# Event Details - **Event Name**: Art & AgriCulture: Honoring our Ancestors with Cempoalxóchitl - **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 04 Dec, 2025 at 07:00 pm – Thu, 04 Dec, 2025 at 08:00 pm - **Event Description**: Create your own Cempoalxóchitl (aztec marigold) watercolor paint and collage to honor your ancestors.About this EventHonoring our Ancestors with Cempoalxóchitl (aztec marigold) In Mexico, we utiltize cempoalxóchitl (Aztec marigold) as the flower to help guide our ancestors to reconnect with us. Participants will engage in a tea meditation with cempoalxóchitl and create a collage with cempoalxóchitl watercolor paint, petals, pictures and flowers that honors the memories of their ancestors.Participants are encouraged to bring pictures of their ancestors or pictures that remind them of their passed loved ones. There will also be a small photo printer available to print.Your Facilitator: Diana ArellanoDiana is a clinical herbalist in training born and raised in the southside of Chicago with roots in Durango, Mexico now based in Brooklyn, NY. For the past 12 years, herbal medicine has played a key role in Diana’s healing journey and she has been working closely with plants, teachers, and curanderas to continue deepening her knowledge of plants. She loves to teach single herb workshops to highlight the extensive magic and medicine that any herb holds. During her workshops, Diana empowers participants to use their intuition and senses to guide their own relationship with plants. Through establishing a reciprocal relationship with plants, we’re reminded of the connection and aliveness in ourselves and in plant beings. https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events9/banners/24688500-cfc2-11f0-b17a-4f20a69cda01-rimg-w555-h740-dc040404-gmir.jpg https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events5/banners/249f2560-cfc2-11f0-b17a-4f20a69cda01-rimg-w1200-h600-dc5d4b33-gmir.jpg “Another thing we lost is culture. . . look at the word agriculture. We lost that connection. And so now it’s going back to the culture of agriculture. Why do we grow the food that we do?” - Karen WashingtonWhy do we grow the foods we do? How is culture tied to our local foodways and agricultural systems? What stories of nourishment are you hungry to tell? What creative acts are you being called to digest? In this weekly series, explore various techniques and practices introduced by visiting artists who will lead us in expressing our relationship to food, agriculture, and the histories and stories that shape how we connect with our foodways.Through various artmaking techniques like bookmaking, printmaking, collage, sculpture, natural-pigment making and painting, alternative photography processes, participants will create artwork that begins to answer the question: Where is the culture in our agricultural system?This is a free drop-in program. Come to every class to build on your skill or come to one or two that you are available for. Explore your relationship to food and agriculture and the ways our food systems can connect us more deeply to our local ecosystems and communities. https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events8/banners/24cee7f0-cfc2-11f0-b17a-4f20a69cda01-rimg-w1200-h411-dcdbd1c1-gmir.jpg Workshops are rain or shine.Accessibility: Our kitchen/classroom space is wheelchair accessible. With prior planning, we can add a few small mats onto the pebbled ground of greenhouse to make a small wheel-chair accessible path. Our learning garden has grass paths, and the entrance is through a gate with a small, raised entrance. Our tables can be lowered/raised, and we have several backless benches or stools. Our kitchen is in regular use, and while we try to cook without peanuts, much of our cookware is shared and we cannot guarantee a nut-free environment. We have a first aid kit, and the closest AED is in another building several yards away. Drinking water is made available in refillable pitchers.When inside the greenhouse and kitchen we will open our double-doors and windows to vent the space and encourage masking and social distancing when in more closed-in spaces.Our closest bathrooms are a building away, about a one-minute walk. A gender neutral bathroom is also available, and this is accessible by key which you can request from staff. We are not a scent-free zone, and because herbalism classes take place here, cannot guarantee that the site will be clear of any essential oil smells. If you have needs not addressed here, please reach out to Mallory Craig at mcraig@thehort.org. https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events8/banners/25082060-cfc2-11f0-b17a-4f20a69cda01-rimg-w1200-h600-dc4a472e-gmir.jpg - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/new-york/art-and-agriculture-honoring-our-ancestors-with-cempoalxóchitl/100001975854799895 - **Event Categories**: workshops, art, meditation, health-wellness, fine-arts - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 ## Ticket Details - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 0, max: 0, currency: USD ## Event venue details - **city**: New York - **state**: NY - **country**: United States - **location**: The Greenhouse and Education Center at Denny Farrell Riverbank State Park - **lat**: 40.8264806 - **long**: -73.95600050000002 - **full address**: The Greenhouse and Education Center at Denny Farrell Riverbank State Park, 679 Riverside Dr, New York, United States ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: Art & AgriCulture: Honoring our Ancestors with Cempoalxóchitl - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events3/banners/6b10616f162e787473c9a5872f68ccaf562aeeea7289194810a61fd64c72b78d-rimg-w1200-h600-dcf15f05-gmir.jpg?v=1764709327 ## FAQs - **Q**: When and where is Art & AgriCulture: Honoring our Ancestors with Cempoalxóchitl being held? - **A:** Art & AgriCulture: Honoring our Ancestors with Cempoalxóchitl takes place on Thu, 04 Dec, 2025 at 07:00 pm to Thu, 04 Dec, 2025 at 08:00 pm at The Greenhouse and Education Center at Denny Farrell Riverbank State Park, 679 Riverside Dr, New York, United States. - **Q**: Who is organizing Art & AgriCulture: Honoring our Ancestors with Cempoalxóchitl? - **A:** Art & AgriCulture: Honoring our Ancestors with Cempoalxóchitl is organized by The Horticultural Society of New York. - **Q**: Who is this event for? Is it right for me? - **A:** Art & AgriCulture: Honoring our Ancestors with Cempoalxóchitl is ideal for learners, working professionals, and skill-builders looking to gain hands-on knowledge and practical expertise in a focused, interactive setting. Whether you're a first-time attendee or a longtime enthusiast in New York, this event is thoughtfully curated to deliver a standout experience worth every moment. 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