the fields project
Bringing Art and Agriculture Together
Bringing Art and Agriculture Together
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June 20 - 28, 2009
Fields Project Week
June 28, 2009
Fields Project Arts Festival
June 20 - 28, 2009
Fields Project Week
June 28, 2009
Fields Project Arts Festival
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Bringing Art and Agriculture Together The Fields Project is located in Oregon, IL, nestled in the scenic Rock River Hill Country. It is located amid state forests and parks, historical sites, sandstone outcroppings, prairie vegetation and wild life. This biodiversity has provided endless subject matter for artistic expression. Lorado Taft established The Eagles Nest Art Colony here in 1898 through 1942 by bringing in artists from the Chicago area for the summer. Our objectives are to focus public attention on art, agriculture, and our natural resources while creating new relationships between artists, farmers, environmentalists, and educators. For Painters, Photographers, and Sculptors, we have a nine day program that includes lodging on a working farm. During this time, the artists can apply their art or choose to do a Field Sculpture. A Field Sculpture is an opportunity to “paint with the land” by cutting/mowing flora on a piece of ground that can be up to15 acres in size. These Field Sculptures are designed to be viewed or photographed from the air. On the last Sunday we have a Fine Arts Festival where the artists display and sell their work along with regional sculptors and artists at Mix Park which is located at the SW end of Oregon on IL Rte 2. There is a sculptor’s competition each year and the winning maquette will be enlarged and bronzed. Our goal is to place ten outdoor bronze sculptures in the Oregon area in ten years the first sculpture was installed in 2005. |
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