Are you between the ages of 13 to 17? Live in the U.S.? Make art?
If you answered “yes” to those questions, you can enter a photographic portrait in the National Portrait Gallery’s Teen Portrait Competition.
The “call for entries” opens for the 2025 Teen Portrait Competition on September 15, 2024 and closes on December 23, 2024. Artists between the ages of 13 and 17 may submit a photographic portrait to the juried competition via email: NPG-TeenPortraitCompetition@
Entry applications will only be accepted via email, and the grand-prize winners and finalists will be chosen by the National Portrait Gallery. The jurors for this competition will include the Teen Museum Council, National Portrait Gallery educator, and guest jurors.
The competition accepts submissions of photographic portraits only, though digital editing is allowed. Entrants should email their portrait as a JPEG attachment and include their first name, last name, school grade, and zip code in the body of the email. Two winners will be chosen: one in the 13- to 15-year-old category and one in the 16- to 17-year-old category. The two winning portraits will be displayed in the museum, in the Spring of 2025, outside The Outwin 2025: American Portraiture Today exhibition. The portraits by the winners and finalists will be featured on the National Portrait Gallery’s website.
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