Attention Artists: The 2025 National Veterans Day Poster Contest is now open for submissions.
Here’s your opportunity to show off your talent and use your artwork to honor Veterans. VA and the Veterans Day National Committee are now accepting entries for the 2025 Veterans Day Poster Contest. Submissions are due by 11:59 p.m. (EDT) on May 2, 2025.
This contest is open to all, and your art should reflect this year’s theme: “Service to our Nation.”
After receiving more than 150 entries last year, Myisha Godette, a retired, disabled Army Veteran from Queens, New York, was selected as the winner of the 2024 contest. In describing her design, Myisha’s inspiration was “the shared experience of service members—past, present and future—with elements like the American Flag, military “dog tags,” and the enduring strength of Veterans, embodied by a solid, dark concrete background in my design.”
The winning poster will be distributed to VA facilities, military installations worldwide, and across cities and towns in our nation. It will also serve as the cover of the official program for the Veterans Day National Observance at Arlington National Cemetery on Nov. 11, 2025.
To ensure your submission meets the technical requirements, please review our design submission guidelines before engaging your creativity. Successful designs are very simple, with minimal imagery and verbiage. To view examples of past winning submissions, visit The Veterans Day Poster Gallery.
Submit electronic versions as jpg/jpeg images or PDF files to vetsday@va.gov.
Questions? Please email the Veterans Day Coordinator at vetsday@va.gov.
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wow already a couple of whining lefties here…..guees they liked the country under bidens crime family….things need cleaning up and change to get better. we are on the right track finally!!!!
This is an outstanding program and Art Therapy is a good way to let things go.
I am going to enter it ???
I WOULD DEARLY LOVE TO CREATE A POSTER TO HONOR ALL OUR VETERANS! I AM AN ARTIST, AND SCULPTOR, MY CREATION OF THE VIETNAM VETERAN, WAS FEATURED ON THE FRIN OAGE OF THE WASHINGTON POST NEWS PAPER, THE YEAR TRUMP FIRST RAN FOR OFF, AND CREATED COMMEMORATIVE COINS TO HONOR THOSE VETERANS WHO SUFFER FROM PTSD..I PLAN ON THINKING HOW TO BEST TO DESIGN ONE THAT WILL MOVE, AND CAPTURE THE INTEREST OF ANY AND ALL WHO MIGHT SEE IT, IF CHOSEN THE WINNING DESIGN.
Would it be a copyright infringement to do a “Lady and the Tramp” spaghetti meal kiss using Trump and Putin. They could be eating outside a closed VA building. I want a perfect poster, what is the exact shade of orange I should use for Trump?
Why are you allowing comments?
It’s turned into political BS.
As an American veteran, I am still on duty and should respectfully honor our commander in chief. To talk trash about a man that the MAJORITY voted for is unacceptable. Move to another country and cry. USA USA ????
Canceling Veterans Day is a slap in the face to all those who served before us. Disrespectful to even suggest it.
I am an artist a veteran, it would be an Honor to sign up for this contest thank you.
You might as well cancel Veterans day.
The country is right now being
softened up for a grateful Russia.
WE served the nation.
Those in power now serve themselves.
WE ARE BEING ATTACKED
I agree—-let’s try again in 2028. They might cancel Vets Day to save $100
If you aren’t serious about a VA initiative, step back and let those who are. The VA has nothing to do with the political climate you perceive. Stand together, not apart.
A few questions:
– Does the poster need to have any Dougie Collins talking points about how cutting tens of thousands of VA employees will lead to faster appointments and disability compensation decisions?
– Does the poster need a pledge to DOGE to thank them for taking a hatchet to veterans who were fired from federal government?
– Since this administration is abandoning our allies and embracing Russia, will any references to being a partner nation immediately mean the entry is thrown out?
Please answer so I can adjust my entry accordingly. Thank you.
it is wrong to say this must be a socialist
Is it wrong to say you must be a traitor
As a non-vet young man who may enter, this comment section is disappointing and making me realize that your veteran titles mean very little in terms of your character. We’re all human, I suppose I’m realizing; it is a bitter realization though.
Love it Adam…..exactly right!
If you aren’t serious about a VA initiative, step back and let those who are. The VA has nothing to do with the political climate you perceive. Stand together, not apart.