Submit your color-focused animal and wildlife art. Vibrancy, color theory, monochrome, gentle hue shifts, ombre effects and dynamic gradients! Show us abstract expressionist color explosions in the form of animal art! Wow us with your subtlety or skill with controlling value and tones! We want to see how you express animal art through color.
We embrace realism as fully as abstraction. We love loose brush strokes as much as highly detailed photographs. We live for finely crafted ceramics as much as mixed media experiments. We. Love. Art.
We are looking for 2D and 3D artwork, sculpture, and photography that falls into a variety of art style and genre categories: Abstraction, Portraiture, Surrealism, Realism, Pop Art, Expressionism, Assemblage, and more! Our mission is to promote wildlife and animal art in both non-traditional and traditional forms. We exist to honor, promote, and uplift it.
As always, art may include more than just animals and insects. Feel free to incorporate humans, objects, landscapes, shapes, space, or anything else. The work just needs to fit the theme, and the focus needs to be on the animal(s).
Be as literal or as creative with the theme as you like. Originality is one of the components we use to score entries.
Best in Show ($400 cash award)
Overall Runner Up ($200 cash award)
Artivism Award ($50)
Overall Honorable Mentions
Finalists
For more information about our awards, please see the Awards page.
Be as accurate as you can with the category.* Category selection helps the judges quickly identify what they are looking at and assess a work appropriately.
*If you aren't sure what the best category is, use Other Media.
*If you are submitting pieces in different categories as one entry, use Other Media.
It's okay if something is put into the wrong category on accident. It happens. It will not negatively impact your entry.
Deadline for Entries: January 20, 2025
Notification of Jury Results: February 1, 2025
Virtual Show Dates: February 2025
Policy: No nudity (private parts must be covered), no profanity, no animal cruelty, no gore, and no political artwork will be accepted for jury. Topics of animal conservation and environmental protection are not considered political for the purposes of Wild Heart Gallery.
You may submit up to 4 images.
*For sculpture entries only, you may submit up to 2 additional views per piece. *For photographs, please note the make and model of the camera used and whether is film or digital.
This is an art competition. Only the award recipients will be in the online group exhibition.
Artwork for the exhibition will be selected by industry professionals, referred to as jurors. The jurors will vote based on the number of entries, criteria for this event (theme), originality, technique, skill, and quality of work.
$15 for 1-2 images
$20 for 3-4 images
Jury Selection begins within 7 days after final entry date and ends within 15 days after final entry date.
Award recipients are the entered into an online group award exhibition that is published at a date sometime after final entry date.
The Juror(s) of the art competition are art industry professionals.
There are several criteria for selection for the award exhibition. These include relevance to the theme, originality, quality of work, technique, and technical skill. The goal is to have a cohesive, high quality virtual art exhibition that embraces various genres of animal and wildlife art. To make the experience enjoyable and worthwhile to artists, visitors, and more, we strive to select and display the artwork that best represents animal and wildlife art today. Please remember that this is a competition; only the best art will be selected for exhibition. Not all art that was entered will be included.
The artist retains all copyrights to their artwork without exception.
By entering this art competition, you are granting Wild Heart Gallery a non-exclusive perpetual license to reproduce images of your artwork on wildheartgallery.com, and to publish the winners and accepted entries on Facebook and Instagram as well as other media outlets. Wild Heart Gallery also has permission to crop or re-size images to fit the needs of wildheartgallery.com and other media outlets. All winning entries will be displayed on wildheartgallery.com. Each image becomes part of the public archival online exhibition catalog for up to one year and possibly longer.
You will not hold Wild Heart Gallery or any of its affiliates, jurors, or members liable for anything.
All entry fees are non-refundable without exception.
All dollar amounts listed are in USD.
If you have a moment, please
Wild Heart Gallery is now using artcall.org for art call submissions and jurying. If you have questions about how this works or get stuck during the submission process, watch this video.
