The Longmont Museum will be one of the 1,125 locations nationwide to display creative works drawn from the artist’s connection to land and farming.
The new exhibition is in partnership with Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, or BMoCA, and will debut in the summer of 2023.
“BMoCA has been developing the concept for this exhibition for many years, and we are thrilled to partner with Longmont Museum and the NEA to make this concept a reality,” said David Dadone, executive director of BMoCA.
Artists will collaborate with Boulder County farmers and is tentatively planned to be called agri+CULTURE. The goal of partnering farmers, who have an intimate connection to the land, with artists, who bring these stories to life through visual works, is to encourage visitors to think and consider their own relationship with the natural world, according to a press release from BMoCA.
The exhibition, agri+CULTURE, aims to bring together over 15 local, regional and national artists with Boulder County farmers to create and share connections with the land. The exhibition will highlight the vast experiences of farming in the Front Range.
The exhibition encourages artists to draw on the inspiration and expertise of both the farmers and nature to create works that encourage visitors to explore their own connections to the land, according to the press release.
The project received funding from National Endowment for the Arts, orNEA, which approved a $45,000 Grants for Arts Projects award in support of agri+CULTURE.
This project is just one among the 1,125 projects across the United States totaling more than $26.2 million that were selected during the second round of Grants for Art Projects fiscal year 2022 funding, according to press release.
“The arts are also crucial to helping us make sense of our circumstances from different perspectives as we emerge from the pandemic and plan for a shared new normal informed by our examined experience,” said NEA Chair Maria Rosario Jackson.
The exhibit will open June 8-11 of next year, including in Longmont with projects developed at Ollin Farms, Milk & Honey Farm at the Boulder Jewish Community Center and the Boulder County Agricultural Heritage Center. ,
“Our hope with this exhibit is that people will visit BMoCA, the Longmont Museum, and our three satelite farms to fully experience this deep collaboration between artists and farmers in all of its locations,” said Kim Manajek, director of the Longmont Museum. “Our land is art, and this art is land.”
