2026 Touring Exhibition

Art About Agriculture Touring Exhibition 2026: Field Report

Art About Agriculture Touring Exhibition 2026: Field Report presents fine art and craft that explores visual storytelling inspired by agricultural experiences and observation. Personal story, history, heritage, mythology, poetry, research, and data support one of our most thematically rich and materially diverse exhibitions to date. This juried touring exhibition features the work of 52 artists representing 35 counties throughout Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and Montana.

The 2026 tour includes eight artworks from seven students representing OSU College of Agricultural Sciences, OSU College of Visual, Performing, and Design Arts, OSU College of Forestry, Josephy Center for Arts and Culture, and Blue Mountain Community College. Each student is receiving a scholarship or honorarium to help offset participation expenses. Student awards were made possible by Bill Boggess and Leslie Burns, Russell and Marla Karow, the Margaret Hogg Memorial Art About Agriculture Fund, and in partnership with OSU College of Agricultural Sciences’ Academic Programs Office.

State University’s Giustina Gallery will kick off the 2026 tour with the reception on Thursday, March 12th from 5-7:30pm. We are excited and honored to tour Field Report to Josephy Center for Arts and Culture (Joseph, OR), Grants pass Museum of Art (Grants Pass, OR), and Betty Feves Memorial Art Gallery at Blue Mountain Community College (Pendleton, OR).

Karl Davis is a Pendleton-based art historian and Oregon arts professional. Karl served as the Executive Director of Crow’s Shadow Institute of the Arts for eight years where he championed fine art printmaking and Native American Artists. He also served as the director of Froelick Gallery in Portland, Oregon from 2003 - 2010.

Beaverton, Oregon-based photographer, Loren Nelson captures landscapes, seascapes, driftwood studies, botanicals, and abstract compositions using a Deardorff 4X5 view camera and selenium-toned silver gelatin prints using traditional darkroom techniques. He has recently incorporated digital photography into his workflow to respond more spontaneously to his surroundings. Last year, the Art About Agriculture Permanent Collection acquired a copy of his digital print, Wrapped Hay Bales and Storm Clouds; Mohler, Oregon (ICN: 2025-08).

Nelson’s photographs are in numerous public and private collections, including the Portland Art Museum; the Hallie Ford Museum of Art; Salem, Oregon; and the Florida Museum of Photographic Arts; Tampa, FL. He is represented by the Portland Art Museum/Rental Sales Gallery in Portland, OR, and LightBox Photographic Gallery in Astoria, OR. His work has been published in View Camera, LensWork, B&W, Shots, and Analog Forever Magazines.

Katy Cauker is a Jacksonville, OR-based artist. An active contributor to Southern Oregon visual arts and plein air painting communities, and beyond. Her work can be found in public and private collections in the EU, England, Argentina, Canada, and throughout the US. Katy’s work was recently included in the large retrospective of plein air painting on the Oregon Coast, Pacific Threshold at Giustina Gallery. She also illustrated the book Body Wisdom by Dr. Gerald J. Senogles. The Art About Agriculture Permanent Collection includes two pieces by Katy Cauker, Carpenter Hill Orchard and Vineyard (ICN: 2020-07) and Orchard Later Summer, Carpenter Hill (ICN: 2022-15). Her work can also be found at www.kcgallery6.com.

Maud Powell is a Professor of Practice for OSU’s Small Farms program at the Southern Oregon Research and Extension Center in Central Point, OR. She and her husband have owned and operated Wolf Gulch Farm, a small diversified vegetable and seed farm in the Applegate Valley for twenty-seven years. She is currently the president of the Rogue Valley Food Systems Network, and serves on the boards of Our Family Farms and Klamath-Siskiyou Wildlands. Maud has an M.A. from Antioch University Seattle in Environment and Community Studies and an MFA in Children and Young Adult Writing from the Vermont College of Fine Arts. She published her debut novel City of Grit and Gold in 2017, and has written articles and essays for publications including Oregon Humanities, Reckoning, and Environment: Science and Policy for Sustainable Development. Additionally, she writes for, directs, and produces community theatre with the Little Apple players.