Scott Johnson, FAIA – Founding Design Partner, Johnson Fain
Scott Johnson is the Founding Design Partner at Johnson Fain and directs the design of all architectural projects. Educated at Stanford University, UCBerkeley and Harvard’s Graduate School of Design, Johnson apprenticed at The Architects’ Collaborative (TAC) in Cambridge, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) in Los Angeles and San Francisco and Johnson Burgee in New York City. Returning to California, he and his partner, William Fain, assumed the leadership of the William L Pereira organization and, from it, founded Johnson Fain as an international and interdisciplinary design practice. Johnson has been the Director of the Master of Architecture Programs at the University of Southern California and is the author of numerous books on architecture and, more recently, the fine arts. His work has garnered many design awards and he is the recipient, with his partner, of the AIA/Los Angeles chapter’s Gold Medal award.
Teal Brogden, IALD, MIES, LC – Senior Principal & President, HLB Lighting Design
As an avid listener, Teal enjoys the refinement that comes with vetting concepts in a collaborative team forum. Just as there is balance inherent in light and shadow, so too comes the balance of art and science, aspiration and pragmatism, in the final solution.
Teal’s combined background in the arts and engineering puts her at ease with both the ephemeral and technical challenges inherent in lighting design. Her holistic design perspective has been honed and applied over three decades of industry leadership and iconic project work, making her an invaluable team member that elevates the aspirations of every project she is involved in.
Teal is a Senior Principal and President at HLB lighting design and a leader in HLB’s West Coast, national and international efforts. She is a widely recognized award-winning industry leader and contributes to the International Association of Lighting Designers (IALD), and a Board Advisor to the Rocky Mountain Lighting Academy.
Alison Saar – Sculptor, Mixed Media, & Installation Artist
Alison Saar was born and raised in Laurel Canyon, California. Saar received her B.A. in studio art and art history in 1978 from Scripps College, Claremont, California. She went on to earn her MFA from Otis-Parsons Institute (now Otis College of Art and Design). At the beginning of her career, Saar was selected as a fellow of the studio program at The Studio Museum in Harlem (1982-3). She has received three fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts (1984, 1985 and 1988), and was awarded the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in 1989, the Flintridge Foundation Award for Visual Artists in 2000, the Joan Mitchell Foundation Award in 1998 and the Joan Mitchell Artist in Residence in 2013. In 2012, the United States Artists Program named Saar one of 50 USA fellows.
Saar’s work can be found in prestigious private and public collections worldwide including that of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) (Los Angeles, CA), Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, NY), National Gallery of Australia (Canberra, Australia), Smithsonian American Art Museum (Washington D.C.), Whitney Museum of American Art (New York, NY), the Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation, (Portland, OR), among many others.
Christian D. Bruun – Director & Producer
Christian D. Bruun, is an award-winning director and producer of documentary and narrative film, television, and executive producer of Danish Originals podcasts, and is a board member of the American Friends of Statens Museum for Kunst (AFSMK).
Jarrod Beck – Artist, Public Art & Installations
Jarrod Beck has created public art and installations for Smack Mellon, 1 Hotel Brooklyn Bridge, Socrates Sculpture Park, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Wave Hill, NYC Department of Parks and Recreation, Lever House, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Siena Art Institute, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Rice University, Rhode Island School of Design, Stony Brook University and Provincetown Art Association and Museum. His drawings are in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, NY. The Anti-Defamation League commissioned Broken Open in Omaha, Nebraska and Beck won the Clare Weiss Emerging Artist Award in 2014 for his public artwork Uplift. XLLC was recently acquired by the El Paso Museum of Art. He is a 2017 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow Finalist in Craft/Sculpture. Now based in Far West Texas, Beck is working on a series of ground-drawings and cast iron installations.
Susan Narduli – Architect & Artist, Founder & Creative Director, Narduli Studio
Susan Narduli works at the intersection of art, architecture and technology. She envisions a future based on the synergistic evolution of physical and virtual environments. Her award-winning studio explores the boundaries of technology and meaning to create spaces that are experience driven. Narduli Studio has completed commissions in public art, public spaces, architecture, virtual environments, interactive experiences, museum installations, light and sound environments and landscapes. Narduli holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts, a Masters of Architecture and is a licensed architect. Prior to starting her own firm, she was Project Designer for Frank Gehry.
