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New Membership-New memberships are considered for anyone that previously
has not been a member of the Minnesota Watercolor Society. New memberships may start at any time during the
membership year with expiration dates based on the postmark/received dates below:
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| Current Membership-No break in membership. All renewal
payments received on time or within grace period. The requirements to be accepted in a grace period are: Renewal
payments must be postmarked/received by the last day of the grace period, which runs through nine months
after the May due date (June through the end of February the following year). Renewal during the grace period
requires a late payment fee of $5.00 in addition to the regular membership dues. |
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| Lifetime Membership-A current membership for 20 consecutive
years, based on a June 1st through May 31st membership year. Renewal fees are waived effective the year after
maintaining a current membership for 20 consecutive years. |
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| Reinstated Membership-Any membership that was not renewed
by the regular due date or within the allowed grace period. A break in membership restarts calculation of continuous
years of eligibility for a Lifetime Membership. |
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| MEMBER BENEFITS | ||||||||
| From Our President—“Minnesota Watercolor Society is a
dynamic organization providing its members with a wide variety of events and opportunities. It is an excellent source
of information for the artist, novice to professional, while being an abundant and continuous source of support
and encouragement. And best of all . . . it’s full of friends.” |
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Meetings—MNWS monthly meetings
are held September through May. Informative and educational, programs include demonstrations by members or guest
artists, critiques, discussions, slide shows and more.
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| Workshops—The Society sponsors 4-day, 5-day and weekend
workshops with regionally and nationally known artists. Members receive a reduce rate on workshop fees. For more
information on upcoming workshops, click here
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| Shows—The MNWS sponsors two one-month-long exhibitions
each year in fall and spring. One is juried and one is open to all members. For more information on current and
upcoming shows, click here
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| Newsletters—Published bimonthly, September—June,
BrushStrokes provides news and views about members, exhibits, meetings,
workshops, painting tips, book reviews and more. For more information on the newsletter and links to current and back
issues, click here
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| SIGNATURE MEMBERS | ||||||||
| Signature Status—In February of 2008, the Minnesota Watercolor
Society launched their Signature Status Program. To honor the many members who have shown a high level of creativity
for many years, the criteria needed for membership was applied to all active members and granted signature status
immediately to 33 members who achieved the necessary points to receive signature status. Criteria for signature status: One must earn 6 points in a 5 year span to earn signature status in the MN Watercolor Society. Here’s how you earn points. One point is awarded for each piece accepted into our spring juried show. One point for any award won in our fall open show or our spring juried show. All awards—best of show through honorable mention, including the Emrich/Stordahl award—are worth one point. (Exception–the people’s choice award would not count for a point.) A person can accumulate multiple points in one show (i.e. Sue gets two pieces accepted into the spring juried show and one piece wins an award. Sue would accumulate three points in this situation.) Volunteerism--roughly ten hours or more of volunteer time a year equals one point. Examples include serving as board members, conducting workshops, doing membership mailings, editing the newsletter, etc. These jobs are essentially covered in the long list of names listed inside the front cover of our newsletter. Furthermore, rewarding the efforts of the volunteer creates a sense of ownership of the organization by its members. Only two points can come from volunteering, the other four points must be earned by artwork in shows. (If you don’t have any volunteer points, you can still achieve signature status by earning all of your points through your artwork.) To retain this status they would have to be a paid-up member in good standing. MNWS after their name denotes someone who has achieved signature status. |
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| MNWS Signature Members |
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Marian Alstad Lynne Baur Terry Becker David M. Brown Steve Brumbaugh Nancy Carney Keith Donaldson Barbara Duffy Andy Evansen Bonnie Featherstone Dick Green Jan Green Rosemary Guttormsson CeCeile Hartleib Catherine Hearding Harry Heim Peter Herzog Paul Higdon Dianne Jandt Georgia Kandiko Karen Knutson Mary Sue Krueger Carol Larson Judy Lieber Jeanne Long Jean Meyer Doug Meythaler Marian O'Shaughnessy George Pope Diane Posselt Edward Shimek HeeJune Shin Kathleen Sovell Roslyn Stendahl Tara Sweeney Jim Turner Pat Undis Janice Vaughan Wendy Westlake Emily White Dan Wiemer Phyllis Winther Susan Zavadil Susan Zinchlag |