Ag and Art Project brings NEA chair to Yolo
Artist Rebecca Ryland stands back to survey her work during an Art in Agriculture activity in 2009. The project was the subject of a meeting Tuesday between YoloArts officials and Rocco Landesman, chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts. Sue Cockrell/Enterprise file photo
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- Artists line up to paint plein air at a Center for Land-Based Learning workshop in 2011 as part of the Art in Agriculture project. Sue Cockrell/Enterprise file photo
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- Rocco Landesman is chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts. He visited Woodland on Tuesday to talk with YoloArts officials and others. Courtesy photo
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- An old water tower serves as a backdrop for artist Joanne Jensen as she paints at the Fong Family Farms in 2009 as part of the Art in Agriculture program run by YoloArts. Sue Cockrell/Enterprise file photo
Artists have long been drawn to the beauty of rural western Yolo County, but sometimes capturing that beauty meant risking life and limb.
Yolo County Supervisor Duane Chamberlain, who represents the sweeping, largely rural 5th District, recalls frequently seeing painters set up on the side of the road bordering his alfalfa fields.
“The dust and gravel would be flying everywhere and I’d go over to them and say, ‘You can go on the land,’ but they were always afraid of being chased off,” Chamberlain said.
Annie Main, who with her husband, Jeff, farms in the Capay Valley, said she, too, often heard about painters — usually women — working alone on the side of the road.
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