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☆ Ephemeral experiences that bring together artists and communities to reimagine under‑utilized spaces through the spirit of experimentation. Featured in Boston Art Review and beyond ☆

☆ Something else entirely. Recent projects include an art exhibition in historic New England greenhouses, a Bauhaus-inspired happening in a Mexico City Quinceañera hall and more ☆

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Past exhibits

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Past exhibits 〰️

A pop-up art exhibition set in defunct historic greenhouses.

Salad Days

Salad Days Exhibition · Sept - Oct 2025 · Allen C. Haskell Public Gardens, New Bedford, MA ·

Salad Days was an exhibition in historic greenhouses of the late Allen Haskell, known as a nurseryman with an artist’s eye’. Salad Days reimagines the defunct glass houses as vessels for dreaming: a contemplative nursery for a more hopeful future.

  • Hundreds joined for the debut —wandering the gardens, enjoying refreshments and activations:

    CHLOROPHILIA — Equinox Performance & Elixir by Willa Van Nostrand

    Harp + vocals by Myles Goulart

    Garden Frottage — An automatic drawing process shaped by the land, activated by you.

    A vegetal dress suggestion — "Salad Days Best"


  • Beatrice Alder (MA) 

    Elaine Alder (MA) 

    M. Aragon (MD) 

    Reilly Blum (GA)

    Siri Burt (NY) 

    Victoria Crouch (LA) 

    Sophie deJesus (IL) 

    Lily Fein (LA) 

    Lara Harrington (MA)

    Stephanie Land (NY) 

    Lobbin Liu (NY) 

    Suzie McMurtry (CA) 

    Michael Medeiros (MA) 

    Kasey Ott (MA) 

    Greer Pester (UK) 

    Mimi Pinheiro (MA)

    Allison Reho (TX) 

    Maíra Senise (NY)

    Carl Simmons (MA)

    Stéphanie Williams (MA)

    Cheyenne Yu (NV)


From Scotland to California, 21 artist’s were chosen for their work that bridges the functional and the fantastical—pieces that feel like tender inventions, emotional relics, or hopeful fictions.

This is a celebration of the urge to ornament, to myth-make, to wool-gathera soft rebellion against the sterile and the mass-produced.

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The Salad Days Collection:

Digital Gallery Archive

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We are particularly drawn to ornamentation, traditional and novice craft, the handmade, the slow, the flawed, and the found—artifacts that carry the unmistakable imprint of the human hand.
— Site Specific Happenings

Exhibition Graphic Design by Lobbin Liu · Web Design by Mimi Pinheiro