Elaine Belfer
Indiana University
Indiana University Dressing Rooms, Bloomington IN
Project Overview
Indiana University is nationally recognized for its commitment to the arts, performance, and live productions. To support the needs of student performers, faculty, and visiting professionals, Belfer Lighting provided custom lighting solutions for the university’s theater dressing rooms, film and television makeup spaces and concert performer prep spaces.
Each fixture includes permanently fixed lamp guards around every exposed lamp, ensuring maximum safety, durability, and protection in high-use performance environments. This design consideration allows students and professionals to focus on preparation and performance without concern for damage or hazards.
Lighting Applications
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Theater and Performing Arts Dressing Rooms — Balanced illumination designed to reduce shadows and provide natural lighting for makeup application and costume preparation.
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Film and Television Makeup Rooms — Consistent LED lighting with accurate color rendering, ensuring precision under studio and stage cameras.
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Concert and Event Performer Prep Spaces — Sturdy fixtures with lamp guards built to withstand the pace of live entertainment and touring productions.
Why Belfer Lighting?
For Indiana University, Belfer Lighting delivered energy-efficient LED solutions with built-in safety and protection features, including permanently fixed lamp guards. These fixtures provide clarity, comfort, and reliability while ensuring longevity in busy, high-traffic performance spaces.
Belfer Marquee has the perfect lighting solution: permanently fixed lamp guards around each exposed lamp - offering protection and peace of mind to the performers and the venue. The Belfer Marquee lighting system is designed to tame the chaos of dressing rooms filled to the brim with costumes and gadgets. This energy -efficient LED system includes permanently fixed lamp guards around each exposed lamp, enabling a safer, more efficient backstage experience for performers and venues alike.
Sonoma State University
Sonoma State University, Green Music Center, Sonoma County, CA
College of Southern Idaho
College of Southern Idaho, Twin Falls, ID
Kellogg Community College Binda Theatre
Kellogg Community College, Binda Theatre, Battle Creek, MI
Belfer's MQ2502 Marquee Lighting Fixtures with Lamp Guards illuminate the Binda Theatre at Kellogg Community College, delivering a dynamic and professional-grade lighting solution that merges performance durability with visual appeal.
Designed to enhance the theatre’s backstage dressing areas, these fixtures bring vivid illumination, refined architectural presence, and dependable protection for high-traffic educational environments. The addition of lamp guards provides safety and longevity, ensuring fixtures retain functionality and aesthetic value in demanding applications.
The installation highlights Belfer’s capability to deliver tailored architectural lighting systems that support both functionality and design excellence for performance venues.
Product Overview
The MQ2502 is part of Belfer’s marquee lighting series—an iconic, modular fixture designed for interior and exterior architectural lighting. When combined with Lamp Guards, it becomes ideal for theatre applications, offering a blend of protection, adaptability, and performance.
- Durable construction: Precision-engineered aluminum housing with optional powder coating
- Safety-first design: Lamp guards add impact protection and fixture shielding
- Uniform illumination: Optimized light output with clean distribution and warm color tone
- Energy efficiency: Compatible with LED retrofit lamps for reduced energy consumption
- Easy maintenance: Modular assembly simplifies relamping and cleaning
Lighting Advantages
For the Binda Theatre project, Belfer’s MQ2502 fixtures with Lamp Guards provided several key benefits:
- Enhanced ambient visibility around the dressing room zones
- Professional appearance complementing the theatre’s architectural design
- Robust safety for students and performers in high-traffic backstage areas
- Energy-efficient illumination with consistent color rendering
- Long-lasting finish suitable for both educational and performance spaces
Architect: Tower Pinkster Architects and Interiors
Video Teleconference Room
Corporate Headquarters, Video Teleconference Room
Project Overview
Elegant design meets functional illumination in this video teleconference environment, where clarity and comfort are essential. The lighting design uses Belfer MQ2502FX Field Curvable Marquee™ Lighting—seamlessly concealed within the ceiling cove above the conference table—to create uniform, glare-free illumination across the workspace.
The field-curvable design allows the lighting to follow the architectural geometry of the ceiling, providing a refined, continuous glow ideal for high-performance visual settings like video conferencing rooms and executive meeting spaces.
Product Highlights: MQ2502FX Field Curvable Marquee™ Lighting
- Design Flexibility: Field-curvable aluminum housing follows custom architectural forms
- Performance: Consistent, balanced illumination for visual tasks and ambient comfort
- Construction: Medium-base modular system engineered for precision installations
- Applications: Conference rooms, hospitality interiors, and curved architectural coves
Perfect for integrated ceiling designs, the MQ2502FX offers flexibility and control—delivering luminous continuity that enhances both aesthetics and functionality.
Lighting Design: Susan Brady, IALD, SBLD Studio
Engineer: Syska & Hennessy, Inc.
