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North Shore Arts Alliance Membership

Download NSAA Artist Membership or NSAA General Membership

There are two basic categories for North Shore Arts Alliance membership:

1. Juried membership: Fees: $35 artists / $15 students

  • Designed for artists and art students
  • Membership is based on the artist’s work which is juried by a committee of the Board of Trustees of North Shore Arts Alliance

2. General membership:
Fees range from $25 - $1,000
  • Designed for individuals and businesses
  • Membership comes in the form of individual donation or corporate sponsorship

This is the North Shore Arts Alliance’s basic fund-raising mechanism. You are invited to
join NSAA as an individual contributor or as a business or corporate sponsor. Whichever
category you choose, you are contributing directly to the work we do advocating and
promoting the arts in Chautauqua County.

Juried membership benefits:
• Featured on the NSAA web site, which includes:
  • artist’s name, medium, and location
  • one photo
  • a link to the artist’s personal web site
• Invitations to participate in periodic member exhibitions

• Eligibility for jurying to participate in annual Chautauqua-Lake Erie Art Trail as openings permit

• Professional support from NSAA, which can include, but is not limited to:
  • discounted web site design services
  • promotional and marketing support for any special event (ex. solo or group show; class or workshop offered by the artist, etc.)
• Opportunities to network – professionally and socially – with other regional artists and patrons

• Use of NSAA graphics and signage

• Access to information on arts activities

• Credibility as juried members

• Invitations to annual meeting and voting privileges


General membership benefits for:

• Individual membership: $25.00
  • acknowledgment on the NSAA web site membership page
  • early notice of NSAA member shows, workshops, classes, etc.
  • 0% discount on workshops and classes

• Family membership (at least 2 adults): $40.00
  • same as “Individual” membership

• Senior membership (for 65+): $10.00
  • same as “Individual” membership

• Patron: $100.00+
  • same as “Individual” membership, plus:
  • a yearly $25 coupon good towards the purchase of one piece of art created by a NSAA juried member of your choice

• Assisting Patron: $250.00+
  • same as “Patron” membership, plus:
  • NSAA sponsor signs for your company’s window
  • invitation to two special social events with NSAA artists

• Supporting Patron: $500.00+
  • same as “Assisting Patron” membership, plus:
  • a yearly $50 coupon good towards the purchase of one piece of art created by a NSAA juried member of your choice
  • special docent-led tour of all NSAA-related exhibitions

• Sustaining Patron: $1,000.00+
  • same as “Supporting Patron” membership, plus:
  • your company’s logo on the NSAA web site as a featured sponsor
  • your company’s logo on the Art Trail brochure
  • exclusive invitations to special “preview” nights of NSAA shows

For more information email our membership committee
Download NSAA Artist Membership or NSAA General Membership