The Minneapolis–Saint Paul Section has an active calendar that includes various educational courses as well as multiple opportunities to network and socialize with industry peers. To keep abreast with our upcoming events follow the calendar below.
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Please join IES MSP for a long awaited, in-person social gathering at TopGolf! This is a great opportunity to network with other members while practicing your golf swing for the upcoming season. There will be great conversation, beverages, appetizers, and (hopefully) warm weather.
Date: Thursday, April 28, 2022
Time: 4:00 – 6:00 pm
Location
TopGolf – Brooklyn Center
6420 N. Camden Avenue
Brooklyn Center, MN 55430
https://topgolf.com/us/minneapolis/
Tickets:
IES MSP Member – $50
Guest – $75
Please register by Thursday, April 21, 2022
Please join IES-MSP on Tuesday, May 10, 2022 for a tour of the illuminated art in the new City of Minneapolis Public Service Building. We will be hosted by Mary Altman, City of Minneapolis Public Arts Administrator, and Talia Moorman, City of Minneapolis Public Arts Coordinator, along with Michael Cohen of Schuler Shook, lighting director for the project, and Ian Adams of Gopher Stage Lighting, lighting and controls technical coordinator for the project.
When: Tuesday, May 10, 2022
Where: City of Minneapolis Public Service Building – Where to park
505 Fourth Ave. S
Minneapolis, MN 55415
Schedule:
4:00pm – Registrations open in the Ground Floor conference room where light hors d’oeuvres will be served along with non-alcoholic beverages (water, juice, soda).
4:30pm – A brief presentation on the background of the project and what we will be looking at on the tour.
4:45pm – Break into two groups and tour the art installations in the facility
5:45pm – Reconvene in the Ground Floor Conference Room for a brief Q & A
6:00pm – Conclusion of the event
Mask are currently recommended for those who are vulnerable and unvaccinated. The elevator lobbies are small, so you may want to use them in that location. We will have facemasks available.
For more information about the artwork and artists, visit the public art pages on the City’s website.
Please register by noon on Monday, May 9, 2022
Complete details coming soon!
We’ve all had those projects where in your mind, the details are very well coordinated and perfect, but when the installation happens, it’s not at all like you planned. Conversely, we’ve had those projects where in coordinating all the details, one manages to slip, but it ends up being installed really well. A happy accident that leads to possibly a better outcome than you dreamed up. In this discussion, seasoned lighting designers will talk about their successful projects/installations and the tips and tricks that went into making those a success… along with some “that’s not quite how we planned it” installations and applications that resulted in the BIG lessons learned. As they say, “the Devil is in the details.”
When: Tuesday, November 8, 2022 @ 3:00 p.m.
Where: Virtual
For those that would like to get together and enjoy some appetizers and refreshments we will hold a viewing party at Pulse Products in their tech center at 6130 Blue Circle Dr., Minnetonka, MN 55343
Cost: $10
Learning Objectives:
- Acknowledge that every project is an opportunity to learn, we all make mistakes, and the key is to learn from those mistakes along the way.
- Understand to what level of detail certain aspects of design need to be drawn, how to document successful installations and how integrations from all parts of the design team helped lead to that success.
- Understanding of how all the construction players can be helpful in working through issues that arise.
- Understand how to avoid less successful details and applications and where the pitfalls arose.
Speakers:
Katherine Stekr, CLD, IALD, IES, EDAC, LEED AP BD+C – HLB Lighting Design
As an Associate Director and an integral member of the design team, Katherine’s role is to ensure that the client receives a lighting scheme that suits their programmatic requirements, budget, and aesthetic considerations. She is inspired by the stories that set the tone for the building design and strives to capture what is unique about the architecture and the client when developing the lighting design. Katherine was drawn to lighting design because it represented a hybrid of creativity, problem solving and biological sciences — though it wasn’t her first choice of study. Originally slated to major in chemical engineering, with the intention of pursuing a career in manufacturing explosives, her perspective changed after taking an engineering class that introduced her to lighting. From that point on, she has fostered an ever-evolving appreciation for the impact that light can have on a space, and the emotional connection it can strike with occupants.
