Library Card Design Competition
Theme: Our Stories, Our Communities
Fort Vancouver Regional Libraries celebrated its 75th anniversary in 2025 with a community-wide art project. This summer, we invited community members to submit library card designs to address the theme, Our Stories, Our Communities. We received over 200 incredible entries, each highlighting how libraries connect, inspire, and celebrate the people and experiences that make up Southwest Washington.
Winning Designs
All winning designs will be available as FVRLibraries cards at all Library branches starting the week of September 22. We have printed a limited number of cards, so grab yours while supplies last!
Youth Category Winner
Tween Category Winner
Teen Category Winner
Adult Category Winner
Youth Special Selection
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Selections Process & Judging Panel
A panel of five judges selected four winning designs based on artistic skill and connection to the competition's theme. We were also inspired by the many beautiful rainbow-themed submissions we received, so we created a special fifth category to honor this popular design.
Dawn Nielson is a multidisciplinary artist living and creating in Stevenson, Washington, where Kamane Studio—a barn nestled on her property—serves as both a sanctuary and an artmaking space. With a background in graphic design, her art reveals a refined balance of form, texture, and emotion through painting and sculpting with encaustic wax. Dawn also brings her creative thinking to her role as associate director of strategic initiatives with the Stevenson Downtown Association, a Main Street organization, weaving together art, place, and purpose.
Christine A. Richardson is the founder and executive director of theARTScentered, a Vancouver non-profit organization working to provide resources, space, professional expertise, and collaborative opportunities for local visual and performing arts. Born and raised in Vancouver, she has enjoyed a national career in the arts spanning over 3 decades and credits that success to her curiosity and passion for history and knowledge cultivated by the many joyful hours she spent at the much beloved old FVRLibrary building on Mill Plain.
Jen Smith is a charcoal and pastel contemporary wildlife artist. Her style and subject matter nod to growing up in the wilds of northern Wyoming just 90 miles east of Yellowstone National Park. Jen annually exhibits at the National Museum of Wildlife Art in Jackson, Wyoming, and the High Desert Museum in Bend, Oregon.
Skip Enge spent 22 years as an exhibit designer for the Oregon Historical Society museum in Portland, Oregon. His first art show took place in 1974 at the Fort Vancouver Community Library. Since then, he has shown his work in over 40 exhibitions. His medium of choice is watercolor.
Liam Toebbe is a teen student artist and emerging creative voice. He currently studies at the University of San Marcos, where he continues to develop his artistic skills and explore new forms of visual storytelling.