Drive the Farm/Art DTour

Get to the Pie by Brent Houzenga, 2020 DTour

Celebrating its ninth year, the 2022 DTour meanders through southern Sauk County with trailheads in Plain and Sauk City. This figure-8 shaped route is punctuated by large-scale artworks, local food markets, roadside poetry, educational Field Notes, and attractions like the historic Witwen Park and Great Sauk State Trail. Celebrate the unique beauty of the Driftless Region and come meet the innovative landowners, businesses and agri/cultural organizations who call Sauk County home.

Touring Sauk County

You’ll wander through small towns, country churchyards, and a diverse landscape—from the bluffs of the Baraboo Hills to the Sauk Prairie and working farmland between. Here, artists explore the timeless connections between land and people, farmers perform fundamental, inspiring work—and lines that can sometimes separate, converge or are happily blurred.

Announcing 2022 DTour Artists

This eclectic mix of artists from around the country are invited to create site-responsive work in collaboration with Sauk County farmers and landowners:

Austen Camille, TX

Rosalynn Gingerich, IL

Sarah Kavage, WA

Christopher Lutter-Gardella, MN

Bill Mitchell, WI

Christopher Sweet, WI

Tory Tepp, FL & WI

W. Scott Trimble, WA

Denise Rolland Troyer, IN

Plus Mystery Spots! For thousands of years, farmers in cultures around the world interwove dance, music, and art through rituals of planting and the 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.

I AM FOR… (STATEMENT, 1961)

I am for an art that is political-erotical-mystical, that does something other than sit on its ass in a museum.

I am for an art that grows up not knowing it is art at all, an art given the chance of having a starting point of zero.

I am for an art that embroils itself with the everyday crap and still comes out on top.

I am for an art that imitates the human, that is comic, if necessary, or violent, or whatever is necessary.

I am for all art that takes its form from the lines of life itself, that twists and extends and accumulates and spits and drips, and is heavy and coarse and blunt and sweet and stupid as life itself.

I am for an artist who vanishes, turning up in a white cap painting signs or hallways.

—Claes Oldenburg (1929–2022), Swedish-born American Pop-art sculptor, known for his giant soft sculptures of everyday objects.