2014—2024
“Agriculture is our wisest pursuit, because it will in the end contribute most to real wealth, good morals, and happiness.” – Thomas Jefferson
About Wormfarm
The DTour is presented by Wormfarm Institute, a non-profit organization dedicated to building a sustainable future for agriculture and the arts by fostering vital links between people and the land. Based in rural Wisconsin, we have been working for nearly 25 years to create new economic opportunities in the region, and support a flourishing culture ecology by bringing rural and urban communities together around farming, land conservation and the arts.
Four thousand of years, farmers in cultures around the world have interwoven dance, music and art through rituals of planting and harvest in celebration of the land and those who care for it. Through a contemporary approach and within this timeless context, we continue that tradition. Excerpt from Farm/Art DTour 2024
The photographs in this publication were taken by William C. Schuette, except for the years 2011, 2012, 2013 and where otherwise noted.
Copyright 2025
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“Framed Frame” by David Wells
Photos from the collection of Julie Raasch
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“Boots” by Chris Looter
“Monarch Caterpillar” by Larry & Jeremy Mundth
Photos from the collection of Julie Raasch
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“Field Weave” by Randy Walker
“Truth” by Catherine Schwalbe
Photos from the collection of Julie Raasch
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“Come What May” by Katie Schofield
“Wayfinder” by Terrence Campagna
Photos from the collection of Julie Raasch
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“Stonehenge” by Friede and Associates
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“Crib” by Brenda Leigh Baker, photo by Eric Baillies
“Crib” by Brenda Leigh Baker, photo by Jeremy Mundth
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“Fort Reedsburg” by Friede & Associates and Vierbicher, photo by Jeremy Mundth
“Kominy Tractor” by Heath Matysek Snyder, from the collection of the Wormfarm Institute
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“Goat Jungle Gym” by David Borntrager and Joe Miller, From the collection of the Wormfarm Institute
“The Surveyor”
By John Miller From the collection of the Wormfarm Institute
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“Ruminant” by Karl Unnasch, from the collection of The Worm Farm Institute
“Serpentine” by Jesse Lee Wilson, from the collection of The Worm Farm Institute
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“Consider” by John S. Miller, from the Collection of the Worm Farm Institute
Pasture Performance by Diane Schoff, from the Collection of the Worm Farm Institute
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“Dumpling House” by Emily Stover and Emily Balcomb Raleigh from the collection of the Worm Farm Institute
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“Entrenched” by Rita Grendze, photo by Katrin Talbot, courtesy of the Worm Farm Institute
“Sound Barrier” by Jeremy Mundth, from the collection of the Worm Farm Institute
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“Jess and Jess Aerial Dance” Pasture Performance
From the collection of the Worm Farm Institute
“On The Fence” by the Ironton-LaValle Elementary School
From the collection of the Worm Farm Institute
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“Plenty of Actual Size Artworks” by Katey Smith, photo by Katie Schofield, curtesy of the Worm Farm Institute
“Pasture Play” by Able Trek Tours, photo by Katrin Talbot, courtesy of the Worm Farm Institute
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All the following photos are by William C. Schuette
Circus Wagons “Wonders at the Wayside Circus Wagon and Sideshow Encampment”, by Erika Nelson, Lucas, KS. Looking at the history of the area as expressed through reinterpretations of Sauk County’s Sideshow and Circus culture, Erika Nelson’s colorful circus wagons pose questions about place, sparking investigation and wonder through visual storytelling some true, some not.
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Corn Cribs “Bubble Pub”, created by: Jenny Hale, Nevada City, CA, and Gail Katz-James, Minneapolis, MN. Bubble Pub celebrates fermentation by transforming corn cribs into a series of increasing carbonated vessels of locally crafted brews.
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Drift “Drift”, created by Sara Black, Amber Ginsburg, and Lia Rousset, Chicago, IL. Drift functions both as an autonomous intervention in the landscape and a site for exchange with residents and visitors. [They] create a large-scale floating sculptural form that will advance to shore on weekends where they will serve spring infusions made from local farm produce in frozen glacial water. Drift crosses, both figuratively and through the body, the driftless region’s geological story with its current agricultural land use.
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Kiera “Driving Miss Kiera”, created by landowners Rodney & Tim Seamans; Jan & Carolyne Aslaksen. This is the 4th year Seamans and Aslaksens have created a Farm Form together. Each year, they create a sheepdog in a different setting. This year, the Aslaksen’s dog Kiera makes her debut. The Seamans Family believes in conservation farming. They follow the conservation plan that prevents erosion and pollution.
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Kudzu “Invasive Species”, created by Isabelle Garbani, Brooklyn, NY. Species introduced into new environments for benign reasons can become invasive. Plastic has likewise thoroughly invaded our lifestyles. It is in virtually everything we use: clothes and shoes, toys and tools, food shipping and containers. In Invasive Species, thousands of kudzu leaves, crouched from plastic shopping bags, engulf an abandoned farmhouse. They climb and cling to the house, slowly “choking” it with their invasive growth.
