Jon Seymour

Founder and CEO

Jon made his first holograms with his Dad in a garage sandbox lab in eighth grade, launching a 5-year science fair project. Little did he know an art movement was occurring...

He then went on to study physics at Duke, including some optics research, before pivoting toward medicine, where he has enjoyed a long and successful career as an MD providing decision support to healthcare practitioners and institutions.

In 2015 came his discovery of the incredible art that defines Holo. Over a decade, he pursued, preserved, and acquired these amazing collections in order to show them to the world.

M. Melissa Crenshaw

Collections Manager

Melissa Crenshaw has been creating limited-edition holographic art since the early 1980’s. Her art works are in private and public international collections. She received two Artist in Residences at the Museum of Holography in New York, one at Fringe Research Facility in Toronto and was a recipient of the New York Shearwater Foundation Award for outstanding work in Art Holography.

Melissa has presented several workshops and lectures on holography, most notably at the Beijing Institute of Posts and Telecommunications in Beijing PRC, MIT in Boston, several SPIE conferences and International Symposiums on Display Holography (ISDH).

She has worked on fountain lighting projects (Canada Pavilion Expo 92) and created a holographic glass product. As well, she has curated and designed exhibitions for holography shows in Canada, China and the USA. She was the Director of The Holographic Studio in Vancouver BC Canada from 1987-1996.

As the Director of the Research Facility, from 1997-2017, Melissa worked for Ledalite Architectural Products, now part of Philips,  Professional Luminaires North America. The Ledalite team developed a holographic optical material, MesoOptics which won the New Product of the Year Award at Lightfair 2001.

In addition to the Holography Research Facility at Ledalite, Melissa has designed additional optical holography labs, specifically for teaching, research and art. Melissa currently teaches online through the Southwood Holographics Education Resource Center (SHERC).

Melissa started working with Holo on the Rudie Berkhout Collection in 2017 and on the acquisition of the Global Images Holography Collection.

Jiwon Choi

Computational Holography Scientist

Jiwon started her journey to holography during her Master’s program at Northwestern University, where her thesis focused on a critical challenge: finding new ways to digitally archive holograms and quantitatively evaluate the accuracy of those digital preserves, using machine learning techniques.

Now pursuing a PhD in Optical Sciences at University of Arizona, she is expanding her expertise deep into advanced optics and computer vision/computational photography. By bridging classic optical principles with modern digital reconstruction, she is developing the next generation of tools to safeguard, analyze, and share these incredible holographic collections with the world.