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The Sadat Arts for Justice and Peace Competition

You can submit your original work in the categories of poetry, music composition, chamber music ensemble, visual art and film as part of the annual Sadat Arts for Justice and Peace Competition.

Changing the world through art.

Each year, we invite students to create works of art on a theme of peace and reconciliation. In collaboration with the College of Behavioral and Social Sciences and the College of Arts and Humanities and co-sponsored by the Anwar Sadat Chair for Peace and Development and Arts for All, this competition showcases students from art, music, film and creative writing programs. 

Three images are side by side. A towering steel structure on the left followed by a painting of two hands stitching a flag and then a large structure of a person screaming.

2026 Student Winners

Learn more about the student winners of the 2026 Sadat Arts for Justice and Peace Competition.

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A first-place Sadat Art award-winning painting from March 13, 2025 depicts an industrial waterfront scene in rich blues, browns, and golds with architectural elements, structural beams, and ghostly human figures. The textured mixed-media work combines abstract and representational elements to evoke labor and maritime industry. The complex composition layers geometric structures with atmospheric depth and subtle figuration.

2025 Student Winners

Learn more about the student winners of the 2025 Sadat Arts for Justice and Peace Competition.

View 2025 projects