Listen to Lighting Designers and Artists to find out more about their passions on lighting architecture.
Listen to Lighting Designers and Artists to find out more about their passions on lighting architecture.
Signify and the Lighting Academy hosted the 6th Burlington Sessions, a CoCreate aimed at bringing together world renown lighting artists and designers.
Our goal is to engage with extreme/ fringe lighting artists and designers – those who inspire us, push the limits of what lighting can do and create a new language of lighting.
The 6th edition happened on June 26 - 27, 2025.
Find out who have been our guests this time and listen to them by viewing the videos below
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Kara O’Grady’s diverse portfolio includes projects ranging from ABC Studios to Vapiano restaurants. Kara is not new to the world of lighting design. Since graduating from North Carolina School of the Arts with a BFA in Lighting Design, her career has spanned the gamut from dance to systems integration. Starting out lighting opera and dance Kara traveled up and down the East Coast designing in multiple venues.
In New York, Kara joined PRG Systems, working on
permanent installations that involved creating and renovating theaters, TV studios, and transforming the NYC skyline with light. Kara’s love of creating immersive environments and aversion to inconsistent color temperatures led her to specialize in Architectural Lighting Design. When Kara is not improving the world through better lighting, she enjoys running 13.1 miles for shiny medals.
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MICHAEL SESTAK is an artist and designer using light as his medium.
In 2000 his life-long fascination with light in its various forms compelled him to transition from the culinary arts to the world of residential and commercial lighting design.
He enjoys bringing exterior illumination to enhance residential grounds and gardens and bringing dynamic lighting effects to commercial and civic locations to enhance the nighttime experience.
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Burlington Sessions #1: 2018
Listen to the video interviews of the following participants - Al Borden, Marcelo Coelho, Claudia Paz, Marc Largent, Janet Echelman, Bill FitzGibbons, Grimanesa Amoros, Garou Blancan
Burlington Sessions #2: 2019
Listen to the individual video interviews of the following participants: Clint Baclawski, Yves Mayrand, David Rose, Michael Stiller, Leni Schwendinger, Arlon Bayliss, Sabrina Mandel, Kate Raudenbush, Tapio Rosenius, Zih Jing Wei
Burlington Sessions #3: 2022
Listen to the individual video interviews of the following participants: Amy Critchett, Eli Sirlin, Wouter Westen, Lyn Godley, Robb Pope, Sarvdeep Basur, Matthew Schreiber, Andrea Mantello0