MEMBERSHIP
Use our online website to: Join MAPAPA, renew your membership or update your membership record. Click here to go to the site | click here for login instructions.
The cost of membership is $35 a year, renewable on the anniversary date of the month you joined. Once a member, you will receive an automated reminder to renew your membership. Please remember they are automated and you may get a few of them even though you renewed your membership. Be patient, it takes time for our treasurer and membership coordinator to assure that records are update with payments, especially if you pay by check. Please refrain from sending our volunteer staff irate emails. They are volunteers and working hard to maintain our records as promptly as possible. If after 30 days you do not hear from our treasurer or membership coordinator, contact them with a gentle reminder that you sent your payment and are awaiting entry into the membership website.
If for some reason you are unable to access the MAPAPA membership site to join, renew or log into the membership website, send an e-mail to the current Membership Coordinator for MAPAPA. Most of the solutions to logging on are simple since we have encountered all types of problems in the past. Most are due to changed email addresses or forgotten passwords.
If you wish to join and pay membership dues by check or money order, download the membership form located here, and send your payment with the membership form to:
Mid-Atlantic Plein Air Painters
PO Box 5832
Annapolis, Maryland 21403Why join?
Through exhibition, workshops, and other special events, we promote the appreciation of, andparticipation in the art of outdoor painting. By becoming a member you are eligible to participate in workshop ands, painting trips (paint outs). A very special membership benefit is something we call Paint Out Plus, where we arrange for an accomplished artist to share a favorite painting place with you and to provide free instruction. You will also receive our e- newsletter and e-mail updates about events. Through our newsletter, The Pallette, we provide one of the most valuable benefits: important information about events, workshops and other news so that you can be informed about opportunities and in-touch with one of the most vibrant art communities anywhere. Paint outs provide wonderful opportunities to meet fellow painters, learn while doing and learn while observing and asking artists’ questions.
Who can join?
Anyone interested in the fine art of outdoor painting (painting "en plein air").Levels of Membership
Member - Application for membership at the Member level is open to any person interested in participating in plein air painting as an artist or patron. Members may apply to participate in exhibitions. Membership is contingent upon being up-to-date on membership dues.
Artist Member - An Artist Member is someone who has been an active and participating MAPAPA member for a certain number of years (3). They must be an accomplished Plein Air painter. Is someone who has demonstrated a commitment to Plein Air Painting by participating in a specified number of MAPAPA events, juried as well as non-juried (5 ), and by encouraging and supporting the activity of Plein Air Painting (by organizing paint outs, volunteering at PA or the Annual Meeting or in some other capacity, as in serving on the MAPAPA board.) Artist Member Application Instructions can be downloaded from www.mapapa.shuttlepod.org.
Signature Member - may be applied for after three years of Artist Membership.
Please contact the membership coordinator if you have any questions or concerns.
