A favorite dictum of artist Josef Albers—known for his meditative, color-saturated paintings of overlapping squares—was “minimal means, maximum effect.” Forty years after his death, this idea is at the heart of a new initiative of the Connecticut-based Josef and Anni Albers Foundation: an artists' residency program and cultural center in rural Senegal. THREAD, as the center is called, is a sensitive work, designed pro bono by New York architect Toshiko Mori, that aims to weave together art, education, and cultural exchange under one roof.
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