Goodland and Art

The Big Easel Project began in 1996 when an artist and teacher, Cameron Cross, decided to contribute a work of art to the city in which he was teaching, Altona, Canada.

Cross decided an enlarged hand painted reproduction of one of Vincent van Gogh's sunflower paintings, a public domain painting, resting on an enormous easel would make an appropriate landmark for the city.
The project soon began to take on a much larger scope. Cross decided to expand the project to seven easel’s with the easel acting an an internationally recognized symbol of art. With two easels already completed (Altona, Manitoba, Canada and Emerald, Queensland, Australia) Cross approached the city of Goodland, KS., for the third easel site.
Sunflowers USA a local Goodland group helped bring the project to completion.