AGRISCULPTURE FOUNTAIN EXPERIENCE - ON THE FARM - UPSTATE ART WEEKEND 2025

AGRISCULPTURE Fountain Experience

Upstate Art Weekend 2025

July 18 - 20, 2025 | 12pm - 7pm

As part of Upstate Art Weekend, Amy Lewis Sweetman designed an unparalleled AGRISCULPTURE Fountain Experience on the farm in Goshen, NY - featuring for the first time - edible and fresh Farm-to-Fountain Marigold flowers and Black Walnut leaves!

Marigold (Calendula) flowers are edible raw and cooked and are enjoyed as cultivated kitchen herbs, dried tea (tisane) as well as within healing salves. Black Walnuts (Juglans Nigra) are wild trees known for their delicious nuts, their nut shells as excellent dyes, their dried leaves as tea (tisane) and their wood as choice material for cutting boards and furniture.

Designing both wild and cultivated edible plant materials (respectfully and in moderation) into Sculpture Installations (as well as Workshops!) is a key form of education for AGRISCULPTURE Amy. She believes and has proven, that incorporating edible foods for the purpose of education into art workshops as well as works of art works! Both children and adults are drawn to the colors, forms and textures of natural materials such as Marigold flowers and Black Walnut leaves... sparking dialogue, exchange of information, new ideas and perhaps the most fun aspect of all - play - in its most free form of inspiration.

How is this proven one asks?

Each day of Upstate Art Weekend, much to the delight of AGRISCULPTURE Amy, all of the Marigolds within the Fountains were moved. Some were moved laterally - Fountain to Fountain - and others were moved vertically - onto various levels of the same Fountain, high above the reach of a child. Children and Adults alike - were inspired to play.

As Amy recalibrated the floral display each day, her joy overflowed like water dancing over the levels of each of her signature AGRISCULPTURE Fountains...