June 1, 2005, 9:00 a.m. EDT
Call for Entries begins

August 19, 2005
Postmark deadline for submitting paper entries with slides via U.S. mail

September 6, 2005, midnight EDT
Deadline for submitting online entries

November 15, 2005
Semifinalists are notified

March 15, 2006
Finalists are notified, and nonselected works are returned to artists

July 1, 2006
The Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition 2006 exhibition opens with the grand reopening of the National Portrait Gallery

February 19, 2007
The Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition 2006 exhibition closes

February 2007
Artworks are returned to exhibiting artists

Summer 2008
The Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition 2009 begins