2026 Art Contest Guidelines
Who: Anyone attending Northeast Thing 2026
What: Submit a work of visual art that reflects this year’s theme (announced below).
When: The submitted work must have been created after NET 2025.
Theme: “Love and War: Kinship and the Lore”
Use your creative flow to create visual representations of the what you think the theme means. These representations could be cute or terrifying, realistic or abstract. We’re just hoping you are inspired by this concept.
The artwork submitted may be 2D or 3D. It can be any sort of non-electronic visual media. So, it can be a piece of digitally produced art, it just can’t be a video- it must be printed. It may not be performance art. All entries must be consistent with the theme of the contest.
Questions regarding the NET 2026 Art Contest can be sent to Sara Perrault.
Note: To be updated with the 2025 Art Contest Winners.
2024 Art Contest Winners
Theme: “Weaving the Tapestry of Frith”
2024 1st Place – Bob Stine
There are so many details in this entry, that we added some close-up photos of the details in our Art Contest Winners page.
2024 2nd Place – Ellery Thomas Leary
2024 3rd Place – Rachel Hanke
