Representative Adriano Espaillat Launches the 2025 Congressional Art Competition for Students 

WASHINGTON, DC — Representative Adriano Espaillat (NY-13) has launched the 2025 Congressional Art Competition, an annual contest for high school students from New York's 13th congressional district to enter original art for the opportunity to display their winning artwork in the United States Capitol and the district offices for up to one year.

Artwork must be emailed to Art.NY13@mail.house.gov by this year's deadline: Thursday, April 24, 2025.

Original artwork may include digital submissions of paintings, drawings, collages, and photography and must be submitted via email along with the student release form.

For questions about entries and this year's competition for New York's 13th congressional district, please contact Laurie Tobias-Cohen at Laurie.Tobias-Cohen@mail.house.gov.

Visit online for a full list of the 2025 Rules and Regulations.

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Representative Espaillat is the first Dominican American to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives and his congressional district includes Harlem, East Harlem, West Harlem, Hamilton Heights, Washington Heights, Inwood, Marble Hill and the north-west Bronx. First elected to Congress in 2016, Representative Espaillat is serving his fifth term in Congress. Representative Espaillat currently serves as a member of the influential U.S. House Committee on Appropriations responsible for funding the federal government’s vital activities and serves as Ranking Member of the Legislative Branch Subcommittee of the committee during the 119th Congress. He is Chairman of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus (CHC), a member of the Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC), and serves as a Senior Whip of the Democratic Caucus. To find out more about Rep. Espaillat, visit online at https://espaillat.house.gov/.

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