November 6th, 2024
6:30PM EST
Celia Imrey Principal, Imrey Studio Planning & Design
Celia leads strategy, planning, and design at Imrey Studio LLC, and draws from her substantial experience with national and international cultural facilities. Celia is known for her award-winning work for museum, library, and educational facilities including the Louvre Lens Museum, Harlem School of the Arts / The Herb Alpert Center, and the Rubin Museum of Art, New York, along with her varied international work as the Global Head of Exhibition Design for Adjaye Associates where she worked from 2022 to 2023. She has created designs for over 50 museums, schools, libraries, and community centers - from site planning and architecture to permanent and temporary exhibits, and has designed displays and interpretive systems for almost every kind of object or story. She also has expertise in visitor experience design, art storage, and sustainable exhibition design. Celia has taught over 20 art and architecture studios and her work has been widely published in national and inter-nationalpublications. Her professional formation was through working for I. M. Pei, Pei Cobb Freed & Partners, William McDonough & Partners, and Acconci Studio. Celia is a licensed architect in New York state.
time, Context, and Clients
Celia will reflect on pivotal lessons learned throughout her career designing cultural spaces. She will explore how she has developed an approach of factoring time into the design process. She’ll discuss the value of deep understanding of a site and its context. She’ll talk about her experience achieving consensus with clients and how that affects her design process. And finally, she’ll share about the specifics of exhibition design and what it means when people, architecture, and art interact within the same spaces. Celia will also share how she finds personal fulfillment in her work by not only serving her clients but also creating spaces that enrich the wider community—balancing artistic vision with social responsibility.