Schreiber’s artwork is made with 29 different types of seeds. The crop art competition has been a Minnesota State Fair tradition since 1965. Crop art is an intricate and unique art form and is thought to have originated on farms, where people had an abundance of seeds and were less busy in the winter, so they glued seeds to boards to make pictures. Over the years, the chosen official commemorative artist has worked in many different mediums from photography to watercolor to screen printing and now, for 2023, the medium is seeds.

Her 22” by 30” crop art with an original frame will be on display in the Fine Arts Center during the 2023 Great Minnesota Get-Together, Aug. Surrounded by State Fair enthusiasts, she presented her richly detailed mosaic of iconic State Fair imagery made entirely from seeds. The 2023 Minnesota State Fair’s Official Commemorative Art was unveiled at the State Fairgrounds on Thursday, June 8, by Minneapolis crop artist Liz Schreiber. Our Nikon film scanner is a high performance dedicated film scanner, and offers up to 4000dpi on 35mm film, slides, and more.2023 Minnesota State Fair Official Commemorative Art by Liz Schreiber Is Unveiled! Our professional Epson scanner is used for maximum resolution, with the ability to capture up to 6400dpi, and can handle reflective images as well as film transparencies. Two other scanners round out our in house capabilities and cover additional scanning needs. Perfect, even lighting means no hot spots, no vignetting, and no out of focus areas on your image. Specialized light modes such as texture and polarization are able to record the tiniest details despite tricky surfaces such as high gloss or metallics. Your artwork surface is never touched as it rides on the flat bed that moves beneath the lighting banks.

Cruse scanners are utilized by museums, libraries, photographers, archives, architects, and other industries that require extreme detail, resolution, and absolute color fidelity. Built in Germany, this scanner is the international benchmark for scanning and reproducing large format originals with utmost quality and for particularly high demands. Here at Arts District Imageworks, we use a Cruse flatbed scanner.

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