A person with short hair and a mustache carves a face into an orange pumpkin

Pumpkin Carving
with Adam Bierton

October 19, 2025

11 a.m. to 3 p.m. | Visitor Center

Fall fun is just a borough away!

Witness Adam Bierton’s monstrous and imaginative carved pumpkin designs and learn new tips and tricks to create the ultimate jack-o’-lantern at home. Bierton is a professional sculptor and pumpkin carver based in New York, most famously known for his 3-D pumpkin carvings and his season five win of the popular Food Network series Halloween Wars in 2015.

Insider tips from Master Carver Adam Bierton

See what monstrous and imaginative designs Adam has carved, and pick up new tips and tricks from the master for creating the ultimate jack-o’-lantern at home.

  • Quick Tips from Adam

  • Three Styles of Pumpkin Carving

  • Top Household Carving Tools

  • Top Professional Carving Tools

  • How to Scoop Your Pumpkin

  • How to Carve Your Pumpkin

  • How to Make Pumpkin Eyeballs

  • How to Preserve Your Pumpkin

See Adam crafting ghoulish gourds at NYBG

  • a person in a blue shirt carves a pumpkin
  • a person carves a jack-o-lantern with a human face in the dark
  • Realistic carved pumpkin face where the mouth of the pumpkin is lit up with a round light bulb. There are brown sticks bent at the sides with thin brown fingers bent and covering the mouth of the lightbulb and the other hand is ofter the head's forehead. Two other round orange pumpkins are behind the main pumpkin on hay.
  • a person with dark brown hair holds a paintbrush in front of a carved pumpkin with large white eyes and two front teeth

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