Photo: Isabella Brito and Brad Wales

The IES Buffalo Section & the Burchfield Penney Art Center at Buffalo State College Present

The Magic of Light The Magic of Light is a public event that is designed to welcome the community into the Burchfield Penney Art Center for lighting education, lighting experience, lighting networking, and the celebration of the International Year of Light.

Train Sets, Ballet, and Air and Space. Keynote speaker, Frank Florentine, brings more than 40 years of lighting experience and his unique view of the future. He started with a Lionel Train set in his basement – lighting the little buildings and roadways. He spent 10 years traveling with ballet companies and 25 years as the Lighting Designer at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Air and Space Museum. Frank will challenge the audience to imagine their lighting desires and to make , those imaginings, reality. Listen – and learn – as he tells us how to create memorable lighting with the unique concept of Magic with a Drop of Light!

Magic with a Drop of Light!

Please Join Us

Date: Friday, September 11th, 2015

Time: 5:30pm to 9pm

5:30pm Happy Hour and Band on Lawn

6:00pm Small Group Lighting Tours of Galleries – Led by Rick Spaulding (Litelab) & Tony Bannon (BPAC)

7:00pm Keynote Speaker and Tour Q/A

8:00pm Outdoor Lighting Festival and Audio Installation at FRONTYARD at the Center

Place: Burchfield Penney Art Center at Buffalo State College

Park: In Lot R3

Registration: Please confirm your attendance by Friday, September 4, 2015 Call, or Email this notice to: Bhakti Sharma, 716-878-4209 sharmab@buffalostate.edu

About our Keynote… A Fellow of the Illuminating Engineering Society of North America, Lighting Certified by the National Council of Qualified Lighting Professionals, and a member of United Scenic Arts 829 – Lighting Design:

Frank A. Florentine, FIES, LC

Mr. Frank A. Florentine’s background stretches a wide array of lighting projects - from ballet to museums to special events to show caves. He retired as the lighting designer of the Smithsonian Institution National Air and Space Museum in 2009 after 25 years in this position. Frank has designed the lighting for three show caves over the past ten years,: Kartchner Caverns State Park, Benson, Arizona; Alabaster Caverns, Freedom, Oklahoma; and Lewis and Clark Caverns State Park, Whitehall, Montana. Additionally, he has designed lighting for numerous museums throughout the United States including the Lafayette Science Museum in Lafayette, LA; the Putnam Museum of Natural History in Des Moines, Iowa; and the Bisbee Museum in Bisbee, Arizona. Frank designed the lighting for the 9/11 Memorial of Anne Arundel County, Maryland. Mr. Florentine worked in professional theatre as a Production Manager, Stage Manager and Associate Lighting Designer. He traveled nationally and internationally with several ballet companies, including a 65,000 mile tour with the late Rudolf Nureyev. He recently designed lighting for several theatrical performances at the Colonial Players (CP) in Annapolis, Maryland, Frank was the recipient of the Washington Area Theatre Community Honors (WATCH) award for best lighting design of a musical for his design for last season’s Bat Boy and was nominated for a second lighting award for his work on Coyote on a Fence. Other credits at CP include 1776, Sunshine, and Chapter Two, which was a WATCH nominee for lighting design in 2012.