The 4th Annual 2009 PaintAmerica Top100 Art Competition deadline has passed. The Fifth Annual 2010 competition forms and complete guidelines will be posted on this page after May 1, 2010 with a final deadline of December 1, 2010.

The PaintAmerica Top100 is an open national artists’ competition to help fund the PaintAmerica Student Scholarship fund and our mission of actively supporting and promoting the visual arts through education, networking and advocacy.

The PaintAmerica Top100 is an annual juried competition and exhibition designed to showcase the finest emerging and established representative American painters. Representative art may depictany subject matter, including the beauty and grandeur of American nature, landscape, seascape, cityscape, still-life, wildlife, portraits, cityscapes, figurative, etc. Any representative form of 2-dimendional painting is eligible. The top scoring paintings attain the honor of being recognized as part of the Top 100 in the nation. With this honor comes national exposure, through an online and touring exhibition, as well as the opportunity to become the overall national winner. The competition’s overall winner claims a $7,500 Grand Prize Purchase Award. The MiniTop50 Competition winner earns a $2,500 Grand Prize Purchase Award. Other artists in the Top100 competition also have an excellent chance to receive additional cash jurors awards, prizes and terrific sales opportunities nationwide, making it one of the richest art competitions in America.