JESUP - Artrain USA, the nation's only art museum that travels by rail, is coming to Jesup.

The display will feature a contemporary Native American art exhibition titled, Native Views: Influences of Modern Culture. The five railcars also house an artist studio and gift shop.

The stopover is sponsored by Arts in the Park with the assistance from the McElroy Trust, 21st Century, AAA of Minnesota and Iowa and Farmers Day.

The train will be in Jesup during the Farmers Day celebration July 8-10.

The exhibition has more than 70 pieces created by more than 50 Native American artists, who examine their heritage and fold their perspectives into contemporary images.

Visitors can tour the galleries and gift shop and view Artrain USA's resident and local artists as they demonstrate their crafts.

Joanna Bigfeather, guest curator, selected the artwork, which is divided into three themes - influences from popular culture; native knowledge: land, science and wisdom; and cultural modernism and technology.

Native Views will visit more than 100 communities in the United States, and as many as 300,000 visitors are expected to tour the exhibition. Jesup is one of only two communities Artrain will visit in Iowa this year. The other is Cedar Falls, which will host the train from July 15-18.

Artrain is wheelchair accessible.

Arts in the Park will feature six area artists during Farmers Day in Jesup. They are watercolorist Maggie Vandewalle of Winthrop, basket weaver Jeanne Dudley of Troy Mills, acrylic painter Donna Wolfe of Quasqueton, watercolorist John Schaefer of Cedar Rapids, stained-glass artist Dawn Thompson of Independence and novelist Jan Short of Quasqueton.