Photographer: Christopher Lovi, Lovi Photography
NIH Porter Neuroscience Research Center Bethesda MD
NIH Porter Neuroscience Research Center, Bethesda MD
Project Overview
The Porter Neuroscience Research Center at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland, is a cutting-edge facility designed to advance the study of brain science and foster cross-disciplinary collaboration. With a focus on transparency, openness, and modern design, the Center’s expansive lobby and open-plan public spaces serve as both a welcoming hub and a symbolic core of innovation.
To meet the challenges of high-ceiling architecture and the need for visually comfortable, energy-efficient lighting, Belfer Lighting’s Reflex RX1320 indirect LED system was specified and installed throughout these key areas.
The RX1320 indirect LED fixture by Belfer Lighting is engineered for architectural integration in spaces where light quality and visual comfort are paramount. At the NIH Porter Center, these fixtures were mounted in custom-designed columns to illuminate the expansive lobby and connecting atrium spaces.
The indirect distribution of the RX1320 provides a soft, diffuse glow ideal for large, open environments—reducing harsh contrasts and complementing the facility’s natural daylighting strategies.
Lighting Objectives
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Deliver uniform ambient lighting across large open volumes
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Minimize glare and shadows in high-ceiling spaces
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Enhance architectural features with clean, modern lighting
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Support visual comfort for researchers, staff, and visitors
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Provide energy-efficient performance for a federally managed facility
Architecture Firm: Perkins + Will
Lighting: Gilmore Lighting Design
Photography: Alain Jaramillo
Merriweather Post Pavillion Dressing Rooms
Merriweather Post Pavillion, Columbia MD
Project Overview
The Merriweather Post Pavilion hosts world-class concerts and live events, requiring professional-grade lighting for performers. Belfer Lighting provided custom solutions for theater and performing arts dressing rooms, film and television makeup spaces, and concert performer prep areas.
Each fixture includes permanently fixed lamp guards around every exposed lamp, ensuring safety and durability in high-use environments. These guards protect performers and the lighting itself, allowing artists to focus on preparation and performance without concern for hazards.
Lighting Applications
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Theater and Performing Arts Dressing Rooms — Balanced LED illumination for accurate makeup application and costume preparation.
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Film and Television Makeup Rooms — High-quality, color-accurate lighting suitable for camera-ready results.
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Concert and Event Performer Prep Spaces — Sturdy, durable fixtures with lamp guards built to handle frequent use during live performances.
Why Belfer Lighting?
At Merriweather Post Pavilion, Belfer Lighting delivered energy-efficient, long-lasting LED solutions with built-in safety features. The permanently fixed lamp guards ensure reliable, professional-quality illumination while maintaining durability in fast-paced, high-traffic performance environments.
Construction: Costello Construction
Architect: JP2 Architects
Photography: Danielle Lavis Photography
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Dierks-Bentleys-Whiskey-Row-Scottsdale-AZ
Dierks Bentley's Whiskey Row, Scottsdale, AZ
Dierks Bentley's Whiskey Row has it all ... award winning food and drinks, exhilarating nightlife, and a Rock & Roll attitude inspired by Dierks Bentley himself. Belfer Lighting MQ2502 Marquee lighting with custom mounting brackets can be seen at the entrance for miles and miles across the Scottsdale night sky. Such impactful design elements elevate brand perception and draw patrons from afar.
Design: LGE Design Build
Custom Brackets for Marquee Placement
Haley VA Polytrauma Rehabilitation Center
Project Gallery: Haley VA Polytrauma Center, Tampa, FL
Project Overview
The Haley VA Polytrauma Center in Tampa, Florida, is a leading facility dedicated to rehabilitation and therapeutic care for veterans. As part of the center’s aquatic therapy pool area renovation, Belfer Lighting provided RX1320 recessed LED indirect lighting to create a soft, glare-free environment that enhances both patient comfort and architectural design.
Lighting Solution
Belfer’s RX1320 LED Recessed Indirect Lighting was selected for its precision-engineered optical design, providing uniform illumination with a decorative flair, while eliminating direct glare—an essential feature for reflective water surfaces in aquatic environments.
Fixture Specifications:
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Model: RX1320 LED Recessed Indirect Fixture
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Light Source: Energy-efficient linear LED
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Application: Pool area ambient and indirect lighting
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Construction: Durable, corrosion-resistant housing suitable for humid environments
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Design: Recessed placement for clean architectural integration
Design Intent
The design team sought a lighting solution that would enhance visibility and safety while maintaining a soothing atmosphere appropriate for rehabilitation therapy.
Installation Highlights
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RX1320 fixtures recessed along the therapy pool
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Designed to withstand humidity and moisture near aquatic spaces
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Integrated with energy-efficient LED technology for low maintenance
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Dimming capabilities for therapy sessions requiring varying light levels
Results
The RX1320 recessed lighting provides a comfortable, therapeutic environment in the aquatic pool area. The indirect glow reduces visual strain, improves safety, and enhances the overall architectural aesthetic of the space—helping patients focus on recovery and relaxation.
Architects and Engineers: HDR
Construction: Walsh/DeMaria Joint Venture Construction