Rachel Fitzgerald, CLD, LC, IALD, IES, LEED AP BD+C – Stantec
Rachel Fitzgerald is a Principal and the discipline lead for lighting design with global design firm Stantec. She has nearly 20 years of experience providing exterior and interior lighting designs for hospitality, mixed-use, retail, corporate interiors, civic, multi-family and recreation projects. Rachel is an industry leader who drives health and wellbeing through lighting, providing significant expertise to Stantec’s buildings and master plans globally. Her talent and commitment to the design of highly-sustainable and human-centric spaces has been recognized with more than three dozen design awards. Rachel’s drive to create a world where lighting plays a more impactful role manifests itself through her industry involvement. She is actively involved in regional and national organizations such as the IALD and is passionate about educating others on the power of quality lighting. She is an adjunct instructor at the University of Colorado and serves as a content advisor for the WELL Building Light Concept.
Please register by noon on Monday, Nov. 7, 2022
Industry leaders, in a variety of lighting design specialties, discuss ways in which the training of young professionals can be pioneered for the field’s inevitable changes. Can existing programs create a larger, more qualified pool of young professionals via a “renaissance-like” approach to the lighting industry? Panelists will respond to audience engagement.
Webinar participants are eligible for one and a half (1.5) IES Continuing Education Unit (CEU).
PARTICIPANTS:
MODERATOR: Stan Kaye, SK Design and Consulting LLC Stan Kaye is the founder and principal consultant of SKD. Throughout his 35 years of experience as a designer, educator, and consultant, projects have taken him to nearly all fifty states as well as Europe, Asia and Australia. He has served as the director of the graduate design program at the University of Florida from 1999-2003 and 2011-present. He held membership in United Scenic Artists local 829, the Illuminating Engineers Society, and the International Association of Lighting Designers. Combining an interest in photography, the human visual system, entertainment design, and museum artifact illumination, he has developed a deep knowledge and expertise in lighting design and technology for performance facilities of all types as well as architecture and museums.
PANELIST: Scott Rosenfeld, Lighting Designer at Smithsonian Institution Scott Rosenfeld designs lighting for museums. Originally trained as a theatrical lighting designer, since 1997 Scott has worked at the Smithsonian American Art Museum and The Renwick Gallery in Washington D.C. The advent of LED lighting has led Scott to research new possibilities for manipulating the spectrum of light to enhance vision and slow the degradation of light sensitive materials. Scott frequently lectures about how lighting can allow visitors to better see and appreciate artwork at conferences including: DOE, AIA, IALD, IES, PACCIN and LFI. Scott is chair of the IES’s Museum and Art Gallery Committee.
PANELIST: Kathy Perkins Kathy has designed lighting for Broadway, Off-Broadway, and regional theatres such as American Conservatory Theatre, Arena Stage, Berkeley Repertory, Seattle Repertory, St. Louis Black Repertory, Alliance, Goodman, Steppenwolf, Baltimore Center Stage, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, New Federal Theatre, Mark Taper, Yale Repertory, Actors Theatre of Louisville, People’s Light, and Playmakers Repertory. Kathy is the recipient of numerous research and design awards, including Ford Foundation, Fulbright, National Endowment for the Humanities, an NAACP Image Award and Henry Hewes Design Award. In 2007 she was inducted into the College of Fellows of the American Theatre. She received her BFA from Howard University and M.F.A. from the University of Michigan. Kathy is faculty Emerita at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
PANELIST: Dennis Size, The Lighting Design Group In his 40+ year career Dennis has designed the lighting for shows on every major television Broadcast and cable Network. His international design repertoire includes theatre, dance, live events, soap operas, talk shows, news magazines, government projects, corporate facilities, concerts, sporting events, political conventions, Presidential debates, award shows, and the latest ‘craze’ – home studios and podcasts. He’s written for trade journals and taught at several Universities, including Carnegie Mellon, Penn State, and the University of Scranton. He has been nominated for the EMMY Award 12 times, and has won five. Dennis is an Executive Vice-President of the LIGHTING DESIGN GROUP—an international Broadcast lighting design company headquartered in New York City.
