Vancouver, BC CANADA - August 17, 2026 - Artists for Conservation (AFC) is pleased to announce the award winners of the eighteenth annual AFC International Exhibit of Nature in Art to be held September 24-27 in Vancouver, BC. The awards include nine AFC Medals of Excellence, which recognizes, an Environmental Statement Award, Landscape/Seascape Award, Interpretive/Abstract Award, two memorial awards and special awards by Western Art Collector Magazine, and ten honorable mentions. AFC also presents two Best in Show awards, in recognition of the highest scoring painting and sculpture...
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Thursday, 6 August, 2026
VANCOUVER, BC — Artists for Conservation (AFC), the world’s leading artist group supporting the environment, is proud to announce that Australian wildlife artist and conservationist Geraldine SImmons has been awarded the 2026 Simon Combes Conservation Award. The award—the highest distinction granted by AFC—is presented annually to an artist who has demonstrated an outstanding commitment to conservation through artistic excellence and field impact.Geraldine lives and creates from her home studio at Collaroy on Sydney’s northern beaches, Australia. She...
Monday, 3 August, 2026
Vancouver, BC CANADA - Aug 3, 2025 - Artists for Conservation is pleased to announce that AFC Signature Member, Cher Swain's acrylic artwork titled "Jelly Dancers", featuring Pacific Sea Nettle jellyfish, has been selected for the cover of the 2027 AFC Environmental Calendar. In addition to highlighting statutory and religious holidays, the calendar also uniquely highlights a wide range of international environmental-themed days and weeks. The annual calendar is published on sustainably forested paper, as a companion to the 18th annual AFC Exhibit, showing in Vancouver, BC...
Monday, 3 August, 2026
Vancouver, BC CANADA - Aug 3, 2026 - Artists for Conservation is pleased to announce that New Zealand artist and AFC Signature Member, Gordon Pembridge's oil painting "Antithesis", featuring a Sacred Kingfisher, has been selected for the cover of this year's AFC Exhibit book. The annual hardcover "coffee-table" book is published on sustainably forested paper, as a companion to the 18th annual AFC Exhibit, showing in Vancouver, BC September 24-27. The image will be on display in AFC's virtual online exhibit this fall. Featured on the back cover of the...
Wednesday, 22 July, 2026
Vancouver, B.C. - July 22, 2026 - Artists for Conservation (AFC) and the flagship event in its name, will return to VanDusen Botanical Garden for the sixteenth annual AFC Festival at the VanDusen Botanical Garden in Vancouver, BC. Presented by RE/MAX, the festival will be open to the public from September 24 through 27. The organization's internationally acclaimed juried conservation-themed art exhibit will again premier as a centerpiece of the multi-day event. In addition, a special preview event in North Vancouver, highlighting artwork by local...
Saturday, 6 June, 2026
Vancouver, BC CANADA – June 6, 2026 - AFC is pleased to announce the promotion of thireten Associate Members to Signature Membership - representing the organization's highest order of membership for artists.Once per year, the organization recommends promotion of several deserving Associate Members to Signature Membership, who have demonstrated demonstrated sustained support of AFC’s mission, a high level of artistic mastery, and participation in AFC exhibits and programs. All of this year's inductees have had multiple artworks juried into AFC's annual exhibit and/...
Friday, 5 June, 2026
Vancouver, BC CANADA - 5 June, 2026 - Artists for Conservation is pleased to announce the 2026 juror's selection of artworks in the 19th annual AFC Exhibit - the world's top conservation-themed art exhibit. The exhibit features 200 artworks by 174 artists from 17 countries, including Australia, Belgium, Canada, Cayman Islands, China, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Israel, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, Switzerland, UAE, UK, USA. The AFC exhibit is the world's top conservation-themed art exhibit and sale supporting conservation. Artwork in the exhibit is for...
Monday, 19 January, 2026
VANCOUVER, BC — Artists for Conservation (AFC), the world’s leading artist group supporting the environment,thrilled to announce the creation of the new "Priscilla & Michael Baldwin Award for Conservation through Art Education", ("Baldwin Award") to be presented to an AFC artist who has made an exceptional contribution to the conservation cause through art education and instruction. The new award's establishment follows years of support of AFC by Priscilla - an AFC Signature Member - and her husband Michael. Both have been longtime patrons and...
Monday, 24 November, 2025
Artists for Conservation is pleased to announce that its annual exhibit tour will be hosted from December 13, 2025 to February 22, at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum (ASDM) in Tucson, Arizona. The exhibit will comprise most of the artwork from the recent 2025 AFC Festival in Vancouver. Approximately 50 artworks will be on display to the public from December 13, 2025 through February 22, 2026 and the museum will host a special artist and public reception on January 23, 2026, from 4 to 6pm in the Ironwood Gallery.Visit the virtual 360 walk-through of the AFC touring exhibit on...
Tuesday, 5 August, 2025
Vancouver, B.C. - Aug 5, 2025 - Artists for Conservation (AFC) is pleased to announce it will return to VanDusen Botanical Garden for its fifteenth AFC Festival at the VanDusen Botanical Garden in Vancouver, BC. Presented by RE/MAX, the festival will be open to the public from September 25 through 28, featuring the premier of the world's top conservation-themed art exhibit. A preview event, featuring artwork by local AFC members will open at Maplewood Flats in North Vancouver, on September 20.Guests attending the opening weekend will have the opportunity to...