Introducing The Pencil Fine Art Society

A novel fine art social club has been formed to promote pencil fine art too 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 necessitate straight off is a blog!  They say they induce got 1 - but I can't observe a link to it - too then if anybody comes across it practice delight allow me know.

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

I induce got to say I'm not surprised that a novel social club for pencil artists should hold upwardly created for the next reasons:

• there was no fine art social club purely dedicated to pencil fine art inwards all its forms
• there's a large overlap betwixt those who practice fine art inwards graphite too 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 most what's eligible media for exhibitions.

This social club has a distinctly Canadian - too woman individual - experience to it addition the membership fee is inwards Canadian dollars.

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

All but 2 of the members to engagement (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 too coloured pencil, every bit fine art.

I've reworked their phrasing of their purpose to highlight what i regard every bit the cardinal aspects of its proposed focus too activities - every bit follows

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

I'd await alliances to hold upwardly made with the existing coloured pencil societies every bit they induce got a high grade of usual involvement over eg quality assurance of pencil media.

Eligible too accepted media

The Pencil Art Society considers the next to hold upwardly fine fine art media too acceptable for utilisation yesteryear artists inwards its exhibitions:

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

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

Membership of the Pencil Art Society

Our social club is opened upwardly to novel members who desire to part with us their passion for drawing with graphite, coloured pencil, watersoluble pencil (used dry), charcoal too conté. Our finish is to piece of occupation together to railroad train novel projects too to part our many treasures. Our website is straight off active too fully functional. We induce got a blog, a Twitter feed too a Facebook Group page. We volition hold upwardly really active on social media too nosotros promise yous volition hold upwardly in that place with us! To read the latest intelligence ... to get together information, ideas, or inspiration ... to participate inwards online exhibitions, competitions, too gallery shows ... or for the run a peril to attend numerous workshops too encounter with passionateartists ... yous must bring together us! This is your invitation!
Statement yesteryear the PSA

Membership of the social club is for artists eighteen years too older too the membership fee is $25.00 (Canadian dollars).  You tin give the sack regard the names of the people who induce got kicking the bucket members inwards the correct column of the website.  Each has a webpage detailing social media sites too contact details addition images too a contestation most their art.  Inevitably a publish 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" too I'm non finding it.  The membership page goes into long explanations most life memberships too honorary memberships too head artists earlier getting circular to the details of ordinary membership.  
• The membership fee is inwards Canadian dollars but in that place is no indication of how international members tin give the sack pay.  
• The acronym NOT is beingness used with no explanation.  (I yell upwardly it should read PAS)
• the membership application shape is a spider web shape which does non render for a re-create to hold upwardly kept yesteryear the individual submitting the application.

Suggestions

• It mightiness hold upwardly to a greater extent than helpful to the vast bulk if the data for the dissimilar classes of membership are ordered according to how a fellow member mightiness go through the social club eg
• ordinary member
• signature member
• master artist
• life member
• There's a necessitate for a "how to pay yesteryear paypal" department if the Society wants to hold upwardly an international society.  Their Press Release surely indicates they desire international exposure.
• Consider introducing a downloadable pdf file and/or Word file for the application - too then that members tin give the sack retain a re-create for their files?

Signature status

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

The membership page provides the details most how signature status tin give the sack hold upwardly achieved.

There is likewise a course of teaching of membership known every bit Master Artist whose entry requirements are to a greater extent than restrictive - too volition likely hold upwardly express to practising (professional) Artists. It's dainty to regard the professional person creative individual beingness recognised!

Exhibitions

The intention is to induce got 2 exhibitions a year.

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

and finally......

While in that place are some areas where I think presentation and client focus tin give the sack hold upwardly improved, I yell upwardly the progress to engagement shown yesteryear the Pencil Art Society is excellent.  Plus this is an information technology too media savvy fine art society!

• It fully recognises the importance of social media too its advantages for advertisement too increase of the social club too its members
• It's arrived inwards the the world with a fully performance website, twitter trouble concern human relationship too Facebook group.  Not only that the PAS Executive is structured every bit a virtual squad too volition hold upwardly asset its meetings with the assist of with electrical flow technology (eg vocalism over mesh phone) too other aids to desktop sharing, document sharing too conclusion making during all meetings (eg video conferencing).
• It has clear statements most all its intended activities and initial timescales for what happens when
• it recognises the orbit of the social club to both advance learning with its members too promote teaching opportunities for its members.

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

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