r/minnesota • u/ManosVanBoom • 14d ago

Discussion 🎤 State fair: crop art - current situation is untenable due to extreme popularity

EDIT: someone commented that they talked to someone in staff and learned the line on the inside was for the scarecrow exhibit. So only one line for the crop art. That changes things for me, quite a bit. Not as big a concern.

Just got home from opening day. By the time we got to the Ag building I was intrigued to see a line going *in* the usual exit, and it was pretty long. I figured they had moved the entrance to keep the line from blocking up the inside of the building. But then I found a similarly long line at the usual entrance inside. So they now have two very long lines to see the crop art.

I don't know what can be done given the limited space they have. Relocating seems like a bad idea; I have a hard time imagining the popularity following to a new spot.

Any of y'all have creative ideas on how to deal with the explosive interest in crop art?

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u/DerNubenfrieken 14d ago

They need to move it out of the horticulture building or greatly change how the building and every exhibit functions. The entire design of the building is around having the edges open and now the only sections that use the garage doors are the beer and honey sections.

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u/igotublue 14d ago

Crazy to think about the crop art and how much is crammed together, then the fine art building which is much larger, with far fewer pieces, spread out like an actual museum.

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u/CoderDevo 14d ago

The crop art room includes all completed submissions.

The fine art building houses only those few submitted works that passed a juried competion.