A native New Yorker, Stevie Famulari moved to New Mexico from California, and continues to travel nationally. Stevie's business SUGART, Environmental Art & Design originated in New York, then was developed in California, and New Mexico. Stevie & SUGART now creates edible landscapes & murals, candied people and fashions, frosted buildings & windows, scrumptious sculptures, and delectable events through SUGART in New York, California and New Mexico. Stevie's Earthworks are both edible and non-edible. A site and its energy, stories, and changes through a time period are the attributes she illustrates in her artwork. Her art inspires others to appreciate the amazement, stories, and fun of landscapes with temporary designs.
Her Earthworks include Recalling Spring, an edible mural for Jelly Belly exhibited at their Easter celebration. For Downtown Abacus at Sunset, Stevie was commissioned to create a piece for the opening of Candy Unwrapped, a national traveling exhibit, at Lawrence Hall of Science in Berkeley, California. The candy sculpture consisted of 20,000 Jelly Bellys. Additionally, Stevie created the Valentine's Frosted Fashion Show at Union Square in San Francisco, in which models were 'dressed' in sugar icing and candies for their performance. At Sugarland in New York, a 1/4 acre forest was decorated in fairytale design using brightly colored sugar frosting, gummy candies, and sprinkles. The creation featured a walking path of colorful jelly beans and candy canes.
Stevie was invited to decorate a historic building for the Philadelphia Fringe Festival. That piece, entitled Sugarcoat, entailed frosting the entire building and creating a 2-story wedding cake 'building'. Stevie has also created an Edible Card House for the Gay Men's Chorus and frosted the entrance of Visitation Valley Greenway in San Francisco, for the Park opening. Additional Earthworks include an Edible Window Design on S.kapades Salon in Berkeley, and Sugart-ing the Park in Pleasanton, California.
Stevie teaches and lectures about environmental art to adults and children. Stevie received a B.F.A in photography at New York University (N.Y.U). The desire to use all of one's senses led Stevie to environmental art and a Master's degree in Landscape Architecture and a Master's in Fine Arts-Sculpture from S.U.N.Y College of Environmental Science and Forestry & Syracuse University, respectively. She also received a Certificate in Pastry Arts from the School of Confectionary Arts in N.Y.C.
Questioning traditional practices has been a large part of Stevie's artwork. She believes that permanent artworks with harmful media need to be questioned because they are altering and even depleting landscapes of necessary ecological processes. Her Earthworks critique and comment on this common practice with universally understood, interactive, humorous, and environmentally friendly media.
