Art Fueling Conservation in Arkansas

The Arkansas Game and Fish Commission (AGFC), Arkansas Game and Fish Foundation and Historic Cane Hill have issued a nationwide call for art to be featured on the 2025 Arkansas Northern Bobwhite Conservation Stamp and Eastern Wild Turkey Conservation Stamp. Since their inception, these voluntary stamps have helped raise more than $2.2 million to fund 54 projects, each benefitting quail and turkey habitat on public land in Arkansas.

The competition is open to all United States residents 18 or older. The deadline for completed artwork is Jan. 25, 2025. Artists can find the full prospectus, entry guidelines and a link to submit their work on the “Call to Artists” webpage. A panel of jurors—composed of artists and wildlife management professionals—will judge the quality of each piece, in addition to its accuracy in depicting the northern bobwhite quail and eastern wild turkey species in traditional Arkansas habitats.

All accepted artworks will be on display for public viewing at the Historic Cane Hill Gallery, in northwest Arkansas, from March 15 to April 26, 2025. Winners will be announced during a special exhibition on March 25. In addition to their work being featured on the stamps, first-prize finishers will also earn a cash prize of $2,500 each. Second-place artists will each receive $500 and those in third earn $250.

AGFC combines the proceeds from voluntary quail and turkey stamp purchases to rehabilitate and enhance upland habitat in Arkansas that benefits northern bobwhite, eastern wild turkey and a host of other ground-nesting birds and grassland wildlife species.

Historic Cane Hill is a non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation of the historically significant structures of Canehill, Ark., in addition to small communities nearby and western Washington County. The Gallery at Historic Cane Hill was originally built in 1900, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and has been hosting artwork exhibitions since 2018.