Roseville community creativity at the Minnesota State Fair
Fine Arts, Creative Activities, and Agriculture/Horticulture contests
The Roseville Reader put out a call for information for Roseville residents who participated in creative contests at the Minnesota State Fair, and the community responded! Dozens of people from Roseville participated in Fine Arts, Creative Activities, and Agriculture/Horticulture contests this year.
Check out the amazing creations of your neighbors below and at the Fair through Labor Day.
Dietrich Anderson
Entries: 16 items in the Bee, Honey, and Apiary Products division, including liquid honey, granulated (creamed) honey, extracting frame (honey comb), Honey Gift Basket, natural beeswax block, hot honey, exhibit of molded beeswax art forms, and photography.
Location: Agriculture/Horticulture
Graeme Attwood
Entry: Sculpture "Spirit of a King"
Location: Creative Activities
Nancy Birger
Entry: Large quilted wall hanging
Location: Fine Arts
Darlene Bushinski
Entry: Two quilts: hand quilted and machine quilted
Location: Creative Activities
Sarah Bruess
Entry: Hand-knit sleeveless sweater
Location: Creative Activities
Kevin Forster
Entry: Postcard frame: Gates Ajar Como Park St. Paul
Location: Creative Activities
Karyn Gaffaney
Entry: Two hand knit items—socks and a striped scarf.
Location: Creative Activities
Sally Gutierrez
Entry: paper mache frog: "Louisa La Rana piñata"
Location: Creative Activities
Jan Johnshoy
Entry: Queen-size quilt, pieced in a 9-patch pattern in a progression of rainbow colors, alternating with black squares. The quilting was done by someone else.
Kendra Johnson
Entry: "two beloved family cookie recipes in the baked products competition"
Location: Creative Activities
Devin Kelly
Entry: Chocolate Butterscotch Chip Cookies
Location: Creative Activities
Stefanie Kiihn
Entry: Pen and ink drawing "Bdote Mni Sota"
Location: Fine arts
Marceil Luedtke
Entry: Bee-themed quilt
Location: Agriculture/Horticulture
Kathryn Macomber
Entries:
Cinnamon Raisin Bread with toasted walnuts
Whole wheat clover leaf dinner rolls
White flour fan tan dinner rolls
Lemon bread
Moist blueberry muffins
Ginger Lemon scones
Gingerbread round cookies
Plain shortbread
Apfelkuchen, German apple cake
Fresh Peach Pie with butter pie crust
Fresh Peach Coffee Cake
Location: Creative Activities
Sarah Matthiesen
Entry: An apple pie and brownie shortbread bars
Location: Creative Activities
Patty Murray
Entry: "Homemade Red Raspberry Jelly from raspberries grown in my back yard in Roseville."
Location: Creative Activities
Amy Perkins
Entry: Garlic and orchid
Location: Agriculture/Horticulture
Tony Perkins
Entry: photograph of a tornado in South Dakota
Location: Fine Arts
Michael Prokopiuk
Entry: Pysanky/Ukrainian Easter Eggs
Location: Agricultural/Horticulture
Cyndy Quinan
Entry: Modular afghan and a 5-piece Christening set.
Location: Creative Activities
Mimi Steffens
Entry: Patchwork quilt
Location: Creative Activities
Beverley Stroshein
Entry: Embroidered tablecloth and table runner
Location: Creative Activities
Bess Casey Wilke
Entry: Quilt made with naturally dyed fabrics, hand-dyed, and an original quilt pattern.
Location: Creative Activities
Randi Winter
Entry: Three jams, one vinegar made from scratch, three types of cookies, a coffee cake, and an angel food cake
Location: Creative Activities
Emilia Witthuhn
Entry: Five knitwear garments, including a hand spun brioche hat, a plain cardigan, a pullover with limited lacework, a color work sweater, a sleeveless knit top; two hand spun skeins of yarn; scones, drop lemon cookies, coffeecake and maybe sweet rolls.
Location: Creative activities
Thank you for submitting your State Fair contest entries to the Roseville Reader! We have such a creative and talented community—this list is not comprehensive of the total number of entries by Roseville residents at the Minnesota State Fair this year. If you haven't had a chance to go yet, keep an eye out for work by Roseville residents in the Fine Arts, Creative Activities, and Agriculture/Horticulture buildings!
Editorial note: Photos in this article courtesy of the creators of each entry. Not all entries were submitted to the Roseville Reader with photos. The locations indicated on each entry are the buildings at the State Fair for the associated contests, but not all work submitted to the contests is on display or on display every day of the Fair.
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