About the Coast Guard Art Program (COGAP)
The Coast Guard Art Program uses fine art as an outreach tool for educating diverse audiences about the United States Coast Guard. Through public displays at museums, galleries, libraries, and patriotic events, Coast Guard art tells the story of the service’s missions, heroes and history. Coast Guard artists are volunteer, professional artists who donate their time and talents to help educate the public about the Coast Guard.
Today, the collection comprises more than 2,000 works, which recount the Coast Guard’s history from the early beginnings of our great nation, into World War II, and through the perils of Vietnam, Desert Storm and Operations Iraqi Freedom. Paintings and drawings also capture the daily missions the 41,000 men and women of the Coast Guard perform including homeland security, search and rescue, marine environmental protection, drug interdiction, military readiness, aids to navigation maintenance, and natural resource management.
