Put Your Creativity on Display at the 2025 Congress
A diverse array of art adorns the 2022 Congress art exhibit, with artists standing nearby to discuss their work and answer questions.
Photos by Hannah Chapman, Emma Goulet, Michael Rochette, and Carl Zent, 2022 SPS Congress Reporters, Saint Anselm College.
The Physics Phine Art Contest and Exhibit is back for the 2025 Physics and Astronomy Congress! Attendees may submit artistic creations for judging and display, or for display only. Two-dimensional and three-dimensional works are welcome.
Creators will need to bring their work to SPSCon but are required to submit an abstract in advance. Abstract submissions are due October 13, 2025.
Artists should read through the size constraints, rules, and guidelines on the SPSCon website at students.aip.org/congress/congress-posters-and-art before planning their piece and submitting an abstract.
Artwork is Accepted in Four Categories:
1) Supporting (our) Phase Shifts: For artwork relating to or in response to the 2025 Congress theme.
The Congress program committee selected the theme Supporting Phase Shifts to describe the radical shifts current physics and astronomy majors have experienced in recent years. In the physical sciences, a phase shift is a major change to the underlying waveform of a signal or structure of a material in response to external stimulus like temperature or an applied field. Artwork in this category should portray what the 2025 Congress theme means to you. What phase shifts have influenced you personally? Have there been any phase shifts in how you relate to the physics and astronomy community?
2) General Science: For science-themed artwork demonstrating the overlap of art and science.
Channel your inner Leonardo and show us your best science-inspired artwork!
3) Physics and Astronomy for Everyone: For artwork communicating or otherwise bringing science to a broader or more general audience.
Physics and astronomy are everywhere, and not just for scientists! Show off your science, artistic, and communication skills with your best work highlighting physics or astronomy for a general audience.
4) Open Submission: For artwork not fitting into one of the other categories.
Artwork will be on display during two sessions, one Friday and one Saturday, so that attendees can fully admire the exhibit and judges can spend time with each artist. We’ll see you—and your works of art—there!
