors: World Masters of Natural Dyes and Pigments (Thrums Books) debuts in September 2020, with chapters already excerpted in London-based Selvedge Magazine, NY Textile Month Journal, and Metropolis Magazine. He is co-author of PANTONE: The Twentieth Century in Color (Chronicle, 2012), published in eight languages. Recker’s work on color and culture has been published by the Studio Museum of Harlem, the Museum of Art and Design, Brooklyn Rail, The Santa Fe New Mexican, and more.
He has also worked in the nonprofit world as a director of consumer marketing at CARE International and executive director at Aid to Artisans and has served on the boards of Art in General, Chez Bushwick, The Quiet in the Land, and the Global Center for Cultural Entrepreneurship. He is serving his third term as a board member of the Santa Fe International Folk Art Market, and also serves as a trustee of the Winchester Thurston School.