Christmas Eve NHLC 2022 – Lighting Design

North Heights Lutheran Church (Arden Hills, MN) requested lighting design support for their Christmas Eve services, a special seasonal music and speaking event. Lighting Design and Hog programming by Art Graf. Photos copyright Arthur Graf and North Heights Lutheran Church

Prop Design – Theatre/Dance Performance Event – December 2022

Celebrate Dance Academy (Arden Hills, MN) staged the premiere of a new Christmas dance and theatre performance titled “Remember” in December 2022. The cast entered imaginary dream worlds through a mysterious door presented to them by their collective imagination. For this performance, a door was envisioned that would invite and draw the cast (and audience) … Read more

Mosaics 2022 Dance Performance – Lighting Design

Mosaics Dance Company is Celebrate Dance’s pre-professional training for the intermediate-advanced level dancer. Each performance features inspired modern dance works that just begs to have illumination of the movements. Lighting Design and Hog programming by Art Graf. Photos copyright Arthur Graf and North Heights Lutheran Church

Annual Recital 2021 – Lighting Design

Celebrate Dance Academy’s 2021 annual dance recital was a celebration of the 20th anniversary of the dance school. The academy returned to the stage for their first full recital since 2019. Lighting Design by Art Graf with assistance from Ben Schultz. Artistic Direction by Sarah Pieper and the Celebrate Dance Academy instructors. Photos copyright Alexis … Read more

Mosaics 2021 – Lighting Design

Celebrate Dance Academy stretched hard and launched a late winter show as post COVID events were just starting to appear on calendars. In parallel to prior years, this show was an artistically written modern dance performance presenting connections between the human condition and faith. Titled “Spectrum: Dispersion of Light”, the show touched on the array … Read more

Kids’ Clubhouse – “The Nuthouse”

Summer of 2020, the idea I had been mulling over for years finally became reality. Kids stuck at home brought a need to draw the kids outside. Our kids’ clubhouse project sprang from tree house and clubhouse concepts. The only hard and fast requirements were that (per my wife and kids) we needed monkey bars … Read more

Mosaics 2020 – Lighting Design

The Mosaics Dance Company presented “Dialogue of the Heart”, continuing their annual winter modern dance performance series. This production presented a journey through the key themes seen in the biblical book of Psalms. The book of Psalms is a collection of many different writers experiences of how their God can support, protect, guide, and give … Read more

Christmas 2019 – Lighting Design

Celebrate Dance Academy presented their first Christmas season performance “Wonder” in December 2019. The show was written around the theme of child-like wonder that fills this season. The first half presented both the joy and wonder that gifts-exchanged brings to those giving and receiving. The second half carried the wonder of the biblical God gifting … Read more

Integrated Power Station – Product Design

Graco released the Integrated Power Station system, building and improving on the previous two generations of this product design. Powered by a Tier 4F engine and providing compressed air and auxiliary power for process tools, this system “steals” heat from the engine coolant to heat material intended for application with a Graco Reactor 2 system. … Read more

High Current Heater Control – Embedded Hardware Design

MZHP – “Multi-Zone High Power” Temperature Control Module Graco recently released the new Reactor Generation 2 proportioner system used to dispense spray foam insulation and polyurea coatings (for truck bed liners, coatings for oil pipelines, etc.). A large engineering team worked hard to redesign the original Graco Reactor proportioner system from the ground up, including … Read more