PANELIST: Chip Israel, Lighting Design Alliance Chip Israel has been a lighting designer for over 38 years. In 1992, he founded LIGHTING DESIGN ALLIANCE, a full-service architectural lighting design firm, where he built a highly-select team of lighting design professionals who now serve a variety of clients worldwide. As Co-CEO and Founder, Chip works closely with the owner, design team, and manufacturers to ensure lighting systems are fully integrated with the architectural design and enhance the designer’s concepts. His list of credentials includes being elected as a Fellow in both the IALD, the International Association of Lighting Designers, and the Illuminating Engineering Society. Lighting Design Alliance has also been recognized by winning over 300 National and International design awards, including multiple awards for sustainable lighting design.
PANELIST: Naomi Miller, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Naomi Miller straddles the line between design and engineering at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Portland OR. By bridging the gap between technology and application, she promotes the wise use of LEDs, working with industry to overcome hurdles and celebrate the opportunities. She recently served on the Illuminating Engineering Society’s Board of Directors, and is both a Fellow of the IES and the IALD. Her current research interests are flicker, glare, and light and health. She recently served on the Illuminating Engineering Society’s Board of Directors and is both a Fellow of the IES and the IALD.
PANELIST: Jeff Ravitz, Intensity Advisors, LLC Jeff Ravitz is a Primetime Emmy®-winning lighting designer, lecturer, and writer specializing in live entertainment being captured for multi-camera television. He is the co-author of the book, Lighting For Televised Live Events. Jeff has designed TV specials, from awards shows, concerts and stand-up comedy to debates, interviews and entertainment scenes in films. He is the broadcast lighting advisor to the Coachella festival. His concert credits include world tours for Bruce Springsteen, Steely Dan, John Mellencamp, Styx and Ringo Starr. Jeff was named a Parnelli Lighting Designer of the Year. His design firm, Intensity Advisors, is based in Los Angeles.
PANELIST: Anne Militello, Vortex Lighting Anne Militello is an internationally recognized lighting designer and fine artist with a career spanning all aspects of creating with light. Noted theater work includes original productions directed by Sam Shepard, Maria Irene Fornes, and David Lynch; the Broadway production of ‘Cuba and His Teddy Bear;’ and Christopher Alden’s opera production of ‘The Flying Dutchman.’ She has designed touring concert productions for Tom Waits, Leonard Cohen, Robert Plant, KD Lang, Lou Reed, The Decemberists, Neil Young and Pearl Jam. Numerous architectural projects include the façade of the New 42nd Street Studios and original integrated light art and media installations that continue to grace buildings in NYC. She designed Disneyland attractions with Walt Disney Imagineering and worked with Universal Studios on ‘The Amazing Adventures of Spider-Man.’ Anne is the Principal and Founder of Vortex Lighting.
IES MSP Holiday Service Project & Social
TUESDAY, December 13, 2022
4:10 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
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Please join IES MSP for some holiday giving and cheer with a Feed My Starving Children service project and social gathering at Davis & Associates. This is a great opportunity to network with colleagues, do good and celebrate the holiday season. There will be great work, conversation, beverages, and appetizers. We look forward to seeing you!
Date: Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2022
Time: 4:15 – 8:00 pm
Location
Service project (starts at 4:15 pm):
Feed My Starving Children.
990 Lone Oak Road, Suite 136
Eagan, MN 55121
Social (starts at 6:30 pm): Drinks and appetizers will be at
Davis & Associates office
1305 Corporate Center Drive Ste. 150
Eagan MN 55121
Tickets:
This event is free to attend, however, registration is required so that we know how many volunteers we will have for the service project.
Please register by Thursday, Dec. 8, 2022
This presentation provides an overview of the elements of sustainability and how to best specify sustainably designed luminaires.
Learning Objectives
- Recognize the key elements of sustainability & their impacts including Embodied & Operational Carbon, Materials Responsibility & Workplace Social Responsibility
- Understand the various methods of assessing sustainability including Life Cycle Assessments & Materials Transparency
- Gain a working knowledge of the luminaire related sustainability requirements of WELL, LEED and The Living Building Challenge
- Apply the principals discussed to specify the most environmentally responsible lighting equipment for your project.
