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Smith College
Artist Talk
Departemnt of Visual Arts 
2023

Contango Journal
Issue #3: Crime
Designed and Printed in Chicago, IL
Available at The Graham Foundation + The New Museum  

Screening of Canine Unit 341
4.19.2017
Harvard Film Archive
24 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA 02138
Curated by Kiyoto Koseki

​The Emperor Is Naked
Curated by Iben Bach Elmstrøm
Showing works by Annesofie Sandal (Copenhagen, DK), Spencer Elias and Lucas Briffa (Chicago, IL), artists duo Hesselholdt and Mejlvang (Copenhagen, DK), Ana Hansa-Ogren (Milwaukee, WI) and Tia-Simone Gardner (Minneapolis, MN).

​WorkRoom
2205 California ST NE #605
Minneapolis 
Mar 3rd - Mar 25th, 2017

The Emperor Has No Clothes
Annesofie Sandal, Ana Hansa-Ogren, Hesselholdt & Mejlvang, Spencer Elias and Lucas Briffa
Curated by Iben Bach Elmstrøm
Ski Club Milwaukee
3172 North Bremen Street
Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53212

​The project is supported by The Danish Arts Foundation

​Acts 12: 6-9
Lucas Briffa, Spencer Elias
Laura (Chicago)
1535 N Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60622

​It Was a Low-lying Foglike Floating
Curated by Ian Breidenbach
TSA - Philadelphia 
319A North 11th St #2H

​June 5 - June 28
Opening Reception: Friday, June 5, 2015, 6-10 pm

WUT MAG
interview

Paul Makris
Chicago Artists Coalition - Bolt Residency Exhibition Space
217 N Carpenter St., Chicago, IL 60607 
Friday, May 1 to Thursday, May 21
Opening Reception: Friday, May 1, 6-9 PM

FRONTROOM 
Opening Reception: Sunday, May 3, 6-9 PM
1839 W Thomas St.
Apt. 3
Chicago, IL
60622
by appointment

Transforming Accessory
Benjamin Barretto, Clare Grill, and Spencer Elias
LVL3 Gallery
1542 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60622


​Prismatic Nature
Elmhurst Art Museum, Elmhurst, IL
Paimao (Annotations)
    Elmhurst Museum
    Chicago, IL

Prismatic Nature 
Curated  by  Heidi Norton


The term 'evidence-based design,' officially defined in 2003 by health care architect D. Kirk Hamilton, has evolved as it has been applied. The Center for Health Design now defines evidence-based design as 'the process of basing decisions about the built environment on credible research to achieve the best possible outcomes.' Although evidence-based design is a recent concept, historic examples demonstrating an awareness of the benefits of psychologically supportive spaces no doubt played an important role in the development of this design model. 
Florence Nightingale’s observations after her experiences tending to wounded soldiers during the Crimean War of 1853 illustrate an early appreciation of the importance of hospital space design. Nightingale noted in her diary in 1860: 'I mention from experience, as quite perceptible in promoting recovery, the being able to see out of a window, instead of looking against a dead wall; the bright color of flowers, the being able to read in bed by the light of a window close to the bed-head. It is generally said that the effect is upon the mind. Perhaps so, but it is not less so upon the body on that account. …'

-Diana Anderson