This year’s crop art entries run the gamut, from the political to the personal, with due homage to important figures. The most pointedly political is a Pawlenty/Paul Bunyan figure chopping away at health care, transit, nature, art and education, while a blue elephant wanders aimelssly out of the state.
For a selection of this year’s crop art, scroll on down – for articles and photos from 2007, 2008 and 2009, see:
Seed art, Michele Bachmann and the State Fair
Obama birth certificate as seed art at the Minnesota State Fair
At the intersection of folk art and politics
State Fair: Crop art continues
The stuff of nightmares (above) – and of fairy tales (below).
Pictures from the past (above) and the present (below).
And the (more or less) traditional portraits …
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