You’re not alone if you’ve always felt like the crop art at the Minnesota State Fair is worthy of a full museum treatment.
Well, crop art is getting its due. The Minneapolis Institute of Art (Mia) has announced “Cream of the Crop: A Minnesota Folk Art Showcase,” an exhibition of the “community-rooted tradition of crop art.”
The exhibition, which will open on Sept. 6 in the Mia Rotunda, will feature highlights from the Minnesota State Fair’s crop art competition, including a pair of winners from the Mia’s new crop art awards (Best Interpretation of an Artwork and Best Interpretation of a Minnesota Landmark, Story, or Figure), as well as eight pieces selected by the museum’s curatorial team and museum director Katie Luber.
The exhibit will recontextualize how many experience the meticulous art form that inherently speaks to the state’s rural roots through its use of seeds and other grains…