OUR WYOMING: THE LANDS WE HOLD IN COMMON

Submit your artwork to our 2026 Calendar Contest!

For years, the Wyoming Outdoor Council’s annual calendar has celebrated the story of ‘Our Wyoming’ through stunning photography of the lands, wildlife, and people that define the place we call home.

This year, we’re doing something new: inviting visual artists of all kinds to share their creative takes on Wyoming’s beautiful and beloved public lands — the places all Wyomingites, and all Americans, hold in common.

Whether you sketch scenes of rugged beauty, paint migratory pronghorns’ inspiring journeys, or capture people and communities connected to the land in some other way, we want to see Wyoming’s public lands through your eyes.

Submit your original artwork for a chance to be featured in our 2026 calendar!

Artists who have their work selected will win a modest cash prize. Additionally, winning artists will have their work displayed in an exhibit celebrating Wyoming’s public lands. (Stay tuned for an announcement about this year’s exhibit host.)

Submission window: July 1–September 2, 2025

How to submit: Submit your photos either via email (to claire@wyomingoutdoorcouncil.org) or Instagram, by tagging your artwork with the hashtag #OurWyoming.

TERMS & CONDITIONS

Entries must be submitted between July 1, 2025, and before midnight on September 2, 2025, either via email (addressed to max@wyomingoutdoorcouncil.org) or Instagram, using the hashtag #OurWyoming. By entering, all contestants agree to release their photo to the Wyoming Outdoor Council for publication in our calendar and supporting social media. The Outdoor Council, along with a guest judge, will select the winning submissions, which will be published in the 2026 calendar. Selected artists whose work is included in the calendar, and honorable mentions, will receive a modest cash award. All artists chosen to be in the calendar and honorable mentions will also have their work displayed in an exhibit — details to come. WOC will be responsible for the printing and display of work at no cost to artists. All submitted art is subject to use both in the calendar and the exhibit; however, if you would not like to participate in the exhibit, please email max@wyomingoutdoorcouncil.org.

Your entry to the contest constitutes your agreement to allow your entered artwork, as well as your name and the place the photograph was taken or the place/animal depicted in the artwork, to be published in the Wyoming Outdoor Council’s 2026 calendar and on the Outdoor Council’s website, in emails, and social media channels to promote the annual calendar contest. It also constitutes your agreement to allow your winning artwork to be displayed in the post-contest exhibit unless otherwise communicated. Reproduction of entries will include the necessary artist’s credit. Contest entrants retain ownership and all other rights to future use of the artwork they enter. Use of the entered artwork in any other fashion or in any other publications will only occur with permission from the entrant.