Anita Jorgensen, Anita Jorgensen Lighting Design
Location: Nassau
Thursday, April 15, 2027
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm ET
Credits TBA
Introductory
This presentation will demonstrate how to light objects in a museum environment including paintings, works on paper, and 3-D objects. Topics covered will be the layering lighting, shadow placement, glare, proper lighting angles, balancing conservation concerns regarding lighting levels with the goals of a curator vs. a conservator, color temperature, and optical devices to shape a beam of light. Attendees will be able to review museum standard lighting equipment, as well as see how an LED “blob” of light can be shaped in various ways to best illuminate an object hands-on.
Learning Objectives
- Attendees will learn via slides, as well as hands on, how to approach the illumination of objects installed in a gallery.
- Attendees will learn the layering difference between wall washing, highlighting, and accent lighting via slides as well as a demonstration.
- Attendees will learn industry standard museum conservation concerns as related to a visitor’s ability to see properly, as well as measure the characteristics of a light source using an illuminance meter and a spectrometer. Attendees themselves will measure lux, vertical vs. horizontal illuminance, UV, color temperature, and CRI.
- Attendees will learn hands-on how various optical devices can transform an LED “blob” into different beam spreads, shaping a light source into oval, circular and linear shapes, etc.
Speaker
Anita Jorgensen
Principal
Anita Jorgensen Lighting Design
Anita Jorgensen (IALD, IES, LC, CL) is the founding principal of Anita Jorgensen Lighting Design (AJLD) located in Tribeca, NYC, and has been practicing architectural lighting design for over twenty years. Her background in art history and theatrical lighting design brings a strong sense of aesthetics and drama to her lighting design approach. Her hands-on experience gained from extensive exhibition lighting design work translates into specifications for lighting systems which are not only aesthetically pleasing, but are innovative, easily maintained, as well as durable.
Anita began her lighting career in theatre and transitioned into architectural lighting design when she began to work for Fisher Marantz Stone for several years. From there she spent a number of years working at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Design Department lighting both temporary exhibitions, large scale renovations, as well as permanent gallery installations. Currently, AJLD works on both exhibitions, as well as significant capital projects for the Morgan Library & Museum, The Frick Collection, the Art Institute of Chicago, the New York Public Library Main Branch, as well as on a broad range of project types.
Anita holds a BA in Art History & Fine Arts from CUNY Hunter College, and an MFA from New York University. Anita’s teaching experience includes “Lighting Principles in Architecture” at Parsons School of Design|The New School, she gives an annual art lighting seminar for the School of Visual Art’s Curatorial MFA program, and has been a guest speaker for Designer’s Lighting Forum NY, LEDucation NY, DesignxNYC, and Open House New York.
AJLD has won numerous awards most recently for MANITOGA / The Russel Wright Design Center’s new Design Gallery, The Silver Vault gallery at the Wadsworth Museum of Art, the gallery relighting for the newly refurbished Frick Collection, NY, and Touro University’s Lobby at 3 Times Square.