A New Season of Creation: Spring 2026
"Windmill" by amateur artist, Karen Pierce Gonzalez, a Mixed Media Collage featured in our online artist gallery.
From coast to coast, the creativity of employees and their families filled galleries, moved audiences, and reminded us all what it means to truly see one another. What a season it has been. This past year, the National Arts Program brought its signature exhibitions to venues across the country, from grand civic halls to intimate community spaces, and the response was nothing short of extraordinary. Thousands of works were submitted, and proudly displayed and what makes these exhibits unlike any others is their source.
"There is something deeply moving about standing in a gallery and recognizing the name on the label as a colleague, someone you pass in the hallway every day." -Program Director, NAPF
This year's exhibits spanned regions and themes, reflecting the full spectrum of human experience. Landscapes and portraits. Abstract forms. Family memories rendered in watercolor. Each piece a small window into a life lived beyond the office, the shift, the clock.
Every day, somewhere, an employee is quietly creating something they might just decide to share with the world, perhaps for the very first time.The National Arts Program exists for that moment, for that artist. For the pride that blooms when a community gathers around the work of one of its own.
Jackie Szafara, Executive Director