FALCON HEIGHTS, Minn. (FOX 9) - Just two months before the mass shooting at Annunciation Church and School , Minnesota dealt with the assassination targeting the state’s Democrats .

Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark were killed and in response, her friends and fans used art to move through their grief.

The art of grieving

Seeding the emotions:

Out of 450 pieces of crop art, at least five are tributes to Melissa Hortman.

Some of them include her husband, Mark, and her dog, Gilbert.

Artists told FOX9 the main goal was just to work through their emotions.

"Crop art in Minnesota is ultimately about celebrating agriculture," said Minnesota State Auditor Julie Blaha, a crop art veteran who enlisted help to make a piece honoring Hortman. "So all of the pieces here

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