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Labyrinth “Listening The Lost Art”, by the
is if you enter or not.
Craker & Mittelstaedt families greenhorn artists and Winfield natives with strong farming roots. This corn labyrinth is no maze: the only decision
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Swine Created by: Brian Sobasksi, St. Paul, MN. The giant diorama depicts the wild invasive swine species encroaching on rural communities in southwestern and central Wisconsin. Their recent discovery threatens farmland, livestock, and the natural environment. Brian is an artist and sculptor who creates large-scale straw sculptures for events around the country.
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Sylvan Chapel Created by Peter Kisko, Washington, D.C. Visitors are invited into Sylvan Chapel built using living trees and trees that have been recovered from the construction industry. The artist has designed the space to incubate appreciation for all of nature’s gifts from the farms and forests.
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Throne “A Call to Beauty”, created by Mary Dickey, Roxbury, WI with assistance from Pat & Don Yanke, Loganville, WI. Artist Mary Dickey’s roadside shrine, A Call to Beauty, asks us to contemplate the idea of a creation and our place in it. Inspired by Wisconsin’s rich history of made environments and the profound unity of nature, Mary’s piece invites you to leave the everyday, enthrone yourself and let the cherished white deer lead your vision to the beauty of the countryside.
Broken mirrors, above
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Wealth Created by Vierbicher & Friede & Associates, landowners: Steve & Gail Schulenburg. Steve & Gail own this third generation 145-acre farm located in Reedsburg township. Operating until 2004 as a dairy farm, it is now a cash crop and beef farm, utilizing contour strips and no-till planting.
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Minions
Rogue Spider
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Understory Created by: UW-Baraboo/ Sauk Co. Art Students & Associate Professor of Art Letha Kelsey. Understory centers around agricultural history and the oak savanna remnants in the region. The suspended textiles reference manual labor and rural livelihood between landscape and livelihood.
Monday is Washday
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American Gourdthic
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Lucky 13: Elephant in the Room
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St. Peters Lutheran Church Loganville
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Ghost Barn
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Field Billiards
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Red Piano Project
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A Mutual Curiosity
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Artwork by Vickie Baumgarten
Loganville
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Near North Freedom, WI
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Reedsburg Chamber Office (Old Railroad Depot)
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Last Supper
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Earth Bell Harvest Hut
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Reedsburg City Park
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Ableman Quarry
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Dung Beetles
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Child’s Play
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Leopold Benches
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McCluskey Bros. Welcome
to American Gourdthic & ‘Till the Cows Come Home
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Vickie Baumgarten Artwork, Loganville, WI
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Reedsburg City Park
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The Wishing Tree
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Reedsburg City Park
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Birdland
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Chinese Dragon
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Dragon
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Field Sketch
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PYRAMID
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Farm Form
The McCluskey Brothers
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Ableman Quarry The Power of Trees
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Ableman Quarry The Power of Trees
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Radio
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Sentinels of the Hills
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Stereoscope Viewer
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The land belongs to the future.
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LeLand, Wisconsin Overalls & Aprons
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Denzer, Wisconsin
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Eggshells on the floor.
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Farm/Art DTour 2024
Attuned to its surroundings, this work visually expands and extends from the sensitivities of the artist’s engagement with physical space
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Inspired by threshing grains a dual release of colorful energy particles gather in midair conversation.
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A billowing sheath honors one of the two structures that survived an 1870 tornado.
This project explores hunting structures in rural landscapes and the ways they’re cloaked in the pastoral imagination, whether we find them familiar or strange.
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Leland, Wisconsin
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Inspired by the Aldo Leopold Shack in Baraboo, WI, the walls are made of 1,000 glass canning jars holding images of specimens of Sauk County species, embodying Leopold’s legacy to “keep every cog and wheel.”
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Inspired by Sojourner Truth & Orma women builders, these eco-sculptures invite introspection, encourage play and express gratitude for place and ecosystem.
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The fifth in a series of installations at Harrisburg Church, this kinetic piece embodies the ideas of fragility and power
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This wooden circular sculpture on a hill was built to frame the surrounding landscape. Walk through to witness changes in natural light and shadow. Created by Matthew Vivirito, Milwaukee, WI
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Scenes Along the Way
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These counterpoint artworks interact with the wetland habitat, reflecting the history of the environment and serving as a bridge through time and place.
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Alebrijes, a Mexican folk art tradition, were first created by Pedro Linares (1930s, Mexico City), the grandfather of Leonardo, one of the artists in this team.
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Pivot irrigation system becomes a mythical beast in this year of the dragon.
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Scenes Along the Way
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This roadside attraction, is a doorway into imagining midwestern agriculture through magical realism.
Farm/Art DTour 2026
The next Farm/Art DTour will be held in 2026.
