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Award
The Future Generation
Award or Prize opportunity. Deadline: 2026-08-14
- Type
- Award
- Organizer
- 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
- Disciplines
- Sculpture, Painting, Drawing, Figurative Art
About this opportunity
The Portrait Society of America announces its seventh annual 'The Future Generation Competition' for emerging artists aged 18-25. This competition aims to provide early career recognition for talented young artists working in traditional media, with a focus on figurative or portraiture.
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 traditional art media including oil, acrylic, watercolor, egg tempera, pastel, charcoal, sculpture, stone, clay, plaster and metal.
- Artwork must be original and created by a single artist.
- Photography, electronically created, computer-generated art, or art created under supervision of a teacher is ineligible.
- Compositions based on imagery created using AI, published material or other artists’ work are not eligible.