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    • About
    • Heart of Hays
    • Smoky Hill
    • five state
    • exhibitions
      • To the Stars - SLMM
      • Vanishing Depths
      • Elemental
      • She Is...
      • Wood, Jilg, Epp
      • Mysterious Iconography
    • school & youth
      • summer classes
      • creative writing
      • famous figures
    • Quiet America
  • Home
  • About
  • Heart of Hays
  • Smoky Hill
  • five state
  • exhibitions
    • To the Stars - SLMM
    • Vanishing Depths
    • Elemental
    • She Is...
    • Wood, Jilg, Epp
    • Mysterious Iconography
  • school & youth
    • summer classes
    • creative writing
    • famous figures
  • Quiet America
Hays Arts Council

The Five State Photography Competition & Exhibition is a regional fine art photography competition open to any photographer living in Kansas, Nebraska, Missouri, Oklahoma and Colorado.  


Submission is done through 8"x10" photographs 


Juror: John Finch

Categories: Nature, People & Open 

Entry Deadline: November 7, 2025

Cash Awards: $1,500 ($500 each category)
Exhibition: December 6, 2025 - February 11, 2026


Link her for 2025:  

Five State Competition Info

Five State Entry Form

2024 Awards

Christine Chandler ~ Lees Summit, MO

Misty Morning

$200 Cash Award - Nature

2024 exhibition

Ronald Allen ~ McCook, NE

Window Of Times Past

opening & Winter Art Walk

Our Five State Partners

2023 Exhibition

Jennifer Applequist

Larned, KS 

Medicine Man’s Wares 

2022 Exhibition

Douglas Busby - Shawnee KS 

Portrait of a Shipwreck 

Hays Arts Council

112 East 11th Street - Hays, Kansas 67601

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