Every fall, Rebekah Knight’s mind is on the Federal Duck Stamp Contest. She’s entered the annual competition for the past 16 years—every year since she turned 18. She also participated in the Federal Junior Duck Stamp Contest for five years before that, winning the competition the third time she entered, when she was 15.

That experience gave Knight the confidence to pursue art as something more than a hobby and helped to launch her career as an artist. “I had always known that I wanted to do art and that I had a talent for it, but I also knew how hard it could be to make a career out of it,” she says. “Winning that contest proved to me that I had what it takes to make it happen.” 

Read the full article in the November/December 2025 issue.

Chromatic Drift

oil
10″ by 20″

 

The Undefeated

oil
24″ by 20″