Join us for an evening of creativity and community in celebration of Where We Meet: Imagining Gardens and Futures (on view at Pao Arts Center, July 18 - October 10) and Ming Fay: Edge of the Garden (on view at Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, June 26 - September 21).

Pao Arts Center and Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum invite you to enjoy an evening of conversation, workshops, and food exploring themes of community, creativity, and urban gardening.

Attendees will have the opportunity to select one workshop experience led by:

• Erika Rumbly, Director of Horticulture at The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

• Sarah Hutt, Co-Coordinator on the Berkeley Community Garden Leadership Committee

• Mel Taing, Where We Meet, exhibiting artist and Neighborhood Salon Luminary at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

• Yu-Wen Wu, Where We Meet, exhibiting artist and Artist-in-Residence at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

Registration coming soon.

Schedule

6:00 - 6:30 PM – Intros + food

6:30 - 7:00 PM – Panel discussion

7:00 - 8:00 PM – Workshops

8:00 PM – View exhibition and wrap up

Please note, when attending the event, you will be able to join the workshop selected when registering.

Related Public Programs

Where We Meet: Imagining Gardens and Futures Opening Reception | July 18 | 6:00 - 8:00 PM

Portraits and Imagining Greener Futures with Mel Taing | July 26 | 2:00 - 4:00 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.