Text Box:  Thanks for your inquiry regarding Northern Indiana Artists, Inc (NIA). We appreciate your interest and hope you will consider becoming a member. For more than 60 years, NIA, a non-profit organization, has been promoting local artists and their artwork. NIA strives to raise the quality and standards of work produced by the local art community. NIA membership includes more than 150 regional artists at all levels of experience. An artist is required to pass an independent jury process to become an Active Member and be able to exhibit with the organization. Artists who work in two or three dimensions are eligible to join. Throughout the year, NIA exhibits at several locations. There are also four General Meetings: September, November, January and March with a fifth gathering of some sort in May. Each meeting provides an opportunity to socialize with fellow artists, join in art related discussions, and to listen to presentations by an art historian and/or regional artist. The organization maintains a website at www.nia-art.org where events, newsletters and information on upcoming exhibitions are posted. NIA also awards scholarships to deserving and emerging artists who are under the age of eighteen. Enclosed is an application for membership. Jurying of your artwork occurs in the library on the second floor of the South Bend Regional Museum of Art (SBRMA) by Claudia Maslowski. This process can be scheduled by calling Claudia on 574 235-9102. Three pieces of artwork (they need not be framed) are required as well as the completed application and a $10 jury fee. This process usually takes about 30 minutes. If you are unable to attend the jury process, you may drop off your work, application, and a $10 check payable to NIA, to the SBRMA library. You will be notified when the jury process has been completed. You can then pick up your artwork at the library. The annual dues are $30. Please make checks payable to NIA. They should be mailed to Northern Indiana Artists. P.O. Box 906, South Bend, IN 46624-0906 – Attention: Mary Ashton, Treasurer. Sincerely, Quinn Thurin Membership Chair 574-277-2666 day 574-288-2949 evening Text Box: GET MEMBERSHIP APPLICATION FORM

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