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2025 Lebanon VAMC Creative Arts Competition Call For Entries

Across the country each year, Veterans enrolled at VA health care facilities can compete in local creative arts competitions. First place winners in the local competitions qualify to advance to the national level via digital submission.

Any Veterans receiving care at Lebanon VAMC and any of our VA Community Clinics can participate in our local competition. The five categories for submissions include: creative writing, drama, dance, music and art. All entries to be judged in the 2025 Lebanon VAMC Creative Arts Competition must be electronically submitted no later than August 1, 2025 in order to be eligible. 

It's time to enter your pieces into this year's creative arts competition!

There are multiple divisions of art, creative writing, and performing arts categories to participate in. Here are the various divisions:

Art Division Category:

  • Acrylic Painting 
  • Oil Painting 
  • Watercolor 
  • Monochromatic Drawing 
  • Colored Drawing 
  • Pastels 
  • Sculpture 
  • Pottery 
  • Slip-Cast Ceramics 
  • Stained or Painted Figurines 
  • Figurine Painting Kit 
  • Pyrography 
  • Transfer/Engraving Art Kit 
  • Printmaking 
  • Black & White Photography  
  • Color Photography 
  • Digital Art 
  • Carving 
  • Woodworking 
  • Wood Building Kit 
  • Collage 
  • Assemblage 
  • Mosaic 
  • Mosaic Kit 
  • Crocheting/Knitting/Knotting 
  • Original Design in Needlework  
  • Needlework Pattern 
  • Needlework Kit 
  • Original Design in Fiber Arts  
  • Fiber Arts Pattern 
  • Fiber Arts Kit 
  • Weaving Kit 
  • Beadwork 
  • Jewelry (not beads) 
  • Leather Carving/Tooling/Stamping 
  • Leather Kit 
  • Metalwork 
  • Glasswork 
  • Scroll Saw/Fretwork 
  • Mixed Media 
  • Model Building (Plastic, Metal, Wood) Kit 
  • Diorama 
  • Craft Coloring Kit 
  • Color by Number Kit 
  • Suncatcher or 
  • Sand Art Kit 
  • Combined Kit 

 

Creative Writing Category:

  • Rhyming Poetry 
  • Non-Rhyming 
  • Personal Essay 
  • Humor 
  • Short, Short Story
  • Short Script 

 

Dance Division Category:

  • Ballroom 
  • Latin Ballroom 
  • Country/Western/Folk/Ethnic/Cultural
  • Modern/Contemporary 
  • Tap, Jazz or Ballet 
  • Line Dance
  • Interpretive Movement
  • Freestyle/Hip-Hop 
  • Novelty 

 

Drama Division Category:

  • Prose
  • Poetry 
  • Interpretive Performance
  • Short Video-Military Theme 
  • Short Video
  • Mixed Arts

 

Music Division Category:

  • Vocal Solo
  • Vocal Group
  • Instrumental Solo
  • Instrumental Group
  • Band/Ensemble


How to Register:

  1. Download a copy of the "2025 Call For Entries form." (See link to PDF at the bottom of the page.)
  2. Send a completed registration form listing each entry by standard mail to:

    Attn: Recreation & Creative Arts Therapy Services
    Mail Code: 350 RT
    (Art Show Registration Enclosed)
    Lebanon VA Medical Center
    1700 South Lincoln Avenue
    Lebanon, PA 17042
  3. Once your registration is received, you will be contacted with further instructions. Including, how to 
    prepare your final digital submission.
  4. All pieces entered in our local competition will be displayed at Lebanon VAMC.

For more information about participating in our local competition contact: Recreation Therapy at .

Local winners may be eligible to enter the National Veterans Creative Arts Competition in the fall. The 42nd National Veterans Creative Arts Festival (NVCAF) will be hosted in St. Louis, MO next spring.

For more information about the NVCAF and programs, please visit:     
NVCAF Blog
NVCAF Facebook 
NVCAF American Legion Auxiliary 

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