Art Competition
Welcome to the 2025 Congressional High School Art Competition! This annual nationwide contest draws from Congressional offices across the country and recognizes the artistic talents of our talented young people.
Congressman Gill has selected “Faith of Our Fathers” as the guiding theme for this year’s 26thCongressional District Art Competition. The competition is open to public, private, and home-schooled high school students residing and/or attending schools located in the 26th Congressional District of Texas. (Note: you may verify addresses here: Find Your Representative | house.gov.)
Students wishing to participate in this year’s contest must submit their entries digitally along with a completed Student Release Form, signed by the student, parent and a teacher. The entries should be submitted via email to TX26RSVP@mail.house.gov, and the submission deadline is 5:00 PM on Monday, March 17, 2025. Each student is allowed to submit one entry.
All qualified submissions will be posted Monday, April 7th - Friday, April 11th in a virtual gallery on Congressman Gill’s website: http://gill.house.gov. A local art jurist will review the submitted artwork and select the Grand Prize Winner and the First Place Winner. The Grand Prize for the competition is the display of the winning student's artwork for an entire year in the U.S. Capitol. In addition, the First Place winner will have the opportunity to have their artwork displayed in Congressman Gill’s Capitol Hill office for the upcoming year. Friends, family, and the public will have the opportunity to select their favorite artwork in the virtual exhibition on Congressman Gill’s website. The Texas Choice Winner will be selected by popular vote and have their artwork hung in Congressman Gill’s Flower Mound district office for one year. All student artists submitting artworks in this year’s competition will receive a “Certificate of Special Congressional Recognition”.
The Grand Prize, First Place and Texas Choice winners will be announced via email to teachers and students and posted online by Friday, April 18th. If you have any questions, please contact Congressman Gill’s Flower Mound district office: Phone: 972-966-5454 or email: TX26RSVP@mail.house.gov.
The following is a summary of the Congressional Art Competition rules:
Artwork entered in the contest may be up to 28 inches by 28 inches, may be up to 4 inches in depth, and not weigh more than 15 pounds. If your artwork is selected as the winning piece, it must arrive framed and must still measure no larger than the above maximum dimensions.
- Paintings - including oil, acrylics, and watercolor
- Drawings - including pastels, colored pencil, pencil, charcoal, ink, and markers (It is recommended that charcoal and pastel drawings be fixed.)
- Collages - must be two dimensional
- Prints - including lithographs, silkscreen, and block prints
- Mixed Media - use of more than two mediums such as pencil, ink, watercolor, etc.
- Computer-generated art
- Photography
All entries must be original in concept, design and execution and may not violate any U.S. copyright laws. Any entry that has been copied from an existing photo or image (including a painting, graphic, or advertisement) that was created by someone other than the student is a violation of the competition rules and will not be accepted. Work entered must be in the original medium (that is, not a scanned reproduction of a painting or drawing).