Crop Art at the State Fair draws huge lines, locals call for a gallery
It would be great if all the anti-ICE crop art, fine art, and fiber arts and crafts pieces from the 2026 Fair could be gathered together for a combined free exhibit at the MIA. Select pieces would go to MN Historical Society.
J.B. Lyle7"Make Orwell and Atwood fiction again" = excellent.
Chris Johnson7Minnesota State Fair artists have been political radicals for decades.
lurkengurd.bsky.social4That is a fantastic idea. Keep the awareness in first place. #AbolishICE
Nancy Gonzalez4Yes! With artist permission, absolutely!
Nigel “Incubator” Jones 3MIA will have some of the crop art on display for free this Fall. They have already picked them out.
pax_christi1Some should go to the Antifa museum in DC after Trump. As a reminder to future generations of how far wrong America can go.
People have been sharing the fabulous crop art but too many are sleeping on all the other amazing anti-ICE folk art pieces at the Minnesota State Fair!
Zilla3We saw the mini quilts today and they were amazing!
Don Comer2Never thought attending a state fair would be a political statement, but it is. Minnesota determined to have fun despite ICE occupation. DON'T TREAD ON ME & have a corn-dog.
Sarah2I keep mentioning this--and the Fine Arts building as well! So great it's so widespread.
Sjkrig2I was there at the same time as the woman who made the crochet figure on the left. Her creation is actually wearing a rebel loon super hero costume under the robe! She wasn’t able to display the full thing but she shared a peek at the photos on her phone. So very cool.
MKSutherland2I love the comeback with the warrant ones are particularly poignant and hilarious!
I've seen people share the Metro Surge resistance art, so I'm going to focus on some other crop art that caught my attention yesterday.
Laurel Krahn6Yet another crop art thread yay!
Sarah Dearing 🇨🇦5Next time Sam Altman utters *we’re democratizing art* in public, could someone please pelt him with a handful of corn.
Jill Lightner3More crop art! Including hot dogs in pants! This week tides me over until we get to the Krewe of Red Beans season.
Joe Sabol2Minnesota State Fair Seed Art. (I did not attend in 2026, just sharing.)
Minnesota is a convenient place to live! People here are used to almost everything being incredibly easy to get to and do. More busses or bike parking would be great! Build a dang train right to the Fairgrounds! But maybe there's no fix for hundreds of thousands of people wanting to see the crop art
Daniel Suitor50I'm not trying to say people shouldn't try or that it's wrong/dumb to discuss ideas. I just that if the vicious capitalists at the Walt Disney Corporation can't solve lines or congestion, maybe we shouldn't get too torqued about it.
Lydy5Oh, man, I kinda want to see the crop art, this year, and as a general rule, I HATE the state fair.
audreyii_fic3I do hope that crop art gets its own art-gallery building one day
I'mNotAHRHitter2They should build a dang train to the State Fairgrounds
*whispers* I am actually fine with just looking at photos of crop art on social media.
Erik Ostrom8For me this year it was worth it to be surrounded by the scale of it and the conversation. Also there were some great pieces that used texture and dimension in a way that doesn’t come across in a photo.
Anon Absorbing7That line was 90 minutes yesterday and my 10yo was not having it. More pics pls
Getting Gophery1Yes, but let me try the baked goods.
Laurel Krahn1Same. Also I love this way of viewing them complete with artist statements too: www.cropart.com/Resist.pdf
Stacey Burns21I can enlarge details on my screen that there’s no way I’d be able to make out in person, gasping for air between several other crowd-weary fairgoers, squinting at the wall and clumped together as if trying to get a glimpse of the Mona Lisa at the Louvre Not to yuck y’all’s yum. To each their own.
Fossilized Tree Sap16You can view tons and tons of crop art in the archive at cropart.com. This is also where the Resistance Art page lives. Artists have to submit their pieces (which is great because that means better photos!) so it doesn’t have every piece ever, but it does go back many decades.
