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By Jean English 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! Her design depicts a cawing black crow perched upon a tomato stake, above succulent, tempting, red cherry

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

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. “Hay Barn” posters, T-shirts, cloth bags and other

Bee Poster Hums with Harmony Research and timing – and considerable talent – were on Olga Pastuchiv’s side when she submitted the winning poster idea of a bee with honeycomb and clover for this year’s Fair design. Before submitting her idea to MOFGA, she had visited the MOFGA office, looked at past winning designs, and

Praying Mantis in the Harvest Moon2007 Artwork Winner Christi Hadden on Insects, Paddling, Maine and More The MOF&G interviews the artist, who lives in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. How did someone from Harrisburg come to enter the Common Ground Country Fair poster contest? I have been going to the Fair for the last few years and fell