Students will be creating original two-dimensional artworks inspired by one of the 250 notable American Heroes to be honored in the upcoming National Garden of American Heroes. A full list of hero biographies is available here, additionally, students may learn more about the heroes at Britannica.
| Abraham Lincoln | Alan Shepard | Albert Einstein |
| Alexander Graham Bell | Alexander Hamilton | Alexander Goode |
| Alvin C. York | Amelia Earhart | Andrew Carnegie |
| Andrew Jackson | Anne Sullivan | Annie Oakley |
| Ansel Adams | Antonin Scalia | Aretha Franklin |
| Audie Murphy | Augustus Tolton | Babe Ruth |
| Barbara Jordan | Barry Goldwater | Benjamin Franklin |
| Benjamin O. Davis, Jr. | Bernardo de Gálvez | Bessie Smith |
| Betsy Ross | Billy Graham | Billie Holiday |
| Bob Hope | Booker T. Washington | Calvin Coolidge |
| Carl Gorman | Cass Gilbert | Caesar Rodney |
| Charles Carroll | Charles Willson Peale | Charlton Heston |
| Chief Joseph | Christa McAuliffe | Christopher Columbus |
| Clara Barton | Clark Poling | Clare Boothe Luce |
| Coretta Scott King | Crispus Attucks | C. T. Vivian |
| Cy Young | Daniel Boone | Daniel Inouye |
| Davy Crockett | David Farragut | Desmond Doss |
| Dolley Madison | Dorothy Day | Dorothy Vaughan |
| Douglas MacArthur | Duke Ellington | Dwight D. Eisenhower |
| Edgar Allan Poe | Edward Murrow | Edwin Hubble |
| Elia Kazan | Eleanor Roosevelt | Elizabeth Ann Seton |
| Elizabeth Cady Stanton | Elvis Presley | Emily Dickinson |
| Ernest Hemingway | Frank Capra | Frank Lloyd Wright |
| Frank Sinatra | Franklin D. Roosevelt | Francis Scott Key |
| Frederick Douglass | Gabby Gabreski | George Fox |
| George Marshall | George P. Mitchell | George S. Patton, Jr. |
| George Washington | George Washington Carver | Gilbert Stuart |
| Gordon Chung-Hoon | Grace Hopper | Grover Cleveland |
| Hannah Arendt | Hans Christian Heg | Harper Lee |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | Harriet Tubman | Harry S. Truman |
| Helen Keller | Henry Clay | Henry David Thoreau |
| Henry Ford | Henry Hobson Richardson | Henry Knox |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Herb Brooks | Herman Melville |
| Humphrey Bogart | Hyman Rickover | Ida B. Wells-Barnett |
| Ingrid Bergman | Ira Hayes | Irving Berlin |
| Jackie Robinson | James Fenimore Cooper | James Madison |
| Jeannette Rankin | Jefferson Thomas | Jim Thorpe |
| Jimmy Doolittle | Jimmy Stewart | Jesse Owens |
| Jeane Kirkpatrick | John Adams | John Carroll |
| John F. Kennedy | John Glenn | John J. Pershing |
| John James Audubon | John Jay | John Muir |
| John Neumann | John Russell Pope | John Singer Sargent |
| John Washington | John Winthrop | Johnny Cash |
| Johnny "Appleseed" Chapman | Johns Hopkins | Jonathan Edwards |
| Jonas Salk | Joseph H. De Castro | Joshua Chamberlain |
| Julia Child | Julia Ward Howe | Junípero Serra |
| Katherine Johnson | Katharine Drexel | Kateri Tekakwitha |
| Kobe Bryant | Laura Ingalls Wilder | Lauren Bacall |
| Lou Gehrig | Louis Armstrong | Louise McManus |
| Lucretia Mott | Luis Walter Alvarez | Madame C.J. Walker |
| Margaret Chase Smith | Maria Mitchell | Maria Tallchief |
| Martin Luther King, Jr. | Mary Fields | Mary Jackson |
| Matthew Ridgway | Maxwell Taylor | Medgar Evers |
| Meriwether Lewis | Miles Davis | Milton Friedman |
| Muhammad Ali | Nat King Cole | Nathan Hale |
| Nathanael Greene | Neil Armstrong | Nellie Gray |
| Nikola Tesla | Norman Borlaug | Norman Rockwell |
| Norman Schwarzkopf | Oliver Hazard Perry | Orville Wright |
| Patrick Henry | Paul Revere | Peter Drucker |
| Phillis Wheatley | Pierre Charles L’Enfant | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Ray Charles | Red Cloud | Robert Frost |
| Robert Gould Shaw | Robert H. Jackson | Roberto Clemente |
| Roger Williams | Ronald Reagan | Rosa Parks |
| Roy Benavidez | Russell Kirk | Ruth Bader Ginsburg |
| Sacagawea | Sally Ride | Sam Houston |
| Sam Walton | Samuel Adams | Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) |
| Samuel Colt | Samuel Gompers | Shirley Temple |
| Sitting Bull | Sojourner Truth | Steve Jobs |
| Susan B. Anthony | Tadeusz Kościuszko | Tecumseh |
| Theodor Seuss Geisel | Theodore Roosevelt | Thomas Edison |
| Thomas Jefferson | Thomas Merton | Thomas Ustick Walter |
| Thurgood Marshall | Todd Beamer | Ulysses S. Grant |
| Vince Lombardi | Walt Disney | Walt Whitman |
| Walter Reed | Warren E. Burger | Wayne Gretzky |
| Whittaker Chambers | Wilbur Wright | William Bradford |
| William "Billy" Mitchell | William Clark | William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody |
| William F. Buckley, Jr. | William Frederick "Bull" Halsey, Jr. | William Howard Taft |
| William McKinley | William Mayo | William Penn |
| William Rehnquist | William "Wild Bill" Donovan | Woody Guthrie |
| Lorenzo de Zavala | - | - |
