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Award
The Future Generation
Competition opportunity. Deadline: 2026-08-14
- Type
- Award
- Organizer
- The Portrait Society of America
- Deadline
- 14 August 2026
- Where
- United States
- Compensation
- $1200 cash award, Edward Jonas Memorial Medal, and complimentary tuition to The Art of the Portrait conference for first place; $800 cash award and a John Singer Sargent replica palette for second place; $400 cash award and a one-year Portrait Society membership for third place; $200, Educational Video selection of choice for fourth place
- Disciplines
- painting, sculpture, drawing, pastel, watercolor, oil painting, acrylic painting, egg tempera, charcoal, stone sculpture, clay sculpture, plaster sculpture, metal sculpture
About this opportunity
The Portrait Society of America is hosting its seventh annual juried competition, "The Future Generation," for emerging artists aged 18-25. The competition celebrates talented young artists and offers cash prizes, awards, and recognition. Artwork should feature the human figure and be created in traditional media.
Who can apply
- Artists must be 18-25 years old.
- Submitted artwork should feature the human figure (portrait or figurative).
- Open to artists working in a variety of traditional art media, including oil, acrylic, watercolor, egg tempera, pastel, charcoal, sculpture, stone, clay, plaster and metal.
- Artwork must be original and created by the artist without specific directions of an instructor.
- Photography, electronically created, computer-generated art, or art created under supervision of a teacher is ineligible.
- Compositions based on AI, published material or other artists’ work are not eligible.