GRAND FORKS — When Chuck Black graduated from UND in 2010 with a degree in wildlife biology, the idea of merging his passion for the outdoors and his passion for art into a career as a wildlife artist ...

DES MOINES, Iowa – After two days of competition, Chuck Black of Belgrade, Montana, emerged as the winner of the 2023 Federal Duck Stamp Art Contest with an oil painting of a northern pintail, the U.S ...

It's well-established that Minnesota wildlife artists have produced a dynasty in the long-running federal duck stamp competition. Well, this year's victor is from Montana — by way of Minnesota. Chuck ...

As soon as Stillwater native Chuck Black saw the single pintail duck land in a small pothole in the Red Rock Lakes National Wildlife Refuge in southern Montana, he knew he had hit the jackpot. Black, ...

It was a chance encounter with a northern pintail drake that made Chuck Black’s lifelong dream come true. That dream: to win the Federal Duck Stamp art contest and have his painting in the pocket of ...

Montana artist Chuck Black won the 2023 Federal Duck Stamp art contest with an oil painting of a northern pintail. His tight rendition of a pintail drake on the water of a marsh topped 198 other ...