Ken Stetz Wins 2024 Coast Guard Art Competition

We are delighted to report that Ken Stetz has been named the winner of the 2024 George Gray Award for Artistic Excellence at the Coast Guard Art Program (COGAP). The annual art acceptance ceremony was held on Thursday, July 11^th, 2024. The award-winning piece, titled “Absorbing the Roll,” is a 15″ x 24″ oil on canvas, and was selected from thirty-six submissions.

The thirty-six art pieces will be on exhibit at the Salmagundi Club, an art and cultural center located at 47 Fifth Avenue in New York, through July 26^th, 2024. Additionally, twenty-eight works from previous collections will be on display, including pieces by and in honor of deceased COGAP artists C.R. “Bob” Bryant and Dick Kramer. The collection features artwork depicting search and rescue, marine environmental protection, patrols, and training exercises.

The exhibition is open to the public and can be viewed Monday through Friday from 1 p.m. to 6 p.m., and on Saturday and Sunday from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Admission to the exhibit is free. After the exhibition at the Salmagundi Club, the show will be on display at the Federal Hall National Memorial in lower Manhattan for two months.

COGAP uses fine art to tell the story of the service’s missions, heroes and history to the public. 2024 marks the program’s 43rd anniversary. Artwork from COGAP is displayed in museums, offices of Congress and Cabinet members, and U.S. Coast Guard facilities across the country. These talented and hard working artists generously donate their work, contributing to the collection that now includes over 2,200 pieces depicting various missions performed by active-duty members.

More art by members of the U.S. Coast Guard can be viewed at DVIDSHUB.