Liz Schreiber will lead a 3 hour hands on crop art workshop which will include all materials and provide information about crop art, entering the Fair, and other details about the craft. We will create a 7.5” square piece that you may or may not finish during our class. If you have an image you would like to make, please bring it with, otherwise Liz will provide choices to work from.
This workshop is designed for adults.
This Cultural Districts Art Fund program activity is funded by the Arts & Cultural Affairs Department in the City of Minneapolis.
For the last 21 years I have been creating, teaching, and exploring the craft of crop art.
My first exposure to crop art came after I moved to Minnesota to attend the U of MN in 1995.
The State Fair and especially the crop art exhibit quickly became a favorite and a must see for me each year.My background in fine arts gave me the confidence to finally give it a try and Iʼve been hooked ever since. The main focus of my pieces have been portraits of individuals that I admire, with an emphasis on capturing their likeness working in exclusively natural colored seeds.
I would go on to enter multiple pieces in the State Fair in these last 21 years, win a number of ribbons, and create a multitude of commissioned crop art pieces.
My work has been featured in multiple publications including VitaMN Magazineʼs State Fair issue, annually from 2007-2013, earning me an award of excellence from the Society of News Design in 2010.
Other publications include Edible Twin Cities, Growler Magazine and Uppercase Quarterly.
In addition to having my works featured in print, I have had the opportunity to teach crop art to a whole new generation of Fair lovers.
My workshops and classes include events held at The Walker Arts Center, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Hennepin History Museum and Marine Mills Folk School. Most recently I worked along side the U of MN CFANS to design and create an interactive crop art map which was completed with the help of fair goers during the 2022 State Fair.
My work has been included in multiple gallery shows including Vevang Studios,Hennepin History Museum’s Home Grown exhibit, and most recently Rosalux Gallery.
I have a BFA from Virginia Commonwealth University where I studied sculpture and printmaking and later earned an MFA here at the U of MN studying costume and set design.