$5,000 in Cash Awards for the 50th Competition

The Competition, the heart beat of the festival, has been reinvigorated for the 50th Anniversary of Amish Acres Arts & Crafts Festival in 2012. Two Best of Show $1,000 Cash Prizes will be joined by six $500 First Place Blue Ribbon winners.

Hall of Fame artist Coy Jankowski and jeweler Robert Smogor, registar, Snite Museum, University of Notre Dame, will repeat their 1997 judging of the 900 pieces in the Competition Tent. Winners are announced Thursday at noon at a press conference in the one room school. Colorful banners then fly above the winner's booths for the duration, calling visitors to winning booths.