The theme of the 2025 art competition was honoring the relationships between Native America and the USA while highlighting Native resilience, sovereignty, and modern identity, as illustrated by this entry.
“90% Happens Locally” is the theme of this year’s League of Women Voters of Pullman Annual Visual Arts Competition.
Contest organizers unveiled the theme on Presidents’ Day this week, as they have done since the contest was launched four years ago.
The idea is to highlight “the power of our voices, our votes, and our actions to create change in our own communities,” said Carolyn Joswig-Jones, Pullman League member and event committee chair.
Youngsters ages 8 to 18 who attend public or private school— or who are homeschooled—in Whitman County are eligible to participate. Entries are due March 31.
Creating art isn’t the only reason for the event. The emphasis each year is on civics and a theme plucked from the LWVWA’s award-winning civics education textbook, “The State We’re In.”
Joswig-Jones said the contest prompts families to talk about civics and voting. “The biggest part of our program is education.”
“The State We’re In” is made available to teachers and classrooms across the state in two editions, one for seventh to 12th graders and for grades three to five. Both are available as free PDFs as well. More than 23,000 copies of the books have been distributed statewide.
More information about the competition is available here.
