Career Conferences - Visual Arts

Benefits include APA Business Manual for business information available for the advertising photographer, meetings, seminars and workshops, mentoring, APAnet, an online newsgroup for advertising photographers, reps, consultants, assistants, and students, APAdigital, the newest of APA's two online newsgroups, APA Estimating software, InFocus Magazine, rights protection, business insurance, credit union, and health insurance.

Organized by the Alliance of Artists Communities and hosted by Brown University and the Rhode Island School of Design, the American Creativity At Risk symposium explored the nature of human creativity and its significance in a wide range of disciplines, taking artists' communities as a model and a metaphor for fostering pure research and innovation in all sectors of society and culture. The symposium resulted in a call to action addressing the challenges and opportunities of restoring creativity as a priority in public policy, cultural philanthropy, and education. Symposium speakers and panelists included Robert MacNeil, Lewis Hyde, Brendan Gill, Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Mary Schmidt Campbell, Mierle Laderman Ukeles, Ellen Winner, David Liddle, Mary Catherine Bateson, Ned Hall, and Stewart Brand, among others. Can be ordered through the Alliance website.

Members receive publications, resource directories, access to local AAW chapters, workshops, symposiums and eligibility fo education grants.

The American Ceramic Society (ACerS) is a 100-year-old non-profit organization that serves the informational, educational and professional needs of the international ceramics community. Membership includes bulletins, online and print resources, membership directory, reduced rates on publications, employment services, discounted registration at forums and conferences, and options to join group health programs.

A nonprofit subsidiary of The American Ceramic Society, Potters Council was founded in 2001 to serve the needs of potters and ceramic artists. Membership benefits include discounts on publications, online directories, quarterly newsletter, financial and business services including credit card processing, website hosting and access to group health insurance.

A print and web listing of national exhibits, conferences, symposia, workshops and other events drawn from American Craft.

Benefits include a year's subscription to American Craft, free admission on public days to ACC craft shows, access to the Council Library, and a vote in annual trustee elections. Professional memberships include an insurance program, a merchant credit card program, discounts on phone, package delivery, vehicle rental, magazine subscriptions and special educational activities.

ANG offers education through correspondence courses, audio-visual programs, national seminars, and both teacher and judging certification programs. Needle Pointers, the national magazine, is published 6 times a year with educational articles, charted designs, book/video reviews, news of the local chapters, and national events. Subscriptions to Needle Pointers are available to members only. ANG also hosts a yearly seminar and exhibit.

A newsletter charting the course of Fellows of The ASF. Available online in PDF.

Benefits of memebrship include discounts for sewing-related materials and tools, Notions Magazine (an ASG publication with articles written exclusively for us), and discounted entry to the ASG National Convention.

Membership benefits include online exhibitions, newsletter, slide registry and an annual symposium.

Annual membership with benefits such as: annual convention, regional workshops, listservs, newsletters, opportunities for peer-to-peer networking and a variety of online services.