Please register by noon on Monday, January 16.
Featured Speaker
Scott Roos is the Vice President, Sustainability & Business Optimization, Specialty Lighting Group at Acuity Brands. 2023 marks Scott’s 45th year in lighting, a career that has encompassed product design, marketing, product management, strategy development and lighting education. Products Scott has worked on have earned numerous patents and awards including the Industrial Design Excellence Award and LightFair’s Most Innovative Product and Technical Innovation awards. He has always been involved in pushing the envelope for critical topics of the time, from developing the first low voltage accent lighting products in the 80’s to helping advance CFL general illumination downlighting in the 90s to driving the development of the first commercially viable LED track and recessed solutions in the early 2000s. Most recently Scott has been a grain of sand in the oyster to encourage us to embrace wellness and sustainability as fundamental elements of good lighting. Scott has a BFA in Industrial Design from the University of Illinois and an MBA from De Paul University. He is currently serving as a member of the IES Sustainability Committee which is updating the LP10 Sustainable Lighting Practice document.
“Lighting WELL: Lighting
and the WELL Building Standard”
TUESDAY, February 14, 2023
12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.
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Approved for 1 CEU
Please join IES MSP for a “Lighting WELL: Lighting and the WELL Building Standard” virtual program on Tuesday, February 14 at 12 pm featuring Greg Quintero, Specification Sales Lead at Signify.
We know how to design environments that fuel our bodies, keep us moving, inspire our best work and facilitate a good night’s sleep. The Well Building Standard endeavors to provide an evidence-based process to validate an approach to design for environmental health and well-being. This seminar explores methods to achieve health and well-being in the Light Concept of the 2019 Well Buildings Standard version 2.0 as it pertains to both electric and daylighting sources. We spend more than 90% of our lives indoors. Studies show strong links between better views, brighter light, and better performance in office environments. The Well Light Concept promotes exposure to light and aims to create lighting environments that are optimal for visual, mental, and biological health. Discover how the Standard supports circadian stimulus, hormone levels and the sleep-wake cycles of occupants derived through scientific and medical knowledge to promote alertness, better performance, and better sleep quality while potentially reducing obesity, diabetes, depression, breast cancer, sleep disorders and more.
Please register by noon on Monday, February 13, 2023
Today’s lighting control systems integrate a number of devices and can work with HVAC, A/V, security, and other building systems. Integrating these within a building automation system (BAS) can yield significant benefits, from maximizing energy savings and cost efficiencies to making the building more responsive to occupants and able to enact IoT strategies. In some projects, the lighting controls design may be integral to the BAS, and coordination may be the responsibility of the control system designer. This seminar will help designers articulate BAS intent, identify integration points, and produce a comprehensive sequence of operations.
When: Tuesday, March 14, 2023 at 4:30 p.m. in person or 5:00 p.m. virtually
Where: Virtual and in-person
Cost: $10 Virtual, $25 in-person
In-person Location: Pulse Products, 6130 Blue Circle Dr., Minnetonka, MN 55343
Speakers:
Gary Meshberg, LEED AP, LC, CLCP, IESNA is vice chair of the Lighting Controls Association and director of industry and market engagement for Digital Lumens/Encelium. A 32-year industry veteran, he previously served as director of marketing, VP of sales and specification business manager for major lighting manufacturers. He serves on the IES Lighting and Controls Commissioning Committee, DoE Integrated Lighting Campaign, past education chair for the Dallas Section and founded the Home Lighting Control Alliance.
C. Webster Marsh loves talking about lighting controls. He owns Penumbra Controls, co-hosts the Lighting Controls Podcast, and serves as a project manager for Boston Illumination Group. His vast knowledge of and experience in the controls segment lends credence to his frequent contribution to the Lighting Controls Association. Webster is also an instructor for the Southern California Edison Energy Education Centers.
Please register by noon on Monday, March 13, 2023