The Pennsylvania Game Commission is looking for artists’ best portraits of a Pennsylvania shorebird.
The agency is seeking entries for its 2027 Working Together for Wildlife art contest. The featured category is shorebirds, and unlike in previous years, the 2027 contest is restricted to paintings.
One or more shorebirds can be featured in an original, full-color painting measuring 14-by-20 inches. Entrants are asked not to place important subject matter within an inch of the canvas border. The painting must have a 2-inch white border or mat and unframed but signed. The total project should not exceed 18-by-24 inches.
Entries can be submitted online at www.pgcapps.pa.gov/WorkingTogetherforWildlife Form by 4 p.m. July 31.
Artists may submit more than one entry, but each adult submission requires a $50 entry fee. The fee does not apply to artists 18 and younger.
The winning artist will receive a $5,000 prize and 25 artist proof prints. Cash awards totaling more than $3,500 will be awarded to those in second through fifth place in overall judging.
Qualifying submissions must include at least one of the following species: American golden-plover, black-bellied plover, buff-breasted sandpiper, dunlin, greater yellowlegs, killdeer, lesser yellowlegs, long-billed dowitcher, pectoral sandpiper, piping plover (Great Lakes population), red knot, ruddy turnstone, sanderling, semipalmated sandpiper, short-billed dowitcher, spotted sandpiper, upland sandpiper, whimbrel, white-rumped sandpiper and willet.
Artists must be Pennsylvania residents. For more information, call 833-742-9453.