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PWS MEMBERSHIP APPLICATION

Associate Membership

Associate Membership in the Pennsylvania Watercolor Society is open to all water media painters upon payment of the annual dues, with a term from January 1^st to the last day of December each year. Dues are currently $40.00 per year.

Associate members are entitled to the same privileges as Signature members with the exception of using the PWS initials after your name. Members will be able to:

receive the PWS newsletter, published three or four times a year
receive the juried exhibition catalog
enter the membership exhibition
receive reduced rate for entering the PWS juried exhibition
attend membership meetings
receive a reduced rate for the annual PWS workshop
have a link to their website from our PWS website

Signature Membership

Artists whose work is accepted into two annual PWS juried exhibitions in an eight year period (and who are members of PWS) will earn Signature membership status. This allows that artist to use the initials PWS after their signature for as along as they maintain PWS membership.

Sylvan Grouse Guild Award

The Sylvan Grouse Guild Medal will be awarded to PWS Signature members who have accumulated a total of six (6) points earned by winning awards at the PWS annual juried exhibitions. Awards are accumulated as following:

First Place winner earns 5 points
Second and Third Place winners earn 4 points
Keystone Medal and Fourth Place winners earn 3 points
Honorable Mention and PWS awards (i.e. Predidents, Workshop, Merit, etc.) earn 2 points
All other award winners (i.e. material awards) earn 1 point.