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Membership Benefits

SWS Membership Benefits

Free painting demonstration with nationally-known painters
Enter the Annual SWS Membership Exhibition with a nationally-known juror
Enter the monthly Painting of the Month, with awards
Take workshops with nationally-known painters at a discount

Enter the Stepping Stone workshop scholarship (two awarded yearly)
DVD Library
Network with other watermedia artists

All watermedia artists are welcome – beginners or experienced
Earn a signature membership – see below for details
To JOIN
Just click on the "Join Today" button near the bottom of this page. Payments are processed through PayPal because that is a secure, convenient way for SWS to collect payments. You can pay with your debit or credit card on PayPal EVEN if you don’t have a PayPal account. If you have no PayPal account, do not login to PayPal on the PayPal page. Just select “Pay with
credit card” and provide your payment information.

To pay by check, complete and mail this form with a check to the SWS Treasurer.
Membership Payment Form

Membership Meetings

All membership meetings are held at 7 PM, on the second Tuesday of each month, except June, July, August and December at Lovers Lane Methodist Church, Room(s) C103-105, 9200 Inwood Road, Dallas, Texas (northeast corner of Northwest Highway and Inwood Road.)

SWS Signature Members

Those Active Members whose work has been accepted in any five Open, Western Federation (entered through SWS) or Membership Shows of the Society shall become SWS Signature Members and shall be entitled to display the SWS signature on their work. No other Members of the Society shall display the SWS signature on their work. A Membership Show, in order to be a qualifying show, must be open to all Members of the Society. No painting may be entered in more than one SWS sponsored show in order to gain more than one (1) point toward signature status. Any painting may earn only one point toward signature status.

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