Please join us for a Harvest Celebration of Agnes Denes' Wheatfield—An Inspiration. The seed is in the ground

Everyone is invited to participate in this free, day-long event that will include demonstrations of traditional hand-harvesting techniques by students from MSU’s Plant Sciences Department, as well as threshing, cleaning, and milling wheat at a small scale.

The first 300 participants will receive a packet of hand-harvested Bobcat winter wheat as a memento of Denes’ installation, which can also be planted this fall in solidarity with Wheatfield—An Inspiration​ and perpetuate the cycle of planting hope as envisioned by the artist.

The remainder of the harvest will be processed into flour and baked into bread by Wild Crumb to be sold and also distributed throughout the community in partnership with the Gallatin Valley Food Bank.

This is a special opportunity to be part of the art at Tinworks; we hope to see you on September 8!

A groundbreaking, internationally acclaimed figure in the conceptual, environmental, and ecological art movements that emerged in the 1960s and 70s, Agnes Denes continues to defy easy classification. She engages science, philosophy, math, linguistics, technology, engineering, music, and poetry in visionary works that explore environmental consciousness and humanity’s impact on the planet. One of her most recognized and influential works is Wheatfield—A Confrontation, from 1982, in which Denes planted a two-acre field of wheat in prime New York real estate in Lower Manhattan. It is widely considered to be one of the first public ecological artworks. Her drawings, prints, and photographs are in the collections of major museums around the world. Denes has received numerous prestigious awards, honorary doctorates, and fellowships, and has exhibited extensively over the past fifty years. Born in Budapest in 1931, Denes lives and works in New York.