Posted by MOFGApedia Editor on March 01, 2010
 The 2010 Common Ground Country Fair poster art contest winner is Holly Meade of Sedgwick, Maine. An accomplished printmaker, Meade is well known for her illustrations of children's books. Since illustrating her first book in 1992, almost 30 books have followed. A number of these have won awards, the two most notable being a Caldecott Honor for HUSH! A Thai Lullaby, written by Minfong Ho, and the Charlotte Zolotow Award for Creative Writing for John Willy and Freddy McGee.
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Posted by MOFGApedia Editor on June 01, 2009
Months before the Common Ground Country Fair, John Bunker’s winning design for the 2009 Fair poster (and other products) is garnering delicious praise throughout Maine.
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Posted by MOFGApedia Editor on March 01, 2009
 The 2009 Common Ground Country Fair poster art contest winner is John Bunker of Palermo. Bunker's painting features a delicious array of 16 apples varieties, one from each of Maine's 16 counties.
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Posted by MOFGApedia Editor on September 01, 2008
 Grace Keown of Dixmont, Maine, has won MOFGA’s 2008 Common Ground Country Fair poster contest with her “Hay Barn” design. The clean, striking, colorful image depicts the traditional red barn (like the one at MOFGA’s Common Ground Education Center) and a hillside of round bales of hay.
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Posted by MOFGApedia Editor on June 01, 2007
 Question: How did someone from Harrisburg come to enter the Common Ground Country Fair poster contest? Answer: I have been going to the Fair for the last few years and fell in love with it the first time I went.
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Posted by MOFGApedia Editor on June 01, 2006
 When Kim Jacobs studied comparative religions in college, her undergraduate thesis discussed pilgrimages of various faiths. Subsequently, the idea that “we’re all in a pilgrimage in our own lives, on our own journeys… often comes out in my paintings.” Not surprisingly then, her winning design for the 2006 Common Ground Country Fair depicts a joyful parade of animals journeying through the Fair.
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Posted by MOFGApedia Editor on June 01, 2005
 A new flock of baby chicks, two beautiful hens (one of whom was at the Common Ground Country Fair) and a crowing rooster: This year’s winning design for the Common Ground poster, T-shirts, tote bags, cover of the Fairbook issue of The Maine Organic Farmer & Gardener, and other products was Susan Balch’s second submission to the contest – and her second win.
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Posted by MOFGApedia Editor on June 01, 2004
 Much like growing a garden, perseverance pays off for artists who enter the Common Ground Country Fair poster contest. Genny Keller of Whitefield, Maine, started entering the contest in 1992, and her fifth try won!
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Posted by MOFGApedia Editor on June 01, 2003
 Susan Kischitz’s background is as diverse as the tools on the poster she designed for the 2003 Common Ground Country Fair. Born in Niagara Falls, N.Y., Susan is the product of a chemist-father who worked for Hooker Chemical Corp., and an old-fashioned Yankee home-maker mother with a unique sense of humor and a fierce pride in her four children.
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Posted by MOFGApedia Editor on June 01, 2002
 Susan Balch of Swanville had an idea in mind for the 2001 Common Ground Country Fair poster: She wanted to depict the Native American tradition of the three sisters – corn, squash and beans. However, "it just wouldn’t work," she says. "There was too much stuff." She decided she had to simplify the project – especially with the deadline looming to submit the design to MOFGA – and thus focused on corn.
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