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Featured Artist – Laura Brown

Migrant Workers
(Art About Agriculture 2000 Show)

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Sitting in my pick-up, I was hoping to paint folks picking in the fields, but your average person who is gathering a few beans for their dinner does not stay in one position long enough for me to capture them in pencil or paint. Suddenly a group of migrant workers appeared. I felt like a voyeur and certainly an outsider as I drew them into my painting, because I was watching them for several hours. (Putting people in my landscapes was the new challenge for me then.) They kept the same position as they moved down the row. Then they left. I hoped I had enough information to remember how to paint them. Fortunately, they returned after lunch at just the point I was ready to paint them into my piece.

“Migrant Workers” was accepted into the Art About Agriculture 2000 Show on my first attempt at entering a slide to the organization. It will always hold a special place in my heart as it was my first big juried show. The reception was held at the Giustina Art Gallery in the LaSells Stewart Center at Oregon State University in Corvallis, Oregon. All the pieces then went on tour to: The Columbia Art Gallery in Hood River, Oregon; OSU Central Oregon in Bend; Gilliam county courthouse in Condon, Oregon; Carnegie Art Center in Walla Walla, Washington and finally the tour ended in the Capitol Galleria in the Capitol Rotunda in Salem, Oregon.

For each Migrant Workers print ordered, a donation will be made to United Farm Workers of America, California.

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