Brand New!! Introducing The Pencil Fine Art Society

A novel fine art guild has been formed to promote pencil fine art in addition to pencil artists.

The Pencil Art Society arrives consummate with:

• a website - http://pencilartsociety.com/ 
• a Facebook Group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/PencilArtSociety/ - which has already acquired 521 members
• a Twitter account - https://twitter.com/PencilArtTweets

All they need at i time is a blog!  They say they conduct maintain i - but I can't observe a link to it - in addition to therefore if anybody comes across it practice delight allow me know.

Title in addition to strapline of the Pencil Art Society
I'm definitely non a fan of the color system - I observe it gloomy.

I conduct maintain to say I'm not surprised that a novel guild for pencil artists should go created for the next reasons:

• there was no fine art guild purely dedicated to pencil fine art inwards all its forms
• there's a large overlap betwixt those who practice fine art inwards graphite in addition to those who practice fine art inwards coloured pencils
• many pencil artists are dedicated to fine art created using dry out media but are less enamoured with increasingly narrow definitions nearly what's eligible media for exhibitions.

This guild has a distinctly Canadian - in addition to woman somebody - experience to it addition the membership fee is inwards Canadian dollars.

• Alexandra Bastien, Founder Member, President in addition to Exhibition Director comes from in addition to lives inwards Quebec
• Erica Walker, Founder Member, Vice President in addition to Education Director lives inwards Ontario
• Lissa Rachelle Robillard Founder Membe, Secretary in addition to Web Services Director lives inwards Ontario

All but 2 of the members to appointment (as listed on the website) are women.

Purpose of the Pencil Art Society

The Pencil Art Society is a non-profit organisation dedicated to promoting the recognition of pencil media, specifically graphite pencil in addition to coloured pencil, equally fine art.

I've reworked their phrasing of their purpose to highlight what i regard equally the telephone commutation aspects of its proposed focus in addition to activities - equally follows

• Artists' Careers:  supporting the professional person advancement of artists working primarily inwards pencil media 
• Pencil Art Exhibitions: belongings International Pencil Art Exhibitions
• Developing Competent Pencil Artists: promoting knowledge, science in addition to excellence inwards the work of pencil media
• Pencil Art Education: creating learning in addition to didactics opportunities for pencil artists
• Pencil Artists' Network: providing a agency for pencil artists to connect in addition to network together
• Pencil Media - Quality Assurance: advocating for excellence inwards the character of all pencil media
• Working Together: working with like-minded organizations in addition to individuals worldwide to advance our objectives.

I'd expression alliances to go made with the existing coloured pencil societies equally they conduct maintain a high grade of usual involvement over eg quality assurance of pencil media.

Eligible in addition to accepted media

The Pencil Art Society considers the next to go fine fine art media in addition to acceptable for work past times artists inwards its exhibitions:

• graphite pencil
• coloured pencil (used dry out and/or with solvent)
• watersoluble pencils (used dry)
• charcoal
• conté

I'm intrigued past times the fact solvent is allowed but H2O is not.

Membership of the Pencil Art Society

Our guild is opened upwards to novel members who desire to portion with us their passion for drawing with graphite, coloured pencil, watersoluble pencil (used dry), charcoal in addition to conté. Our finish is to piece of work together to railroad train novel projects in addition to to portion our many treasures. Our website is at i time active in addition to fully functional. We conduct maintain a blog, a Twitter feed in addition to a Facebook Group page. We volition go really active on social media in addition to nosotros promise yous volition go at that topographic point with us! To read the latest intelligence ... to get together information, ideas, or inspiration ... to participate inwards online exhibitions, competitions, in addition to gallery shows ... or for the run a endangerment to attend numerous workshops in addition to run across with passionateartists ... yous must bring together us! This is your invitation!
Statement past times the PSA

Membership of the guild is for artists xviii years in addition to older in addition to the membership fee is $25.00 (Canadian dollars).  You tin regard the names of the people who conduct maintain snuff it members inwards the correct column of the website.  Each has a webpage detailing social media sites in addition to contact details addition images in addition to a arguing nearly their art.  Inevitably a pose out of these are at really early on phase of development.

This is the membership form. Oddly it's correct at the bottom of the page.

Observations:

• I'm looking for a "How to bring together the Pencil Art Society" in addition to I'm non finding it.  The membership page goes into long explanations nearly life memberships in addition to honorary memberships in addition to principal artists earlier getting circular to the details of ordinary membership.  
• The membership fee is inwards Canadian dollars but at that topographic point is no indication of how international members tin pay.  
• The acronym NOT is beingness used with no explanation.  (I cry upwards it should read PAS)
• the membership application shape is a spider web shape which does non render for a re-create to go kept past times the somebody submitting the application.

Suggestions

• It mightiness go to a greater extent than helpful to the vast bulk if the data for the unlike classes of membership are ordered according to how a fellow member mightiness go through the guild eg
• ordinary member
• signature member
• master artist
• life member
• There's a need for a "how to pay past times paypal" department if the Society wants to go an international society.  Their Press Release sure enough indicates they desire international exposure.
• Consider introducing a downloadable pdf file and/or Word file for the application - in addition to therefore that members tin retain a re-create for their files?

Signature status

Regular, Life or Honourary Members of the Pencil Art Society may hit Signature Status inside the Pencil Art Society past times beingness juried into 5 (5) Pencil Art Society Annual International Juried Exhibitions. Once Signature condition is attained, the fellow member is entitled to add together PAS subsequently his or her name.

The membership page provides the details nearly how signature status tin go achieved.

There is besides a grade of membership known equally Master Artist whose entry requirements are to a greater extent than restrictive - in addition to volition in all probability go express to practising (professional) Artists. It's overnice to regard the professional person creative somebody beingness recognised!

Exhibitions

The intention is to conduct maintain 2 exhibitions a year.

• every Spring, PAS volition sponsor an Annual Juried Online Digital Exhibition, which volition go opened upwards to PAS members only.
• In 2013 at that topographic point volition go a a Special Inaugural Juried Online Digital Exhibition  this year. The consummate prospectus volition go emailed to all members past times July 1.  The Award Winners volition go announced on Oct 12. 
• PAS intends to concord an International Exhibition in a gallery every Fall, equally to a greater extent than or less Oct equally possible, inwards conjunction with its Annual Pencil Power Conference and AGM.  This volition go an Open Exhibition in addition to volition focus alone on 100% pencil artwork.

and finally......

While at that topographic point are some areas where I think presentation and client focus tin go improved, I cry upwards the progress to appointment shown past times the Pencil Art Society is excellent.  Plus this is an information technology in addition to media savvy fine art society!

• It fully recognises the importance of social media in addition to its advantages for advertisement in addition to increment of the guild in addition to its members
• It's arrived inwards the globe with a fully surgery website, twitter occupation organisation human relationship in addition to Facebook group.  Not only that the PAS Executive is structured equally a virtual squad in addition to volition go belongings its meetings with the aid of with electrical flow technology (eg vocalisation over cyberspace phone) in addition to other aids to desktop sharing, document sharing in addition to determination making during all meetings (eg video conferencing).
• It has clear statements nearly all its intended activities and initial timescales for what happens when
• it recognises the orbit of the guild to both advance learning with its members in addition to promote didactics opportunities for its members.

Existing fine art societies could larn a affair or 2 nearly marketing based on the efforts to date!

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