Organic Growers Club
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In any weather, at any hour of the day or night, I have been anxious to improve the nick of time, and notch it on my stick too; to stand on the meeting of two eternities, the past and future, which is precisely the present moment; to toe that line. Henry David Thoreau, Walden, from the opening chapter “Economy”
In an overlay that changes through time for the agriculturist and artist alike contemporary practices, markets, and techniques influence how they work, and how and what they produce. While creating a work of art in real time an artist customarily incorporates an awareness of time—possibly expressed as the hour of the day, an era of humanity, or anything among the variable dimension of time, including the idea of timelessness itself. This essence of time is also elemental to agriculture. People with knowledge that includes the concrete and scientific tend the innumerable responsibilities enabling food availability. However, they also practice the “art of agriculture” by focusing their attention on making the process happen in time, day by day, season by season, year by year.
Art About Agriculture Tour 2008: The Nick of Time is an art exhibition sponsored by the College of Agricultural Sciences at Oregon State University. The College invites artists to investigate present day agriculture as inspiration in the process of creating artworks and selecting submittals for its twenty-sixth annual art competition. This regional, juried competition is open to all fine arts and traditional crafts media. Artists living in Alaska, British Columbia, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, and Washington may apply. However, student artwork completed while enrolled in an educational curriculum is not accepted.
2009: In the Northwest. Next year’s competition will again be open to artists living in the states listed above. The College will be interested in works of art related to regional agriculture and natural resources, and people here who are directly involved with agricultural practice and production and the stewardship of natural resources.
