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...
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Monday, 4 August, 2025
Vancouver, BC CANADA - August 4, 2025 - 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 25-28 in Vancouver, BC. The awards include five AFC Medals of Excellence, which recognizes at least five outstanding artworks in the exhibit, an Environmental Statement Award, Landscape/Seascape Award, Interpretive/Abstract Award, two memorial awards and special awards by Western Art Collector Magazine. AFC also presents two Best in Show awards, in recognition of the highest scoring...
Wednesday, 30 July, 2025
VANCOUVER, BC — Artists for Conservation (AFC), the world’s leading artist group supporting the environment, is proud to announce that Indian wildlife artist and conservationist Sunita Dhairyam has been awarded the 2025 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.Sunita will receive the award at the opening reception of the Artists for Conservation Festival on September 25, 2025, in...
Wednesday, 23 July, 2025
Vancouver, BC CANADA - July 23, 2025 - Artists for Conservation is pleased to announce that AFC Signature Member, Annik Janssens' pastel artwork titled "What About Me", featuring a young Orangutan, has been selected for the cover of the 2026 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...
Wednesday, 23 July, 2025
Vancouver, BC CANADA - July 23, 2025 - Artists for Conservation is pleased to announce that AFC Signature Member, Nelda Warkentin's oil painting "Listen to What I’m Telling You", featuring a Polar Bear, 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 25-28. The image will be on display in AFC's virtual online exhibit this fall. Featured on the back cover of the book, are two...
Sunday, 8 June, 2025
Vancouver, BC CANADA - 9 June, 2025 - Artists for Conservation is pleased to announce the 2025 juror's selection of artworks in the 18th annual AFC Exhibit - the world's top conservation-themed art exhibit. The exhibit features 200 artworks by 177 artists from 16 countries, including Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Cayman Islands, France, Germany, Japan, New Zealand, Sweden, Switzerland, UK, USA, Viet Nam, Zimbabwe. The AFC exhibit is the world's top conservation-themed art exhibit and sale supporting conservation. Artwork in the exhibit is for sale and...
Saturday, 7 June, 2025
Vancouver, BC CANADA – June 7, 2025 - AFC is pleased to announce the promotion of twenty-one 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...
Monday, 26 August, 2024
Vancouver, BC CANADA - August 26, 2024 - Artists for Conservation (AFC) is pleased to announce the first round of award winners of the fourteenth annual AFC International Exhibit of Nature in Art to be held September 19-22 in Vancouver, BC. The awards include five AFC Medals of Excellence, which recognizes at least five outstanding artworks in the exhibit, an Environmental Statement Award, and Interpretive/Abstract Award. AFC also presents two Best in Show awards, in recognition of the highest scoring painting and sculpture by the jury panel in the annual exhibit. See the award-winning...
Sunday, 4 August, 2024
Vancouver, British Columbia – (August 4, 2024) Artists for Conservation (AFC) is excited to announce latest installation of the "Silent Skies Mural" in the Crouch Gallery at the Customs House Museum in the city of Clarksville, Tennessee. The nearly 100 foot-long representation of the massive collaborative project was originally unveiled in 2018 at the 27th International Ornithological Congress in Vancouver, BC. The mural highlights the 678 species birds from around the world that are threatened with extinction, including 620 completed paintings...
Wednesday, 17 July, 2024
Vancouver, BC CANADA - July 17, 2024 - Artists for Conservation is pleased to announce that AFC Signature Member, Luke Raffin's painting "Into the Mist", has been selected for the cover of this year's AFC Exhibit book. Luke is an internationally acclaimed Canadian artist, based in Powell River, BC. The annual hardcover "coffee-table" book is published on sustainably forested paper, as a companion to the 17th annual AFC Exhibit, showing in Vancouver, BC September 19-22. The image will be on display in AFC's virtual online exhibit this fall. Featured on the...