Virtual Talk: Sleeping Beauties at the Met Museum
Thu, Aug 22, 2024
2:00 PM
In May, the Met Gala marked the opening of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s new Costume Institute exhibition Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion. In this webinar, Dominic Leong, the founding partner of Leong Leong, the architectural firm behind the exhibition design, will present the exhibition design concept and process. The exhibition reawakens the Costume Institute’s archive through the senses and is united through the theme of nature. With a series of multi-sensory activations, the exhibition draws on the concepts of a garden and a scientific laboratory as two contrasting environments that shape our relationship to nature.
Leong Leong’s projects are situated at the intersection of art and living to build regenerative worlds. For this program, Dominic will also discuss notable projects including the Anita May Rosenstein LGBTQ Campus, Hancock Park House, and Hawai’i Nonlinear. These projects will demonstrate the firm’s approach to an expanded concept of the garden and their commitment to designing for regenerative ecosystems.
DATE AND TIME
Thursday, August 22, 2024
2:00 p.m. Eastern
LOCATION
Live on Zoom
REGISTRATION
Online registration for this event has ended. Call us at 845.424.6500 if you have any questions!
A recording of this webinar will be sent to all registrants a few days after the event. We encourage you to register, even if you cannot attend the live webinar.
Members of the Frank & Anne Cabot Society for planned giving have complimentary access to Garden Conservancy webinars. All Cabot Society members will automatically be sent the link to participate on the morning of the webinar. For more information about the Cabot Society, please contact Bridget Connors at bconnors@gardenconservancy.org or 845.424.6500, ext. 228.
About the Speakers: 
Dominic Leong is a founding partner at Leong Leong, an internationally recognized architecture studio based in New York. He focuses on architecture as an aesthetic, social, and ecological practice. The studio collaborates with diverse partners to advance social agendas within the built environment. Dominic is also a co-founder and current advisor to Hawai’i Nonlinear, a Honolulu-based nonprofit that supports grassroots ‘āina (Land/That Which Feeds) movements through Native innovation, storytelling, and creative design. He has held invited academic appointments at Columbia University, MIT, and Cooper Union, and is the 2024 Louis I. Kahn Visiting Assistant Professor at Yale School of Architecture.
Chloe Munkenbeck is a Senior Designer at Leong Leong. With a background in set design and sculpture, she approaches architectural projects with conceptual rigor and material sensitivity. Since joining Leong Leong, Chloe has been involved in exhibition design projects. She draws from her varied creative background to prompt innovative approaches to architectural design.