Events

“The Apples of Maine” Poster is a Winner 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. Maybe that’s because the 16 apples depicted, one from each Maine county, are “a metaphor for local communities, food, family and agriculture, […]

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

Congratulations to Arika von Edler, winner of the art contest for the 2018 Common Ground Country Fair. Her cheerful pig design is the central image for MOFGA’s annual celebration of rural living.

Kate Seaver’s ‘Medicinal Herbs’ Design Wins Common Ground Art Contest Kate Seaver’s drawing of medicinal herbs, featured on this year’s Common Ground Country Fair poster (and T-shirts, cotton bags and other goods), emits a bright and positive energy that reflects the artist, her farm and the healthful qualities of herbs. Kate and her husband, John,

Plugging Along Pays Off for Rural Maine Artist Joyce Dubay If the three White Faced Romneys looking out from this year’s Common Ground Country Fair poster look endlessly curious and full of personality to you, that’s because they are … and because artist Joyce Dubay is well known for capturing personality in her paintings. Joyce

Modern Poster Style a Winner The bold colors and simple lines of the 1997 poster for the Common Ground Country Fair are attracting attention. “Oh, that’s really different. I really like it.” That’s how people are reacting, says Fair director Susan Pierce. “It’s a very different poster, a completely different style from anything we’ve had

Poster Design Winner Arika von Edler’s Joyful Goat Portraiture Arika von Edler has captured much of what MOFGA represents with her painting of a cheerful goat chewing on a cover crop of red clover and winter wheat, with a native pollinator in the background. “The dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico shows the importance

Grace Keown’s ‘Oxen Team’ Design Wins Common Ground Art Contest Grace Keown of Dixmont, Maine, has won MOFGA’s Common Ground Country Fair poster contest with her “Oxen Team” design, to be featured on posters, T-shirts, cloth bags and other goods sold at the 2013 Common Ground Country Fair . This is the second time Keown

Maine Wildlife Biologist Wins Fair Art Contest Lyndsey Monroe Marston is a wildlife biologist, but a very domestic situation led to her selection as the 2012 Common Ground Country Fair art contest winner. Marston says that she did not train formally as an artist but loved drawing and painting from the time she was a

Vibrant Veggies Win Common Ground Fair Art Contest The vibrant veggies – some fresh, some freshly canned, all deeply colorful – on the 2011 Common Ground Country Fair poster will have your mouth watering. Artist Dacia Klinkerch of Raymond, Maine, not only grew and canned the produce depicted; she also used the crops for a