For Youth Arts Exhibition: https://ohiostatefair.com/youth-arts/
For Arts, Crafts & Fashion Competitions: https://ohiostatefair.com/arts-crafts-fashion/
For Culinary & Baking Arts Competitions: https://ohiostatefair.com/culinary/
Youth Arts Exhibition Highlights
- Win a $1,000 Blick Art Materials Shopping Spree for Your School’s Art Department – The school or home school affiliation with the most students entered will win this award. Shopping Spree can be in-store or by catalog (dickblick.com).
- All Youth Artists Featured in the Exhibition – In addition to being considered for awards, all youth will receive a Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams Trio Card; good for 3 scoops of ice cream.
- Nationwide Children’s People’s Choice Awards – One award in each division.
- A Bareclay Studios Ceramics Class will be awarded in each division – Recognizing outstanding ceramics work.
- Youth Artists Selected to Receive the Governor’s Award of Excellence in the 2018 Ohio Governor’s Youth Art Exhibition – Receive free entry for up to 10 pieces of work in the 2018 Ohio State Fair Youth Arts Exhibition.
- Ohio Arts Council Awards– Middle School and High School artists receive Blick Art Materials gift card awards.
- New Mary Dorrian Memorial Awards – One youth in each division will receive this award.
- First Lady’s Spotlight Award – Ohio’s First Lady, Karen Kasich, will choose three pieces of artwork for this award.
- Deadline is June 20, 2018.
Creative Arts Competition Highlights
Arts, Crafts and Fashion
- New form required for Fashion & Sewing Arts competition.
- Miniature Model Shipbuilding class now accepting plastic and wood models.
- Photography competition now accepting unlimited entries!
- Woodworking competition now offering over $1,000 in awards.
- New Cork Art class offered in Other Crafting Art competition.
- Fair Phone Photo Day on-site competition only $5/entry.
- Loom Weaving competition now offering 3 classes
- Quilt competition now offering new Modern Quilt class.
- Check Out our Daily, Hands-on Art Activities.
- Deadline is June 20, 2018
Culinary & Baking
- New Heirloom Cake Recipe is “Applesauce Cake”
- Baked Pies competition offers Increased award dollars and new Hodgson Mill flour requirement.
- Cakes and Cookies/Pastries competitions have new Domino brown sugar requirement.
- Aramark “Chopped Cook-Off” featuring shortened time periods for both competition rounds.
- Egg-stra, Egg-stra competition offers increased award dollars and new classes.
- New Farm to Table competition – Enter your best cold salad recipe.
- Crazy Cake Decorating competition – First 10 entries delivered receive one Fair admission ticket.
- Professional/Advanced Cake Decorating – Novelty Cake class is back.
- Deadline is June 20, 2017
These Live Culinary Competitions are open to any Ohioan who enjoys cooking & baking!
If you miss the deadline, you can still enter these competitions day of the event for $60/competition (cash only).
Professionals & Amateur Chefs Encouraged to Enter!
- Aramark Chopped Cook-Off Saturday, August 4
- Egg-citing and Devilishly Good Saturday, July 28
- Grilling Competition Saturday, July 28
- Ohio Wines Grown Here Friday, August 3
- Chili Cook-Off Sunday, July 29
- Family Heirloom Recipe Competition Sunday, July 29