Friends of Fenway Court Patron Preview

Step into the Gardner Museum’s Hostetter Gallery and be transported to an extraordinary, yet familiar, space of wonder with Ming Fay: Edge of the Garden, challenging our conception of gardens as natural spaces. In the Fenway Gallery, visitors will be able to dig into the roots of Isabella Stewart Gardner’s cross-pollination of art and horticulture through an exhibition of archival materials and paintings in Flowers for Isabella. Above our own gardens, Yu-Wen Wu, an Artist-in-Residence at the Gardner Museum, reflects on the vulnerability of the environment and the fleeting beauty of flowers by transforming the Anne H. Fitzpatrick  Façade with Yu-Wen Wu: Reigning Beauty, 2025.

THE MORNING WILL INCLUDE

Remarks by Peggy Fogelman
Norma Jean Calderwood Director

Curatorial insights from Gabrielle Niu 
Assistant Curator of the Collection and Exhibitions

Light breakfast bites

Space is limited.
Please reply by June 10 to patrons@isgm.org or 617 264 6045.

This reception is a benefit of the Friends of Fenway Court Patron Program. To learn more about the program and its year-round engagement opportunities, please click here.

Image credit: Ming Fay (American, 1943 – 2025), Cayenne Pepper, 1993. Bronze, 17.8 x 73.7 x 30.5 cm (7 x 29 x 12 in.) Private Collection

Ming Fay: Edge of the Garden and Yu-Wen Wu: Reigning Beauty, 2025 are supported in part by Barbara and Amos Hostetter,  Amy and David Abrams, the Barr Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the Henry Luce Foundation, Wagner Foundation,  the Barbara Lee Program Fund, E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation, Fredericka and Howard Stevenson, and  Yuchun and Agustina Lee.