Open Imagination
 August 14, 2025
Portrait Society of America - 6th Annual The Future Generation Competition

The Portrait Society of America is very pleased to announce a Call for Entries for our 6th annual The Future Generation Competition. This art competition was created in order to acknowledge the work of talented, emerging artists, who are 18 to 25 years old. The top 4 awards will receive cash and prizes, worldwide recognition in International Artist magazine, The Art of the Portrait quarterly journal and on the Portrait Society’s website and social media platforms. The entry fee is $30. You can enter up to 3 entries today at www.portraitsociety.org. Guidelines: Artists must be 18-25 years old. Submitted artwork should feature the human figure (portrait or figurative). The competition is open to artists working in a variety of traditional art media, including but not limited to oil, acrylic, watercolor, egg tempera, pastel, charcoal, sculpture, stone, clay , plaster and metal. Artwork must be original, meaning that the work must be from the hand of a single artist and if created in a classroom or workshop MUST be 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 imagery created using AI, published material or other artists’ work are not considered original and are not eligible.

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