2025 Annual Show

2025 Kaw Valley Woodcarvers Show

1620 NW Gage Blvd, Topeka Kansas 66618

The 2025 Kaw Valley Woodcarvers show is scheduled for November 22, 2025.

Click HERE for your 2025 entry form…   KVWEntryForm

Please print and mail with your entry fee.

For more details contact:

Wilbur Coffee     /     email: noircoffee7@gmail.com

RULES AND GUIDELINES FOR JUDGING

KAW VALLEY WOODCARVERS 2025 ANNUAL SHOW

  • Only registered exhibitors may enter the judging competition, except for those entered in the youth category.
  • All pieces must be hand-crafted by the artist, & the artist’s name needs to be covered so the judge is unable to identify the person who completed the work entered
  • First and Second place ribbons may be awarded in each category at the discretion of the judge.
  • Any one artist may submit up to two pieces per category
  • No art piece may be entered in more than one category.
  • Entries that have won 1st place in previous Kaw Valley Woodcarvers shows may not be entered.
  • An entry tag (in your envelope) must accompany all entries (category, brief description &table number).

Carvings fitting a specific category must be entered into that category. The judging committee reserves the right to move any entry into the appropriate category. All entries must be at the check-in table 15 minutes prior to judging time. Decisions of the judges are final.

Judging Categories:

  1. Realistic Animals
  2. Realistic Human figure or Bust
  3. Realistic Game bird or Birds of Prey
  4. Realistic Songbirds
  5. Realistic Waterfowl or Shorebirds
  6. Fish or Marine life
  7. Caricature Human: single, full human figure and animal
  8. Caricature Group
  9. Mythical animal or figure
  10. Stylized: single or Group
  11. Miniature: Any subject, any finish. Must fit completely within a 2”x2”x2” box.
  12. Chip carving I: Traditional Geometric or free
  13. Chip Carving II: incised wood
  14. Low relief
  15. High relief
  16. Bark or Driftwood
  17. Walking sticks and canes
  18. Pyrography
  19. Religious items
  20. Intarsia
  21. Wood turning
  22. Christmas Theme
  23. Instructor assisted/seminar
  24. Novice and Youth
  25. Miscellaneous: Carved Jewelry
  26. BEST OF SHOW
  27. RUNNER UP BEST OF SHOW