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Wall-to-Wall Walz at the Minnesota State Fair Seed Art Show, Isabella Segalovich, Hyperallergic, August 30, 2024
Local artists get political in painstakingly crafted mosaics at the only state fair crop art display in the United States.
FALCON HEIGHTS, Minnesota — From a rotating gallery of butter sculptures to a hall bursting with quilts and embroidery, the annual Minnesota State Fair is always awash with creative endeavors. But the line is always the longest at the crop art display, the only one of its kind at a state fair in the United States. Here, fairgoers crowd shoulder-to-shoulder, sipping honey-infused lemonade from the nearby beekeeping room as they inspect hundreds of painstakingly crafted mosaics made entirely out of Minnesota-grown seeds. And more than any other art on the fairgrounds, this richly nutty art form is often explicitly and proudly political. Click here for more.