Crop art and butter sculpture are popular agriculture art forms, over 100 years old. In order to promote & advance agriculture business interests after the Civil War, many midwestern towns held extravagant expositions to show just how abundant and available food was thanks to both the fertile land and modern technology.
This year, the 2019 Pennsylvania Farm Show premiered Crop Art as a new contest and we, as a member of the Pennsylvania State Association of County Fairs, would like to offer this "new" and exciting compeition. Let's get creative and see what we can put together for this new "old fashioned" craft.
Rules:
The premise of the articstic challenge is straightforward: Create an artwork covered completely with only naturally colored seeds. This contest calls for entrants to create a piece of artwork entirely out of dry seeds and beans.
Judging will be based on the following criteria -
This year, the 2019 Pennsylvania Farm Show premiered Crop Art as a new contest and we, as a member of the Pennsylvania State Association of County Fairs, would like to offer this "new" and exciting compeition. Let's get creative and see what we can put together for this new "old fashioned" craft.
Rules:
The premise of the articstic challenge is straightforward: Create an artwork covered completely with only naturally colored seeds. This contest calls for entrants to create a piece of artwork entirely out of dry seeds and beans.
- Entries in this category would include (but are not limited to) portraits, landscapes and other pictures that would normally be painted.
- The natural color of the seeds and beans provides the only pigment to the picture as no paint or dyes are allowed.
- No portion of the seedpod is to be used in the artwork and no weeds.
- The artwork is to be completely and exclusively created from whole and unadulturated naturally colored seeds and beans.
- Seeds should be affixed permanently to the flat surface with a clear or invisible adhesive. No shellac or polyurethane coatings.
- Seed portion of artwork must be less than 3/4" thick. For example, if work is mounted on a 1/2" thick board, the total thickness of the entry must be less than 1 1/4".
- Seeds may be layered or partially layered on top of one another as long as the total thickness doesn't exceed 3/4".
- Crop Art pictures are no larger than 400 square inches in area and mounted on a stiff flat board such as plywood. Is is not necessary that the board be rectangular.
- Pictures may have frames, but frames are not required.
- No portion of the mounting board is to be visible. Mounting board must be completely covered with seeds.
- There should not be glass or plastic covering the artwork.
- An unsigned 4" x 6" card must accompany the artwork with sames of the seeds used in the artwork clearly and neatly identified.
Judging will be based on the following criteria -
- Overall artistic merit
- Cleverness of subject
- Technique
- Originality
- Skill