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☆ Ephemeral artist-driven happenings that reimagine under-utilized spaces through the spirit of experimentation ☆ Featured in Boston Art Review and beyond ☆

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Not quite a gallery, not quite a party,

☆ 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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☆ Several new happenings are unfolding — while we orchestrate them, let’s keep the conversation going. Send us your feedback, tips, critique and love notes ☆

  • "In an anxious era of doomscrolling, political and social turmoil, and the counterintuitive belief that an AI prompt might somehow magically turn someone into an artist, musician or poet, [In Salad Days] a quiet walk in a public garden might, at least momentarily, offer a quiet respite from the collective dread."

    — Don Wilkinson, “Salad Days: Greater Than the Sum of Its Parts,” NB Light, Sept. 28, 2025

  • "[Salad Days] was an absolute dream, a whisper, a prayer, a celebration of life worth living, of people coming together, of art and ideas and inspiration being shared in community. Artists, visionaries, revelers from near and far joined us to frolic in the gardens, engaging with plant life, experiencing the textures of stone, witnessing the bats out at dusk gracing the sky with their hungry swoops. A reminder of why we persist, why we make connections, why we resist oppressive forces, why we gather in community, what life is fucking for."

    —Nico Lebreaux | Owner of Wild Heart Herb House

  • "This show brought me out of a deep sleep. Everything about it was exactly what I needed it to be - the perfect song. Thank you for inviting me into this experience and helping me take my place as a maker once again."

    —Lara Harrington | Salad Days Artist + Founder of Hotel Papel

  • “The sun glints off the glass, you see your own reflections. You see the people on the other side of the structure. There are smudges and fingerprints on the glass. Each visit (and I suggest several) might mean raindrops running down the windows. There may be condensation, fogging, perhaps an early frost. Each time, it may be different. The conditions make the experience and that is its joy. It’s art in the oasis.”

    — Don Wilkinson, “Salad Days: Greater Than the Sum of Its Parts,” NB Light, Sept. 28, 2025

  • “Salad Days was so thoughtful curated. It was amazing to see the Haskell green houses transformed into a wonderland of local art and community celebration!”

    —Carley Byers | Art Lover + Local Filmmaker

  • "I really enjoyed the experience of Salad Days. The scale of some of the pieces was surprising, I did not expect a functioning fountain! I just loved the whimsy of it all."

    — Molly McCarthy | Local Art Lover

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

Salad Days

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.

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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

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