Artwork, research and conservation: Art professor Sam Van Aken creates hybridized trees that can grow more than 40 different types of fruit.

Sam Van Aken is an award-winning contemporary artist and Syracuse University professor of sculpture who has developed a project called Tree of 40 Fruit Project in which the artist hand-grafts trees ...

March 14, 2025 Tree that can grow 40 types of fruit — from cherries to peaches — takes root at Temple's art school Artist Sam Van Aken fuses heirloom trees through a horticultural process ...

Artist Sam Van Aken grew up on his family’s farm in Douglassville, Pa. As a result, his favored medium to create art is a process called tree grafting. It involves taking a scion, or a desired ...

The tree is an art installation created by Sam Van Aken. A tree capable of growing 40 varieties of stone fruits, such as peaches and plums, is located near the Rodin Sculpture Garden.

Peaches, apricots, nectarines and cherries—one hybrid tree bears all these fruits. Artist Sam Van Aken cultivated the "Tree of 40 Fruits" to symbolize the biodiversity needed to feed our planet.

The vast, misunderstood field of land art will be revisited this fall in a historical survey and new projects on farms and within city limits. “Orisons” by Marguerite Humeau, 2023, curated and ...