Few who exhibit at fairs would call themselves artists yet many are masters who have fine-tuned their skills and learned from others who have gone before.

Traditional Arts Indiana and the Indiana State Fair wish to recognize individuals for their mastery of a particular tradition and for their dedication to sharing their knowledge at the fair, year after year. These men and women give generously of themselves by exhibiting, demonstrating, or performing, at both the county and state fairs. They are well known by neighbors and friends in home communities for a particular skill and for their commitment to passing their excellence on to others.

	Noble Melton, fiddle master (Indianapolis)
	Gerry and Ralph Dunkin, miniature donkey breeders

	"I am a strong believer in 4-H and livestock judging, because it is a family-oriented thing," Jack Rodibaugh and family, master breeding stock swine producers (Jasper County)
	"You only get one chance to say you've sheared 50 consecutive years at the State Fair," Bill Harshbarger, master sheep shearer and sharpener (Clay county)

	"I learned the winemaking and vineyard operation from my father," Ted Huber, from the Huber Winery, master winemaker (Clark County)
	"Quilting is a sharing," The Piecemakers, master quilters (Vanderburgh county)

	"I just love to watch things grow," Mike Farrar, from the Farrar family, master gardeners (Marion County)
	"We tend to still do things in the older way that gives you a much better finished garment," Wilma Jean Swann and Martha Miller, mother-daughter master seamstresses (Daviess and Posey Counties)

	"You've got a trick, Grandma. Now tell me what it is!" Mary K. Borgman, master candy maker (Hancock County) quoting her granddaughter
	"We talk about cows just about every day of our lives!" Jim and Randee Patton Family, master Angus seed stock breeders (Montgomery County)

	"Take care of your livestock before you do anything else," Bill Canary, from the Canary family, master historic dairy farming interpreters (Johnson County)
	"...he could look through a horse in a minute. I mean, he had the eye," Lee and Crae Eller, master Belgian draft horsemen (Hamilton County), about their father

	"Partly it's natural and partly it's learned," George Harrell, master wool grader and sheep judge (Johnson County)
	"You have to be a jack of all trades," Keith Ruble, master bowl hewer and log cabin builder and restorer (Vigo County)
	"I'm not sure that there is such a thing as a gathering without food in the house," Nancy Schuman (Johnson County), with sister Mary Schuman (Marion County), master bakers.