Stan Herd
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Stan Herd, American Crop art
ist creates images, or Earthworks, on large areas of land, especially in Kansas
. His work is sometimes called Living sculpture
. He plots his designs and then executes them by planting, mowing, and sometimes burning, or plowing the land. Two of Herd's first Kansas installations were the 160 acre (0.6474976 km²) portraits of Kiowa
War Chief Satanta
(1981) and Will Rogers
(1983). These artworks can be seen in Herd's 1994 book on Crop art. He is associated with the Prairie Renaissance Movement. Herd's website includes photos of his work and a list of some of the media coverage of his various projects, including an article in Smithsonian
magazine. website and National Geographic's World
magazine(1988). Herd made several trips to Havana to create Rosa Blanca in 2001, an image of a white rose in honor of the 19th-century Cuban poet José Martí. Herd's work has been seen on: CBS Sunday Morning; Fox Television Breakfast Time; Dateline NBC
; CNN News; Good Morning America
ABC
; and National Public Radio, All Things Considered
.
An installation Herd completed in 1994, Countryside, which was an image of a pastoral Kansas landscape on an acre of property owned by Donald Trump in New York City, is the subject of an independent film by Chris Ordal called Earthwork. The film's Kansas premiere, in Herd's adopted hometown of Lawrence, KS, took place September 10, 2010, at the Lawrence Arts Center. Earthwork, winner at 18 film festivals in 2010 and filmed on location in Lawrence and New York City, tells the true story of Herd's transformation of a large, trash-strewn, barren lot near a graffiti-laced underground railway tunnel inhabited with the homeless into his work entitled Countryside.
Crop art
Crop art falls into several different categories, all of which employ land and/or what grows from it to create images.-Seed art:One version of Crop art is also called Seed art, a visual art created in mosaic-style. Mosaic is an ancient technique of making designs, often from bits of tile or...
ist creates images, or Earthworks, on large areas of land, especially in Kansas
Kansas
Kansas is a US state located in the Midwestern United States. It is named after the Kansas River which flows through it, which in turn was named after the Kansa Native American tribe, which inhabited the area. The tribe's name is often said to mean "people of the wind" or "people of the south...
. His work is sometimes called Living sculpture
Living sculpture
Living sculpture is any type of sculpture that is created with living, growing grasses, vines, plants or trees. It can be functional and/or ornamental...
. He plots his designs and then executes them by planting, mowing, and sometimes burning, or plowing the land. Two of Herd's first Kansas installations were the 160 acre (0.6474976 km²) portraits of Kiowa
Kiowa
The Kiowa are a nation of American Indians and indigenous people of the Great Plains. They migrated from the northern plains to the southern plains in the late 17th century. In 1867, the Kiowa moved to a reservation in southwestern Oklahoma...
War Chief Satanta
Satanta (White Bear)
This article refers to the Kiowa chief Satanta. For the Irish hero Sétanta, please see Cú Chulainn.Satanta was a Kiowa war chief. He was a member of the Kiowa tribe, he was born around 1820, during the height of the power of the Plains Tribes, probably along the Canadian River in the traditional...
(1981) and Will Rogers
Will Rogers
William "Will" Penn Adair Rogers was an American cowboy, comedian, humorist, social commentator, vaudeville performer, film actor, and one of the world's best-known celebrities in the 1920s and 1930s....
(1983). These artworks can be seen in Herd's 1994 book on Crop art. He is associated with the Prairie Renaissance Movement. Herd's website includes photos of his work and a list of some of the media coverage of his various projects, including an article in Smithsonian
Smithsonian (magazine)
Smithsonian is the official journal published by the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. The first issue was published in 1970.-History:...
magazine. website and National Geographic's World
World (magazine)
WORLD Magazine is a biweekly Christian news magazine, published in the United States of America by God's World Publications, a non-profit 501 organization based in Asheville, North Carolina. WORLD differs from most other news magazines in that its declared perspective is one of conservative...
magazine(1988). Herd made several trips to Havana to create Rosa Blanca in 2001, an image of a white rose in honor of the 19th-century Cuban poet José Martí. Herd's work has been seen on: CBS Sunday Morning; Fox Television Breakfast Time; Dateline NBC
Dateline NBC
Dateline NBC, or Dateline, is a U.S. weekly television newsmagazine broadcast by NBC. It previously was NBC's flagship news magazine, but now focuses on true crime stories. It airs Friday at 9 p.m. EST and after football season on Sunday at 7 p.m. EST.-History:Dateline is historically notable for...
; CNN News; Good Morning America
Good Morning America
Good Morning America is an American morning news and talk show that is broadcast on the ABC television network; it debuted on November 3, 1975. The weekday program airs for two hours; a third hour aired between 2007 and 2008 exclusively on ABC News Now...
ABC
American Broadcasting Company
The American Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network. Created in 1943 from the former NBC Blue radio network, ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Company and is part of Disney-ABC Television Group. Its first broadcast on television was in 1948...
; and National Public Radio, All Things Considered
All Things Considered
All Things Considered is the flagship news program on the American network National Public Radio. It was the first news program on NPR, and is broadcast live worldwide through several outlets...
.
An installation Herd completed in 1994, Countryside, which was an image of a pastoral Kansas landscape on an acre of property owned by Donald Trump in New York City, is the subject of an independent film by Chris Ordal called Earthwork. The film's Kansas premiere, in Herd's adopted hometown of Lawrence, KS, took place September 10, 2010, at the Lawrence Arts Center. Earthwork, winner at 18 film festivals in 2010 and filmed on location in Lawrence and New York City, tells the true story of Herd's transformation of a large, trash-strewn, barren lot near a graffiti-laced underground railway tunnel inhabited with the homeless into his work entitled Countryside.