Artist/Farmer Residency: Anis Beigzadeh and Dena Haden

This two-room exhibition at Longbarn Gallery in Westport, Massachusetts, presents the work of Anis Beigzadeh and Dena Haden, who spent the winter and spring in the Southeastern Massachusetts Agricultural Partnership's Artist/Farmer Residency, a project pairing South Coast artists with regional farms. The show opened June 4 and remains on view by appointment through the end of June, with open hours on Saturday, June 20, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., when both artists attend. Beigzadeh, a UMass Dartmouth MFA ceramics student from Iran, was paired with Freedom Food Farm in Raynham. Her installation suspends handmade ceramic bowls and stones inscribed with the word freedom in English, Farsi, and other languages from threads draped over the gallery's beams, drawing on themes of freedom, resilience, belonging, and displacement. Haden, a New Bedford-based installation and fiber artist, worked with Apapacho Bloom Farm in Seekonk, making paintings from flower dyes alongside dried bouquets in handwoven baskets and a central fiber-based piece, using only sustainable, largely decomposable materials. The residency is part of SEMAP's agriCultural series, which highlights connections among art, culture, and agriculture, and was funded with grants from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and the Westport Cultural Council.