WASHINGTON -- The Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery is inviting artists from all across America to enter its first-ever Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition 2006 As part of its drive to welcome portraiture into the 21st hundred years and named for the Virginian Outwin Boochever.

WASHINGTON -- The Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery is inviting artists from all across America to enter its first-ever Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition 2006 As part of its drive to welcome portraiture into the 21st hundred years and named for the Virginian Outwin Boochever, a former NPG tender whose generous gift has endowed this program, the competition and resulting exhibition will focus upon the innovation in portrait painting and sculp The contest is open to all professional artists, one as well as the other emerging and mid-career, working in the United States and throughout the age of 18.

Those artists interested in the competition should note one original work depicting anyone--a friend, relative or a self-portrait--but it must be the originate of the artist's direct affair with that person. Artists are also invited to interpret the universal of the portraiture broadly, meaning the original may possibly not include a face. The work must have been complet after Jan. 1 2004

The winning artist will receive a cash reward of $25000 and will be commissioned to create a portrait of a remarkable living American for the gallery's permanent collection. The artist and gallery will collaborate to chosen the subject. The second-prize winner will receive a $5000 reward, and the third-place artist will receive $3000 Up to four additional artists may be cry uped for their work, with each receiving $1000 All the finalists' works will form the leading exhibition for the gallery's grand opening in 2006

The deadline for entries is June 1 between the sides of Sept. 6. For more information, visit www.npg.si.edu.

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