2026 NWAAE ADVOCACY ART CALL
What can you do in times like these? MAKE ART that inspires change!
Northwest Artists Against Extinction and Save Our wild Salmon Coalition announce the opening of the 2026 call for Advocacy Art.
WHAT:
Artists are encouraged to submit artwork to any or all THREE categories/opportunities.
- Poster: Get Out the Vote
- Postcards
- VOTE t-shirts/tote bags
Artists may submit multiple pieces. Additionally, one design that works across multiple media (poster, postcards, and t-shirt design) is more likely to be chosen for this project.
WHEN:
Artwork Submission Deadline - 11:59 PM, March 30, 2026
Open to all artists and all mediums (digital image submission). Create something stunning and inspiring and submit it by March 30, 2026. Please share these opportunities widely.
Themes:
- Renewal: Cycles, change, restoration, reciprocity, reaffirmed commitment.
- Unite(d) for change
- Our Northwest home: Mountains, rivers, lands, waters, salmon, orca, people and communities, justice, and their inescapable intersectionality and inter-dependence.
- People working together (united): Protect and renew the web of life (intersection/connectedness) and healthy communities/democracy.
Poster Guidelines:
- Art should be in portrait orientation. The artwork space on the poster is 12"W x 15"H. Files should be at least 3000 pixels in height (larger is better).
- Neutral space where messaging could be overlaid on artwork is very helpful. While space for messaging is GREAT, please DO NOT include your own messaging language in artwork. (NWAAE will choose text to be used on the posters. )
Postcard Guidelines:
Landscape orientation is preferred but not required. 5x7 stock at 300 ppi/dpi (1500 x 2100px). Images should be at least 2100 pixels on the longest side.
V O T E T-shirts / Tote Bags Guidelines:
- Circular design for the letter “O” as seen with Alyssa Eckert’s, Salmon Run.
- Or create an original design for each of the letters in “V O T E”.
- “Letter artwork” must read well at 4”h x 4”w (each letter).
Project Overview:
SOS is launching an art-centered, grassroots-driven Get Out The Vote 2026 (GOTV) project for the Northwest states. SOS will engage other NGOs, activist/advocate/grassroots networks to collaborate, organize, and help to distribute and display hundreds/ thousands of posters.
This project will feature compelling artwork in a series of posters/images designed to remind people of the upcoming fall election and what’s at stake in our Northwest home. We want to encourage people to vote and recruit others to get involved.
Our audiences are Northwest people, policymakers, candidates, community leaders, as well as allied NGOs with whom we will collaborate and coordinate to extend this project's reach and impact widely in the region.
Here are links to our from SOS’ 2024 GOTV project.
We learned a lot two years ago when we launched this project, and we’re excited build on those efforts as we move into 2026, increase our reach and impact in what will be one of our nation’s most consequential elections ever.
