Deadline: November 30th, 2014

The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery seeks entries for the next “Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition.” The competition is open to all professional artists age 18 and over who are living and working in the United States and its territories. Each artist may enter one work depicting anyone—a friend, a stranger, a relative, yourself—but it must be the result of the artist’s direct encounter with that person. While the human form must be the focus of the work, artists are invited to interpret the concept of portraiture broadly; for example, an entry might not include a face. The work must have been completed after January 1, 2013.

Entries will be accepted in all visual arts media, including but not restricted to painting, drawing and watercolor, sculpture, weaving, ceramics, photography, prints, video, film, and digital or time-based media.

Paintings, drawings, photographs, prints, pastels and watercolors should be framed (strip…