the land, and scenes of the barn or surrounding area were painted. Reinhold went around taking pictures of the area. Everyone in the countryside, especially farmers, was invited to this art show. It was an effort to show the community that the art world did not exist just hanging on the walls of a museum, but that it could be found all around them if they just knew how to see it. In 1973, Marxhausen would do another art show with the same theme at the Hughes Brothers Factory in Seward. However, this time, employees of the plant as well as college art students were encouraged to participate with their own projects. It was a very successful event thanks to cooperation of Hughes Brothers and community organizers. Video footage of the art show can be seen in Marxhausen's movie: “Findings”. The Tour In 1971, sponsored by the Aid Association for Lutherans (AAL) and Concordia Teachers College, Marxhausen took his family on a year-long tour of the United States to lead workshops at churches and schools. Leading religious workshops was something Reinhold had been testing out for a while at Saint John's Lutheran church in Seward. He credited Pastor Leonard Heidemann from Saint John for allowing him to meld art and Christianity into a worship service that he would later use on tour. The "Artist at Large" tour was completed in four segments of the United States: northwest, northeast, southeast and southwest. During this time, Marxhausen led hundreds of workshops and was featured on several TV and radio broadcasts. His family spent the entire year traveling and living out of their Winnebago. His main goal was to create a ministry to help people to experience and understand art as well as to break the stereotyping of artists in the art world. Artist-in-residence Reinhold Marxhausen's involvement with Bankers Life Nebraska (now Ameritas) in 1973 was another milestone in his life. It began at an arts seminar hosted by the Business Committee for Arts (BCA) at the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery in Lincoln, Nebraska. During the program, Marxhausen presented his "How to See" slide show that he had previously honed during the AAL tour. A Bankers Life Nebraska's director of advertising was in the audience and enjoyed Marx's presentation. The director was looking for a new way the company could better support the arts and soon Reinhold was retained by the company as