Artist’s Statement: The Truro Agricultural Fair

a community event involving farmers, children and the local harvest


The Truro Agricultural Fair is a labor of love. I see it as a participatory artwork involving hundreds of people. It’s an odd way to look at a fair perhaps, but I know I am passionate about it; I shape its visual presence, mission and execution with the same energy and excitement I find in creating my other visual work.


I created the event with two farmers, Stephanie Rein and David DeWitt, who are indispensable as friends and coworkers. Together we make this wonderful, crazy, fun community day to celebrate agriculture, aquaculture, fishing and farming. The event engenders real happiness in people – we focus as a community on delicious, local food offered in an outdoor Harvest Market. The aim is to educate and to encourage individual action; we enjoy (eat!) our local bounty while learning about ways each of us  can promote the sustainability of our world as it relates to the harvest. Fiddlers’ bands, pie-eating contests, a Barnyard Beauty Contest, Harvest Contests (complete with Longest Cucumber & Oddest Vegetable awards), and the Pie-baking Contest round out the day.


To find out more, volunteer at the event, explore sponsorship opportunities or to join the Ag Fair mailing list please link to The Truro Agricultural Fair website (where you can click through another example of Ag Fair imagery).

Garden Party Invitation for the Children’s Community Garden that the Truro Agricultural Fair has created in conjunction with the Truro Public Library and Truro Recreation.

See a PDF of the Children's Community Garden CreationLR.pdf.

Possible 2010 t-shirt design

Possible 2010 t-shirt design

Possible 2010 t-shirt design

Truro Ag Fair banner above the toe-tapping music

Partial shot of the fair: Truro center transformed

Fair logo. The rooster, the weathervane from the old Truro Town Hall, we found displayed in a hallway as we entered a selectmen’s meeting to propose the idea of the fair.

CURRENT WORK - THE TRURO AGRICULTURAL FAIR

A play on Palin’s “Drill, baby, Drill”. Sold as bumper stickers and t-shirts to benefit the fair (original printing sold-out in a day, 2nd printing available).