LENA TORSLOW HANSEN is a renowned authority on Scandinavian art, architecture and culture. As Chairperson of Visual Art for Scandinavia Today (1982-83), she initiated and placed 29 exhibitions in both museum and university galleries throughout Southern California over a 16 month period. Lena organized and curated "Broad Spectrum: Contemporary Los Angeles Painters and Sculptors" for the Los Angeles Olympic Cultural Festival. She received a Fellowship for Arts Managers from the National Endowment for the Arts in Washington D.C. in the fall of 1985. In 1990, she founded the Scandinavian American Arts Foundation (SAAF), a non-profit institution that promoted and supported Scandinavian contemporary visual and performing arts in the United States.