Lighting Designer Suzan Tillotson to Present Lecture on March 9

The Wyly Theatre lobby, at the AT&T Performing Arts Center in Dallas.
Photo by Iwan Baan

The Wyly Theatre lobby, at the AT&T Performing Arts Center in Dallas.

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Suzan Tillotson will present a lecture titled "Exploring the Creative Process through Lighting Design" at 5 p.m. Monday, March 9, in Ken and Linda Sue Shollmier Hall, Room 250 of Vol Walker Hall, on the University of Arkansas campus in Fayetteville, as part of the Fay Jones School of Architecture lecture series.

Tillotson founded Tillotson Design Associates in 2004, with 23 years of lighting design experience. She received a Bachelor of Interior Design from the Louisiana State University School of Architecture. After graduation, she worked for Levy-Kramer Associates, a 35-person engineering firm, where she served as head of the lighting department. In 1986, she relocated to New York City and acquired additional experience at Flack + Kurtz Engineers and at H.M. Brandston and Partners before joining Jerry Kugler. Tillotson and Kugler later formed Kugler Tillotson Associates. She has won more than 40 lighting design awards for her work and has been featured in many national and international publications.

Tillotson has been a member of the Illuminating Engineering Society for more than 30 years and served as president of the Southwest Louisiana Section. She is a former member of the Board of Directors for the International Association of Lighting Designers and was the past New York Area Regional Coordinator for IALD. Tillotson has also served as an awards judge for IESNYC Lumen Awards and the IALD Awards.

She has taught the New York IES Introductory Lighting course, as well as numerous lighting design and rendering workshops. She has guest lectured on lighting design at Louisiana State University, Cornell University, McGill University and the New Jersey Institute of Technology, and has taught a graduate-level lighting course for architecture students at Princeton University.

In her lecture, she will discuss Tillotson Design Associates' design process using four award-winning projects as case studies. The East River Waterfront Park (with SHoP Architects and Workshop: Ken Smith Landscape Architect); Cornell University Milstein Hall (with OMA); the Wyly Theater (with OMA and REX); and the Red Bull Music Academy (with Inaba Architects) are the projects to be discussed. For each project, she will present the project criteria and challenges, the inspiration for the solutions and the process for their implementation. The goal is that, by learning about the inspiration and problem-solving techniques used in these case studies, design students will be inspired to think differently about how they approach the creative process of their own work.

The public is invited to attend this lecture.

Admission is free, with limited seating. For more information, contact 479-575-4704 or architecture.uark.edu.

Contacts

Maree Morse, communications intern
Fay Jones School of Architecture
479-575-4704, mxm054@uark.edu

Michelle Parks, director of communications
Fay Jones School of Architecture
479-575-4704, mparks17@uark.edu

Headlines

The World as a Classroom: The Executive M.B.A. Program at U of A

The program, offered through the Sam M. Walton College of Business, blends online learning with face-to-face interaction and applied studies in a real-time international immersion trip.

Keri Blakinger, Author of 'Corrections in Ink,' to Speak at Fayetteville Public Library April 22

Blakinger, an award-winning journalist now at the Los Angeles Times, will talk about her memoir and her work as a reporter at 6 p.m. April 22 at the Fayetteville Public Library's Walker Community Room.

Visit With University Libraries and Pat Walker Health Center's Medical Services at Carnival Today

Employees are invited to meet fellow workers from units across campus including the University Libraries and the Pat Walker Health Center at today's Making Your Day Work Carnival at the Arkansas Union.

Farewell Reception April 3 for Fulbright College's Lisa Summerford

The campus community is invited to celebrate Summerford's achievements and to wish her well during a drop-in retirement reception from 3:30-5 p.m. Wednesday, April 3, in the Fulbright College Dean's Office in Old Main 523.

Rachel McGathy Retiring After 25 Years

There will be a reception to celebrate McGathy's retirement from 2:30-4:30 p.m. Friday, March 29, in the downstairs breakroom at Uptown East.

News Daily