2024 Portfolio Review

Apply to become a Signature Member

• Signature Membership applicants must submit 12 images that best represent their current body of work.
• You will be asked to provide brief biographical information. Please include education, awards, gallery representation, and any art group affiliations.

• You do not need to label your images as that will be done when you upload them.
• Fine Art mediums accepted include oil, acrylic, watercolor, pastel, colored pencil, pen and ink, graphite, sculpture and scrimshaw. We do not accept photography, models, glass, fiber, ceramics, cold cast bronze, digital art or other miscellaneous art categories.
• All Sculptors must submit 2 views for each artwork.
• Artwork must have been created within the past 10 years.

• Non Members who are accepted for Signature Membership will be required to pay the annual $100 dues. Regular Members who are accepted will be charged an additional $35 to upgrade to Signature Membership dues.
• Each newly elected Signature Member will have the right to sign their works with the letters ASMA, after their name. They will also have of having a Signature Gallery page on the ASMA website ($15.00 per year for three images which will be selected from the portfolio you submitted to the Fellows) and a link to your personal website ($10 per year).
• Signature Members of the Society are REQUIRED to submit at least one work for jury consideration to every ASMA National Exhibition, which take place approximately every four years. Failure to submit for any National Exhibition will result in the loss of Signature Membership status.

Apply to become a Fellow

• Fellow applications must submit 20 images that best represent their current body of work.
• You will be asked to provide brief biographical information. Please include education, awards, gallery representation, and any art group affiliations.

• You do not need to label your images as that will be done when you upload them.
• Fine Art mediums accepted include oil, acrylic, watercolor, pastel, colored pencil, pen and ink, graphite, sculpture and scrimshaw. We do not accept photography, models, glass, fiber, ceramics, cold cast bronze, digital art or other miscellaneous art categories.
• All Sculptors must submit 2 views for each artwork.
• Artwork must have been created within the past 10 years.

• Each new Fellow is asked to actively engage in Fellowship activities, such as the annual jury session held in the spring of each year, in which you can participate either online or in person, which is preferable in order to meet and engage as many Fellows as possible
• Each new Fellow may be called upon to submit an article regarding their personal artistic techniques that will be published in the ASMA News and Journal.
• Additionally, you will be asked to serve a three-year term on the Fellows Management Committee (FMC), first year as Deputy Managing Fellow, then as the Managing Fellow, and finally Post Managing Fellow. The FMC organizes portfolio reviews and coordinates with other ASMA Committees as necessary.
• Signature Members who are elevated to Fellow will be billed an additional $25 to cover the difference in dues. Fellow dues are $125 annually.
• Finally, Fellows are REQUIRED to exhibit one painting or sculpture in National Exhibitions, which are mounted roughly every four years.