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Marta Shore

Marta Shore teaches Biostatistics at the UMN School of Public Health when she's not frantically gluing seeds to a board. She first entered the crop art competition in 2015 when she realized it was a great way to immortalize her favorite puns.

Leslie Knope for President 2016	M.A.P.E 2017	The Horror 2018	They Didn't Know... 2019	Crop Top 2019
#equalpay 2020 & 2021	Sharon Ling 2021	Stolen Land 2021	What's going on? 50 Years 2021	Carli Lloyd 2021
RuPaul 2022	Bianca Del Rio 2022	Bob the Drag Queen 2022	Cornacia 2022	Cyndi Lauper 2023
Madonna 2023	Donna Summer 2023	Tim IS Crop 2024	50th Anniversary of the Jolene Album 2024	GALA Chorus Festival 2024 2024

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'This will take forever': My crop art journey to the Minnesota State Fair
Alex V. Cipolle
MPR, August 25, 2025 4:00 AM

How Crop Art Is Judged at the State Fair
by Steve Marsh
Mpls/St Paul Magazine, August 19,2025

'This will take forever': My crop art journey to the Minnesota State Fair
Alex V. Cipolle
MPR, August 25, 2025 4:00 AM

All about crop art at the Minnesota State Fair
Fox 9, August 6, 2025

The Minneapolis Courthouse Gets Corny
By Madeline Cisneros
Mpls/St Paul Magazine, June 11, 2025

'Seeds of Justice' crop art exhibition at U.S. Courthouse in Minneapolis takes on the law
By Alicia Eler
The Minnesota Star Tribune, April 4, 2025

Wall-to-Wall Walz at the Minnesota State Fair Seed Art Show
By Isabella Segalovich
Hyperallergic, August 30, 2024

Crop Artists Take Their Work Seriously at the State Fair
By Madeline Cisneros
Mpls St Paul Magazine, August 30, 2024

Crop Art Students Head to the State Fair
White Bear Center for the Arts newsletter, August 2024

Job Interview: How a college stats teacher became the State Fair crop art superintendent
By Estelle Timar-Wilcox
MPR News, August 28, 2024

Seed by Seed: Crop Art of the Minnesota State Fair
By Kathy Berdan
The Walker Reader, August 2024

This Biostatistics Teacher Is Recreating Iconic Album Covers Using Rice, Quinoa & Poppy Seeds
By Joe Lynch
Billboard, November 9, 2023

Behind the seeds of MN State Fair crop art
by KARE 11
August 27, 2023

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