2024 Marine Corps Student Art Competition

The National Museum of the Marine Corps (NMMC) Sixth Annual Marine Corps Student Art Competition opens March 1, 2024, to all U.S. students in grades K-12. 

The theme for the NMMC's art competition is "Once a Marine, Always a Marine." Student artists are asked to create a piece of 2D art inspired by the theme.

Some suggestions include, but are not limited to:
1. Portrait (traditional or Non-traditional)
2. Illustrated Narrative (imagined or otherwise)
3. Interpretive or personalized Still Life
4. 2D design for a statue/monument of their chosen subject
​5. Creative homage to their chosen subject


Eligibility
Student artwork will be judged in five grade-based categories: K-3, 4-6, 7-9, 10-12 and Special Needs grades K-6 and 7-12. The competition is open to private, public, DoDEA and homeschool students.

Deadline
Please complete this form for entry, and submit it via digital copy to [email protected] starting on March 1, 2024 but no later than March 22, 2024. Forms are limited to one entry per student. Only the first fifty submissions in each category will be accepted for consideration.
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Thanks to the generosity of the Marine Corps Heritage Foundation, winners will receive a certificate and cash prize.

For further information, contact the National Museum of the Marine Corps at [email protected].

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Check out our 2023 Student Art Competition Winners

Header image is a portion of the artwork titled, : "John Philip Sousa’s; Stars and Stripes Forever"  by Carter Hogan 8th grade 1st place winner 2023.