Credit: Mel Taing Hilda & Her Granddaughter at Berkley Community Garden (detail), 2025, Digital Print, Collection of the artist.
Join exhibiting artist Mel Taing for an afternoon of arts activation inspired by Where We Meet: Imagining Gardens and Futures, on view July 18 - October 10. Have your own garden-inspired portrait taken with friends and family, share your hopes, dreams, and wishes for the future of Chinatown, and learn about how green space advocacy plays in the role in the vitality of the neighborhood. And join artist Kelly Tan for an interactive artmaking project.
Portrait sessions will be held during the event on a first-come, first-served basis. Each session will last 5 minutes.
Related Public Programs
Where We Meet: Imagining Gardens and Futures Opening Reception | July 18 | 6:00 - 8:00 PM
What is a Garden: Connection, Memory, and Creativity | August 14 | 6:00 - 8:00 PM
Schedule an educational tour of the exhibit
View Ming Fay: Edge of the Garden, a companion exhibition at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum to continue to explore what a garden can be. On view from June 26 – September 21, 2025.
Supported by
Where We Meet: Imagining Gardens and Futures and its public programming are supported by the New England Foundation for the Arts' Public Art for Spatial Justice program, with funding from the Barr Foundation and the Fund for the Arts at NEFA.