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Glenn Shrum

Spanning the fields of design and art practice, Glenn Shrum's work with light places him at the center of converging professional disciplines. A member of the faculty at the Maryland Institute College of Art since 2001, Glenn Shrum has received numerous awards for his work in lighting design, exhibition design, furniture design, interiors, sculpture, and architecture.

Originally trained as an architect at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Shrum completed a Masters of Fine Art in Studio Art with an emphasis on light-space installations and light art history at Maryland Institute College of Art in 2008.

Shrum’s interest in the junction of art and design led him to establish Flux Studio, a multi-disciplinary design practice in 2006. Recent Flux Studio projects include the Legg Mason Worldwide Offices with Gensler, the Gateway building at MICA, Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing, and the National Aquarium. In addition to his professional design activity as principal of Flux Studio, and his faculty position at MICA, Mr. Shrum was appointed US Coordinator of the Professional Lighting Designers’ Association’s in December 2008.

Prior to establishing Flux Studio, Mr. Shrum was a senior lighting designer at George Sexton Associates in Washington DC. In 2001, Shrum joined Ziger/Snead Architects where he stayed until 2006.

In 2004, with the support of the Nuckolls Fund for Lighting Education, Shrum established a lighting curriculum at MICA. Since that time he has overseen an expansion of MICA’s lighting lab facility, corporate sponsorship of several projects, and the coordination of numerous public events for the local lighting design community.

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