With the return of sunlit evenings, warmer days and sprouting gardens, now is the perfect time for budding artists to celebrate the signs of spring through art. The new season brings about ...

Crop art is having a moment ― and there’s nothing seedy about it. On Sept. 6, Minneapolis Institute of Art opens “Cream of the Crop,” the museum’s first exhibition of crop art from the State Fair. Mia ...

Jan Storms from Shoreview, Minn., works on the outline of a hippo using seeds at a Crop Art class hosted at Marine Mills Folk School in Marine on the St. Croix, Minn., on July 23. CATHY WURZER: It's ...

FOR half a century art critics have undertaken to address not a sophisticated minority like the readers of literary magazines, but the mass of unbelievers to whom twentieth-century art is a mystery or ...

The 2025 Minnesota State Fair will end Sept. 1, but the crop art excitement continues on at the Minneapolis Institute of Art. Its exhibition “Cream of the Crop: A Minnesota Folk Art Showcase opens ...

Crop artist Liz Schreiber works on piece inside the Agriculture Horticulture Building at the Minnesota State Fair on Thursday. CATHY WURZER: OK speaking of the state fair, the Crop Art exhibit at the ...

A frigid Minnesota night, a glass of beer and small paper plates filled with many, many seeds. To make a crop art masterpiece, that’s all you need ― and an incredible amount of patience. At the second ...

Crop art is having a moment ― and there’s nothing seedy about it. On Sept. 6, Minneapolis Institute of Art opens “Cream of the Crop,” the museum’s first juried exhibition of crop art from the State ...